They just refuse to accept that might have overpaid for a player with potential but who hadn’t hit the ground running for multiple reasons and may never be worth the money they’ve paid even if he turns out reasonably good.
They just lack the basic humility to say ‘ok we’ve got most right but this one we’ve probably got wrong’. They can’t have a single negativity against them ever, it has to be expunged from history or a compelling justification in it’s place they can all cling to ‘actually when you take inflation into account and add up Haaland’s wages in ten years time then actually Nunez is good value’
They’ve gone so far in on this myth that Liverpool don’t make recruitment mistakes, don’t spend money, and do things the ‘right way’. Their success is apparently ‘organic’ compared to anyone else who just buy good players to win things. It all makes sense if you ignore
Keita, Oxlade Chamberlain, Shaqiri, Minamino, Grujic, Kabak, Williams, Klavan, Caulker, Adrian, Karius, Solanke
Also if you ignore
Alisson - world record fee at time 70 mill
Van Dijk - world record fee at time 70 mill
Nunez - 80 mill
Keita -65 mill
Diaz - 50 mill
Jota - 50 mill
Konate - 40 mill
Fabinho - 40 mill
Salah -40 mill
What’s Everton’s transfer record again?
Yeah no money though, no recruitment mistakes. Pure organic success.