Brendan Rodgers is Ordering from the Set Menu of Dissapointment

Brendan Rodger's transfers have been poor. Just getting that out there weighing up the hits and misses its clear Brendan Rodgers doesn't truly know what he needs. Since Brendan took over from Sir Kenny Dalglish he has signed a total of 23 players, how many of these players can be regarded as money well spent?

First, focusing on the good points, Brendan Rodger's signed two integral players within his first winter transfer window in Phillipe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge.

Two players who contain great quality as well as potential to thrive on. These two signings excited the fans and set them up for disappointment. After seeing the quality produced from these two  players it seemed Brendan would change his transfer targets to young players showing potential rather than players who he believed were nearing their best such as Joe Allen. It's clear Brendan Rodgers likes to buy players young, which Liverpool fans understand and appreciate him giving youngsters the chance to play. The problem with this is that most of them never develop. Sturridge and Coutinho are the only exceptions, two players who immediately showed why they were bought for over £10 million each. Coutinho's beautiful display of passing and Sturridge's finishing and dribbling ability partnered with the now Barcelona hot shot Luis Suarez made him a bargain to be admired. Two years on, no other player has shown the same level of quality that these two players have.

Markovic, Lallana, Kolo Toure, Moreno, Emre Can and Divock Origi may be exceptions to the negatives as they have only been with the squad for 6 months or in Origi's case loaned at in order to further his development. However excluding those 8 players, there are 15 others who can be regarded as failures that is a 65% failure rate, a manager with a team only showing glimpses of good football doesn't exactly give confidence to the fans does it?
With this all taken into account, and Brendan Rodger's saying he expects January to be a quiet month, a question to consider is whether he is scared to buy players as they may turn out to be failures like the majority of his signings. It's obvious to any Liverpool fan that the squad needs work and judging by the lack of announcements or advanced talks being issued by the players it seems it isn't obvious to Brendan, so what is it the team needs?

Goalkeeper, Simon Mignolet is a walking disaster, he is hesitant, not strong enough and not commanding enough.
Any goalkeeper even just a temporary one until the summer would be welcomed, Ter Stegen the young Barcelona keeper would be ideal and would give him more game time as well as improving our goalkeeping options.(Maybe throw in Suarez on loan also?) A centre mid needs to be scouted thoroughly, if not replacing Suarez ultimately failed any effort to ignore the lack of Steven Gerrard come next season would be a catastrophe, many players needs to be scouted from now until the summer, big boots to fill so the player needs to be chosen carefully. A striker even on loan, the two signings of the summer to fill Suarez's boots have looked like league two players, Lambert was two seasons ago.

Lacazette looks a star player aged just 23 coming into his potential should be a player we are looking at, Sturridge is coming back is a positive but expecting him to win us every game single-handed is unlikely, relieving the pressure off him will do him a world of good and give him less pressure like what he had with Suarez beside him.

Most of all Liverpool need a transfer consultant, Brendan may have his own idea of what he likes in a player but hes consistently wrong, £16 million for Ballotelli who needed 3 months worth of training to get him to agree to run more than 100 metres in a match was a wrong and costly transfer decision. £215 million is what it has spent to get Liverpool were they are at the moment, Europa League, and eighth in the league isn't exactly what you would call an achievement.

I like Brendan Rodgers and I love his philosophy and implementation of possession and attacking however his lack of ability in the transfer market correlating with the terrible defensive
he has constructed is going to be his downfall, the next two transfer windows will define how long he is Liverpool manager as FSG have shown and Brendan himself has shown, reputation counts for nothing.