“So to call it my team, I would have had to make a slightly bigger impact on those who have been brought in, but I’m more than happy to take responsibility for this squad as well. I make that rider that it still takes a coach more than five or six months to make his stamp on a club or a team, especially one of this stature. “I’m hoping that we will do some good business in transfer windows to come and then I will be able to put my hand up and say, ‘If you don’t like it, I’ve got no one to blame but myself.’ Such arrogance is at times breath taking. Liverpool FC has to get its next signings right , probably at a success rate at 85% , not at his current success rate of 20%. We cannot afford to get it wrong again.