CasaStreets
Full Member
Bruno Fernandes was our best signing in recent times and he was in January.
So were Vidic and Evra, and the list of successes could go on (though not much longer)... great signings can be made in January. But you are missing my point: it's exceptionally rare that a January singing makes a huge contribution in the back half of the season they are signed - particularly among non-forwards. Fernandes is the exception that pretty much proves the rule.
As a manager, you should never sign a player in January because of the impact you think they might have in the next 6 months - it's extremely unlikely that player will improve the overall quality of your team's performance until at least the next season. So when posters are saying, "the club is going to miss out on 4th spot because they aren't signing a DM in January", that's nonsense.
Right on cue, Klopp actually has a great quote on this in his statement about signing Luis Diaz: "I have always been a believer in only signing players in January if you would want to sign them in the summer, and that’s very much the case with Luis."
This is how we should be thinking: is Kamara the DM that a new manager would want to sign in the summer? Because if not, we should absolutely not sign him now.