Liverpool’s director of football Michael Edwards has a stellar reputation for being something of a miracle worker.
Whether it’s incomings or outgoings, Edwards has overseen his fair share of absolute bargains for the Premier League champions.
Signing Andy Robertson for £8 million and selling Jordon Ibe and Dominic Solanke for a combined £36 million stand out as some of the best business.
But it looks like Edwards has done it again regarding Rhian Brewster.
Liverpool sold the 20-year-old striker to Sheffield United for £23.5 million last summer in spite of the fact that the youngster had never kicked a ball in the Premier League before.
Fast forward six months and Brewster is now struggling to make Chris Wilder’s squad every week – and still hasn’t scored in this division.
And Wilder himself has admitted that perhaps top-flight football came too soon for him.
He said via Yorkshire Live: “I know there’ll be a little bit of criticism out there about it, but I still think that’ll come good. [He’s an] England under-21 striker and maybe he has to find his form and his feet in another division.”
Brewster might well rip up the Premier League one day, but as of right now he’s a million miles from doing that and the fact that he cost more than what Edwards spent on Champions League winner Thiago, it has to be considered a ridiculously-good piece of business at the moment.
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