Davies was 8mil and still has a career, he has had injuries that hampered him and we'll get 5mil for him easy if we sell him.
Heskey cost us a few mil, yet you quote his wages.
Downing has only had just over half a season, cut him some slack. He was excellent in the West Ham game.
Shorey was a few mil loss. Sidwell would be a few mil too.
So his worst signings are merely a few mil loss each. Nothing major.
Compare to..
Friedel, Warnock, Dunne, Collins, Cuellar, Young, Milner, Ashley Young, Petrov & of course swapping Baros for Carew.
All what you'd call success stories. It can't imagine ANY manager could have done a better job than Martin did in the transfer market with a net spend of around 60mil.
Houllier certainly won't do much better. Or ever come close.
Why are you turning this into some sort of pathetic MON is better than Houllier arguement?
Your making yourself look a little silly by running down the new gaffer before he has even been unvailed!