You have hit the nail on the head here. Circumstances were to blame for KDs situation here but hindsight is a great thing. If Shearer hadnt got injured. If we hadnt agreed to sell Ferdinand, etc etc etc.
The facts remain that Dalglish was very unluicky. I doubt any club would have passsed up the oppoertunity to sell a 31 year old striker for 6 million pound. I also thought Tino had gone right off the boil as well and to almost get back what we paid for him was good business.
Dalglish bought some great players who were to serve us so well over the years such as Speed, Given and Nobby but I felt that he, as well as Keegan, failed to address the most critical part of the team in buying a couple of quality defenders which would have taken us to the next level.
I remember Keegan admitting the year he left the club that the only out and out defender we had at the club was Darren Peacock., You dont win titles or cups with that.
Keegan's biggest mistake was buying Tino. We didnt need him. Batty was a good buy but we needed a strong defender for the money spent on Tino. If either KK or KD had bought a qyuality defender or two, we would have won the league in 95 and 96 by a landslide,
We needed another striker. If Ferdinand had got injured we were left with Paul Kitson...and we saw what a disaster that scenario was the previous season.