Liverpool FC Forum

[GOAT]

Don't worry im gona kill alex and we'll be fine, seriously

[SundanceKid]

Who's going to replace him? I personally like our current style of football and believe Rafa has molded the team to fit it well. We shouldn't abandon it

[Madmax]

The only thing that will make me feel better is if barca smash the fecking scums!

[yolz]

Well it's official that we won't win the title this season
Just hope that we come back roaring with a vengance next season!
Rafa's been getting his act together somewhat lately
I say we give him a couple more years
IMO even if he doesn't secure the title, as long as he keeps building up the team for a long long loooooong dynasty of supreme dominace like what we had in the 80's, lets keep him on
The moment he loses the plot for somke quick results and to save his skin, let's sack him!

[GYBS]

Onwards and upwards - couple of decent signings during the summer then on to win the title - 19 times next year

[Judge]

shame, never mind eh

significant results - the goal disallowed against stoke, losing to boro, and drawing with the gooners put paid to our title ambiton this year

[tubby]

The only way we will move upwards is if we are allowed to build strength in depth. That means adding to the quality we have now with MORE QUALITY. Not selling players like Alonso to fund wheel and deal others. If we sold Alonso who is a top quality player I don't think we would be sure to get 2 quality players in return so what Rafa needs is to spend a lot of money on building up the rest of the squad.

As I said in another thread we need to be able to rotate our squad and still get the results. Utd can rotate and still get the points becasue they have the strength in depth. If Rafa is given his usual 20Mil plus sales from players to spend all he will do is end up with a slightly stronger first 11 - which don't get me wrong is a good thing but then where is the strength outside that starting 11? He needs to spend very wisley otherwise come next season we will end up saying the same things.

So where is the money going to come from? I'm hoping the owners will give Rafa more than usual to spend but in reality I won't hold my breath. We need new owners who can spend on a level up from where we are at now. It seems those have been given 6 months to rejig their finainces so in short that means no new owners in time for next season and no big money to spend. So next year will probably be more of the same as this. I don't mean to sound defeatist or anything but amidst the media wankfest over Utd these past few days I must admit there is truth in what people say about their squad in terms of strength in depth.

[stmichael]

anything less than 114 points and the manager should go.

[DrPepe]

shame, never mind eh

significant results - the goal disallowed against stoke, losing to boro, and drawing with the gooners put paid to our title ambiton this year

the draws with the gooners  were the least of our problems shirley? you expect to drop some points against the big boys

whu
stoke x2
man city (with their away form)
hull ( gave them a 2 goal head start)
spurs (errors allowed them back in)

[Judge]

shame, never mind eh

significant results - the goal disallowed against stoke, losing to boro, and drawing with the gooners put paid to our title ambiton this year

the draws with the gooners  were the least of our problems shirley? you expect to drop some points against the big boys

whu
stoke x2
man city (with their away form)
hull ( gave them a 2 goal head start)
spurs (errors allowed them back in)

if you read my post thoroughly, i said ''PUT PAID'' to our title ambitions, gertrude (didnt say gertrude in the original post, but feel your name is gertrude )

it wasnt exclusive to those results, but more of a downer on the run in

[DrPepe]

shame, never mind eh

significant results - the goal disallowed against stoke, losing to boro, and drawing with the gooners put paid to our title ambiton this year

the draws with the gooners  were the least of our problems shirley? you expect to drop some points against the big boys

whu
stoke x2
man city (with their away form)
hull ( gave them a 2 goal head start)
spurs (errors allowed them back in)

if you read my post thoroughly, i said ''PUT PAID'' to our title ambitions, gertrude (didnt say gertrude in the original post, but feel your name is gertrude )

it wasnt exclusive to those results, but more of a downer on the run in

  fair enough!

i think our players, manager and fans need to realise that 3 points in September is just as important as 3 points in April!

[Madmax]

Onwards and upwards - couple of decent signings during the summer then on to win the title - 19 times next year

Yeah for real and then continue dominating and bring in 20,21,22,23....

[tubby]

Liverpool in danger of being left behind by Manchester United
Supporters at Anfield should not think United will be satisfied and will stop just because they have won their 18th league title

Oliver Kay, Football Correspondent

As the final whistle blew at Old Trafford on Saturday afternoon, it was not coincidence that Gary Neville and Wayne Rooney were the first to jump off the bench to jump on the backs of their team-mates. The two team-mates were born ten years apart, in 1975 and 1985, but, growing up as rabid supporters of Manchester United and Everton respectively, they longed for this day, the day that every Liverpool supporter had come to dread.

They still have their five European Cups to United’s three — it might well be 5-4 by a week on Wednesday — but, when news reached Liverpool’s supporters on Saturday that their proud record of 18 league titles had finally been equalled by their fiercest rivals, it was if an almighty tremor had gone through their world.

A season that brought their most convincing title challenge of the Premier League era has ended with Liverpool joined on English football’s pedestal and the concern now is that, unless they can overcome the odds next season, they are in danger of being left behind by United as the battle for the nineteenth title gets under way. Perhaps it is why Jamie Carragher’s emotions were running so high yesterday, as he clashed with Álvaro Arbeloa, his team-mate, in the closing stages of a largely routine 2-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion. Perhaps it is why Rafael Benítez has been highlighting the poverty gap and the desperate need to build a new stadium that will allow Liverpool to compete financially with the rivals.

This was a moment that a Liverpool shareholder foretold during a testy annual meeting at Anfield almost a decade ago, daring to state the unspoken truth that United, having trailed by 18 titles to seven until 1993, were on course to catch up by the end of this decade.

Some have ventured in recent days that Benítez, having spent heavily since his arrival at Anfield in 2004 and having bemoaned the absences of Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres for large chunks of this season, has only himself to blame for Liverpool’s failure to widen the gap, in title terms, on United. It is a lazy assessment that ignores the fact that Benítez, like Ferguson when he arrived at Old Trafford in 1986, inherited a lousy squad that he has improved year by year.

Benítez has spent heavily in recent years, often with mixed results, but so has Ferguson. United’s latest success has had rather less to do with those players bought in the past two years — Dimitar Berbatov, Anderson, Nani, Owen Hargreaves, Carlos Tévez, signed at a projected outlay of almost £100 million — than previous signings, such as Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick, Patrice Evra, Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo and Rooney, and those who were brought through the ranks, such as Neville, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, John O’Shea and Darren Fletcher.

The same might easily be said of Liverpool this season. They have been far better served by their established players than by last summer’s intake — Andrea Dossena, Albert Riera or Robbie Keane (remember him?) — none of whom remotely threatened to be the elusive last piece in the Anfield jigsaw. When one of Benítez’s signings does not cut the mustard, such as Keane, he gets rid, often with indecent haste. Ferguson, faced with the same situation, as he may be with Berbatov as well as the disappointing Nani, indulges his player for as long as possible, partly because it is in his nature and partly because he can afford to.

Benítez will revive his bid to sign Gareth Barry from Aston Villa in the coming weeks — surely he will not make the mistake of selling Xabi Alonso, who has been arguably his most impressive performer this season — and he will also look to sign a central defender, but far more intriguing is his bid to capture Tévez from United or, to be more precise, from the companies that own the Argentina forward’s economic rights.

Tévez would give Liverpool a little of what they have been missing — a quality centre forward who would ease the goalscoring burden on Torres — but he would also bring a much-needed sense of devilment. It has come to that for Liverpool. Over the 19 years since their last league title, the tables have turned. It is not Benítez’s fault, but, as the battle for the nineteenth title begins, it is most certainly his problem.

[dawson99]

We had a poor middle but for a while now we been the best side in the country easy.
Keep up this, we have the belief, next season the title is ours!!!

[simolonge]

Is this thread a wind up ?

This is a new low for this place if its not a wind up.