Liverpool FC Forum

Well Red wrote:We need Alves, Simao and Villa. Without them we will not win the league.

Rafael Benítez wrote:I do think that we have underachieved this season. But if you asked Rafa I believe he would still tell you that he is 3-4 years away from winning the premiership title or even challenging to do so properly. So on that front I think that people hype this Liverpool team up a bit too much and expect to much in the league.

Liverpool could dominate Europe for the next few years with Rafa at the helm but i guarantee you, he would tell you he needs different types of players to challenge for the premiership title. Players who really believe they can win it, players who have the fight and guts to go away from home and thrash out 1 - 0 wins. Players who will play a certain way for the team and engineer results all season long. At the moment I don't believe we have enough of these players at the club.

I would like to see Liverpool buying talented ambitious players hungry to learn from Rafa and succeed. Kuyt is a prime example. He's the type of player that Rafa believes will bring success. Hard working, clever, determined, no airs and graces.. I read in papers people saying he doesn't get enough goals but he'll play in the big games cause Rafa knows exactly what he'll get from him. Thats what it boils down to with Benitez. He wants players to do the job thats asked of them. Why was Gerrard dropped in some important games  last season, not because he was been rested but because Benitez believed that other players were more disciplined and this would benefit the team better. Gerrard has learned over the last 2 years that this is the case.  A gifted player he is, but in today's game it's only a disciplined team, and players that will bring you a premiership glory.

Benitez is an excellent manager and i believe that LFC have a nucleus to build a fantastic squad but he still needs time. Can people wait. I hope they will.

Reina, Finnan, Risse, Agger, Carragher, Gerrard, Mascherano, Kuyt, Alonso. Thats the nucleus. Any suggestions.

This season will be a joy no matter what happens. We have produced magnificent performances in Europe and thats what this team is cut out for at the moment. Hopefully in the coming seasons Benitez will have added players who will have a greater influence in their bid for Premiership trophies.

i know what your saying about disciplined players but sometimes sides need that x factor to spark a team into life, look at united, they were close to the league for a couple of years but it was a loose cannon like cantona who gave them that self belief.
but your general point is right, its a team game, and thats why we dominated europe at a time when the likes of maradona and platini were plying their trade in europe, and not just liverpool, sides like forest and villa had success because back then english sides worked their off for each other.

bigmick wrote:Well I think it's high time I moved on now. I'll not comment any mor eon rotation until nearer next season other than this. During a spell of drawn games at the start of (I think) last season when we dropped points willy nilly, Rafa said words to the effect of: "I remember one year in Spain we drew six out of the first nine (or whatever it was), people laughed but we went on to win the title". Well it's taken three seasons, but i hope he has learnt now, if you give Man Utd and/or Chelsea a ten point start in the first few weeks it is over because they ain't dropping points later on to get you back into it. If you're ten points behind, even after four games you are gone.

Given that, the first game of the season (be it Sheffield United Away or whoever) is vital. You'd better make sure you put THE strongest team you can on the park, and you'd better make sure that during the pre-season games, these lads have played and are revved up and ready to rock. That's my last word on this subject.

kazza wrote:If we go on to lift the CL trophy you ask Fergie and Moureen whether they would rather be us or their respective teams. Reaching the final guarantees us about 25 million squid. That is success. I think this thread is premature.

I agree it cant be said weather is a bad season or not until the CL Final, a dissaponiting season would be one with no trophy.

Also dnt forget with the owners i think we should pay what ever we need to keep SG, because we all know what he has done for the club so far and what he can do in the future!

  Liverpool Till I Die!