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Igor Zidane wrote:Although i don't want Mourinho at LFC for purley personal and selfish reasons. The Curious side of me is wondering just how well he would do next season at Anfield with a limited budget and limited squad ( note not limited first 11 if all fit ) . Would be interesting that , we'll see i suppose .

bigmick wrote:If I'm allowed to join in the discussion without somebody accusing me of having a "w@nkfest" over Mourinho again, I think if he were to be our manager next season (which I don't think will happen) I don't think he'd be able to win us the Premier League. We'd need too much luck with injuries and form I think for even him to pull it off, but I do think we'd launch a credible challenge and be right up there.

The squad is a bit too thin in a few too many areas for me (not because we haven't spent the money IMHO, more because we haven't bought the right players or because we've sold the wrong ones). Realistically I would have thought the absolute most any manager is going to be given for Liverpool in the Summer is less than 20 million quid (and quite possibly a lot less than that), so for me we'd need to do some extreme wheeling and dealing regardless of who is the manager.

I know we are rapidly approaching the point in the season where people start saying "sell Babel for 10 mill, Benayoun for 9 mill, Insua for 5, Aquilani for 20 and Lucas for 3 and there's 47 million quid for starters" but life is never quite as simple as that. As inadequate as some may think these players are (or perhaps only some of them I don't know) they still fill up places in the squad, and as such they would need to be replaced like for like.

No, give Mourinho 10 million quid and I think we'd go close, but not win it. What would he do? Well he'd probably tell Riera he was the best left sided midfielder in the Premiership, and Babel that he really believed in him and play him on the right. He'd get Gerrard and Carragher buzzing, he'd out Aquilani and play a three man central midfeild of Lucas, Gerrard and Masherano. He'd give a few more youngsters a good go which the crowd would love, and he'd buy a top quality centre half. He's probably pick up a decent left back from somewhere for not too much cash, and he'd keep it pretty simple. We'd go for it pre season, and he would announce that we were going all out for the title before the season had even started. The ground would be buzzing, we'd never be off the back pages and the players would go into every game feeling 10 feet tall.

That said, I still don't think we'd quite win the title.

Feck me Michael , that's some forsight you have there mate . Not saying that won't happen like , but he'd have to be pretty lucky with injuries to mount a credible challenge for the title . Just to let you know on the AQUILANI thing aswell mate . Mourinho tried to sign him for inter .     Anyway pack it in with your mourinho w@nkfest will yer .