Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:28 pm
bavlondon wrote:s@int wrote:Greavesie wrote:Man U squad 2004-2005 - Brown, Ferdinand, Fletcher, Giggs, Heinze, Howard, Neville, Rooney, Ronaldo, Saha, Scholes, Smith, Silverstre, Pique, O'Shea, Djemba-Djemba, Smith, Rossi
Liverpool squad 2004-2005 - Xabi, Baros, Carra, Diao, Dudek, Finnan, Gerrard, Didi, Kewell, Hyypia, Lil Luis, Riise, Traore, Sinama-Pongo, Mellor, Cisse
Not the full squads but you get the gist right?
Dunno about the Mancs but we lost Owen and Rafa bought Luis and Xabi and Cisse was a Gerard masterstroke
you can see eight of the names in the scums squad are still there now, our squad then was significantly worse than theirs
Man utd squad 2004/5 - WON NOTHING
Liverpool squad 2004/5 - WON CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
If that squad Rafa inherited was so good then why did we only finish 4th by the skin of our teeth in that final season for GH? You are looking at what other teams achieved as a benchmark for us. That is not a good way to look at it as there could be other external factors which had an effect. In this case it was Chelsea going on the biggest shopping spree in recent times...
We won the CL is not looking at how other clubs did mate?
Lets try to find some things we agree on
1/ Rafa has spent over £200million ?
2/ We finished above the mancs two years before Rafa came, won 3 cups the season before that, won the CL in his first season and the FA CUP in his second. So presumably the team wasn't totaly cr@p?
3/We have won nothing for 3 years while we have been spending heavily and rebuilding?
4/ We seem to finally be getting some reward for our spending
5/ Hopefully we will win something this season.