by Red Focus » Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:00 am
Last season, the SAS saved Brendan's backside by outscoring the opponents despite our defence frailties. Now without the SAS with one of them gone permanently, Brendan still hasn't improved the defence. My greatest fear now is that Brendan's Archiles' heel is his defence tactics and he cannot handle strong teams who can exploit our defence and never will. Only time can tell whether this is the case, if it is, this job is too hot for him to handle. CL qualification every season is a must for a club of LIverpool's stature and not a one hit wonder.
I still have my concerns about his transfer dealings. He and fsg only want to sign youngsters with potential. All his summer signings were unproven youngsters and only Lallana and Lovren were matured players. You don't see Chelsea, City, Arsenal, manure doing this, they all sign players who are at their prime and ready made for their first team. I am afraid we have the wrong owners and a manager who is their yes man dancing to their tunes. He should know d@mn well that Danny Sturridge is too injury prone and during the summer window should have done better than Lambert and Balotelli with questionable attitude and is a wrong man for the wrong job so far. If he had tried his best with the swollen wallet after the LS sale to get Cavanni, Higuain or Benzema even if they cost more than 35million but still failed I wouldn't be too p#ssed off by him because it showed that he was aggressive and willing to pay a high price for quality because those guys are no Andy Carroll. But no, he wanted to buy cheap players preferably less than 20 million. Even if Messi had begged Barca to sell him to Liverpool, Brendan would most probably wouldn't want to pay more than 25million despite flushed with cash in the coffers from the LS sale.
Tell me to go and support City and Chelsea and call me a plastic fan if you like but these are my blunt views about Brendan. Of course he has his strengths and I'll post them on another day.