by jonnymac1979 » Tue Dec 09, 2003 2:00 pm
For the club to admit it has in all honesty failed to achieve what it set out to do. Admit we have a second rate team, not necessarily a bad team, but one which has to admit its position is, at best, rated fourth in the country.
Which is not good enough. Privately, Houllier, Thompson and Parry probably know this but will never let the public know. If this is the case, they have to do something. Start by holding a meeting along the lines of the one they held five years ago, outlining the players they would:
a) prefer to keep at the club out of the current squad
b) prefer to release from the current squad
c) be interested in bringing to Anfield from other teams
Liverpool had a meeting like this a few years back, at the annual Christmas party, if i'm not wrong. On their list to keep was Fowler, Owen and Houllier would have liked to keep McManaman, but he'd already signed a pre-contract with Real Madrid. The likes of Sol Campbell and Kieran Dyer were on the list, but Spurs were after an extotionate amount for Campbell, and Ipswich were looking for £5-6 million for the then untried, untested Dyer.
Anyway, i'll ramble on all day if I don't stop now, so all in all, just basically go back to the drawing board, admit there are problems which we do not have the squad to cope with and remedy them.