7_Kewell » Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:34 am wrote:I said this in the match thread, but the more I watch the more I'm convinced there's something wrong.
I don't know if there's in-fighting with the players or BR has simply lost the dressing room, but something's not right. Where was Gerrard yesterday? Why didn't he travel with the squad? And why the f**k did Johnson start?
I've no idea what's going on, but the players seem to have given up. No passion, no drive and no points...
Yep. Something's not right. I have a feeling that BR can't recover from this. Even if he goes on to be a great manager, his time at LFC is likely over. Sometimes things just go bad. A combination of things. Of course, BR conceding fourth place won't have helped morale or motivation. It wasn't an attempt at reverse psychology, but a genuine giving up. At the same time he's also been calling players "outstanding" which will give very confusing signals to the squad. Players like Sterling, full of themselves, will puff out their chests, assured they're doing fine and that it's the other players or the tactics that leave the team struggling. Experienced, realistic players like Gerrard will of course back the manager publicly, but behind the scenes, "outstanding" would be an insult. Gerrard is self critical, a passionate Liverpool fan who has declared before that he needs no patting on the back, and certainly not when team and player performances are in fact very lacklustre. Lazy players like Mario, though not often praised by the manager would see those around him getting pats on the back for equally poor performances might think "why bother?" And go off listening to music, or playing on Twittergrambook.
We're a poor team, filled with overpaid, over-valued players with a bargain bucket manager who complains about bargain bucket players after wasting God knows how much time and money on them before telling the owners, via the press, that the committee needs to sign marquee players. Oh, and a striker or two because they forgot to sign him one last season and, confident man that he is, he was to shy to bring it up.