Liverpool FC Forum

The Heighwayman wrote:Its great to hear balanced and constructive critism from so many LFC fans. I'm new to the forum and am here as an overseas Irish supporter who has finally decided to air his opinion! I think its now time for GH to move on. He has done a good job to date but the club needs a new manager to provide a fresh input of enthusiam, belief and tactical nous that will re-invigorate the current quality players. He will also have to bring in the few world class players that the team will need to bring us on to the next level. When we were competing with the a#se and mu 2 seasons ago we defended deeply as a unit, every player new his job and with Gerrard and McAlister/Spud in the team providing the quick defence splitting pass, we hit teams on the break and scored alot of goals without concedeing much. Pace in our defence was not a problem as we were always so deep. After we won the treble other managers and teams saw how we played and countered this approach by sitting deep themselves and thus leaving no space for the pace and clever runs of Owen. Add to this the injuries we have had over the last couple of seasons and you have why I believe we are now doing so badly. We have now had to change our approach and break teams down. We got rid of MacAlister ( he was only 39 - Stanley Matthews played untill he was in his 50s - we could have squeezed another few years out of Mac!!!) we got rid of Litmanen/ Fowler. All creative players who can provide that spark needed to break teams down. GH brought in Kewell this seasons and I think we need another 3 or 4 players of this quality. Cisse and Ibrahimovic for upfront to enable Owen to play off a target man with brains (sorry Emile good and nice as you are your down to the bench). Another quality wide mid-field player (keep Smicer and Diouf as cover) a centre back with pace (again keep Henchoz as cover if he'll sit on the bench or wait till Hyypia is injured?) and the most important a creative midfield wizard to complement Gerrard. Jay Jay Okocha might be the man although I've read here that some think he's not LFC calibre- have you forgotten about John Barnes? If you look at the a#se,mu and chelski they now all have nearly a second string set of players that could be fielded as their first team. we need to be able to do the same so getting rid of solid team players such as Spud Murphy, Hamman, Henchoz, Smicer and Diouf, Baros, Cheyrou (who are still young players) is not the answer. vI also think to be abusive towards GH and/or the backroom staff or current players who hae all done their best for LFC is un-called for and very unlike true LFC fans. Although I can understand that teeth grinding frustration in that we are not quite yet where we rightly should be - playing the beautifull game at the top of the pile with grace and honour. Finally the most honourable and right thing for Gh to do this summer would be to realise that he has taken the team as far as he can and step down himself. This will not happen for two reasons pride and money. Apologies for the rambling nature of this post.
Thanks, The Heighwayman.

Rimetto wrote:read on the BBc website today that Frank Lampard might be leaving Chelsea in the summer. What a purchase he would be imagine him and Stevie G in the middle.

Yeah, forget Cisse . Use the money towards getting Lampard,
I wonder if we would have enough left to make an offer for hasselbank,heard a rumour he was unsettled.