stmichael wrote:I am no different to any other fan in wanting us to signal our intent for next season, by making 2 or 3 top class signings.
However people need to realise that the legacy of the Houllier years has seriously undermined our ability to compete in the current transfer market.
Houllier made some good signings, but unfortunately lots of very expensive bad ones, on long lucrative contracts with no sell on value whatsoever!!. When you include the fact that he allowed Macca to run down his contract and leave for nothing!!!! He then made the same mistake with Owen.
If you do the maths it's bloody frightening how much this has cost us in the long run.
We so easily could have been another Leeds United!!!.
Despite all of this, Rafa has managed the limited resources at his disposal with a level of expertise and success unseen at Anfield for years.
Five finals, three trophies and a significant improvement in the Premiership.
It doesn’t end there, Rafa has also managed to identify and trim out the dead wood, improve the squad at all levels. Whilst at the same time refusing to bankrupt the club by paying over the odds for players, ensuring that the costly mistakes of the past are not repeated.
In short, whatever happens this summer with regards to transfers, I am confident that Rafa will deliver what we all want in the long term. The Premiership.
I think all Liverpool fans know Rafa will deliver us our 19th League title but it's been 16 years without one now and I think many fans are getting increasingly impatient, especially the ones who have never seen us win the League before, it will be a new experience and I think the longer we go without the more and more impatient those fans will get.
However Rafa has four years left, I'm sure he will deliever, no I'm confident he'll deliver the league.
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