Posted:
Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:29 pm
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bigmick wrote:I don't buy it. Get a top manager in and tell him he has zero money to spend, but he can keep the players he already has. We'd launch a sustained title challenge next season, new owners or no new owners.
This is the point that I totally believe. I THINK THE TEAM HAS UNDERPERFORMED MASSIVELY this season, and while I am willing to accept that last season was something of an anomaly as we had more than our share of good luck etc etc I still believe we have a good enough team to have made a title challenge this season.
We need someone who can get the best out of our team, someone who can adapt the formation when we have injury problems or players are out of form.
In our present circumstances (no money) we need a manager who can inspire the players to perform to their best level week in week out.
Yes we need new owners to build on what we have, but we need a new approach to get the best out of what we already have.
Posted:
Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:58 pm
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RED BEERGOGGLES wrote:s@int wrote:bigmick wrote:I don't buy it. Get a top manager in and tell him he has zero money to spend, but he can keep the players he already has. We'd launch a sustained title challenge next season, new owners or no new owners.
This is the point that I totally believe. I THINK THE TEAM HAS UNDERPERFORMED MASSIVELY this season, and while I am willing to accept that last season was something of an anomaly as we had more than our share of good luck etc etc I still believe we have a good enough team to have made a title challenge this season.
We need someone who can get the best out of our team, someone who can adapt the formation when we have injury problems or players are out of form.
In our present circumstances (no money) we need a manager who can inspire the players to perform to their best level week in week out.
Yes we need new owners to build on what we have, but we need a new approach to get the best out of what we already have.
Saint while you consider last season as an anomaly ,surely in retrospect such a description could be used to describe this season also
I was willing to accept last season as being an anomaly .....AS SUGGESTED BY THE PRO-RAFALITES mate I am quite happy that that is the level we should be attaining EVERY YEAR.
For me last season was all about momentum. We won a few early games that could have gone either way, gained momentum and were on a roll until we had our usual midseason blip and then when all seemed lost, gained momentum again after our incredible performance against Madrid.
We are a much better team than we are showing at the moment mate. I have thought since the end of 2006 that we have underperformed badly in the league, and while last season may have flattered us a little, I think its not unreasonable to expect around 80+ points a season.
Posted:
Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:40 pm
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Imagine for a moment the unthinkable..... Rafa had walked at the end of last season. We had managed by hook or by crook to persuade Dalglish/Hiddink/Mourinho (my own preferences) to take over. No more money than Rafa got maybe even bought the same players Rafa did (yes even Aquilani) The team is then set up for the season correctly, motivated as all teams are by a new manager, momentum achived by early victories ..... we are on a roll. We then qualify for the CL knockout stages (NOT BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF POSSIBILITIES SURELY?) somehow manage to overpower Reading in the FA CUP. Success breeds success, our owners are no longer having to worry about money to the same extent as they have guaranteed CL MONEY, we are a much more attractive club for investors and for commercial investment.
Yes we would still have the long term problem of owners who are lying money grabbing tw@ts, but at least we would be acquiring what I would imagine was the MINIMUM budgeted for, which would be CL progression, a run in one of the cups and a top 4 place to secure our future.
The turmoil whilst ultimately the responsibility of our owners has been exacerbated by our performances ON THE FIELD this season ..... have no doubts about that mate.