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ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Fri Nov 21, 2014 1:48 pmI could understand it if we had dominated for the last 20 years and our fans weren't used to seeing us struggle but in truth last season was an oasis in a sea of mediocrity. We've spent the past half a decade finishing between 6th and 8th. People are glibly saying that we've wasted the Suarez money but to be fair a lot of the new signings have done okay - up until recently Lallana has probably been our best performer, Can has looked promising and Moreno and Manquillo haven't let anyone down either.
Some of our worst performers have been so called regulars like Henderson, Gerrard, Johnson and Enrique. It's not as simple as saying the new signings are letting us down because they are not.[/quote]
This is where I struggle to comprehend your view so badly though, its like you're saying, we've made loads of mistakes over the last 20 years, we've had loads of examples what to do and what not from within our own club and from others, yet you seem to use this as a jusification, for us repeating and then at times worsening mistakes we've seen and should have learnt from. I find it completely the opposite way. If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll always get the same results... so do something different, have a different approach, make sure its right. We don't do that, we seem to get half way, then in the most crystal clear manor available we shoot ourselves in the foot and go right back to the start... I can never get my head around it. People seem to be obbsessed with not learning from others mistakes, repeating them, then allowing it to just keep happening.
This is a multimillion pound industry, one of the biggestest in the world and there is no excuses for the kind of failiures we keep suffereing. The mistakes are so tedious and stupid its beyond belief, I've been slagged to death for this so many times in the past, but the fact is I keep seeing it and my assessments always seem to be bob on before it happens... I really wish they weren't even in the ball park, but the reality is they always seem to be... so my point is, if I can see and predict this most of the time, why on earth can't the people who should be seeing this doing something about it? It winds me up and it hurts because I care about my club. I could see the Mourinho thing last season coming a mile off... everyone else could to... but that was something I can forgive, I felt like I at least understood certain reasons and I also felt like that there was small justification for making such a mistake as Rodgers did... However, the way in which the summer then came about, the promises made, the statements passed, the players signed, the lack off major issues addressed and the damn right lies and attempts to pull the wool over the eyes really upset me... not to mention the fact it was clear as day to see how it was going to turn out.
You're then starting to try and attempt to jusifty the money spent and some of the examples used are madness. Manquillo looks to have potential, personally I like the look of the lad but can see, offensively he's so nervous its holding him back, but he has definately shown bits. But the reality is, while we all hate Johnson, he's never been upto he's not absolutely worlds apart. Its not like the lad has come in and you've gone... well thats Johnson out the door right now. Goodbye, he'll be a sllight improvement now and gradual one over the coming years, but he's not really come in and going to make a massive difference, which is what we needed.
You then praise Moreno, who was a £12,000,000 full back, who firstly we didn't need, and secondly is such a downgrade on the current full backs who played there its shocking. The lad has been woefully inept. Not only did he cost a lot of money, but he's weakened us, wasn't even needed and so far for me has been woeful. I think the lad is so far out of his depth its quite scary that Rodgers deems him anything other than squad fodder. You then critisize Jose's performances.... he's only made two after being out for a year with injury.... which again I find very strange.
When Rodgers came into the club, Gerrard was 31 going on 32... he should have had this lined up from that day, now at 34, he looks even less clued up on the situation... we're still based around the same core, with the same problems when he came in... yet now, we've spent mega amounts of money on dross and the wrong players.
The players he's signed don't even fit into his philosophy.
What I also find weird is not replacing our weakest links...Its a policy we've seemed to stick so strongly against though for many years which I always found really really strange. My attitude towards this seems to really confuse people as I believe in football, to improve your team, you sign players to replace your weakest players, not your strongest.
For example, if you had a really poor side filled with 10 league one players, but with Manuel Neuer in goal... Liverpool seem to think that if we sign Petr Cech as back up it will make us stronger.... completely negating the fact you can also only play 11 players at once... where as personally, I'd think it would make more common sense to sign Maybe a Messi or Ronaldo at the other end to improve an area of weakeness. Now, some of you may scratch your head and wonder what I'm on about... but thats often how thick some people come across.
I look around at times and wonder If I'm honestly the only person who actually thinks anything along these lines due to some of our signings and our fans "opinions".
It was a similar thing when the stupid waiter replaced Alonso, Xabi was our third/four best players... in the suad... and he wanted to replace him... which was baffling... as there was 20 odd other positions that needed addressing first... Last saason a poor rightback, shocking goalkeeper and shocking centre half pairing cost us the league.
He let go a good keeper keeping a flop, signed one centre half and let our best one go for buttons and signing a young kid who isn't ready to play right back. Not to mention failing to address the Gerrard situation.
The list of things done wrong since that Chelsea game has been absolutely flabbergasting to be honest and for me, badly unforgivable.
Its all a bit wrong for me.