Benny The Noon » Tue Aug 20, 2013 2:08 pm wrote:supersub » Tue Aug 20, 2013 2:59 pm wrote:I'm not concerned...we have a squad of capable individuals who I hope will be moulded into a team that will give 100% in every game and achieve the best position possible in the league and hopefully win some silverware ....signing an overrated american rapper for £30 million would not have improved our chances at all...my cup is well over half full, yours is clearly almost empty...matchday must be torture for you
I just seem to want better from the club - never seen the standards so low in the last 30 plus years. There almost seems an acceptance of how low we currently are and excuses are looked for and positions in tables are accepted as good enough.
Signing a quality player would have improved our chances. I want a team that puts my club into the top level of club football not scrape around the mid table places. I don't want just "capable" individuals.
Match day for me isn't a pleasant experience at the moment because its very sad seeing a once great club now performing so poorly. Yes e cup is half empty - because there is nothing to fill it bar a talented Brazilian called Coutinho but don't achieve CL and he will leave as well and then maybe reality will dawn and heads will remove themselves from the sand and eyes will be opened up.
There is a phrase that flies around the ground and the forums and twitter etc - Accepting Mediocrity - very apt for our club right now.
This is where you lose most of the board. You're by no means any different in wanting the best for the club, but you seem to be in total denial that there almost wasn't a club 3 years ago. We were in financial ruin and most people on the board have recognized that and understand that we will have a period of restructuring. Whether we like it or not is irrelevant to the direction of the club and is by no means a differentiator between you and the rest of us who have moved on looking to the future. You made a comment about football and business being detached from each other and I think that's where you lose your credibility as that plainly isn't and has never been the case.
The reality is that our reputation was damaged by the goings on at the end of the Rafa tenure and what H&G did to the club. Rafa taking things to the press and the fans making their dislike for the owners public did absolutely nothing to help matters in my opinion and gave the media a carcass to feed off of for the last few years. It is no surprise that no one at the top end of football wants to come and play for us, we're given a wide berth as we were damaged terribly, but not irreparably.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to see we didn't get a sugar daddy, instead we got a team of businessmen who do care about ins and outgoings and recognized the need for stability. In my opinion there's almost nothing that I would disagree with when those factors are a consideration. The team IS more stable than it was 3 yrs ago, the ins and outs appear to be under control and we're in the process of implementing a team that realizes the vision of the manager which is clearly intended to play attractive football that will make Liverpool appeal to fans across the globe and subsequently attract an increasingly higher caliber of player. I think most people recognize that here, hence the air of positivity around the board.
Don't mistake that for a lack of knowledge or ambition. You have to be realistic about the position we find ourselves in and harping on about us being a mid-table club with reflecting attitudes isn't helping and is missing the point.
