Personally I think the dismissal of Kenny is justified. Had Hodgson spent 100mil and ended up in 8th place he would've been slated by fans. Kenny claims that his Liverpool team plays great football but only lacking in the finishing department, I somewhat disagree. It's pretty obvious that all this team can do is pass around in our own half pretending we are Barcelona whilst lacking creativity and flair in the final 3rd. Its true that we have been rather unlucky this season with all the shots hitting the post but that's not an excuse, his should have made signing a true out and out goal poaching striker a priority to compete with Suarez and Carroll. Splashing 20mil on Downing and 16mil on Henderson were horrendous decisions. 20mil for a player who didn't make an assist or scored a goal, when he was signed Kenny openly praised his high cross completion rate expecting him to create goal scoring opportunities from the wing for Andy Carroll. But he failed to realize that Downing has no pace and dribbling ability whatsoever to be effective from the wing, how do you expect someone to make plays from the wing when he can't dribble past even one defender. All I saw from him was standing around on the wing waiting for a pass and when he has the ball he passes it away because he can't find a way past the defender marking him. The signing of Henderson is somewhat more understandable because he is young and has the potential to succeed in the future. I'm not saying these players are bad players but at that price I'm pretty sure Kenny could've signed some foreign players that are cheaper and much better than those two.
Don't think reappointing Rafa is the right choice as well, thanks for his CL win but he won it with Houllier's team except for a few. He made some really poor signings at first but he finally got it right eventually and we came close to a title before his outburst at Fergie, maybe not entirely Rafa's fault we failed at the end but the beginning of the meltdown was when he wanted to get rid of Alonso for Barry. This decision baffled probably everyone who follows english football. Also to be honest under Rafa, we played some really boring football that's based on defense and closing down opponents forcing them into mistakes instead of focusing on creating our own chances. The tactical genius he is he often chooses certain tactics and players to counter our opponent's threats even at home games against lesser teams, why worry about them, why not attack and make them worry about us? I still miss Xabi very much
Roberto Martinez, poor choice! Wigan has been in the PL for 7 years, prior to Martinez's appointment they finished in 11th place under Steve Bruce, after his appointment it was relegation battle year after year showing no improvement whatsoever. Yes he had to operate under a tighter budget than it was for Bruce but look at Everton, Everton have one of the tightest budgets in the PL and they finished ahead of us this season (depressing!) Even newly promoted Norwich and Swansea who were tight on budget and lacking top flight experience did better than Martinez's Wigan.
Pep and Mourinho are nothing but fantasy for us when even Brendan Rodgers rejected our advances. Latest rumour is Michael Laudrup, not sure about him though, he has had some success with Getafe playing attacking football a few seasons back if I remembered right. Personally at this moment our best choice would probably be AVB. A protege of Sir Bobby Robson along with Mourinho, worked with Mourinho's championship winning team at Chelsea, had considerable success at Porto, plays free flowing attacking football, young and hungry, and most importantly he will want payback for what he received at Chelsea. Unlike Chelsea where there's a bunch of old guards who were resisting changes he was trying to implement, Liverpool are a club in transition and would be more willing to learn and revive the club together, player and manager. If FSG are willing to give him time to make his mark unlike Mr. Roman Impatient Abramovich, he would have more chance for succeeding with us than Chelsea.
YNWA
tl;dr = No Martinez, Yes AVB
how could liverpool playing boring football under rafa when came back from 3 nil down in champion's league final? and remember how fast we close down our opponents and play attractive football to beat man utd,barcelona,real madrid and juventus??
May 20 2012, 03:22 AM
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