KD was a victim of expectations.

At the end of the day, it is all about results. We did win a trophy, got to the finals of another cup, qualified (only just though) for Europe and finish above Swansea.

Were we expecting more - yes, most definitely. Did the team, as a whole under perform - yes, very likely.

Did Swansea punch above their weight - again yes. But does one (or was it two) seasons of 'relative success' make BR a better manager?

Heck, people have short memories.

But we're going round and round in circles here. BR shows promise, but so did the other Mourinho protege who was hired and fired within a season. Tried to do too much, change too fast and we all know what transpired after that.
On a separate note, that loan signing we made - it comes with a 'buy at the end of the loan' option? I sure hope it's a 'try and buy' instead of a 'help my player grow and he will help you this season' sorta arrangement. Call me 'in denial' but having to loan players from other teams just doesn't sit well with me. Always thought that it was something midtable and relegation fodder teams did. 

It's true. He is surplus to requirement and his reluctance to leave is actually blocking several deals - potentially dempsey, walcott or sturridge.
BR had hope to gain some money from Spearing, Adam and Caroll sale.

Llorente?we can only dream. We dont even have money to buy Dempsey. Funds only available if we sell players first(Adam, Spearing, Cole). even we sell them all, its only 1/3 of Llorente fees.

Yeah Dempsey is 29 quoted at 10m. Walcott quoted at 15m. Even though I'm not a fan of Walcott but he is the better option here if the asking price can be lowered to in the region of 10m. He can give us that injection of pace we sorely need since Sterling is the only one who can provide that at the moment.

There are 2 choices in this situation after losing a match. Either you are sad about it or you joke about it. I think if you joke about it, you will be less moody. 

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Added on September 3, 2012, 9:26 amOk latest turn of events. We may sign Owen and Drogba.

Drogba will be good.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/footbal...ba-8101403.html

Very good point. I was gutted as well. When Caroll was gone, I thought Demps gonna finally arrive. Poor decision. It was always about the money for the Yankees from the start. As I always said, they are not here to throw their money like oil rich Arabs.

There is good and bad in the way they do business. In a positive note, Liverpool will always be financially stable but on a negative side, we will need to take a lot of gambles. I'm not pleased with the Yanks but I am not blaming them either. We dont want to end up like Leeds, victim of their own greed for success.

haih...carrol had his touch on all 3 west ham goals before he got injured yet our so called manager thinks he doesnt fit into his tika taka kiki lala kit kat football "philosophy"...and now we only have suarez who cant finish a simple goals and can only score wonder goals...we're in big trouble

I don't know what actually happened on the final day of the transfer window, I don't think any of us do. All we an offer is speculation. What I do know is this however, that we were made to look like fools. What makes it worse is that reports are now suggesting that Rodgers is having an open rift with FSG, and we all know that spells trouble as the latter is all about the bottom line. What makes us look more like idiots now isn't that we are considering bringing in Owen or Drogba to resolve our striker shortage, it's that I've read unconfirmed reports suggesting that Rodgers is considering recalling Carroll from his loan spell!

Things are obviously not harmonious in the board room and I shudder to think that Rodger's reign may be the shortest in our history as he doesn't strike me as the sort to back down. FSG had initially pledged to get behind their man but it doesn't look like they've done that, have they?

Exactly. My fear is that there will be another staging protest against the Yanks soon if we lose few more matches. Just like the one against Tommy and Gigi of the previous regime.

Then, we will be in a further decline. Sigh.

we complain cause owner always make the wrong decision which effect our beloved club

well, looks like CR is not happy at RM.

It's useful to look back at the mistakes we made (though I hope the management does that). The point is, whenever we have the money, we were wasteful. We cannot keep affording multi-million pounds mistake.

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Added on September 3, 2012, 4:16 pm

Shenhua is currently having board trouble. It seems that they cant honor the wages which will naturally make the contract null and void. Still waiting for further development on this. If it happens, then Drog becomes free agent.

If only we have choice, unless we go on like this till Jan.