QUOTE(carloz28 @ Oct 11 2015, 12:19 AM)
Anyways, Liverpool needs to STOP becoming a "transit station" for players to go to Barca and Real Madrid.
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While I do understand the lure and temptation for playing for Barca and especially RM, crossing over to rival BPL clubs (case in point ; Torres > Chelsea and Sterling > City) is an entirely different story. It's embarrassing really.
Historically speaking and reputation wise, City and Chelsea are not even close to Liverpool. Like how we always chant "They aint got History". But history and reputation counts for NOTHING if the club does not know how to harness the power of it. Liverpool has one of the largest fanbase in the world, if not, bigger than City and Chelsea. Fanbase equates to large following and large following equates to $$$$.
Liverpool needs to start acting like a big club. It's not really that difficult to figure out why our best players are leaving one by one.
Reason? It's about ambition. FSG needs to show more ambition when it comes to signing players. Great Players will only stay when you surround them with hope and quality and this can be achieved by bringing marquee signings, starting with the manager himself. If I'm Luis Suarez, I also wouldn't want to play with the likes of Joe Allen and Markovic when I can play with real Xavi and Lionel Messi.
It's just that simple, FSG.
Hiring Klopp is a step in the right direction. Drop the British herd mentality BS and mold Liverpool based on a continental framework. Save the money on British transfers but focus on talents across Europe. We can easily find Joe Allens in Germany and France for a meagre sum of 5mil euros. Homegrown players can be nurtured from academy level, and lets not waste our transfer kitty by buying overrated British players from rival clubs.
Man United dropped their British act (Moyes) in less than a season and now they are back in the game with LVG whereby FSG took 5 yrs to realize that the Brit model will not work. We lost a lot of ground in that 5 years really, financially and reputation wise.
Good days are coming back, I hope.
Exactly what the comments by Thierry Henry, carrager and souness touched on about ambition, big club mentality or end up in reality being a Tottenham, can buy big but big clubs don't worry about Spurs (no disrespect to the club) but every single one of them agreed.
I have touch this before, amongst the big clubs, the 2 staunchest clubs that bide in the Englishness is and has been Liverpool and Manu over the years.
I truly believe the Americans (FSG) did sit back and received advice from the board of Liverpool. Remember after houllier, who was the front runner to land the manager before Rafa Benitez !? Alan Curbishley!!! (Managed chalton athletic once). Even gerrard (Steven) had hoped for Alan Curbishley. He Gerrard acknowledges it.
Some forumers here still believed in Rodgers, I understand to them he gave them most exciting football than even goal (post) smashing dalglish. And gave them season to remember in just missing out the title. Everyone knew it wasn't the slip that lost us the title, it was over fooking confidence playing to fook tiki tala perfunctory, reckless, sloppy game against his mentor Jose mourino who just sent out a B team and played beach. We didn't need too, every single fan Kopites saw that, but it's Brendan being Brendan, so much so, that now even Gerrard grudgingly admit it was brendans stubbornness that selected a fool hardy team and fell into mourno's trap (it was also no secret, when in prematch mournino "told" (advice Rodgers) how less important to them vs LFC, then their following CL game thereafter.
It's that one thing that Brendan never learn, is the big games. It is of no coincidence that Rodgers has the
most dismal record against big clubs and in the Everton derbies in LFC premier league history.
Last season was the worse start for LFC in 50 years of Liverpool and ended in the worse defeat for LFC (ever)
Will Brendan's fans point this out, no, it make absolute rubbish, a big red mark in his managerial tenure.
By the way, I'm hoping
JuergenKlopp to drop by to gate crash some full throttle football. What makes Klopp's different than off Brendan Tiki tala? Positive scoring to win and goals than entertainment via "death by football" (side passing for stats sake)
I'm sorry, hard truths makes to make some of them puke, and and they do prefer to dish predessors LFC managers who in fact gave Liverpool the believe (and strike fear to the opponents, league and continental) and won trophies. Poor Roy Evans, he may even gotten some stick š By some guys. Rodger tried hard, yes, no one takes that away. We are saying his absolute best doesn't measure up to the standard that Liverpool (with such colorful history) deserves.
This post has been edited by koolspyda: Oct 11 2015, 09:01 AM