Could someone enlighten me, has a premier league club spent so much as LFC did last year and actually have a poorer squad?
This is not the thread, but having watched CC final on Sunday I am on the brink of not watching LFC and football altogether. My passion is quickly being eroded away by our consistently inept and tactless performances.
I know exactly where you are coming from, Gurdeep.
After being with Sky from the late 80s, I gave up in 2005.....cancelled my subscription (totally fed up with the cost of the packages and the ridiculous wages that footballers were getting).
and now I am abroad. I was gonna cancel my package here last summer (a lot cheaper and covers far more national leagues live). But I reckoned I would spend 500 dollars anc cover this season. But now that deal is almost up.....and I cannot see myself subscribing again.
Instead, I will just go back to what I did in the 70s and 80s......merely watch Match of the Day. I can download it a day later via torrent.
My love of the game has been constantly eroded over the years.
And re Liverpool, I am so frustrated that we have melons like Dalglish and Comolli at the top of the club.
I cringe at times when I see the lack of tactics and the ill-balanced team.
And as you say, what other team spends 112 million in one season and actually goes backwards.
The return of Dalglish is starting to remind me of Man City in the 70s.
Tony Book's five year reign from 1949 to 1979, not unlike Rafa's, was one of successfully stabilising the club and bringing some success.
BUT then in 1979, Malcolm Allison returned to manage the club for a second time and threw away vast amounts of money that summer, on pure dross.....and the club went backwards.
He squandered large sums of money on unsuccessful signings (like Steve Daley, who he paid a British record fee for) whilst selling stars such as Asa Hartford, Gary Owen and Peter Barnes.
And after a very poor start to the season, Allison was sacked in late 1980.
The poor appointment was the start of a decline that saw them relegated 3 or 4 years later.
But back to Liverpool........Dalglish is bringing in mid-table level players, and throwing out top top players (like Moreless, Kuyt, Maxi). I see a lot of similarities with that and what Allison did at City in 1979. Absolute madness.
Dalglish is a sorta Allison/Souness type.
Heck, nevermind being a tripe boneheaded manager, with not one ounce of tactical acumen in his body, I'd sack Kenny merely for the disgraceful way he has treated Dirk Kuyt.
The further away this melon in the dugout gets from Rafa's team, the further away we will be from the top of the league.
