Who we going to bring in then Martin to do as you requested?
We won't be getting any tier 1 managers any time soon. Klopp is Arsenal bound next season. Guardiola is going to Manchester in 2016 or 2017. Ancelotti too may well end up in Manchester or he will go back to Italy (Juve, Milan or the national team.)
So what's next? Only managers that are basically in the same boat and we'll have this merry go round them all every 3-5 years.
A few things need to be remedied. We MUST have transparency on who is involved in the transfer committee and who is accountable for what.
Brendan has to sort himself out now and fix this mess. It is a mess and he has made many mistakes. So he has to be accountable for them.
If he continues to play his favourites and discount the likes of Lucas and Sakho then he will only have himself to blame.
So he is at a cross roads right now with us. Most definitely the remainder of this season will indicate whether or not he has chosen wisely or not.
Another thing we have to consider is that will he be allowed to spend in January? We have no option imo but to spend. With Lambert and Balotelli as our only options we won't finish higher than 6th or 7th.
As I said I can understand you all wanting rid of Brendan and I am the only solitary person on the forum still on the side of him not wanting him sacked - but the noose is tightening every game slowly and slowly for me at the moment. But I am not there yet and I don't know when that point will come.
Fair enough 224, I agree with most of your analysis there.
Where, I tend to disagree is your argument about the managers.
Hiring a top manager is about selling the vision and ambition of the club,
making us an attractive prospect, so the question there is whether we
have the chief executive and/or owners capable of doing that.
Then there's the procedure, If you recall the process leading up to the
current managerial appointment, it was shambolic. Have lessons been
learned to go about things in advance of a media frenzy?
One of the lessons from the Rodgers appointment is the risk involved in hiring a
manager without a track record. At the same time every manager needs to
start somewhere. There are guys out there who may not be considered tier 1
now but who are working away successfully, possibly disgruntled, at other
clubs winning things or consistently competing at the top level (Klopp, is it Simeone
who manages Athletico?).and would bite your arm off to work at LFC.
What's essential is the talent, hunger and class of the manager, if we can't get the
current darlings of the media. But again this is down to the talent and ambition of
the chief executive and owners.