Brendan Rodgers claimed that moving Andy Carroll on was partially motivated by the need to bring in fresh blood. Now we understand that neither Daniel Sturridge, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar nor Clint Dempsey will be joining the club. Either Rodgers is the coolest cat known to man or the board is displaying a vice-like grip around the Liverpool spend column. While know one wants the club to again spiral into the uncertainties of the last regime, for those of us who attended match upon match last season watching the wastrels in full affect in front of goal, we are asking ourselves does this make sense?
Is Luis Suarez suddenly going to become the prolific scorer the supporters crave? Not judging by the chances he has already squandered. Or does Rodgers believe that in Adam Morgan he already has the rough diamond he can readily shape into a ruby. Allen is more of a conductor of play and Sahin at his best a creator supreme. It thus falls on Suarez, Sterling, Assaidi and Borini and as ever Gerrard to be the primary source of goals. If Rodgers had known then what he knows now would he have bought Oussama Assaidi?
I would suggest that there are supporters all over the land scratching their heads in disbelief seeing Spurs, QPR and Stoke spending money to improve squads and with the 'big three’ already having spent and Man City still spending on the final day, it seems ludicrous that we are languishing in the slipstream of Newcastle and Spurs.
As our blogger David Douglas (dedlfc), said in a text earlier “LFC have moved on Maxi, Bellamy and Carroll responsible for 37% of goals in a team that struggled to score goals last season!” Clint Dempsey snatched from the grasp of Ian Ayre after having his bid turned down. Liverpool also sold Nathan Eccelston to Blackburn with Daniel Pacheco only remaining at the club because his move to Real Valladolid fell through.
The question then is have Liverpool become just another core component part of FSG where financial constraints are placed on the club so that funds can be released for the Boston Red Sox or other sections of the organisation? With Dempsey having left Fulham for Spurs for £6 million (and having sold Adam for £5 million) after Liverpool’s widely publicised pursuit of the player, underlying suspicions lie afoot that Liverpool are cash strapped or like Arsenal and the UK Government tightening their belts for the long haul.
The difference lies in the fact that the economy is in dire straits and Arsenal has a shiny new stadium to use an excuse. Should Luis Suarez suffer an injury, Liverpool already down to the bare bones, would be in serious trouble. Quality in depth was the critical analysis from last season, but with the lack of replacements following the exits of Carroll, Kuyt and Bellamy there is seemingly a chasm between us and the front runners, let alone Spurs.
This week Sven Goran Eriksson claimed that Steven Gerrard must leave the club to fulfil his wish of winning the Premiership, although sounding fairly phlegmatic in his interview earlier this week in which he rebutted he former England manager’s view, as a natural born winner he must feel that those chances have been all but extinguish.
There were questions upon arrival of Fenway Sports Groups the lack of understanding and experience of football. I would suggest that those questions still remain and Liverpool as a club is now part of a future organisational marketing scheme.
Extremely worried about the lack of depth in the squad bearing in mind we have Euro league football as well. When will our senior players Suarez and Gerrard now get a chance to rest and re-charge their batteries?
ReplyDeleteWe again have been gazumped by Spurs which smacks of naivety first with Sigurdsson and now with Dempsey.
Are we now the scouts for Spurs?
The lack of the owners backing has put unfair pressure on our new manager Rodgers and if he does not get top 4 this season, I would like to think he will not ultimately suffer for this.
I was having a discussion with a group of people in the pub yesterday and everyone was very diverse with the teams they support, it was interesting hearing them talk about teams that will do well and different players and not once did anyone mentioned Liverpool. It just seems that the club are just a fragment of the team they once were off and on the pitch.
DeleteI for one will be pretty happy for a top half finish. I would say its the worst team since the 90s. And run by amateurs who like you said are just interested in their American sport.
We may produce good football but that wont win matches. I was totally surprised reading all those emails that people were surprised we lost to West Brom... I wasn’t, we wont win games like that even at home. Hearts was a good example of how to draw against a poor team at home. We don’t have good enough players to beat those teams. I will go on to say that we're on par with the West Broms!!!
Like I said a good cup run and top half finish and I will gladly take that!!!
What burns is that "we're just a fragment of the team we once were, ON and OFF the pitch".
DeleteI'm really shocked at our performance yesterday. Even though desperately in need or a striker and forwards (there's a stark difference), we bid £4m for Dempsey although we had already sold Adam.
Pressure now on Biorini to deliver.
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Also our young players such as Sterling and Morgan will be under extreme pressure to perform and are high candidates to suffer from burn out which our owners do not seem to have accounted for with young players.
ReplyDelete"Liverpool have left it too late!" Thats the headlines on Sky Sports this morning! Who is responsible for this? Why was Carroll kicked out of the club pretty muvh before he stepped off the plane from the Euros? Where is the replacement for the three key players that left the ckub in the Summer for peanuts? Even if we did get Dempsey, he's not a striker although a good replacement for Maxi or Van de Vart. Brendan was given £30m plus to spend and he has chosen to put his faith in Biorini and Allen.
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The last day transfer shenanigans are even harder to understand two days on. Once again the Liverpool board have misunderstood the needs of the club and the fallout. Fans on forums, Twitter and websites are up in arms about leaving the club with very little depth in the striking department. During the last few days of window rumours persisted about Sturridge and Dempsey arriving and as such I was not alone thinking that we were about to strike, especially when Spearing, Adam and Carroll were allowed to leave
DeleteThe fact that if Luis Suarez should get injured our striking department would be left bare shows, in my opinion, poor judgement anda lack of understanding of the finer points of the game. In addition, given the manager’s statement on the final day of the transfer window of getting in "one or two to reinforce the group" and his comment following Carroll’s loan the previous day "I've been given as much confidence as I can possibly get that we will have someone to come in," from outside looking he looks to have been hung out to dry.
The Fenway Sports Group have a reputation of being strong and prudent business people. If we take the Dempsey transfer and FSG’s Tom Werner seemingly supportive of the bid earlier in the year, "any team would be lucky to have Clint Dempsey playing on their squad" there appears to be lack of connection in the Liverpool infrastructure. But, for an organisation who want to promote Liverpool as a marketable world brand surely having the most successful American player at the club would help promote LFC in the USA with the assured premise of recouping the money spent on him in pretty quick time using the player as an ambassador for the club.
Granted FSG’s wish to bring in younger players with a sell-on value and the need to get the club financial secure before the implications of the UEFA’s Fair Play Rules kick-in makes complete sense, particularly with Michel Platini being so adament that clubs who flout the rules will be banned to protect others who are trying to live within their means, he said “We are protecting clubs who have sold players and struggle to receive payment. A number of clubs have had to chase their money for years.”
Too be fair FSG have always said that the Fair Plays Rules will play a big part of Liverpool’s future. But to leave the club bereft of quality support in a key area is placing unfair pressure on the manager, especially should Liverpool lose a few of their forthcoming games. News filtering through the media suggests that FSG will loosen the purse strings in January. Hopefully it will not be too late and Brendan will have worked the oracle as the decision has needlessly placed the club in a position where the best players could be cherry picked by the Man City’s of the world should the our recent Premier League struggles continue.
I had a feeling this would happen because of some of some of the things being said in a negative manner about Carroll. I said from the very start that Carroll's treatment by Rogers was really poor, especially on the back of Euro 12.
DeleteWe need to get back to some real basics that served the club so well in the past - basic courtesy, honesty and manners in our dealings with players, the supporters, the media and other clubs. The annoying thing about the protracted Dempsey deal is that Fulham found our behavior so bad that they repoted us to the FA.
I watch Dempsey play live at Craven Cottage in every home game. He is a left midfielder, so how was he expected to replace Carroll, a striker, not forward, a striker. Commercially, i thought we would go for Dempsey, as Kop Post suugests, but as a goalscoring midfielder, I thought we would get him too after missing out on Sigurdson.
I will not forget some of the rubbish that has been coming from Rogers or the club. Easy to say that everyobne will have to pitch in with goals - great- but if Suarez and Borini cant score, is it really easier for others? Answer: Hell no!
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