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In Kenny we trust… too much?

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There was a very popular saying, spoken, sung and written during Rafa Benitez’s reign: In Rafa We Trust.  Rafa is long gone, for better or worse; that debate is for another day but since his departure, we’ve seen old Roy come and go and be replaced by Kenny Dalglish.  A legendary figure; our greatest player and last manager to win the league.  Now, that mantra – at least in thought – has carried over and there is emerging a sense among a very vocal set of fans that Kenny can do no wrong.  Not so much ‘In Kenny We Trust’ as in ‘In Kenny We Trust Absolutely’, almost blindly in some cases.

For the record, I think Kenny has done a fine job.  He has turned us around – more so in performances – and we clawed our way out of a veritable mire in the last 3 months of last season, as much because of the elation at his appointment as from the managerial and tactical experience of him and his backroom team.  But either way, he earned his permanent contract and I would never have anybody else say any different.

However, he can not be let off the hook regardless of the decision, particularly during this summers’ transfer window: perhaps the most important for any Liverpool side for the past few years.  So far we have made a very questionable signing in Jordan Henderson.  A promising young England midfielder, of that there is no doubt.  But the fee we spent on him?  Extortionate.  Like most fans, though, I was prepared to let it slide, trust in the men at the top and keep my mouth shut.  If it works out, we will have been vindicated, if it doesn’t, then isn’t that the whole point of potential, of promise?  Like a rough diamond, you know there is something there, you just have to do what you can to make it shine.

What has transpired in the past week or so though, has raised some more questions from me than I am comfortable with.  A prolonged attempt to sign Charlie Adam is fine by me, he seems a useful player.  But to let Jonjo Shelvey go on a years loan, when – in his brief appearances so far – he’s appeared at least as good as Henderson?  This makes no sense.  Nor does allowing Blackpool to haggle us higher and higher from the initial £6 million bid (if you believe what you read).  I believe in signing the players you want and need but not at any cost.  And certainly not when that player has just been relegated and has 12 months left on his contract.

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45 comments

  • Up the REDS says:

    Hi Guy’s.Does anybody know if the king or Dave read this website, sure hope they do.South Africa 4 Liverpool.

  • Gerrardious says:

    Gibbs for £13m and Jarvis for £17m.. lol
    but seriously the writer made a lot of sense. A lot of our fans are so excited about the way we ended last season that they think KK cannot do anything wrong.
    No manager is above criticism from the fans,… though I get the feeling King Kenny would be given a really long rope.
    Personally, I’ll wait till the beginning of the new season before I pass my verdict.

  • Alan says:

    What I don’t get is why we don’t blow our entire budget on players like Mata and Aguero. Bring through the youngsters like Coady and Sterling as squad players.

    The price of Henderson, Downing and Adam seems a lot for three good but not great players. We seem to be going for quantity over quality which has always been our biggest mistake in transfers.

  • Bornkops says:

    I wish this article is forwarded to the liverpool transfer board. Because in real sense we are not satisfied with the policy of buying English players only yet they are mediocre gd enough 4 mid table teams.

    • Nick says:

      WE, sorry i didnt realise you spoke for all of us??? I for one will back the man in charge to the hilt as he knows a hell of a lot more than you or I!!!!!

  • Gerrardious says:

    really? dats like tellin Fergie not to senselesly attack coaches/players/refrees ever again.
    or Liverpool employin Roy Hodgson as director of football following a burst-out btw Kenny n Commolli.

  • Desy says:

    NOTE TO THE IDIOTS: Please read the following you f**king bunch of disrespectful muppets…

    http://liverpool.theoffside.com/team-news/connor-wickham-and-being-in-the-know.html

    • nicefish says:

      So it’s always the media’s fault? The media said that Man U was going to get Young and they got him. They said Man U was going to get De Gea and they got him. They said the same thing about Jones and Man U got him. So was the media fabricating things and Sir Alex decided to believe in them and bought the players he had previously no intention to? I don’t believe everything the media says, but neither do I put blind faith in any one individual in the club as well like some idiots do.

  • michael says:

    35 mil PLUS extras makes me so sick,for sum 6 ft troubled man that hits woman that didn’t even finish enar tops corer int he championship who drinks beer like a fish. i don’t care if it was jesus who signed him, whoever decided to do that needs the sack straight away i don’t care if its kenny and he would win us the league. i’m sure carroll is ok, but the amount! david villa was less!

    it’s like some mad crusade for overvalued english players, i’m sure if you want the best quality in the world you buy all around the world. why is it still 8 mil for adams? surely his value has decreased with a yr gone on contract and relegation, i hear were sending them players on loan? sutely this would decrease the value as loans ussually involve fee’s. downing for 20 mil… young is better and was only 16! crazy! n’zogbia is below 10 mil buy him!
    enrique, please no! not good enough

    ironically i bet the same people that despised the loyalty to benitez are the ones going overboard with king kenny. ironically though, benitez got slated when he wasn’t given money in the first place to waste. what a silly world

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