Liverpool need a Robbie Fowler to make the top 4
It’s an obvious and critical question. It’s one all Liverpool supporters have been asking themselves since the beginning of the season. Qualification for the Champions League, the only European tournament to be involved in, puts Liverpool back amongst the footballing elite plus it’s worth millions in additional revenue. I’m pretty sure a top four finish was the minimum target set by John Henry and Tom Werner at the beginning of the season. I mean they’ll have a new stadium to fill and pay for after all. So with more than half the season over, Liverpool in 7th spot and 5 points adrift of 4th place, can they do it?
The answer has to be a definite yes. The caveat is(here comes the obvious) Liverpool have to start winning their home games and at the same time maintain their current away form. It’s no easy task. There are nine home games remaining with the next three against Spurs, Everton and Arsenal. Can they win all nine points? On their current home form you’d be wise not to rush to the bookies and bet your house on it but these are the type of matches Dalglish and Liverpool thrive on and raise their game for, unlike those against the likes of Blackburn, Sunderland etc. Yeah I know we drew with United & City, but we should have won both these matches.
I honestly thought this season Liverpool were going to learn their lesson and win the majority of their home games, especially against mid to lower table teams. But frustratingly this has not been the case. How can we forget the fact we’d have won the league in 2008/09 if we hadn’t drawn 11 matches, 7 of them at home. That one still hurts. And guess what? Already this season Liverpool have drawn 11 games, 7 of them at home. So what’s going to make the difference to making the top four?
A Robbie Fowler. A young Michael Owen. An Ian Rush. A Kenny Dalglish. A clinical finisher. I know Dalglish is saying he won’t be buying anyone during the January transfer window but surely there’s room for a naturally gifted striker to play alongside the outstanding Suarez. Maybe with Gerrard’s return we’ll see the partnership of Suarez and Carroll gel and start to produce the return we have all been praying for, but I’m not convinced. Liverpool need a quality finisher if they want that top four finish.
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if you look at pretty much any season liverpool always go up the table in the second half of the season look at last year! the game i thinks one of the most important and biggest game of the season for us after our last meeting is with tottenham! i’m just hoping kd brave enough not to go in on the dffensive and make it a borring draw been waiting months for this 15 days to go, suarez back just in time can’t wait for this half of the season hard month this one do.
Love Kenny but we really do need the Swansea manager who will out of contract soon – we need to make our move now – he plays Pep Guadiola type footbal with goals -goals -goals. Kenny said this morning that Downing has exceeded expectations – SEE WHAT I MEAN
With these our present squad we have noting to offer truely let foget about first four! cause kenny have spoil every thing for us the kind and quality of player we have are worthless, secondly dalgish does not have wining mentality, he feel comfortable with one win and two draws, he likes defensive pattern of play and hate creative and intelligent players lets face the reality and save our club, we all know that kenny is a legend, at anfield. And forget the fact he not well eligable to be oue manage let think twice and may be consider ‘benitez’
Yes, Liverpool can, but only in your dream.
Are you expecting Chelsea, Arsenal and now Newcastle to all play worse than Liverpool?
NEVER.
The team is lacking in… QUALITY!
Beg the soccer gods for a 6th place finish.
We had a spanish manager once, who gave pride to all Liverpool supporters. He took us to the pinacle in Europe, and only failed due to the Man U loving referees in the league. Betrayed by the American owners, betrayed by Christian Purslow, and continually hounded on anything by the English Press due to their Xenophobia we lost him.
I love Kenny. I was in my teans when he brought Barnes, Houghton, Mcmahon, Aldridge to Anfield. I know he is class. But these are different times. And the English players, other than a few like Gerrard, Johnson and Carragher, are simply rubbish. I know there is a quota coming in for home grown players, but he has wasted 78 million on Downing, Henderson, Carrol and Adam who compare it to Luis Garcia, Alonso, Mascherano and Torres, just pale into insignificance. How I wish Rafa was back. What he would do with the money.
People will always criticise Rafa for the bad buys, but 90% of those bad buys were because he had to buy from the bargain basement because of constraints and most of them cost under 4 million. Compare that to 78 million worth of rubbish.
The Xenophobic will attack me for this. The people who dont have their heads in the clouds will see how right I am. I love Kenny. I was over the moon when he came in and Hodgson left. But he has got to realise that Maxi must start continually, Kuyt must start continually and stick with Rafa’s players as his just dont deserve to be wearing the liverpool shirt other than Suarez……. a foreignor!
90% of players signed by Rafa when sold were sold on for a profit as well. How much of the money spent can we recoup if we have to offload some of these players. Sean I’m with you, if Rafa had wasted LFC money on these players we would never have heard the end of it from the media, and the so called pundits. Rafa’s players have consistently outperformed Kenny’s players. If it was ok to criticise Rafa, then Kenny will also have to accept criticisms for his decisions.
Liverpool have no chance of finishing top 4…not enough quality in the final third.
Honestly nothing will make liverpool finish 4th,the players Kenny bot r worthless n offers nothin.kopites lets face fact kenny canot take us to top four.we will finish 7th or 8th
Lol, classic comments. We got issues to sort out and Kenny’s still getting his management groove back, but FFS, I make it 2 poor games in the season.
Rafa will be back one day, but till then, let’s try to get a bit of perspective. The defence and the style of football is good enough to mix it with any team in the league. Sure, we are having issues putting away chances whether they are easy or not so easy…
… But compared to where we were 12 months ago, a solid foundation has been laid. If we had taken even some if the chances, we would have been we ahead of schedule and people wouldn’t be saying anything!
Kenny’s second year will be a lot more successful than the first after taking over a team that was a mid table team at best. Very few people absolutely nail a new job in the first year at it! Let’s acknowledge the good points and see if Kenny and his team get the find tubing right in the second year at it
Yes, but, pundits and the media expected Rafa to finish in the top 4 in his last season with the squad he had, even with the injuries and the problems behind the scenes. Good players sold, and money never re-invested, but that was never an excuse allowed to be used by Rafa. I have to be honest, at least 3 of Kenny’s signing are seriously questionable, and they cost £63 million approx. Also the club is in a much more stable position now than when Rafa was manager. Why can’t we as fans compare and question Kenny, if Rafa was questioned from day 1 in charge?
Honestly if Top 4 is not achieved . . .
Then Kenny should b sacked. . . I know what he means Livepool fans . . . Bt none of us can wait for 20yrs. with 100mil wasted on British talent.
David Ngog(1.5mil) is a better player than Carroll(35mil)
Maxi (free agent) is 10 times better than Downing (20mil)
There is absolutely no way Liverpool will get top 4 both spurs and arsenal will do them in at anfield not to mention a trip to old trafford (with that being the easiest as well) if anything they will be lucky to get the Europa league via the league cup and that’s only if they can beat cardiff in my opinion they should be relegated due to their horrifically hateful and racist fans and players