WITH Liverpool’s erratic and generally poor form in the league it’s time to simply forget about this year’s league position. It doesn’t matter who we finish above or below as the reality is it’s all now meaningless. We won’t be relegated, thankfully the league didn’t start in January, and we won’t end up in a position of any relevance. What Kenny needs to do immediately is throw his book of tactics out the window (they’re obviously not working), start fresh and begin the process of building for next season.
Kenny needs to pick his strongest team and stick with it until the end of the season. What has he got to lose? Liverpool’s results can’t get any worse than they already are can they? He needs to stop with the constant rotating of players one week and not playing them the next. It’s not working. And if you’re going to make a substitution, make it so that there’s enough time for it to have an impact. If I was Andy Carroll I’d have been angry as well at being taken off 10 minutes from the end of the game last week against Newcastle. We were 2-0 down and going nowhere so why embarrass the guy in front of his ex-supporters by making an ineffective change. It made no sense.
The time for excuses that don’t convince any Liverpool fan is over. Nobody’s buying them and from all accounts neither are the American owners. Apparently they are asking Dalglish for a full report in the summer explaining why things have gone so terribly wrong in the league this season. That signals he will be in charge until the end of the season, which makes sense, but there can be no can doubt Kenny is on borrowed time so his analysis and plan on how he is going to improve the squad and the team’s performance next season better be outstanding if he is to be Liverpool’s manager next season. The minimum objective will be top 4 as it was this season.
With stable ownership, £100m already invested in players, a possible new stadium and new naming sponsors being sought and major sponsor like Standard Charter investing millions the only thing missing is a quality team that can deliver on the pitch. You can only imagine what is being discussed in the boardroom in Boston these days. Kenny’s only salvation right now is the that Liverpool still have a chance at winning the FA Cup and if won it may give Kenny the extra season he is looking for. But then again are the owners going to trust Dalglish and Comolli to spend another £100m? Will they trust his tactics are the formula for success at Anfield next season? It’s hard to imagine they would which puts Dalglish’s tenure in further doubt.
Will Kenny rethink and introduce a new approach for the rest of the season? I’m doubtful. Attractive football is secondary right now, it’s all about getting results and even though where we finish in the league is irrelevant it’s important for the team to rebuild its confidence going into the FA Cup semi-final and hopefully the final. Improved form also gives Kenny the opportunity to show supporters and the owners what he can do with this squad. He needs to restore some sort of faith in his abilities as a manager because if Liverpool continue to lose games until the end of the season there can only be one outcome for him and his staff.
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Time to forget the league. Well time to forget the league was long time ago.
Forget the league? Unless there’s at least 5 quality players added in the summer, you can forget the league next season too! Plus, has Kenny got a book on tactics? maybe he should turn it up the right way. Hope i’m wrong but can’t see us beating Everton, so i think we’ll have to forget the cup too. Everton, Chelsea and Spurs, playing much better than us, ‘cos we’re crap!
with you on that sorry appraisal of where we are at…Messers John W Henry and Tom Werner as invested owners of LFC have some huge decisions to make this summer eh?????
[quote]Kenny needs to do immediately is throw his book of tactics out the window (they’re obviously not working), start fresh and begin the process of building for next season
Kenny needs to pick his strongest team and stick with it until the end of the season. What has he got to lose? Liverpool’s results can’t get any worse than they already are can they? He needs to stop with the constant rotating of players one week and not playing them the next. It’s not working[quote]
Oddly enough I’d take the opposite view about players but to the same ends as you Barry. Rather than playing the “best 11” whatever that is I’d be inclined to use the rest of the season to blood the best of the young players – Sterling, Suso, Robinson, Flanagan (15-20 mins a game) while keeping Shelvey, Coates playing from the kick off. I don’t want to see Carra, Downing or Kuyt again in the EPL this season. The kids are the only bright spot of a miserable season (the League Cup hardly compensates for the Prem League form) so bring ’em on. They need time to acclimatise before the EL campaign.
I think that’s a really good idea redmike. The question is do you do that before or after we know whether we’re in the FA Cup final or not or just get on with it?
Well if Liverpool get past Everton I admit it’ll be harder to play the kids (that said if in a game Liverpool are 3-0 and 15 to go…bring on Suso and Sterling). Shelvey and Coates still deserve game time whatever happens but should Liverpools competitive season ends on Saturday then let the youngsters have their head I say.
We have a lot of young players who Dalglish and his staff are guiding, clearly most observers on the site believe Kenny is on some sort of borrowed time.
I like to think differently, the strangest of seasons has occured, next season will clearly in my opinion be very different.
Hang on people, we have had some awful luck this year….things will get better.
YNWA
lets be patient look at chelsea choping and changing managers every day.Kenny is class and that is permanent but even the best struggle but if u stick with them they will deliver and so will Dalglish