Liverpool 2010/11 Season Thread

[toythatkills]

Has such an average team ever been so expensively assembled?

[Nu-Eclipse]

Right, this has to be the poorest Liverpool team in premier league history.

Worse than the Souness years? Worse than the last days of Houllier?

Get. A. Grip.

Kenny out?

Indeed. I'm pretty sure kenny will leave in the summer. Winning the league cup means he hasn't damaged his reputation.

"Quality" trolling from a Spurs fan. Great.

Kenny brings Liverpool their first trophy win in 6 years (with the possibility of a domestic cup double) and a return to European football and yet (according to Stoppy2000) he will leave in the summer? Why? because Liverpool haven't finished fourth or third in the League?

[nakamura]

The carling cup is hardly a reputable trophy. Most of the top teams barely field for it.

[Nu-Eclipse]

The carling cup is hardly a reputable trophy. Most of the top teams barely field for it.

...Yet of course when Utd won it in 2009, it was heralded.

[toythatkills]

Are you genuinely happy with the Carling Cup?

If you are, that's fair enough, but do you really feel like that's a good return for how much has been spent on the team?

[Adrock]

The game was very poor. I'm concerned about the void that Gerrard has left, he hasn't been the same kind of player since he returned from those long injury lay offs over the last year and with his age I'm not confident he'll ever recapture the kind of form Liverpool require.

The quality of Gerrard is obviously a miss but the biggest issue is the kind of midfielder he is (getting up from midfield to create and score) today with just Suarez on the pitch in attack the team were atrocious. There was no support for him at all and the creativity was terrible.

I'm not entirely sure what the answer is right now. Dalglish needs more time, I'd say another season is the least he should get. Not because of his previous stint but because the work being done by the team was at a much better level than they are playing right now.

They have some big misses in Agger, Kelly, Lucas and Johnson. A striker is a definite must after Carroll's false start.

[nakamura]

It is always heralded by teams that are desperate for a trophy.

[nakamura]

I'm not entirely sure what the answer is right now. Dalglish needs more time.

Did Roy not need more time?

[Nu-Eclipse]

Are you genuinely happy with the Carling Cup?

If you are, that's fair enough, but do you really feel like that's a good return for how much has been spent on the team?

I'm happy that my team can be in a position to start winning something again after 6 YEARS. Even more so if a double cup win is achieved.

Not sure how your logic is working, but after the whole H&G debacle, Liverpool were never going to be in the ascendancy to challenge properly in just one season, barring a Man City-style splurge complete with massive wages, regardless of transfer fees spent (which, believe it or not, isn't actually much when what was recouped in player sales is taken into account - fact).

[nakamura]

Winning a knockout competition that anyone can win is not being in a position to win something. Cardiff could easily have won that final which could have left you in a much worse position. You won the game against a championship side by the skin of your teeth. (Against City you were excellent mind)

[Nu-Eclipse]

Did Roy not need more time?

Here we go. Again.

What exactly has Roy Hodgson achieved in the game that makes him a top-class manager? Why is it that top clubs hardly mention him when they might be looking for a new manager?

[Adrock]

Are you genuinely happy with the Carling Cup?

If you are, that's fair enough, but do you really feel like that's a good return for how much has been spent on the team?

Hang on, all this money spent rubbish that is always carted out must be put into perspective.

- The lack of investment in the recent past means they are starting from further back than other teams

- The club has, in the main, bought young players who are more important to the future of the club than anything else.

We could argue all night about it but thats tiresome.

[Nu-Eclipse]

Winning a knockout competition that anyone can win is not being in a position to win something.

Sorry, but it is if you go on to win said tournament. By your logic, winning the Champions' League is not being in a position to win something?

Fail.

Cardiff could easily have won that final which could have left you in a much worse position. You won the game against a championship side by the skin of your teeth.

But they didn't. As much as you and many other wish they might've, they didn't. End of.

[Adrock]

Did Roy not need more time?

No, the club under Roy played horrendous football. He signed terrible players apart from Meireles and his attitude towards the media was completely out of kilter with how Liverpool fans want the club to be portrayed.

Under Hodgson the team were losing and playing terribly. Generally under Dalglish the team have played well but aren't getting the results. I would like to think thats progress compared with where they were before Dalglish came back.

[nakamura]

Here we go. Again.

What exactly has Roy Hodgson achieved in the game that makes him a top-class manager? Why is it that top clubs hardly mention him when they might be looking for a new manager?

You clearly haven't answered the question.