Two main things for me. Souness' appointment. He tried to change things to quickly. Sold Houghton, Beardsley, McMahon and Staunton, when they didn't need to go. They weren't too old and had they still been in the squad when we started to bring youngsters like Fowler, Jones and McManaman through they would have provided the experience that team needed. The players he signed weren;'good enough. Paul Stewart, Clough, Di cks, Ruddock, just weren't good enough. We took some big steps backwards under Souness.
As much as I like Roy Evans he was too soft as a manager, and had we had a better/stronger manager at the time I believe that we had the same quality of youngsters as Man Utd did at the same time. For Man Ut'd's Neville, Scholes, Giggs, and Beckham, we had Jones, Redknapp, McManamanan and Fowler. Had these players been managed by someone like Fergie we would have been back up there again. So I think the Roy Evans appointment was a bit of a mistake although he did his best and we played some great football at the time.
Thos two things really stick out for me, because if we hadn;t falledn behind in those years, then we wouldn't have been playing catch up continuously under Houllier and Rafa.
H&G were obviously the biggest mistake ever, but we don't need to go into that again as we all know what happened.
Great article,
For me it was the Sounes era.Loved the man as a player but there was something about his training methods that had more players out injured for longer.Did the same at Rangers and Newcastle.
Also losing Big Bob to alzeimers was a huge loss felt by everyone.The man was a legend and a gentleman and a confident to anyone at the club who needed advice.
Having the time and backup to implement a winning system,aka Fergie also helps.
5 stars from me.
nice post but wrong analysis:
Most Liverpool fans intially used to think that the sun shone out of the Moores ar.se.........i was one of the few that made peeps realise in my posts that the were so thick that they alone held Liverpool back.
The Moores held out for money but Rick Parry had to much influence over new owners.
Liverpool under Benitiez could have won the league with the Dubai group agreed, where you are wrong is: the american owners H&G dismantled Bienitez's backroom staff in the season we finished 7th
why?
they believed Benitiez had to much power in telling the fans what was really going on behind the scenes
An analysis of Liverpool
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posted on 7/10/11
Two main things for me. Souness' appointment. He tried to change things to quickly. Sold Houghton, Beardsley, McMahon and Staunton, when they didn't need to go. They weren't too old and had they still been in the squad when we started to bring youngsters like Fowler, Jones and McManaman through they would have provided the experience that team needed. The players he signed weren;'good enough. Paul Stewart, Clough, Di cks, Ruddock, just weren't good enough. We took some big steps backwards under Souness.
As much as I like Roy Evans he was too soft as a manager, and had we had a better/stronger manager at the time I believe that we had the same quality of youngsters as Man Utd did at the same time. For Man Ut'd's Neville, Scholes, Giggs, and Beckham, we had Jones, Redknapp, McManamanan and Fowler. Had these players been managed by someone like Fergie we would have been back up there again. So I think the Roy Evans appointment was a bit of a mistake although he did his best and we played some great football at the time.
Thos two things really stick out for me, because if we hadn;t falledn behind in those years, then we wouldn't have been playing catch up continuously under Houllier and Rafa.
H&G were obviously the biggest mistake ever, but we don't need to go into that again as we all know what happened.
posted on 7/10/11
Alonso
Arbeloa
Masch
Torres
Garcia
.... Riera was good until he attacked Pacheco
Agger
Kuyt
Arguably brilliant buys
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Pepe was the best buy of the lot!!!
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Great article,
For me it was the Sounes era.Loved the man as a player but there was something about his training methods that had more players out injured for longer.Did the same at Rangers and Newcastle.
Also losing Big Bob to alzeimers was a huge loss felt by everyone.The man was a legend and a gentleman and a confident to anyone at the club who needed advice.
Having the time and backup to implement a winning system,aka Fergie also helps.
5 stars from me.
posted on 8/10/11
nice post but wrong analysis:
Most Liverpool fans intially used to think that the sun shone out of the Moores ar.se.........i was one of the few that made peeps realise in my posts that the were so thick that they alone held Liverpool back.
The Moores held out for money but Rick Parry had to much influence over new owners.
Liverpool under Benitiez could have won the league with the Dubai group agreed, where you are wrong is: the american owners H&G dismantled Bienitez's backroom staff in the season we finished 7th
why?
they believed Benitiez had to much power in telling the fans what was really going on behind the scenes
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