Game Over
By: CSD | April 30th, 2008
I’ve been racking my brain all day about what to write tonight. It’s just difficult to believe it’s over. No more chances for glory this season. We’ll finish in 4th instead of 3rd, reaching the semifinals of the Champions League instead of the finals, and were knocked out of the FA Cup by a Coca Cola Championship team. Aside from signing Fernando Torres, you have to wonder if we’re in better shape than we were last season. The question that’s really bugging me is did we get worse or did others simply get better?
All that’s left now are two league games that really have no bearing on anything. Winning won’t put us into 3rd and losing won’t put us into 5th. The season’s over and we have nothing to show for it. The ownership is in shambles and the future is uncertain. All we can do is hope that this summer brings an end to uncertainties and that new talent is pumped into the squad.
I’m quite pessimistic right now and all I really feel like doing is drowning myself in melancholy. Will next season be better? Will we have new owners or at least owners that are able function with the management of the club? Will next season be a repeat of this one where we buy a few players that are enough to throw off the dynamic of the squad, but not really improve it? I’m anxious to know the answers to these questions. I’m pretty sure I can find them in the bottom of one of these beer bottles. I’ll let you know when I do.
YNWA
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I know it’s not much consolation, but last season, you finished 21 points behind the league champions. This year, it’s 11 so far. If you’re looking for one stat of progress, that’s one.
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CSD,
Actually your season was full of “apathy”. Liverpool started with great verve but somehow faded out in the the middle of it. Rafa’s rotation. Owner’s problems. Politics. Constant bickering. Only CL was ray of hope but you were drawn against none other than Chelsea. Chelsea also had similar fate as your club but they didn’t plunder under all those problems.Yesterday’s match was one of the best semi I have ever seen (”shit on the stick” anyone?). I think Chelsea were more motivated than Liverpool. That sealed the fate of Liverpool.
Going forward, I expect Rafa to get a sack. I don’t see him your gaffer unless the owners sell everything to DIC. I fear Steven Gerrard will leave the club. He has already voiced his frustration on league failures and he’s had enough. If he gets good offer from abroad (I don’t think he’ll join any English club), he’ll leave.
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I’m a Rafa fan but I can’t get negative thoughts out of my head after last nights result. It appears we may be in a mini rebuilding stage and that does not bode well for Rafa when he has been there a few years. No problems with Reina but the back four does not pick itself anymore, we lack proven wingers (left side in particular), and there is no creative central midfielder while Alonso struggles with form. Babel is the only signing who is a definite for the future so in an era when managers cry out for time to turn things around it appears that after three years we are no further down the track. I’ll stick by my team through thick and thin but questions have to be addressed. On a positive note what a fresh of breath air to see a manager of a top side gracious in defeat. I don’t believe Utd or Chelsea are gracious in victory let alone defeat.
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Looking forward is definitely difficult right now, trying to explain to my fiancee why I was piss drunk and crying at 3:45 yesterday afternoon was possibly more difficult. It will be interesting to see the transfers that occur this summer–with all the speculation about who we’ve already agreed with, what we need, and who will be unloaded. I could care less what happens with the front office and who stays, who goes. Their job is, and always should be, to support the financial needs of the club. Too often this season were results framed “…amidst boardroom turmoil”. With Agger coming back from injury, and Reina, Carra, Masch, Gerrard, and Torres forming the spine, I’m hopeful for next season. Maybe even a trip to Anfield for me…
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Let’s be honest the Reds did not deserve to get to the final after what we saw on the field. Chelsea played faster and Liverpool defense struggles. Moreover Mr. Benitez keeps doing erroneous substitutions, how can you take out Benayoun when he is performing at his best on the right flank? Come on Benitez wake up!!
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I’m with Ian. I would have prefered some silver, but in the league we have more points. We could have more wins and have many fewer loses. If we can convert a few of those draws into wins next season we will be right there. If Rafa can get some defensive help and someone else to shoulder the scoring responsibility over the summer I think ‘08-’09 will hold great promise.
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Benitez made all the right changes.
1. Skrtel was injured so had to replace him with a CB
2. Benayoun was pretty trash the whole game until his run to set up the goal. Pennant has been playing well these past few weeks.
3. Torrres was hurt as wellPosted from
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The way I see it Benitez took a good group of players and tinkered to the point that they played nervous and very unsure of themselves. Only the anointed ones didn’t worry (Gerrard, Torres, Alonso?, Carragar).
You can’t play worried about making mistakes.
Secondly our midfield is way too slow, no pace. It works in the CL because that’s how the rest of Europe plays (which is why we did so well outside of the Premiership but sucked at home).
Can someone tell me why when we need goals he doesn’t find some way of getting Crouch into the game? A proven scorer against Chelsea?
We need to pick up the pace of our mid and replace a slow back line.Posted from
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The reason is that you have a defense that’s center defender is Patrik Skrtle. Patrik Skrtle????
He won’t/cannot stop the likes of Tevez, Drogba, Santa Cruz, Martins, Adebayor, and anybody else I left out.
Should’ve gotten Ben Haim
Then you need to go get Shanondi Nonda
Then you need some more goal scoring forwards to complement Torres.
And then your good to go.Posted from
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i’m absolutely gutted .. i guess two out of three ain’t bad ..
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ha ha ha ha ha liverpool are brutal yet another trophyless season!!!!
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I don’t know who Patrik Skrtle is, but he must be to blame.
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United States
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