A thrilling season for Liverpool this year, winning the ‘Who Doesn’t Go to the Europa League’ race against Tottenham, selling £50 million pounds of dead weight before signing £35 million of injured Geordie, Kenny Dalglish pulled out a miraculous 34 points from 18 games at the end of the season with the help of Luis Suarez and the Liverpudlian youth legion. With the seemingly bottomless pockets of the Fenway Sports group to draw money from, it looks like King Kenny can mount up a title challenge once more, or so Suarez believes.
Don’t the wrong impression here, Fernando Torres was, and will soon be again, one of the greatest strikers in the world, his time at Liverpool should be held in the highest regards and the acquisition of Andy Carroll could prove a great signing yet, with overpriced teens very much in fashion at the moment. A title challenge though? Seriously? It seems only last year a top four finish was assumed and that again they could mount a march on the title.
It seems only last year because it was last year. Last year Anfield seemed aflame with anticipation, new management, a fit Torres, a fit Gerrard and a prime time to be clinching a 19th title, by the new year, Torres was gone, the new management was gone, and Gerrard was injured and Anfield was awash with disbelief and relegation fears, absolutely unheard of in Red country. What that heeds is consideration of position and cock surety.
After this season disappointing title fight, a veritable “he’s behind you! No wait, they just gave away another 4 goal lead, never mind.” In all honesty and hindsight I can muster, Manchester City never really looked like they would win it, some great signings made in David Silva and Yaya Toure though, Chelsea just never seemed potent enough to snatch it, Arsenal pretty much gave up when the going got tough and, solely in my opinion, Manchester United trundled over the finish line with their gritty never say die attitude that annoys the rest of the league.
None of these teams really deserved the title, they all had some great moments, some really great games and some top quality management, why we say goodbye to Ancelloti is beyond me, and if we’re looking at who should have won on effort and commitment and just plain valour, then it’s Blackpool. However the Premier League is not measured in valour, its measured in points. That’s why Manchester United rightfully won their 19th title, Blackpool were relegated and nestled in 6th place were Liverpool.
Therefore I applaud Suarez’s eagerness to win the title, every team is in it to win it, otherwise it wouldn’t be a competition, I applaud the desire to bring Liverpool back into the realms of respectability, because everyone except Liverpool were laughing at Liverpool, why? Because it was great to see one of the mighty top three not on key. It was brilliant to see a god bleed. It gave way to an opening for clubs like Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur to seize a much sought after position in the top four.
With Dalglish at the reigns Liverpool look more stable now, perhaps stable enough to re-establish their former top four spot, for regaining entry to Europe should be an essential aim of next season, preferably Champions League standard obviously, but it doesn’t look like Arsenal, Man City, United or Chelsea will hand over the top four so easily, and with outsiders like Spurs and Everton ever present, the mounting task for Liverpool is to fight their way back.
I would love to see Liverpool to win the title next season, the ideals of optimism however must have their place and priorities must be set. Conquering the top four is vital, with no European football next season Liverpool should be able to concentrate on the league much easier. As Berbatov will tell you though, there are two half’s to every season, what won United the title was consistency, regardless of style or class or grace or attractive football.
Arsenal can play beautiful football all they like, Ferguson can still grind a result out in the most adverse of situations which is why United are where they are; top of the pile. United will remain the best team in England until someone can replicate that quality, whether its Liverpool or Swansea, a fire in the belly of old King Kenny might be all it takes to steer Liverpool level with United again, but who knows, there are 19 other teams in the Premier League, all with a fighting chance.
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Suarez scares me Dalgish is worse liverpool will be a major competitor for the title
19 other teams lol
What a load if rubbish. Liverpool have wasted all their money on garbage. The owners certainly dont have endless resources – quite the contrary. They’re spending now ahead of the uefa fair play rules. Well the money’s gone now. Henderson and Carroll are plainly ludicrous signings. I honestly think dalgleish is past his sell by date.
If I were a Liverpool fan I’d be looking down, not up.
OLD Whiskey Nose’s NEMESIS IS BACK, we shall cometh the season next.
W N was physically shaking with nerves in the CL final or was it embarrassment , perhaps both.
More of the same coming his way next season.
YNWA
The one thing that kenny dalglish has never done is fail at liverpool. Last year without torres and gerrard and with only youngsters to pick from he succeeded. if he can operate with youngsters in the team to finish with the second best form in the league then so be it, who am i to judge him. The problem with liverpool fans at the moment is they think we should be signing marque players but in essence young players turn into thes players with good guidance. kenny has proven through his career as a manager he can take and ordinary player and make him a superstar and take a good player to be world class. this happend at liverpool and black burn.