In the short term however, something just needs to ‘click’ for the Reds to save criticism from becoming widespread; possession is just simply not producing enough goals.
This may be down to Andy Carroll, who has not turned the time and faith trusted in him into the expected number of goals, or the gap that Luis Suarez left whilst serving his ban (even without the gap-if you ask Liverpool fans, many are beginning to doubt Suarez’s goal scoring ability).
The Midfield lacks Lucas Leiva; Steven Gerrard has only just made his comeback and cannot be the saviour at Anfield forever, Jordan Henderson is played out of position on the right and Charlie Adam can often overplay the simple balls. So are the men in the middle to blame?
And on top of that the defence, as seen at various points, is incapable of working together to deal with situations thrown at them.
Propelling Liverpool back up the league is most definitely work in progress for Dalglish; however he only has to look up the table to see an expert example of how to deal with crushing, season-threatening problems. Wenger, against all odds, turned Arsenal’s season around. They have won all of their last 7 Premier League games (something not achieved since the 90’s) and lie 3rd in the table above Tottenham and Chelsea, therefore looking the favourites to finish as London’s top team this time round.
Does Kenny need a serious rethink about his and Liverpool’s future? What’s your opinion?
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No substance. No intelligence. No reason. Absolute rubbish.
What a moronic piece off ill informed garbage.
Liverpool are managed by a dinosaur who has spent fortunes on average players, play anti-quated old school football and will not challenge for the title in the forseable future.
Arsenal have suffered the loss of their 2 best players and were unable to sign players until the last minute leaving them in a right state at the beginning of the season. Their form has improved greatly, as the team have gelled, even though they have suffered massive injuries yet again.
But next season will see Arsenal mount a serious challenge for homours, while Liverpool under Daglish will hover around mid table yet again.
And what exactly are Arsenal’s ‘mistakes’? Losing all your fullbacks to injury and losing two players in the transfer market count as mistakes? WOW! GO BACK TO SHOOL
Arsenal will “challenge” for honours? – If by that you mean they will finish third or fourth or maybe last eight in every trophy they play for is considered challenging, then yeah – they’ll be “challenging”.
Arsenal players must have more third, fourth or quarter-final medals than any other team – except you get no medals for “challenging”. Even Liverpool with all their problems, have picked up three trophies since an Arsenal player last won anything. As a player, I’d know which team I’d rather play for – the team that “wins” rather than “challenges”. I’d rather be Gerrard saying – “I won thirteen medals in my career, but not the biggest one where we were too inconsistent”, rather than Van Persie saying “I won no trophies, but never finished outside the top four and always challenged”