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It’s all too easy to have a knee jerk reaction to a single game. Only a week or so ago Liverpool were stealing all the headlines for putting both the Manchester clubs out of the cups. Now, it feels as if the gloom has returned to Anfield after a really limp performance on the pitch at the weekend and further controversy off it.
Everyone seems to have a slightly different opinion about the current state of Liverpool football club.
While some think that Kenny’s reinstatement as manager was perfect, leaving only the matter of time before pre-eminence is restored, others are questioning how much impact Dalglish is having from the sidelines and whether he can affect a game any more. His recent dealings with the media have provided further concern for some.
When Liverpool pulled a goal back against Manchester United at the weekend, the Reds manager seemed to react more like a fan than a manager. He screamed with delight but he looked as if he were simply trying to will his team to win rather than thinking about his next strategic move that could seal the point. He just looked on, hopeful, desperate for his team to get another goal after a substandard performance.
And what are we to make of the impact of ‘Director of Football’ Damien Comolli? It’s hard to know who to pin the blame on when bad signings are made these days. Perhaps that’s why they invented the position in the first place.
At Tottenham, Comolli was apparently responsible for acquiring Bale and Modric, but was also around for the signings of Hutton, Prince-Boateng, Kaboul, Gomes, Assou-Ekotto, Bentley and Pavlyuchenko.
His time at Arsenal yielded recruits such as Toure, Eboue and Clichy. And, so far, he has been at Liverpool to observe signings such as Henderson, Adam, Carroll, Downing and Suarez.
Of the above list, you could pick 3 world class players – Suarez, Modric and Bale. Of course, that list doesn’t include all of Comolli’s recommendations, but I’m pretty certain it includes all the world-class signings that he has been involved with. 3 really top signings across 3 different clubs, spanning the best part of a decade.
Comolli seems to sum up Liverpool perfectly at the moment. It’s difficult to work out how good he is and how good they are. One week Liverpool look as if they are about to take on, and beat, the world. The next it’s back to square one. It’s also hard to predict what the future holds. Are Liverpool a couple of pieces from perfection or are they about to prolong their two decade league trance?
What is for sure is that, whilst they are sitting pretty in the cups, the most important quest is surely to get into the Champions League places. Only then can they properly kick on. Meanwhile, they need to collectively get their heads down and let the football do the talking.
Vialli
Feb 13, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Eh? Pava and Prince-Boateng are class players. You’re talking a regular Milan midfielder who was a star at the last World Cup. And Pava, well just look at his goal record, consider the amount of games he played, no matter what he did he was always going to be behind that smashing lad, that lovely lad Defoe
costasy
Feb 13, 2012 at 4:53 pm
We, all the LFC fans should feel relief that no transfer activity was taken place in January transfer window under Kenny Dalglish and that is due to the fact that this should be Kenny’s first and final full season as a Liverpool manager! Watching how Kenny has been preparing the team from the beginning of the season up to now it is obvious that he has never had a tactical plan for any game we played! Additionally, for another game the AMs Steward Downing and Jordan Henderson that were cost to us 20,000,000 each could not justify the reason they were brought to LFC! It is now the right time for John W. Henry, Thomas Werner, Ian Ayre, and Damiel Comolli to sit down together and identify LFC’s next manager who should be chosen from the following list:
– Jose Mourinho
– Guus Hiddink
– Fabio Capello
– Marcello Lippi