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No offence, but this sort of an opinion is a great example of how you can't win sometimes and that certain fans are just never happy.
We have a really good squad now, and a lot of decent players. Our bench, for the first time in a while, has really good quality players on it week in week out, and we even have decent players who can't make the squad. Basically, there are no sh*t players left in the squad - all the dead wood was flogged off, which is great.
On the other hand, I kinda hear what you're saying. However, we do have a good few top bracket players, such as Suarez, Gerrard, Reina, Bellamy, Kuyt, Enrique(imo) and when fit, Agger. As well as this, we have other players who have the potential to step up to this, such as Carroll, Downing, Coates, Johnson, Kelly, Henderson and even Lucas has further room to improve more - he's still young. That's without mentioning the promising young lads.
What we have there is more than a solid foundation. We're in a great position with the squad we have, and you can bet that with every transfer window that passes, the aim will be to further strengthen, and i'm sure these 'stars' you and most of us are after, will arrive. Rome wasn't built in a day, my friend. +1 Lenny
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No offence, but this sort of an opinion is a great example of how you can't win sometimes and that certain fans are just never happy.
We have a really good squad now, and a lot of decent players. Our bench, for the first time in a while, has really good quality players on it week in week out, and we even have decent players who can't make the squad. Basically, there are no sh*t players left in the squad - all the dead wood was flogged off, which is great.
On the other hand, I kinda hear what you're saying. However, we do have a good few top bracket players, such as Suarez (YEP), Gerrard(YEP), Reina(YEP), Bellamy (I'm a big fan but NO), Kuyt (NO), Enrique(imo)(YEP) and when fit, Agger (YEP). As well as this, we have other players who have the POTENTIAL to step up to this, such as Carroll, Downing, Coates, Johnson, Kelly, Henderson and even Lucas has further room to improve more - he's still young. That's without mentioning the promising young lads.
What we have there is more than a solid foundation. We're in a great position with the squad we have, and you can bet that with every transfer window that passes, the aim will be to further strengthen, and i'm sure these 'stars' you and most of us are after, will arrive. Rome wasn't built in a day, my friend. So basically your agreeing with me?? That we need to add more top quality our "squad". Given that our aim is to win 1st and foremost the league and then everything else, but just lets say the league. How many of our first 11 would make the Chelsea, utd, city first 11? 1/2 at most. Secondly how does our "squad" compare to Chelsea, utd, city and remember were not competing in Europe? Good things have been done in KDs second reign but from a very low starting point. I thought you may disagree about Kuyt and/or Bellamy. Maybe they're not QUITE 'top bracket', but neither are far off, and both are the sort of players we need to be keeping hold of. Yeah, the thing about potential is that it's not always realised... but it can be. My point is that patience is required. People such as yourself have deluded themselves into thinking we were automatically gonna be transferred into a title-winning force. These things don't happen over night, it's not realistic. I admire your attitude of "we are LFC, we play for 1st place", and I agree, and yeah, we will play for that, but realistically, it's not gonna happen this season. Look at City and how much money they've thrown into their squad, and now a few years later they're only now looking like genuine title contenders. We're not even in Europe - even with our good name, that's a blow with regards to attracting these 'top' players. It's vitally important to get into the top 4 - and that's not gonna be easy at ALL, so i'd say forget about winning the title this season - 4th would be a great achievement under the circumstances, and the best building block we could gain - Champions League qualifying teams attract top players - that's a fact. As for Chelsea - they have a player playing in their starting 11 who left because he couldn't get into ours. They have more 'superstars' than we do, yes. But what i'm saying is we have a solid squad now, so when the next couple of transfer windows come around, the focus can be on adding one or 2 of these 'top' players instead of trying to build a solid squad. We're getting there.... patience 
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Cheer up guys. Lets wait for another 10-20 years.
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So basically your agreeing with me?? That we need to add more top quality our "squad".
Secondly how does our "squad" compare to Chelsea, utd, city and remember were not competing in Europe?
It's all very well talking about signing top-quality players but even if we had the money it's hard to attract the cream of the cream without the bait of champions league football if we want to get back up there again the first step is getting into the champions league. until we do all bets are off
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I think you two are kind of arguing the same point. However, I think BarLennon is correct regarding patience. I think there has to be a certain amount of time for players to grow into their team and their roles, and no amount of money can change that, and I think City was a great example. And the problem is that to attract the right players we need a certain amount of assurance that we will be successul when they arrive (i.e. european football).
That being said, we have a lot fewer bases to cover than we did last window. This time we can focus on finding one or two stars like Goetze or Hazard to add that extra burst.
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I agree what we have now isn't bad at all, and much better than what we had. I just don't want us buying squad players, I'd rather keep the money in the pocket if we can't attract the top tier player. If that's the case have we the squad to claim 4th place (ihate aiming for 4th) but I really hope so
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sam, i kind of understand wat u are trying to say ie
our starting 11, needs improving, with quality players, that can take the club into the CL next season and this time next year, make a challenge for the EPL title.
if LFC win the EPL title this year, fcuking great, i wud take that.
3 more quality players are needed to be signed in Jan 2012 or in the summer, to make our starting 11 strong. ...
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....?.....kelly....agger...Jose
....?......SG........?....Downing
.........Carroll....Saurez
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Let me preface my point by saying firstly that, you know i feel were really short on top quality players.
however, given that were not competing in Europe, shouldn't it be possible to keep our players fresh for 30 odd more games notwithstanding cup runs or injuries.with that in mind shouldn't we be playing our first 11 (not that I know what that is ) in every game building a cohesive unit to brush aside weaker sides.
so come January I hope the powers that be forget. about getting a good "squad" player and go and get a big coup...this current. season we don't need a squad we need stars i have to agree with most of what you said. i have for a while now have been frustrated about us buying 5/6 players for the squad instead of buying 1/2 top top draw players that will stars in the team. IMO if we are going to win the league we need another world class CD, DM, WINGER and maybe a striker. if we could fill one of those positions in January and maybe two in the summer then we will be right up there
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2 or 3 big names to come in, I have to agree but it;s difficult without being able to offer CL football. That's why this season we got the likes of Adam, Downing, Henderson, Enrique etc. because if wanted to get players of a higher standing than that, they needed CL football to be part of the deal!
I'm reasonably happy with our squad at the moment and it's a vast improvement from say 2 years or even 1 year ago.
Agree with BarLennon, that patience is required but at least we have some decent players to come on from the bench if we have injuries or need a change.
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I think this thread is silly because for once we got a good squad that can compete without injuries and everybody here was asking for that last season while clearing the deadwood, everything happened our way but now you want more players? Incredible.
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