Firstly I am not saying we should sack Kenny at the moment but so far his performance (particularly in the transfer market) has been very poor for a club of Liverpool’s stature and objectives. If he was manager of Birmingham City it would be fine but we are not Birmingham City are we? The Analogy of Ferguson from the late 1980’s is ridiculous. In the first instance he was progressing them from their start point from early on and he was certainly not a disaster in the transfer market in fact he signed players that were the bedrock for their future success. But the main issue has football has changed fundamentally since the 1980’s we are now in the arena of £150k a week footballers and the need to quality for the champions league to earn the revenue to exist at that top level. That was not the situation in the 1980’s. So the notion you are portraying we can amble along in 6th or 7th for the next 5 years just because he is the King would destroy Liverpool football club. The new ground all the future of the club depends on getting to the champions’ league that and the title is our objective. You two may want to lower the clubs standards and see it as a mid table club in perpetuity I don’t.
Spot on there Stanley. Fergie built things up over time, but he stood a great chance of losing his job until he signed Cantona. If Suarez is our Cantona (and he may be), then he's going to need the support Cantona had, and right now our squad is not at that level. But one needs to remember that Fergie had 7 years of building - Kenny's had 1, in a far tougher league of 6 teams rather than 2 or 3. So I sympathize with Dalglish, because he can't dally about, but if the match 18 we've been seeing recently is the foundation for the future then I can't say we deserve to be in the top 4 now or then. The squad is NOT gelling, and we basically live or die on the performances of Gerrard and Bellamy, and the latter can only play about 60 minutes per game (on average). Which is to say despite our squad overhaul and some investment from the owners we are still just a 1 or 2 man team. And that really isn't good enough. We should have been able to do a bit more than that - we're only within touching distance of 4th because Arsenal and Chelsea are just as bad, yet they're both in the CL knockout stage where we had no European distractions.
