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The worst home form in my living memory, is not reason to give him another chance. Time's up for Kenny.

As for the players you suggest go out, well Aquilani, Cole, Kuyt and Maxi are all better than Henderson and Spearing. Henderson might improve, but still seems like you're weakening the squad with those.

We create SOME chances yes, but clearly not enough, otherwise we wouldn't have such a low goal total. You can put some of it down to bad finishing/bad luck but not all of it. It's quite apparent to me we don't actually create enough. PArticularly at home.

You might be right about maxi, kuyt etc being on larger wages, but what difference does that make to squad strength. You cutting the wage bill or the ability? Aquilani is too soft for the premiership, but he's still 10 times the player Spearing is. Kuyt has been solid ( never spectacular) right winger for us for years under Benitez and always weighed in with a fair few goals, but you can't say the same of Henderson.

Yes I'd rather see us bring promising youngsters through, but Spearing isn't one of those. He's played varying amounts for the past 4 years, and he's 23 now, not so young, and he's not promising in the slightest. Everything about him is average.

I agree that Aquilani and Cole will be on their way anyway. But you'll never convince me that getting rid of Kuyt, Maxi, Aquilani and Cole in favour of keeping Spearing is increasing the squad's ability.

do you think your Anti-Kenny agenda is making you think that anyone who finds a positive in our team is pro Kenny? Recognize has not written a glowing endorsement of Kenny but has said that the season as a whole has been ok (league aside). You read it as pro kenny

I think you are right Rafa. Kenny was always an average (at best) manager before he took his decade sabatical. Quite why anyone thinks he is going to improve after all this time I don't know. Being a premiership manager these days is very hard its never been more competative or with so many complexities. We need a new manager but we must choose with care and great thought befoehand. The last two appointments were a right hash we simply cannot afford to repeat that.

A right winger and another striker might help. But it won't solve the problem. Not without a new approach to how we play football and how we train. If Kenny could make that change, I'd be happy to see him stay, but I don't think he can.

It doesn't matter which players you have if you don't play them to their strengths, or have a flawed approach to the game. Even with the players we've got, Kenny doesn't play them properly. The training seems to be good with regard to short passing, but not really with regard to shooting, crossing, fitness, set pieces, tactical awareness and so on. So it looks pretty, but it fails.

Looking at the squad, which players have improved on last year, including the new signings? Skrtel? That's really about it isn't it? And the majority have performed much worse, even the youngsters who you'd expect to improve. That's a problem, a big one.

IN terms of goals, Maxi has 6 in 16 games, and last year got 10. Dirk Kuyt every year has scored 10-15 goals for us. Even this year though he hasn't played all that much, he still has 5. So given that we need goals, rather than play 4-5-1 and spearing in a defensive midfield role, shouldn't we be at least playing one of Kuyt or Maxi? We don't need a defensive midfielder. Our problem isn't defensive.

So no, I don't think whoever we sign will fix this. Kenny will either not play him, or play him out of position, or let him become worse as a player from training, or just have bad tactics which essentially will make the new right winger and striker look less good than they really are.