KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Is 4th place that unrealistic?

Its very very very unrealistic... but so was Istanbul. Im not gonna set me hopes for 4th place as iv already set them on finishing top 7 but i honestly do think we can get 4th if we stay in touch with it like we are now (8 points) until January. Then in January try get in 2 or 3 fresh faces and make a real go for it. In my opinion we will finish 6th or higher.

I don't really think I could until next week. A lot of the teams above us play each other, so someone's dropping points. If we get a win next week and Spurs drop points again, I would say about 30%. But I really don't like putting a number on it. Football is a funny game. You never really know what will happen.

With our squad now its not on sadly but as others have said, we need to sign at least 1 or 2 strikers in January that can give us goals. We are lacking goals and goals wins you games.

I agree. But if we can move up a little or at least stay within the same touching distance between now and then, and we do sign some players that can score, things begin to look promising.

Just what I was thinking. Do I think we will do it ? probably not. Do I think its possible most certainly.

If WBrom with their lack of high profile players and that thin squad can occupy 4:th spot I definitely think we can finish up there.

Highly unlikely but still possible!

Anyone talking about 4th place is on a different planet. Absolute lunacy of the highest order.

When it comes to the teams that are in the run for 4th I am considering the ones that finished above us. Chavs, Scum, and City have top 3 nailed down, but the rest looks pretty uncertain.

Spurs: Finished 4th, but with Harry and Modric gone, they look shaky. Siggurdson and Dempsey aren't producing like they hoped. We're only 2 points behind them.

Arsenal: Finished 3rd, we're 5 off from them. They're inconsistent, and Giroud is not filling in for RVP the way they hoped.

Everton: Finished 7th They're very settled and have had a great start, but they're overperforming. They don't have the squad to compete with the big 6 IMO. 4 points is not a lot of distance.

Newcastle: Were a surprise at 5th last year, but they look found out now. We're ahead of them.

Those are still the 7 best teams in the country, I think, and we're right there in the thick of it. I think it can happen.

If we are within touching distance in Jan then FSG should invest BIG to get it... That is a gamble worth trying IMO.

Say they were going to invest £20 anyway... And we are like 5 points behind.

Then another £20 - 30 million could be the gamble which pays off..
Hopefully they will see our form improve over the next 6 weeks and do the right thing.

The next 6 weeks could define us as a football club for the next 2 - 3 years...

I dunno about you lot but waiting 2-3 years before making a charge on 4th is not good enough.

We need to cement our position as one of the BIG boys once again. And we won't do that with just kids.

In some respects I envy your ability to be so very very optimistic, and by definition it is not impossible, but it might as well be. Our team isn't good enough, our manager is still learning at this level, we are completely iratic performance and result wise, games will start coming thick and fast with the cups, we could be utterly devastated by as little as one injury. I don't think we will actually be too many games off of it, maybe 3 or 4 games worth of points hopefully, but we won't be getting 4th gentleman. I would be happy with as Rodgers said, an improvement on 8th.