KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Yet again Spurs sign another big name..

Why should we kiss goodbye to catching them? Just because they've bought lots of "great" players they've lost the one man that got them where they were last season. If these players don't gel, get sulky through not playing etc things could go very bad very quickly (I know it could all work out very well too).

In the past, City and, on many occasions, Real have proved that buying "galacticos" doesn't always win you titles. Also look at Utd who player for Ayer were probably the third best club last year but as they were the best team, they won the league.

Anything can happen in football and I'm not giving up on beating Spurs or anyone after two league wins to start the season no matter who they e bought.

Yep, anything can happen, but, I would prefer to rely on things that we control rather on luck.

We can rely on things we control by playing well and winning every game or as many as possible. A little luck will help too.

+1

Is that our secret ? Keep it quiet no way will any of the other clubs have thought of playing well and winning as many as possible

Well done! One in a row!

All I'm saying is we do have our destiny in our hands. Luck will always at a part though.

8million the price of one Eriksen I bet we offered £3m or we were going to make an offer but the fax machine broke and FSG won't pay the asking price for a new one.

The difference between his time at Spurs and Chelsea though is that he inherited a squad at Chelsea and was given an objective- told to start phasing out the older players. With Spurs, he's basically bought a whole new midfield and attack- players he wanted and who he thinks he can get to play his style.

Until very recently, I've been confident we can at least put up a good fight but I'm now officially worried.

I really hope you're right though JJ..!!!

He inherited an older squad at Spurs too... I don't buy it. Sorry. I think he has done a decent job at Spurs, and he did a decent job at Chelsea. Not great. Not even good. He inherited a Spurs side with a lot of talent, and has basically bought players to replace the duds from last season. And he has now replaced over half his starting XI. I just don't think it is realistic to think they're going to gel, play well and adapt that quickly. And I don't think AVB is the kind of manager that has that skill-set at this moment in time. I'm not saying they couldn't finish above us... But they're signing so many players the team should need time to adapt... when most of our squad is already settled... Do you want the better team, or the better players? That is how I see it...

We'll see how good AVB is next season.