Our season is over and one to forget. It's time for Kenny to step back. He is a Liverpool legend, one of the greatest to have ever worn the Liverpool shirt. But it is time to step down and get a real manager on-board. Kenny is an awesome man-manager but he just doesn't have it in him anymore to pick the right team. On more than a few occasions this season, he has shown his preference for players who don't deserve to be above others in the pecking order. Time and again, he has proved that he has lacked the tactics to make the right call and pick the right players.
Today's FA Cup Final was a prime example. Kenny left out 3 players who are in-form. Carroll, Maxi and Kuyt and he started with Jordan and Spearing in midfield. What an absolutely pathetic call! Spearing, for all his industry and hard work, is at best an average player. Zilch creative qualities, the least you would expect him to be is a solid defensive midfielder, which he isn't. The first Chelsea goal was his mistake to begin with and to some extent the second one too. Jordan Henderson might be one for the future but he definitely isn't quite ready yet. I am stopping just short of saying he was awful today. Kenny starts these two in midfield with Maxi, Kuyt and Shelvey on the bench. Ridiculous!! I knew the moment Lucas got that horrific injury, we were going to miss him badly. As has been rightly proven, he is currently irreplaceable.
Offense. The entire season Kenny starts Carroll who was out of form then when he should have been starting Suarez and Bellamy (who was in brilliant form) and now when Carroll is finally hitting his stride, he is benched. It doesn't need too much tactical awareness to see these glaring mistakes. I want to re-emphasize that I have massive, massive respect and admiration for Kenny Dalglish. It isn't about that. It is about Liverpool Football Club. We might stick with him for the next season because we back our managers and support continuity but I don't think Kenny was meant to be our permanent manager anyways. He was brought in to steady the ship which he did brilliantly well. But for all the reasons above, I don't believe he is the one to move the club forward. I would love for Kenny to step up into the boardroom or our Academy but please o please, it's time to give a real manager the seat.
I always thought Carroll had it in him to come back. Forget about the money paid for him, that was not his fault (I would put that fault completely on Torres' last day transfer request which forced us to get in a replacement). Plus given his age (22), I think he will come good and is already showing signs. Carroll was/is never meant to replace Torres but to bring his own physical presence and heading abilities to the team. We have the brilliant Suarez to do the nutmegs. But having said that, who is our 3rd striker? Most top teams have 4 if not 5 strikers and we have only 2 established ones. How on earth are we buying midfielder after midfielder without filling up our striking department? Kenny talks about the amount of times we have hit the woodwork this season which, even though has been unlucky, just goes to tell the story that if you don't buy strikers, you won't get goals but just a lot of attempts. Which is what has happened.
This has been a season to get a team together and gel so I don't have any complaints about that. But we need to rectify our mistakes (we have made glaring ones) and move forward. I am not expecting a big summer for us but what we do in terms of bringing players this summer will go a long way in determining which Liverpool we'll see in the coming seasons. One negative I am already foreseeing because of Kenny's bad tactics is the departure of Maxi and Kuyt (and they are more than justified to feel underused).
YNWA!
Today's FA Cup Final was a prime example. Kenny left out 3 players who are in-form. Carroll, Maxi and Kuyt and he started with Jordan and Spearing in midfield. What an absolutely pathetic call! Spearing, for all his industry and hard work, is at best an average player. Zilch creative qualities, the least you would expect him to be is a solid defensive midfielder, which he isn't. The first Chelsea goal was his mistake to begin with and to some extent the second one too. Jordan Henderson might be one for the future but he definitely isn't quite ready yet. I am stopping just short of saying he was awful today. Kenny starts these two in midfield with Maxi, Kuyt and Shelvey on the bench. Ridiculous!! I knew the moment Lucas got that horrific injury, we were going to miss him badly. As has been rightly proven, he is currently irreplaceable.
Offense. The entire season Kenny starts Carroll who was out of form then when he should have been starting Suarez and Bellamy (who was in brilliant form) and now when Carroll is finally hitting his stride, he is benched. It doesn't need too much tactical awareness to see these glaring mistakes. I want to re-emphasize that I have massive, massive respect and admiration for Kenny Dalglish. It isn't about that. It is about Liverpool Football Club. We might stick with him for the next season because we back our managers and support continuity but I don't think Kenny was meant to be our permanent manager anyways. He was brought in to steady the ship which he did brilliantly well. But for all the reasons above, I don't believe he is the one to move the club forward. I would love for Kenny to step up into the boardroom or our Academy but please o please, it's time to give a real manager the seat.
I always thought Carroll had it in him to come back. Forget about the money paid for him, that was not his fault (I would put that fault completely on Torres' last day transfer request which forced us to get in a replacement). Plus given his age (22), I think he will come good and is already showing signs. Carroll was/is never meant to replace Torres but to bring his own physical presence and heading abilities to the team. We have the brilliant Suarez to do the nutmegs. But having said that, who is our 3rd striker? Most top teams have 4 if not 5 strikers and we have only 2 established ones. How on earth are we buying midfielder after midfielder without filling up our striking department? Kenny talks about the amount of times we have hit the woodwork this season which, even though has been unlucky, just goes to tell the story that if you don't buy strikers, you won't get goals but just a lot of attempts. Which is what has happened.
This has been a season to get a team together and gel so I don't have any complaints about that. But we need to rectify our mistakes (we have made glaring ones) and move forward. I am not expecting a big summer for us but what we do in terms of bringing players this summer will go a long way in determining which Liverpool we'll see in the coming seasons. One negative I am already foreseeing because of Kenny's bad tactics is the departure of Maxi and Kuyt (and they are more than justified to feel underused).
YNWA!
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