Gloomy summer in terms of football indeed
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 11:12 AM
Was reading this
article by Aaron Cutler over at This Is Anfield, which totally sum up how I feel and I'm sure this is how most of all Liverpool fans feel across the globe too. We are not excited about the new season at all.
The thing is simple seriously. Let's see how many players have left the club so far, regardless of their quality and the role they play. Riise, Kewell, and Crouchy. And on the other hand, who has we signed? Degen, on free, and nothing good comes free, look at Voronin; Dossena who seem to worship the Mancs; and also Nikola Saric, a 17 year old Danish striker. To replace Crouchy? Nope. So as it stood, we only have Torres, Kuyt and Voronin the useless Voromir lookalike as strikers. Or as Cutler put it "Voronin who...words fail me, as goals fail him." And I've talked about our midfield yesterday. Only the defence looks OK in terms of spine. Compared to last summer, with the arrival of Nando and the like of Babel and Yossi, no wonder this summer is gloomy.
Of course we are linked with the big names. Villa, Silva, Barry. And even Andrei Arshavin as of this morning. Out of the 3, Barry looks most likely to be playing in red this coming season. But, is he worth losing Alonso over? I still do not think so. We are going to miss Xabi if he really do leave. Who has a better vision and passing than him? From the Xabi for Barry deal, we can see what the owners are doing, selling to buy. So, yeah right, as if they are going to fork up 30 odd millions each for Villa, Silva or Arshavin. We are getting free players, and looking for players under 10 mil and anything more than 15mil seems impossible for us. So, thanks a lot Hicks and Gillett. Thanks for "bringing the club forward". Not to mention our invisible new stadium. All the fucking talk and not a single soil being moved. Where the heck is the gravel?
At times like this, no wonder even the players are weary about talks on the title challenge and landing the 19th. Well, Nando as an exception, him and his "ness sea-soo-ohn, we win the league", because I truly believe that was pretty much the only thing he was required to memorise from the English class the club provided him last season. I say, ness sea-soo-ohn, we win anything, anything at all, will be good enough given our situation now. A 3rd trophy-less season is too much to bear. I can see Souness face in my head now. Damn him.
Let's hope things will pick up in the next couple of weeks. Here's to hoping and walking on with hope in my heart.
So emotion laden can die, this post.
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