Where to start with Liverpool's troubles? I'll do my best to work through some of them.
Our signings. Charlie Adam - he may well be one of the most average players to ever play for us. He's unbelievably selfish, his passing is predictable and his general game is woeful. He creates little, he can't defend, he can't shoot and when he gets in good positions, he doesn't give it to those in better positions.
Andy Carroll - actually done a few OK things in the first half, nothing remarkable, but actually things of a footballer, which is surprising given the past 12 months. He's crapper than Heskey and he's just as unproductive, 12 months on from the signing and I can comfortably say he's the worst ever transfer in football. I wouldn't take him on a free, he is that bad.
Stewart Downing - Kenny said the other day "he's better than I thought", just how bad did you think he was, Kenny? He is abysmal, he is the model English player; average, inconsistent and weak mentally. Another player I wouldn't have took on a free, he is so poor.
Henderson - played out of position today, but it doesn't hide a very slow start to his career with us. He's got many attributes, but concentration, tactical awareness and decision making aren't there at all. We probably overpaid by about £6m (if we did pay £16m for him).
Enrique - a decent fee for a proven full back, but the fella again suffers for inconsistency. Glen Johnson is worse, but Enrique is distinctly limited and crumbles under pressure.
Dirk Kuyt came on and offered nothing, he's offered nothing this season, he's offered nothing but work rate and 'big goals' in his Liverpool career. He's limited, slow, his technique makes me cringe and he's another who has an adverse effect on the way the team plays.
For me, Liverpool's transfer activity in 2011 may well be ranked as some of the poorest in the history of football. When Comolli came in, I assumed we'd be unearthing gems and signing talent from all over the globe, instead we signed the most average players from the domestic league. Suarez, Enrique and Coates are the only 'good' signings, the rest represented woeful value for money. The rest of Europe must have been laughing their nuts off whilst Liverpool, a team that only a few years ago donned players like Alonso, Torres and Mascherano, had reverted to spunking money on the poorest league in the world in terms of value for money. Actually, I doubt they will have laughed, they must have been gutted that they couldn't offload a pile of crap on us for £20m.
With regards to today's game, it has been typical of the majority of our bad/average games this season, of which there have been many. Our passing is slow and predictable, without the ball we aren't defending as a team, our movement off the ball is restricted to two players; Gerrard and Bellamy. Our team was woeful, the only time I've seen us worse than this was 13 months ago under Roy. If we don't sign a couple of good players by February, we can say goodbye to the top 4 and probably the Europa League. All our owners spoken about when they arrived was how competitive they are, well, we'll soon see how they react.
Absolutely fuming.
