RE: Liverpool FC
A number of fans need to step away from the past of a few years ago. We're no longer a team who are somewhat capable of fighting off teams for a European Cup place, we're now one of the teams looking to crash the party.
Alan Pardew this week said something about Newcastle now being on a level playing field with us & he's exactly right. Considering some think his time at Newcastle has been a bit of a fluke is just silly, they're just like us, a small squad with a manager who knows what style he wants to play & gets the best out of what he's got, giving him the age old title of "Right man for the job", the only difference is they have Hatem Ben Arfa, Jonas Gutierrez, Demba Ba & Papiss Cissé, where as we've only got Luis Suárez & Raheem Sterling.
With Gerrard now settling into somewhat of a more central midfield role rather than a forward bursting attacking midfielder, a bit like Scholes, Giggs & Lampard we're struggling to get players into the box to score goals, this could all change with players coming in, say Demba Ba & Theo Wallcott. Ba would score for fun & Theo would take the pressure off Sterling along with adding some much needed pace & could even play as a striker himself.
Place those two players or two similar in our squad & with the possession game we play we'll be a very difficult team to play against, add goals to that & we'll start winning more games than we are at the moment.
Untill we can bring in players like these then don't be surprises if the Newcastle strikeforce is the difference today gaining them their first Anfield win in, I read somewhere 18 years.
If we do get beat today then it'll be no different to Everton's result at Fulham or Chelsea not being able to overturn the Swansea possession game, what it won't be is like a falling Arsenal team excaping with a 2-1 loss in a one sided game against a team they're supposed to be challenging.
Brenden Rodgers & Roberto Martínez the two best young managers in the country & Alan Pardew maybe surprisingly to some people has come of age at a club who in the modern day Premier League are finding their feet in the right place.
A few years ago they thought they were a top 4 team when they were actually just short of that, the expectation of their fans given they're a one team city was way too much for the club, player & obliviously ambitious new owner, they ended up getting a massive smack in the face, similar to our own of not being in the Champions League for a few years now.
Today is a meeting of maybe the two most compatible managers & teams in today's Premier League.
We're not in the situation of Arsenal, yes we have similar managers who have a club style & need to buy players to fit that style rather than a Pardew who buys the right players to benifit his team & fits a style round them. Newcastle could welcome back Andy Carroll & make it work, We can't!
We only need a goal scoring striker to help out Suárez & take the pressue off the young Fabio Borini along with an attacking midfielder with pace to replace the failing Joe Cole & we'll start picking up 3 points on a more regular basis aswell as making teams like Newcastle, regardless of what they have think twice about a visit to Anfield.
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