Liverpool in crisis!

by Paul
(Eastbourne)

Liverpool are in crisis. They will never win the league title while Benitez is there because he either doesn't know HOW to win the league or is too arogant to adapt his own narrow view of how he wants to play.

To win the league in England, as Man Utd and Chelsea have shown in the last 5 years, you have to win almost EVERY game! Of course, that is an almost impossible thing to happen, but the point is, that has to be your target.

Benitez shuffles and tinkers with his average side to the point where they cannot guarantee winning enough games.

The fans, amazingly and as arogantly as their mesiah, are with him still. But lets look at the facts.

1. His arogance will never allow him to win the league;
2. Through blinkered eyes he has assembled a very poor squad for a lot of money. Reina, Carragher, Gerard, Torres and Benyouin (sp?) are the only real quality players he has. Johnson is lively going forward but his defending credentials are still questionable.
3. They have a divided and openely fractious board which couldn't unite to make any real decisions if their lives depended upon it.

But here is the real problem. Liverpool have just given Benitez a new contract. To sack him now would cost them millions, Assuming even that the two yanks pulling the strings at Liverpool could bear sitting down together long enough to make such a decision.

So, do they sack him and pay him the compensation in the hope that a new man will come in and assure them of 4th place in the league? Or do they hang on to him and potentially compound the mistake in the hope that he will get them into the Champions league again next season? But the dilema gets deeper here too.... For if they sack him and bring in a new man, he will want to strengthen what is, a weak squad. He will want to have a good clear out of up to 10 players or more and this will also require millions of pounds, and Benitez has already had that money.

Where do Liverpool go from here? Sack Benitez and pay him his compensation and watch him head back to a big club in Spain (probably Valencia) and almost certainly have success with them? whilst at the same time the new man in the hot seat will demand millions in July, during World Cup year which in itself, traumatic, to strengthen his poor squad.

Ot do they keep Benitez and hope for the best that the fans favourite could still yet turn it around? even though his 5 years in charge have produced nothing in the league?!
I go for the first option. If they don't get rid of Benitez now they will only make the matter worse and Liverpool could be looking at mid-table. Sack him now, cut your losses but save the family jewels before they have also left.

One (intersting) side note here is the position currently of double-winning Kenny Dalglish. His 'promotion' back into the Liverpool hot seat after years away could be a possibility. Not only would the promotion from within save money, but it would also appease the fans who still blindly support Benitez.

Liverpool have problems from the board room to the training pitch. Gerard and Torres are months away from questioning their own loyalites to a club that appears to be floundering on the beaches of Benitez's single-minded arogance. How many times can the Spaniard come on to our TV's after yet another defeat and, in his still unacceptably poor English, say "we can take positives from this match".?

Liverpool are fast heading toward mid-table and possible financial melt-down. They have interest payments alone into their high millions and need the cash from the Champions League badly. Without it the Yank officianados will call in their loan to Liverpool Football club (taken out by them to cover the debts of Liverpool Football club which they ran up when purchasing Liverpool Football club)and head bank to their preferred sport of baseball.

Recent history has shown that when a club dips too low, they never come back. I believe Liverpool are bigger than this but it is a real possibility.

Sack him now and save the club. Take the financial hit and move forward. Liverpool are beached and they are drowning.

Paul King