Some reflections:
1. Liverpool under Brendan, 2013 and beyond
Looks like Sturridge is coming after all. How would he integrate with Suarez? How does BR manage Gerrard and Henderson? How does he organise the back 4 or 3 given the silly goals that the team has leaked to Route 1 and simple direct attacking from simeple direct opposition?
Performances have been good to insipid. There is a lack of rotation, and given the smallish squad how will they cope in the second half. BR needs to show he has solutions for all of this. In the second half, I predict more of the same against the top 5, ie if we are lucky and being optimistic, 6 points from the 5 games against Utd, City, Chelsea, Arse and Spurs. The middle 7 are mainly home games, but our own home games have been awful so far and Anfield is no fortress. A mere 2-3-1 result against Everton, WBA< Swansea, Norwich, WHU, Sunderland could be best. And 15 pts out of the bottom 7 which are mainly aways again seems pretty optimistic. All in, leaves 59 pts for this year. Awful, but a basis to start 2013/14 season. Beyond? Difficult considering transfer performance is where you could get quantum increases in performance, as shown by Rafa and Houllier or even Dalglish part 1, or drastic underperformance under Hodgson and Dalglish Part 2. Not sure how good BR is in the transfer market, but based on 1 window so far, pretty much underwhelming.
Rafa does seem to impress at Chelsea so far though.
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