Will Liverpool FC Ever Recover ?

[life on mars 73]

I remember just a few weeks after Hillsborough, Liverpool lost to Arsenal in that epic title-decider game, and it seems to me that they've never been quite the same power since.

Will they ever get back to their former greatness, I wonder ?

Or is the weight of the Hillsborough tragedy going to weigh them down forever ?

 

[tweenster]

Football tends to be cyclical. It may be 5 years, 10 years or 30 years, but they will come back. I can remember Man Utd being relagated to what was then Div 2, won the Div 2 title the following year and have been in Div 1/Prem ever since. Being relegated gives them a chance to clear out the over paid dead wood and come back fresh. Maybe ...

 

[Stumpy Tim]

It's got nothing to do with Hillsborough. They were a force until Benitez lost the plot. Dagleish has now f***ed them financially, and poor old Rodgers has to put the pieces together. They'll end up mid-table this season, unless they find a goalscorer from somewhere

 

[vegster]

No, not for some time.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Yes, eventually. Still one of the top brand names in football, and their time will inevitably come again.

 

[Beach Hut]

Interesting question, personally the ghosts of the past and weight of expectation will always haunt them at Anfield, I think to move forward the club needs to move to a new stadium.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Liverpool looked very good in the first half, Joe Allen once again was outstanding in his deeper lying role letting Gerrard hit his 50/50 long balls the commentators rave over. Until the red card, they were all over United and it was a very impressive snapshot of how they'll be playing by the end of the season.

Even Gus Poyet's Brighton wasn't built in a day, you can't take a bunch of cloggers and sloggers and turn them into a footballing team immediately, it will take time for Rodgers to weed out the players who either aren't mentally able, or aren't technically capable of playing his way. And getting players in won't be easy either, because being Liverpool they'll expect world class players but for the time being, they aren't going to be an attractive proposition. Gylfi Sigurdsson turned them down for Spurs in the summer, the powershift from Liverpool to Tottenham has been completed and it's going to take a lot of hard work, patience and shrewd transfer business to turn it around. Given the time, Rodgers will turn them around but it's going to take this season of 11th-14th to set the bench mark he can then build from. They still have wildly inflated ambitions, in the stands atleast.

 

[LABHA]

Liverpool used to be a club, that kept a manager, for years, now it seems, every 1-2 years they sack the manager, back to the drawing board for them I think.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Interesting question, personally the ghosts of the past and weight of expectation will always haunt them at Anfield, I think to move forward the club needs to move to a new stadium.

It seems that a new stadium is off of the agenda, 400 million to develop Anfield into a 60k all seater, not a penny from anywhere Merseyside apparently.

 

[Beach Hut]

It seems that a new stadium is off of the agenda, 400 million to develop Anfield into a 60k all seater, not a penny from anywhere Merseyside apparently.

Seems pointless to me that stadium is totally ill-equiped for modern day football.

They had probably the three greatest managers in the UK in Shankly,Paisley and Fagin yet broke the mould from shaping a manger from within hence the chronic underachieving.

What is so hurtful about this is that they were the greatest European team for quite a while pnce.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

I remember just a few weeks after Hillsborough, Liverpool lost to Arsenal in that epic title-decider game, and it seems to me that they've never been quite the same power since.

Will they ever get back to their former greatness, I wonder ?

Or is the weight of the Hillsborough tragedy going to weigh them down forever ?

I think they will, domination at the top of the football league runs in cycles Manure are coming to the end of theirs.The Americans have ruined the financial stability at the club and the sweaty sock is on his last legs another club will fill the void when united implode, it could be liverpool it could be the arse

 

[life on mars 73]

Yes, and I seem to recall when they were at the peak of their greatness during the 70's and 80's, they were generally liked and admired by the average football fan, in a way that Man Utd never have been over the past 20 years or so.

Or is my memory playing tricks on me ?

 

[Beach Hut]

Yes, and I seem to recall when they were at the peak of their greatness during the 70's and 80's, they were generally liked and admired by the average football fan, in a way that Man Utd never have been over the past 20 years or so.

Or is my memory playing tricks on me ?

No it is not, everyone would support a British club then in any European Final be it Liverpool, Forest, Spurs, Villa etc

 

[beorhthelm]

It's got nothing to do with Hillsborough. They were a force until Benitez lost the plot. Dagleish has now f***ed them financially,

to be fair, im not sure the fees paid are down to Dalglish, the hand of Comolli as director of football was involved there. i dont know if Dalglish selected the targets or not, but Comolli was also on the tiller for the Carroll deal where they substantially over paid.

still, thier fall hasnt anything to do with Hillsborough.

 

[pork pie]

I really hope not. Let them wallow in their history, while the likes of Chelsea and City, and hopefully us one day, create the future.

 

[The Wookiee]

I remember just a few weeks after Hillsborough, Liverpool lost to Arsenal in that epic title-decider game, and it seems to me that they've never been quite the same power since.

Will they ever get back to their former greatness, I wonder ?

Or is the weight of the Hillsborough tragedy going to weigh them down forever ?

I really can't see why the tragic events of hillsborough has anything to do with the demise of Liverpool FC. Wasn't it only a few years ago they won the champions league ?

Maybe the Man Utd fans were singing always the victim never your fault to all those Liverpool fans who believe the demise of their club is to do with Hillsborough and not mis management of the club by its owners ?

 

[Muzzy]

In my lifetime they were the best football playing side that I have seen in the flesh.

That was a year or two ago now and unfortunately they let their grip slip away, and I don't think they'll ever get back to where they were 30 years ago. Football has moved on and they have not.

An era is over and one day, maybe one day, we could have a bit of the success that they have tasted! Who knows?

 

[Ernest]

How many Liverpool players would Man U or Man City want to sign ? Not many, Reina is not as good as he was, Gerrard should have moved on 5 years ago. Rogers has to build a completely new side and doubt whether he can

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Thought they were terribly unlucky today. If they keep faith with BR I think they could be back in with a shout in the next couple of years.