Mtoto
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- Sep 28, 2003
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It's not just the fans. The real problem is that everyone believes it, from the owners who paid top dollar to buy LFC to the execs, the backroom staff and the players, led by Gerrard the number one fan. The result is that it's very difficult for a manager who is not a Grade A name they all recognise and respect to get what is by any measure a pretty limited bunch of players even to perform at a level that is a sum of the parts, never mind beyond it. And any manager who *is* a big enough name - the likes of Guardiola, Mourinho etc etc. - will appreciate how poor the raw material is and won't touch them with a 10-foot pole.
Martinez has a great track record for producing effective teams from a very average squad, and in a sense is just what Liverpool need. Unless he gets the players onside and gets immediate results, though, he's likely to go the same way as Hodgson, and improving a football team is never linear. Being crap at various stages is going to be part of the process of getting better, and that's where the fans come in as it's rarely something they appreciate or tolerate.
But then, Liverpool fans are hardly alone in that. There were people on here saying that Gus had taken us as far as he could after Notts Forest last season, and that was a game that we won.
Martinez has a great track record for producing effective teams from a very average squad, and in a sense is just what Liverpool need. Unless he gets the players onside and gets immediate results, though, he's likely to go the same way as Hodgson, and improving a football team is never linear. Being crap at various stages is going to be part of the process of getting better, and that's where the fans come in as it's rarely something they appreciate or tolerate.
But then, Liverpool fans are hardly alone in that. There were people on here saying that Gus had taken us as far as he could after Notts Forest last season, and that was a game that we won.
