In the last 10 years or so...

[The Erectile Banana]

I think the teams from 1995-97 also had the capability of winning the title but lacked the steel that Utd had at the time.

Agree with that.

We were the best attacking team in the league at that time. On our day we were absolutely lethal but had too much of a soft centre to take the ultimate step.

[Joe King]

I'm only asking because I can vaguely remember some of the 90s but if Ince had come to Liverpool earlier, would he have been the difference?

[The Erectile Banana]

I'm only asking because I can vaguely remember some of the 90s but if Ince had come to Liverpool earlier, would he have been the difference?

Possibly, but we still had a fairly poor central defence with the likes of Babb and Ruddock and David James flapping around in goal.

Ince certainly would have made a difference by adding some steel to midfield. Barnes and Redknapp worked well together by passing teams to death but they were a bit of a powder puff combination.

I think Ince and a new CB and/or GK would have landed us the league.

Some things haven't changed. We're still three players from winning the league today.

[fred_plasticine]

No

Anyway, Stevie G is going to be next manaher, Rafa has already told us

i'd very much doubt that. he'll be another souness type of manager.

[Joe King]

i'd very much doubt that. he'll be another souness type of manager.

**** signings
Big egos

I can see that happening again

[Los Rojos]

Ince certainly would have made a difference by adding some steel to midfield. Barnes and Redknapp worked well together by passing teams to death but they were a bit of a powder puff combination.

I always thought we looked a better side when Michael Thomas was playing with either Redknapp or Barnes. Molby played some great stuff as well at the start of the Evans reign but he could never last the full 90 minutes.

[dww]

So if Rafa was in charge of the Fowler,McManaman, Collymore team that could have won it, do you think we would have won the title? I mean at the time it was widely acknowledged that they took advantage of Evans. Would Rafa's discipline have worked on them?

Oh and James at times was shocking in those days and cost us a fair few points

Obviously impossible to know for sure but considering how well he did in Spain I think it is fair to say that Mcmanaman would have thrived under Rafa. I think he would also have forged a defense out of some of the talent we had at the time which would have been a plus.

The career trajectories of people like Fowler make it hard to tell - he didn't exactly thrive under the discipline of the Houllier regime but that could have been a personality difference.

It would be interesting to look back at the games in an objective fashion and see if James has got better or whether playing for a lesser team means that what is expected of him is what has altered.