Our Team for Next season and the Squad in general

[Roboklopp]

even if we get another manager in he will still have to work with these chumps.

are there any top managers who have a CV that includes turd polishing.

Rafa took Toure, Biscan, Baros, Le Tallec etc to Champions League glory...

[Roboklopp]

It's not about polishing turds, its about finding gems.

Not Le Gems.

[baitman]

It's not about polishing turds, its about finding gems.

i know, but we cannot change the whole team in one season. whoever comes in will find that these part timers will form the basis of the team.

[cream]

We also had Gerrard in his prime back then.

[Roboklopp]

...and hadn't just spunked £100m on a tornado of turd.

[cream]

It's all about players though, isn't it. Don't think Mourinho would win anything with this squad, never mind Rafa.

[ChrisDR1968]

It's all about players though, isn't it. Don't think Mourinho would win anything with this squad, never mind Rafa.

This is largely Rodgers' squad though.

He didn't inherit many of the players we currently have on the books. Gerrard, Lucas, Skrtel... who else?

[Roboklopp]

Yeah but it's not like there hasn't been money invested in the squad. No one is expecting a title challenge every season, but some quality in the squad is a bare minimum. Even our best are highly inconsistent & our worst are wastes of significant amounts of money- quite a few of whom were called as going to be that way by people here.

Management includes recruitment - and my main gripe is not that we lost today, it's the utterly unacceptable manner in which we did. I have more drive & application when having my morning **** than the vast majority of our players did in an FA cup semi today.

[Exiled_red]

...and hadn't just spunked £100m on a tornado of turd.

[Lecter]

This is largely Rodgers' squad though.

He didn't inherit many of the players we currently have on the books. Gerrard, Lucas, Skrtel... who else?

Johnson, Henderson, Sterling, Enrique, Flannagan, Ibe, Texeira

[Slinky Skills]

I'm tempted to agree with this. Certainly the first priority is to get goals into the side. In general our defense has worked best when the team has been cohesive in front of it and in particular when we made the opposition afraid of our front players.

We also need to add some solidity to the team but I think that can/could be done tactically (or with a new coach).

Huntelaar? More so, is he attainable?

We need good centre midfielders desperately

Who's out there that we can realistically get?

Sissoko from Newcastle would add a bit of steel. Khedira?

[BobTheCharmer]

Huntelaar? More so, is he attainable?

He wouldn't score a single ****ing goal. Our current strikers rarely get chances to miss, a 6 yard poacher like him would be useless.

[Slinky Skills]

Bit unfair that, he's more than a 6 yard poacher to be fair.

What if we got a supply line in for him or someone else next season. I'm sure we'd get goals.

I think he's attainable, he's still decent and he's a proven goalscorer.

[Red_Polo]

He wouldn't score a single ****ing goal. Our current strikers rarely get chances to miss, a 6 yard poacher like him would be useless.

Our current forwards don't even make the runs for people to play them in though. Sturridge is the only one that regularly looks to make runs in behind. The others have a completely different game and/or sit waiting for something to happen.

[BobTheCharmer]

Our current forwards don't even make the runs for people to play them in though. Sturridge is the only one that regularly looks to make runs in behind. The others have a completely different game and/or sit waiting for something to happen.

Lambert has scored goals throughout his career. He's hasn't the pace to run behind too often however I think our use of him has been bizarre, today underlining that. I wouldn't have bothered if I was him. I think rather than blame our forwards, I think its the way we try and play that is at fault. If you don't have arms you can't wave, so if we don't have the tireless runners in the squad, play another way.