After todays defeat at west ham, I couldnt help but notice a tiredness in the legs of our players, most of them looking slow and slugigish. So I asked myself one simple question, how many of these players will be in the liverpool team after 2 years.
The results were quite alarming, If a maximum age of 31-32 is taken as a player to play at his prime in the liverpool first team. We would be without Gerrard, Carra, Poulsen, Kyrgikos, Maxi, Kuyt , Aurelio, Konchesky. That would make it 8 players in the current squad who need to be replaced in the next 2 years. Then I asked myself how many players in the current squad would not make it into the squad of the top 4 teams and I made a list of them as well, they are skrtel, Lucas, Wilson, Spearing, Ngog, pacheco, Gulacsi. So these made a total of 7 players not up to the mark ( some of these have potential, but still not good enough to take a place in the first team of top 4 )
This made is a total of 15 players needing replacement in 2 years time, if we need to be and contest for the top 4. The sales of the above players might fund 7-8 good players we need. However, FSG have a big job on their hands. Givning funds for the remaining 8 players in 2 years means around 4 players a year.
If on average a good players costs 15m , then we need atleast 60m in the next summer and the summer after that. Hopeing King kenny gets it right in the market. He might not be very open in public but he knows Gerrards best is past him. He may still be great but isnt getting better now.
As the crucial 30 yr mark crosses, the player starts to decline its natural. We need to plan ahead. I hope the brains behind liverpool at working on this. We cant do miracles in days, expecting King kenny to get us in the top4 with the current squad is not less than a miracle.
Lets be practical, lets give the owners some time, let them bring us young and best talents. With the stewardship of the King we can only go up. Times like today will come along the way, but until King assembles a real Liverpool team, we just have to take these tough days patiently.
YNWA
The results were quite alarming, If a maximum age of 31-32 is taken as a player to play at his prime in the liverpool first team. We would be without Gerrard, Carra, Poulsen, Kyrgikos, Maxi, Kuyt , Aurelio, Konchesky. That would make it 8 players in the current squad who need to be replaced in the next 2 years. Then I asked myself how many players in the current squad would not make it into the squad of the top 4 teams and I made a list of them as well, they are skrtel, Lucas, Wilson, Spearing, Ngog, pacheco, Gulacsi. So these made a total of 7 players not up to the mark ( some of these have potential, but still not good enough to take a place in the first team of top 4 )
This made is a total of 15 players needing replacement in 2 years time, if we need to be and contest for the top 4. The sales of the above players might fund 7-8 good players we need. However, FSG have a big job on their hands. Givning funds for the remaining 8 players in 2 years means around 4 players a year.
If on average a good players costs 15m , then we need atleast 60m in the next summer and the summer after that. Hopeing King kenny gets it right in the market. He might not be very open in public but he knows Gerrards best is past him. He may still be great but isnt getting better now.
As the crucial 30 yr mark crosses, the player starts to decline its natural. We need to plan ahead. I hope the brains behind liverpool at working on this. We cant do miracles in days, expecting King kenny to get us in the top4 with the current squad is not less than a miracle.
Lets be practical, lets give the owners some time, let them bring us young and best talents. With the stewardship of the King we can only go up. Times like today will come along the way, but until King assembles a real Liverpool team, we just have to take these tough days patiently.
YNWA
