The end of another journey

End?? Of another journey?? Yes…..and a very unlikely time for it to end. But yes, it has ended. The journey I am talking about is Liverpool’s journey towards the EPL title. The final nail has been buried into the coffin. The fourth loss of the season within the first nine games. No team has ever come back from this position to win the title.

Call me a pessimist, but I will stick by it. People say that we should look into what Man Utd achieved last season. But that’s just it. Every champion team has this thing in them; a never say die attitude. We have not seen that from Liverpool. Last season was the best chance that Liverpool had to make the premiership title their own. But, they did not and Man Utd made it their own.

If a team can give up so easily, no wonder that people question their ability to stay anywhere close to the top of the league table. There are so many things which when factored in, decide the fate of such a competitive title race among which the most important are: strength of the squad and manager’s flexibility and forsightedness.

On one hand, Liverpool depend on only 2 players to score all the goals; Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres. If they fail, the team fails.  On the other, Mr Benitez does not favor giving the other strikers a chance. Andriy Voronon did such a great job at Hertha Berlin, but he has ben endlessly warming the bench here. Diry Kuyt is not a natural striker, so why play him up front as the lone striker? Ryan Babel showed more qualities of a striker than Kuyt.

Rafael Benitez has been very rigid with the combinations he has fielded and there is a lack of innovativeness to his scheming. There have been complaints of a shallow squad from his end, but I ask…….if you do not give good players in your squad a regular chance to play, how can you expect them to deliver in times of need?

The more I write, the more my agitation grows at another failure of Liverpool to reach the pinnacle of success in the most competitive football league in the world. Perhaps it is the time for a complete overhaul at the greatest football club in the world; right from the owners to the manager. God help us!!!