It's been playing on my mind since last night just how far we've falling since hitting 40+ every week and looking like finsihing in the top 4, to losing 0-1 at home to fucking Sunderland, with £12.50 tickets infront of 34k and finishing the night in the relegation zone.
In 2 years we've falen massive, and while not all of these are anyone inparticulars fault. But what has gone wrong since Jan 2009 when we looked likely to finish in the top 4?
1) A lack of investment in January leaving us with gaps in our squad.
2) MON’s lack of rotation that cost us 4th place, not trusting the squad players that he signed and thus alienating them.
3) Laursen’s retirement.
4) Signing Downing with the Barry money. We could have got Johnson for half the price, smaller wages and he wasn’t injured.
5) Signing Dunne on such a long and big contract. Fantastic for a season, but 18 months into his 4 year deal on 60k a week, he’s arguably not good enough anymore.
6) Signing Beye
7) Selling Gardner while the likes of NRC and Sidwell were ahead of him in the pecking order.
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) Delph’s injury
9) Failing to sell Davies, Beye, Sidwell, Osbourne, Heskey or Carew in the Summer. Heskey is the only one who contributes anything yet they’ve earned £12m in wages between them in 2010. Without taking into account the bigger fees we’d have got in the Summer.
10) Not investing in the squad last Summer.
11) Selling Milner
12) Signing Ireland
13) MON walking
14) Promising to appoint a new manager so quickly and thus backing yourself into a corner
15) Randy ruling out appointing anyone who was currently in a position as a manager, and thus limiting the appointment to applicants.
16) Not giving it to Kevin Mac ‘for the foreseeable future or until an outstanding applicant becomes available’.
17) Appointing Houllier before he was actually able to take over, not having any idea if we’d be able to get his preferred choices for assistants before giving him the job.
18) Houllier singling out Dunne, Warnock, Ireland and Carew. We need them.
Anything I've missed?
