Houllier received far more financial backing than Benitez and spent poorly with it. Benitez had to wheel and deal and scrimp and save and clear his team out. If Houllier left the club in good shape he wouldn't have been fired. That's what I'm on about.
Revisionism 1
One bad summer (Diouf, Diao, Cheyrou), otherwise Hypia, Hamman, Babbel, Riiise, Heskey Finnan, Dudek, McAlister, Henchoz and I don't think the one's regarded as relatively poor by many such as Cisse, Kewell, Baros, Smicer, Litmanan, Pongelle, Camara, Kirkland, Ziege were actually bad buys despite the way things turned out. Diomede I'll give you
You could argue that Kenny Dalglish and Damien Comolli did as much damage to Liverpool as Gillett and Hicks.
Absolutely fucking shocking.
Yes, another bit of revisionism going on here, Kenny turned round a struggling team that had toyed with relegation fantastically without massive changes and losing Torres also, if you remember going in that Spurs game we were on for CL place.
Last year is tainted by the poor league form at the end but we were 4 points off the CL in february even with the shocking bad luck we had in games before christmas. Two cup finals which almost both won, barring Cech, and a damp squid at the end. We lost our best player for 8 games at a key period and I think the strain of that affair did us untold damage, especially Kenny who looked ill at some points. We all backed him then over that if you remember. I hear people talking like it was a disaster, well, we'll see. Posts like "I don’t recall having 4 players like Suarez, Sahin, Assaidi and Sterling in our squad at the same time for a while" forget that Suarez was signed by Dalglish and Sterling given his debut by him. The other two have not shown what they can do (for us) as yet.
I love history because you can write about it with hindsight and pick out the facts that you want but please let's not base all our ideas of Dalglish's second spell on those last few league games (Chelsea excepted) and a rose tinted view of a future that has not yet happened.
I'm very happy with the way Brendan carries himself and speaks but as I said in an earlier post talking and taking action are one thing, what matters is the impact. I don't worry about style but I do worry about goals (Swansea were not great goalscorers despite the impressive play in either of the last two years)
and, four hours off the transfer deadline with two strikers, those worries remain (
although I am confident things will happen before I go to bed)(copied from one I posted to an obscure thread from earlier)