The past year has been a year of up and downs for Liverpool Football Club, we started the the year 2006 as reigning champions of europe, but a bad start to the 2005/06 season put an end to our title aspirations but a fantastic run of results at the end of the season see us climb the table and qualify once again for the champions league.
But that great run of results did more than just ensure a good financial future by getting us into europes top comp, it put real belief that with a few summer signings even on Liverpools tight budget Rafa could work his magic in the transfer market and give us a squad that could finally find Liverpool Fc`s holy grail... to be once again after a long long wait be crowned League Champions.
Its very unlikely that it will happen this year once again our bad start to the season has caused us problems. I think there is 2 reasons for our bad start firstly we were given the worst possible schedule of games by having to play manure chelski arsenal everton and bolton all away from home, just the first 3 teams there make it very hard to get a winning run together.
Secondly if you look at the players we bought in the summer, Pennant sums up our problems, Pennant was brought in to cover the right side where we have had our biggest problems for years and we really needed to spend big there to bring in a player who would actually improve our team, he is not now or will never be a world class player , Rafa may work his magic on him and improve him over time but there is our problem.
Rafa is a master tactician and very good in the transfer market but he really can only do so much with the funds handed to him. Hopefully these will be problems of the past as long as nothing goes wrong in the clubs takeover.
So if i had to summarise the year that was, it was a roller coaster for hopes and dreams expectations were high, so it was disappointing to watch Liverpool struggle at the start of the season but if i can give a prediction i would say the future is looking very bright for the red side of Mersey... as long as we dont fuck this deal up and as long as some of our stupid fans who when we were having a BAD RUN were actually questioning if Rafa was the right man for the job.
Earlier in the post i said it was very unlikely that we could win the title this year and that is true, but if you had asked me 3 weeks ago i would have said it was impossible. So who knows this is football and anything can happen at Christmas...IN RAFA WE TRUST
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