Scouseinthehouse
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Baffling how you think they aren’t?
They’ve just dropped £60 million on a guy for the bench. Or at worst he relplacea a £50 million guy and drops him to the bench. Liverpool can’t compete with that straight up. Just one example of there being ZERO comparison between the two clubs financially on money spent. Either on players or wages. We top City, we need to find another way and the Rocky/ Drago analogy from Klopp Friday was as perfect as it was madly hilarious coming out of the blue.
All relative as to the task L’pool, and everyone else come to that are trying to overcome to close that gap.
Naturally expectations are increased. And naturally we need to start winning things. That comes with the territory of being one of the biggest clubs on the planet regardless. And 6 years without one is WAY too long for a club of this stature. But then if you put the context of the 4 finals lost in that time and the complete lack of luck against top opponent, all outplayed for most if not all those games, it lessons that. Not least under the current manager and group of players who are getting closer and closer all the time. ****, they got to within two Ramos assaults of having the best season of any club in Europe last year. With only 12 fit players running on fumes and kids! All whilst marrying that up with a CL league campaign that left them a mere 2 games out of second they’d have comfortably been in with more legs at their disposal. How could we possibly be ****** at that just because they ultimately dudn’t win the top prize of all? Disappointed? No question. But that quickly turned to stupendous pride at all the enjoyment and fun they’d given us along the way and had everyone quickly back up and partying in Kiev. It’s how we roll.
But that increased expectation is not the be all and end all that defines whether we have a successful season this year.
Again, they improve, as they have each season under Klopp, and close that mammoth gap they and everyone else currently are behind City, and continue to do it entertaining the living **** out of us and having great fun every match as they go, but ultimately fall short to the current best team in the land, you won’t find many Liverpudlians unhappy.
It’s just how we are and you can’t ask for much more than season-on-season progress. With the ownership fully bought into this manager and the progress he’s making every year so the internal pressure on him isn’t as great on him.
Don’t misunderstand that as the want and need for major trophies not being here. Not many clubs anywhere have won more and we crave more as much as the next man. But it won’t ‘define’ our season under the current project since Klopp came in. This is just the next stage on the journey to get back to the top of the mountain. It happens this year? Outstanding. It doesn’t, but we’ve taken the next step to getting closer again? Equally brilliant and everyone will be buzzing this time next summer for the following season and the next stride forward.
If having to win the title by the season’s end ultimately defines a fans season, or makes them look upon a season like last year as a failure after the Madrid defeat as many opposition fans tried to mock with, then I truly feel for them as they’ll never understand the pride and enjoyment Liverpudlians are getting out of this current group of Reds. Expectations for silverware are higher naturally but that won’t change if we get a similar, exhilarating ride this year, more progress, but no trophy.
So no mate. It’s not B/S at all. To not understand that is to not understand Liverpool and Liverpudlians which is unlike most anywhere else on Earth.
