Liverpool legend and arguably the best player in their history, Kenny Dalglish believes that his Liverpool side over achieved in his second term with the club.
According to him, Reds achievement of going to Wembley three times in a season was better than qualifying for Champions League and perhaps cover the fact that they finished as low as eighth in the league.
However, Dalglish is completely wrong about his second tenure with the Reds as he clearly underachieved.
Yes, winning a trophy after six years wait is brilliant and three Wembley trips too but he should cater the fact that Liverpool football club were not even playing in Europe, not even in the Europa league and their main focus was always going to be league. However, that was not the case.
Liverpool played cup competitions as if they were playing Champions League and were utter poor in the league. If the league had started in January 2012 then Reds would have finished in the bottom three.
Such was the inconsistency that they lost 3 games in a row twice in the league. That too after spending a hell lot of money on average players.
He signed Britishers perhaps unaware that how over rated they are these days and forgot that it was not the 80s. Meireles and Aquilani were easily better than Hendo and Adam but Dalglish had other ideas.
Carroll did not suit his style of play but he splashed record fee for him and well Kenny was clueless with his tactics and player selection most of the times as well.
The major setback was that after spending huge sums of $$$$, leave CL qualification, atleast Liverpool should have looked a side that has progressed but no they were falling backwards in his inept guidance.
Lastly, Dalglish knows what Liverpool is all about, and he surely knows that just three Wembley trips are not enough, were not enough during his days too. Liverpool have always been counted in the world’s elite and perhaps he was targeting way too low.
Liverpool fans will always love the King, he deserves all the praise in the world, but surely they all believe now that Kenny was the wrong choice and Liverpool did not overachieve under him.
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Frankly you are wrong.
You seem to forget that the Evra issue arose having a huge effect on the Club. And please dont say that was Dalglish’s fault. Anybody who had ever actually read the FA report knows it was a travesty of process.
Secondly in my 50 years I have never known how bloody unlucky we were. How many times did the woodwork get in the way. How many sitters did Kuyt, Suarez etc miss. How many penalties did we miss
The only thing wrong with Dalglish second time round was the sheer bad luck.
I believe that we would have been in the Champions League had he stayed
Missing of sitters and hitting the woodwork and missing penalties cannot be called LUCK all the time mate, please count that as Poor Finishing too if you are being fair.
He was hoping against hope that his signings will work and kept much effective players like Kuyt and Maxi out of the lineup for Downing and Hendo. Don;t know what makes you think we would have qualified for CL if he was in charge last season.
He might be a good manager, perhaps if he would have spent on real quality players, he might have succeeded.
What about the shambolic, insanely overpriced & overpaid signing he made!? We’ve only just got rid of the last of them (Hendo looks like a keeper for now) and I doubt we’ll ever truly recover from that, as we could have had one of the strongest squads in Europe for the last few years had the money been spent wisely. Instead we’ve spent 2 years selling them at a knockdown rate just to get them off the wage bill.
He brought the club to its knees, and a Carling Cup will never gloss one that.
If you spend £120m (albeit some recouped from sales) on adding to a squad that finished 2nd a few years before you should have one of, if not, the best squad in the country. We had the 8th, but the wage bill of the 3rd.
Bad times.
YNWA
We’ve had to pay off Adam Carroll & Downing JUST TO LEAVE ;-( Let alone having to take HUGE HITS on there true values ;-( Your talking £40 Million Pound on Adam Carroll & Downing ;-( Dalglish is still living in the 80’s,and it’s cost LFC dear.Worst points return,Worst home points tally,Most games LOST in a season ;-( NEED I GO ON Kenny.
There is no way in the world a fortunate carling cup win against a championship side will ever make up for missing out on playing the likes of Barcelona, Madrid, Bayern, Milan, etc. In my opinion KD is way out of touch, this showed in his press conferences, he was often hostile and uncommunicative and reluctant to be positive, whether he likes it or not this is a very important part of modern management, thank god West Ham were nearly as mad as LFC in paying there record transfer fee for a crock.