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- Feb 13, 2004
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I don't think folk are right to consider Liverpool to be a big threat...I think they are right to consider that they might be a threat if... - but they should also be considering that we are fahooking good, will naturally get better with age and experience, and have the head coach, infrastructure, youth set-up, financial stability and soon stadium, for what we have now to just be the ground-work of our improvement. Liverpool have more finances than us, but those finances have not been as well managed, and the gap has been halved in the last decade. Their squad is inferior, their youth set-up is inferior, their training facilities are inferior, and their cobbled together stadium development will be inferior to our brand new build, made for purpose, higher capacity stadium.
And the truth is, what you say is very true - if they get it right they will be a threat. But that's where the problem is with this thread. Because that is a statement that can be applied to a lot of teams and not just last season's top four, either. But it is being made about Liverpool...why? Because they drew with Dortmund away when we were biatched there? But that has already been answered - we sent out a weakened team, Liverpool didn't. Because in spite of the fact that this will be the sixth season in seven that we finish above them, many Spurs fans have a huge, all encompassing inferiority complex when it comes to Liverpool? Because that is the truth - every single season since the first season we finished above them, these forums have been filled with claims that Liverpool will be better next season, they will overtake us, they will spend more money, they've spend more money better, they can keep their best players and we can't blah blah blah.
And you know what...no, no they haven't. They finished above us once largely because a World Class bitey racist **** had a season to die for. Then they were forced to sell him...then they were forced to sell Sterling...then they spent lots of money several times - and we have still finished above them six seasons out of seven. When we finish in the top four this season - and we will - it will be the third time in those seven seasons we have finished in the top four. We have never finished below sixth in those seven seasons. Liverpool have finished in the top four once and seventh or lower three times, and likely to be four in those seven seasons. Indeed, they have finished higher than sixth once in those seven seasons.
The innate inferiority complex - they are a massive club, with a huge history - is one reason there is such a fixation with them. It has raised its ugly head every year since we first usurped them. Another reason is the whole Klopp cult of personality thang. As I said above, he has a record of winning major honours and he is further down his career path than Poch, but our man has shown that he can cope with the heightened competition in the Prem. The type of heightened competition where any game (but Villa) is likely to be a game you have to really fight to win, and any one of them could be a game where if you ain't 100% you could lose. Klopp hasn't had that in Germany and he hasn't shown that he can cope with it yet. He's going to be competing against more better teams, more clubs that are better and richer than Liverpool - did he have to cope with that in Germany? He is likely going to have to face more better managers, too - again, did he have that in Germany?
And the whole cult of personality thang...enough all ready! He's loud and in everyone's face, and the press are lapping it up. I'm telling you, in his first game, at the Lane, anyone who went to the game would have missed the fact that about a third of the match time the cameras were switching to Klopp to see what jovial antics he was up to. I found it nauseating. And when I analyse this whole Liverpool are gonna do this that and the other next season, that's what I see. Something that has been said in slightly different ways with slightly different explanations every single season since we first finished above them. I'm not writing them off, because anything can happen, but I am a tad tired of folk concentrating on them so that everything about them becomes magnified in their minds, while neglecting the fact that we have a hell of a lot going for us - enough to not spend months and months trembling in fear because Liverpool might...
And that, my fiend, is why folk are obsessing just because Liverpool have had a half decent result where we didn't in our corresponding fixture because we sent out a scratch side
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