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The project is over

GooneriC

The project isn't making sense
Not signing a striker or attacker in the summer and not doing it again with Saka and Jesus injured.
Relying on Partey at RB even though that experiment has failed multiple times.
Subbing Sterling on for Martinelli in a game you have to win.
The slow ponderous football , maybe not this game but overall this season.

Gazza M

title rice is definitely over. even though there's lots of points up for grabs, we're locked in to playing the same way for the rest of the season, which means results like today's will keep happening.

tazmania

Difference is that Liverpool aren't prone to losing games this season. They grind out draws or destroy teams. We're not winning every single game for the rest of the season so we should admit the league is over. It sucks because this was our best chance in the last 5 years but it is the reality. Liverpool could lose their best player and still grind out a draw.

Coombs

Owners don't want to win all that much.

Sicario2

The club has little ambition. They are happy for top 4 being BAU.

MistaT

I do agree that the Kroenkes care less for success than fans, and less than Arteta and the players.

I would dispute the idea they care less than other owners. They’re likely more than happy that we’re back to being “respectable” and they’ll certainly be happy with CL footy. More than that, it’s just icing on an already massive cake for them.

Don Pacifico

The money we've spent the last five years, largely without CL football suggests ambition. Whether we've invested that money efficiently or not is another matter.

Sicario2

Don Pacifico
Ambition to get CL footie. As soon as we get it they revert to type. They got a huge 13 days in front of them otherwise what’s the point?

SimplyThePest

Don Pacifico entirely possible the owners are looking at it that way, too. I would be. Over a 100m spent on Rice, you'd think we'd have bought the next Gerrard or Lampard, not a better version of Mathieu Flamini. Or Havertz, 65m and 300-odd-k a week on a bloke who has spells where he looks like he's the second coming of Ali Dia (look him up if you don't know the story). Calafiori? Can't even get out on the pitch. Waste of money.

Qwiss

Don Pacifico suggests ambition to get into the CL and stay there. Now thats done the investment has dried up. Last summer we made a lot of PSR positive sales by selling the likes of Smith Rowe and Eddie for big money. Most people who took the time to go through our finances said we were above any PSR worries even before that. Yet investment last summer was practically non-existent.

The only question about last summer for me is was Edu already mentally checked out of the job or have the Kroenkes decided they're happy enough keeping us in the conversation so that we are attractive to any potential super league.

Don Pacifico

Sicario2 that's definitely not how managing spend works.

Coombs

Don Pacifico managing spending is not what we need right now. No PSR problems at all, its purely down to the will of the owners to do what it takes.

tazmania

We've only won more than 2 matches in a row twice this season in the EPL. Our consistency is not good enough.

Qwiss

tazmania that's a damning statistic.

Don Pacifico

Coombs you say that but we're the same club that had to buy Raya on loan before paying a fee and have been reported to be struggling to finance Nico Williams due to his likely wages.

This notion we can spend money without worrying about the consequences is not grounded in reality.

Claudius

So what are we now - two points behind where we were last season after the same round of matches?

Coombs

Claudius and potentially 4 points further off the top, so a 6-point swing. Regression.

Sicario2

Claudius no we are potentially 9 points behind in Feb if Liverpool win their game in hand.

Big Willie

Claudius So what are we now - two points behind where we were last season after the same round of matches?

Maybe, but we ended last season with 1 loss and 1 draw over the course of the remainder of the season and still missed out. You reckon we can put that kind of run together again?

Gazza M

Big Willie we were similarly laboured in the first half of last season as well, so it's not good that we're doing worse at the same point this season. and we're definitely not putting the same kind of insane run down the stretch.

MistaT

Points and position aside, it’s clear this team is floundering.

Getting back Ben White won’t be enough to kick on.

JazzG

TambourineMan I still don't think it is done, Liverpool will drop points but fuck me we need to get our act together.

Part of the problem isn't in our control, we are literally running on fumes and our squad has been absolutely decimated with injuries. Did you see our bench today?

HomeSteak

JazzG I wish I could be so positive like you. It's done. 6 points, 1 game in hand, away game at Anfield for us, better GD, that's probably 13 points in front. It has been over since Saka got injured.

This should have been an easy title...well it still easy, just not for us.

Panda

It's done. It's not our season. Nothing is going for us.

Last season things were going for us and we should have won it.

@Sicario2 was right when he said no guarantee we'd keep getting chances at the title like we did in the last 2 seasons.

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