Monday, 5 January 2015

Liverpool mid season review 2014 - 2015

Next up for a mid season review is last season's title contenders Liverpool

How their recruitment went - just terrible after selling their best player Luis Suarez in the summer Liverpool decided to buy 10 players and literally only one of them has done okay, the rest have been awful. Adam lallana was brought in from Southampton for a chunky fee and has done okay and I think will definitely improve. But the rest, Alberto Moreno, Dejan lovren and lazor markovic were all brought in for huge fees and have all been awful and really not been worthy of wearing a Liverpool shirt. Javi manquillo hasn't really had a chance same with Rickie Lambert and emre can. But the worst is the signing of the controversial Mario balotelli who is yet to score a goal for Liverpool and overall has been shocking all around.

How performances have gone - shocking. After the great season last season this one has started awfully with defeats to Aston villa, Crystal palace and Manchester utd. All these results are unacceptable for Liverpool and they really need to improve. They came third in their champions league group which was a big disappointment and now they will enter the Europa league. They are in the semi final of the league cup and maybe winning this trophy could help turn their season around.

How the manager has done - Brendan Rodgers did a great job last season but this season he has look abject of life. Overall he seems to have failed with his transfer dealings and his tactical decisions have failed to say the least. I do believe that after last season I do believe he can turn it around.

Star player - raheem sterling, converted to a striker this season he has scored a good few goals and shown some good tenacity. But he hasn't been that good and still needs to improve.

How they need to improve - they need to get tougher in their defending and become harder to beat. Also they need to be more clinical in front of goal and take their chances. They also need to cut out the mistakes. They could do with also buying a central defender, a central midfielder and a centre back but they may have to wait until the summer for those players.

Final positioning - 7th

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