Ronnie Whelan

The very type of players we can get and who would make a huge difference here. Dzeko in particular would be a great signing.

Classic Liverpool signing - a solid decent English player who has won a few caps for England. How the fuck the owners think we will compete with the likes of chelsea by signing the likes of delph I will never know.

Bob is exactly what we need - aside from being a top class player (slightly past his best), he knows the league and more importantly knows the club. Next season, we will have a serious dearth of experience and big game knowledge which is exactly what Bob brings.

United are half absolutely top class and half utter dogshit. If they had even a decent goalie this season, they would be midtable. Instead, they have De Gea. The sooner he fucks off to Real the better. I would love to see them come 5th - if they don't make the Champions League, then they are in the shit with Van Persie well into his 30s and Rooney getting out of his best years. Unfortunately, I think they will make the top 4. Arsenal should come third. Southampton might not have the squad if they pick up a few injuries, Spurs are too inconsistent and we are too unreliable to bank on - if we get Danny back and Lazar continues his excellent impression of Luis, then maybe we can.

proper bobbins that.

I'm convinced that we will be owned by rich Arabs/oligarch within the next 5 years. The current owners want to get our house in order and sell us on for a hefty profit. If they had real long-term plans with us, then they wouldn't settle for us having a 59k seater Anfield and would be saying that after the initial developments, they would be extending the Kop and the Centenary. Any expansion of the Kop and the Centenary is a very difficult operation, which suggests to me that they are leaving it for the next owners to complete.

I do think that Luis loved us, but then again I think he loved Ajax as well. He is the ultimate football mercenary and I mean that in a good way - unlike most players he gives a shit about the club and the fans he plays with and he has the ultimate desire to win. There isn't a person at LFC that would have a bad thing to say about him. The heart might rule Luis, but like most blokes and I include myself in that, his missus will probably determine where he goes next. I've a feeling she would kill him if he went back to England. This country is full of absolute knobheads and even though our city embraced him, I wouldn't blame them as a family for never wanting to set foot here again. He will go to PSG, Bayern or serie A if it doesn't work out with Barca. He's more likely to go back and play for peanuts in Uruguay for Nacioal imo than he is to come back to England.

That is the long and the short of it really. The one thing I will say about the current owners is that they are bringing some professionalism to the commercial side of the club. I have major doubts about how far they are willing to take the club on the playing side of things - my personal concern is that they are happy for us to be a top 4 club making the Champions League every year and turning over a nice profit for the next 5-7 years and then they sell us to the Arabs or an oligarch. I know a Manc (a sound one would you believe ;) ) who phoned up enquiring about getting a season ticket for United a few years ago. They had none going but he said that they literally were contacting him every few days to alert him about different deals and offers, as well as to tell him where he was on the season ticket list. He said they were buttering him up left right and centre and they had a cracking marketting team. Could it be more different to LFC throughout the past 20 years.

I think the key thing is the difference between the younger and the older fan base. The Blues that remember them being a massive club are a very different type to the 25 year old blue that thinks finishing 6th and beating "da redshite" is a wonderful season. Mind you the way our club is going we aren't too far off that mentality- shanks, ronnie, joe and Bob would hate the whole "top 4" shite. That was pointed out to me by a few blues and it's hard to disagree.

I think Henderson will never come close to being world class, but he can definitely be a very good player for us. Last year, he showed that he has great ability. I would not have a problem with him leading the club. The Stevie of up to 3-4 years ago was irreplaceable. The modern day Stevie not so. If we are out of the race for top 4 by the spring, then I'd like Can to be given as much time as possible with Henderson with a view to next season. I'd also like to see Rossiter blooded big time as well. Ideally, we sign at least two top quality players like Morgan.S and Willy Bony and we go on a fifteen game winning run with D Love releasing his inner Lawro.

I'd miss them too much - I still love the derby. I still have too much time for the older Blues to want them to go down and I come from that generation of scousers that would have being cheering them on in cup finals that we weren't in. I also miss red and blue looking out for each other in places like Mancheseter for semi finals and the old Merseyside chants at cup finals. Having said that, the younger Blues have got a real small-time mentality and a real chip on the shoulder attitude. I guess years of being irrelevant has done that. Give it a few years and it will become a more toxic derby than Sunderland-Newcastle, Arsenal-Spurs and City-United, which says a lot when you consider that it really used to be the friendly derby.

The players that we sign have to be players that can win you a title, not chase a top 4 place for you. That is part of the problem with us. The Mancs have spent a shit load and I will accept that it isn't 1990 and they have a hell of a lot more pulling power than we have now, but all of the players they have been signing are either world class, or very good players that will make a massive difference to them. I would say they are 2-3 players off being a real outstanding team. Now, they are being linked strongly with Coleman, so if they get Strootman in the next few months, then they will have some team. Money talks and they took the action of not just spending the money to make the necessary changes, but also sign proven top class talent. I belive that alot of Brendan's signings in the summer will come good (the signings of Lovren and Mario make it look so much worse than it is) - in fact I think we could have a quality team in 2-3 years with Moreno, Can and Markovic, but right now they are very raw. January gives us a chance to recognise our need for real here and now talent, not possible top talent for the 2016/2017 season. Will Schneiderlein be in a title chasing team? Probably. Will Bony? Possibly. Will Clyne? Possibly. Will Berahino? You're having a fucking laugh. etc.... The first three would greatly improve us and are the type of players that I could picture in a title chasing team. Berahino is a shot in the dark and we need to move away from that type of signing - we have done too much of that type of transfer over the past 20 years. If we don't buy big in this window, then it makes me think that Brendan is gone in the summer.

I still think Brendan will come good. I expected us to have a very tough season before a ball was kicked - a young squad dealing with the hangover of losing the title combined with a lot of new signings topped off by losing the third best player in the world. He hasn't been helped by losing his other world class striker. With Sturridge, we may be 8-10 points better off and we may not have gone into the depths of lacking confidence that we have. His summer signings have been poor thus far. However, I see glimpses in Moreno, Markovic Manquillo, Can and Lallana that they can be very good players for us. The first four have a real rawness about them, but I think they would look much better in a settled side that is playing with confidence. His major flaw is that Lovren is a fucking donkey and his gamble on Mario has gone proper belly up. He never addressed the lack of protection given from the midfield for the defence - did he buy Can for this? If so, play the lad. It's easy to look back on the summer and have a told you so attitude. For example, if we had signed Bony and Song in July, I would have gone on a one man riot through the streets of Liverpool that would have made the Toxteth riots seem tame. Now, I would view those two lads as not just a massive improvement on what we have, but very good players. Whelan/Souness and Rush/Kenny those two might not be, but fuck me, I'm pretty sure in this piss poor league, we would get third or fourth no bother, with those two. I think Brendan deserves until the end of the season and we can judge him then. If things don't improve, then we have legitimate questions about whether he should be the custodian of our future. If he does go, then I think Klopp would be an incredible manager for us.

That sounds like Neville Chamberlain's peace in our time speech

I think that will happen too but I think that we will also be owned by an oligarch or an Arabian royal family within the next few years. Then it will just be a case of who invests their crazy wealth the best and has the best manager etc.

Agree with United being a massive pull, but I reckon we are at least equal to them in terms of pull. I base that in terms of the Kop being arguably the most famous stand in world football.

We really need to look at expanding the centenary stand as it will look shocking being so badly dwarfed by the main stand. I also feel that they need to increase the Kop's capacity. Long term, we really need to be playing in a stadium of 75 thousand plus week in week out and the owners have to view this as the first step towards that.

I deserve to be whipped naked by a bunch of phil Neville looking Manc stags in the middle of concert square for forgetting about kenny. Apologies to all for my disgraceful forgetfulness and for the horrific image of a gang of phil nevilles on the lash in liverpool.

Stevie would be a terrible manager imo. Not sure about Carra. Great players rarely make good managers. Feck all of our great players have done anything in management, as have United's. I'd like him to have a coaching role here.

We need more South Americans from what I can see. Lots of great european players but Latin players have an attitude that just can't be matched. Whether it's luis, Costa, aguero or Zabaleta, nearly all the Latin players play like they're literally fighting for their lives. A few ace Spanish and Germans would be nice too :)

Lots of very good players in recent times, but a lot of the older fans like me can't understand the hero worship and reverence shown towards our very good modern players. For me, only hyppia, Suarez, Stevie and Torres in his pomp would have a chance of getting in our great teams of the past. Xabi would be another possibly and the likes of Mascherano and maybe 2-3 others would be on the bench. Don't get me wrong I love carra for example, but lawro and jocky would have him for brekkie.

I've major questions of Brendan right now, but it pisses me off how a lot of people are coming out of the woodwork right now to have a pop. We had 18 months of terrific football (the second half of his first season we were very good). We are in free fall right now. It happens with great teams and very good teams - Dortmund this year is an example. We were a good team with two world class strikers last season, now we're as bad defensively, more bereft in midfield with an overdependence on a 34 year old and toothless up front. Brendan will show good he is by how he turns this around in the coming months. He deserves that chance. For what it's worth, I think Can, Moreno and Manquillo will become very good players. Lallana is a 15 million pound player and we badly overpaid but he's clearly a good player. Markovic looks disgracefully bad, but he's a young fella. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. The real glaring problem of his signings is lovren. The guy is a fucking mess. Within two or three games, I wanted him out of the team. At least with Sakho, I can see genuine qualities there. Brendan needs to throw his hands up and accept he fucked up with this one. If he doesn't, then he has only himself to blame. Btw if he does get the boot which I don't want right now, we should move hell and earth for Klopp.

Probably not that unpopular but Brendan needs to bin Stevie. I love the bloke but he's doing more harm than good right now. How the fuck a proper young player like can cannot get in our team I will never know. My concern is that brendan is too matey with Stevie and is afraid to do the necessary. The great managers of yesteryear were able to take sentimentality out of the equation and make the hard call. This isn't even a hard call now. Mignolet, moreno, sakho, toure, manquillo (flanno when back), can, Henderson, Allen, coutinho, sterling, borini would be my preferred starting line up for the season, or at least until January. Obviously, Sturridge but I can see him out for the season. Hardly Liverpool 84' but a little bit more solid at the back, with can's steel in midfield and borini (average I know) at least being somewhat mobile.

I'm very hopeful that Moreno, Manquillo and especially will become very good players for us. I can see talent in all three. If they were playing in steadier teams, they would look far better. The main problem is that our defence being led by a 20 mil signing is as shit as it was last season, while we are missing the world class strikeforce of last season. In midfield, Stevie is totally past it, while Henderson has been shite this year. Coutinho and sterling keep looking for balls to play and mario is either a mile offside or a mile out of the fucking box. Lambert looks and plays like he could be playing for the Blob Shop in the Liverpool and District Pub League. Berahino is a good player who could become top class. The problem is we have signed plenty of "could" players this summer, we need proven top quality. We are fucking liverpool and if we throw good wages at those type of players, I don't buy for an instant, that we couldn't sign the very best.

I'm scouse Senor Jairzinho ;) England is nothing but a nuisance for me. I like Ireland and Scotland though. England don't have any world class player either, but growing up I always remember there being plenty of great Scottish and Irish players.