Thats as maybe, but its not the issue here. If you're a player who wants to be playing Champions League football in the near future, you'll have am INFINITELY better chance of it at Eastlands then you will at Anfield, and thats not going to change any time soon.
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Its all well and good for fans to get misty-eyed over the past, and take pride in their clubs achievements. Thats what we do. But top players don't sign for clubs based on their "history" - if they did then Man City wouldn't be getting a look-in right now. Players...
Allardyce barely had half a season at Newcaastle, and although they wern't challenging at the top they certainly wern't in any trouble. Not until they sacked him anyway (Blackburn - be afraid, be very afraid).
I just don't quite "get" the constant anti-Allardyce sentiments. I suppose he can...
Your arguments have done nothing to change my opinion of Benitez and Liverpool in general. Under his stewardship Liverpool became almost completely reliant on one player (now two), and his horrendously expensive cluelessness in the transfer market has seen them steadily decline as those two...
History doesn't count for much when you've not won the Title for 20 years, and are on half the gates of your most hated rivals.
They're not even the biggesy cluib in the NW.