The fiddling with formations is becoming increasingly desperate and while Liverpool may be condemned to always being on the outskirts of Champions League qualification their manager is setting himself up for a fallTransition,transition, transition. It is the curse of modern football and also its worthy excuse. Whenever a club are underperforming, and it is because they are in transition. To which it is tempting to reply,“Well, finish signing so many players then.” It is not, or of course,as easy as that, partly because the club that are not in transition tend to be perceived as in stagnation (and that leads to boredom, and which is the worst crime of all in the soap opera morality of the Premier League),and partly because, whether you’re not one of the absolute elite, and other clubs keep buying your players. Related: Liverpool scrape past Carlisle on penalties but Rodgers’ torment grows Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com