Liverpool's Woeful Start: Can We Trust Benitez to ever bring Premiership Glory?

Akule, I agree with your candid observations. I also appreciate that American owners had to borrow to finance the takeover, and the club faces some financial difficulties. However, I do think Liverpool is not a small club to be having these squad limitations. Rafael Benitez can also spend (re-invest) the receipts from the sale of players (e.g. Alonso's sale). Rafeal Benitez should 'Stand Up and Be Counted' against the American owners, and secure a spending kitty from the American owners. If Benitez cannot bargain fo spending money, who will? The result is us the fans are denied the potential opportunity to experience Premiership Glory. Some honorable managers have resigned over lack spending money, and lack of control over player transfers. An employer should provide sufficient resources for the employee to perform their duties: Benitez is the one to let the employer know about this fact of life.

Hi darwinshinde, Did you know where the Alonso and Arbeola sales money go? All the money goes to refinance the debt those American crate when they bought Liverpool. They didn't had any money to bought it so they loan it from somewhere. And to pay this debt, they had to sell every player. Liverpool made BP 30 millions from the sales but only allocate Rafa with BP 2 millions to spend. What a Bull$hit. And FYI, Liverpool always make a loss balance sheet this year because all the money from the competition and gate fee have being using to refinance the debt. Rafa only extend his contract this years after the owner promise to give Rafa a control on who will go, who will stay and who will come. And he almost quit from Anfield before until the owner promise him that he will have money to spend. But this is not the case now. He has nothing to spend at all. Maybe he should sell Gerrard and Torres before he could buy someone else. And that means Liverpool will never be the same again.