Scouse Football Side Not Quite As Good As They Were!

Oh God. Liverpool are in crisis. Crisis I tell you. Perhaps even Crises. Certainly feels like that if you can read and happen to glace at any form of media. Soon the whole of the red side of the city will be sucked into a Rafa shaped vortex leaving a desolate wasteland prowled only by the ghost of Roy Evans.

But wait. It's not that bad. Its just a football team that have declined slightly. But y'know, they have declined a bit, and should probs do something about it sometime soon. So, in a rare bit of comment on an actual, currently in the news story, here is Radetto's 2 euro cents on The Slight Decline Of Liverpool FC.

I can't be the only one who thinks that El Reds 09 don't have that 'woah, good squad there' presence of yore. Rafa does seem a bit hit and miss on the old transfer situation. No man could turn down £30,000,000 for Xabi Alonso (Zero's for emphasis there), but Beardy Raf was going to flog him for half of that last year. On top of that, I am super pro Italian football and not even I can see Aquilani succeeding in the youkay. I hope I am wrong, and Aquilani unleashes both a sensational scouse 'tasche and an edge of the box goal rampage. They should have kept Riise, despite the occasional massive, massive, ginger tinged gaffe and everyone knew Hypia was well hard, and actually good at football, which would have been a plus against Lyon. And he can score goals for Liverpool, not the opposition, another advantage over Jimmy Carrageh.

The fact that Jimmy C just ain't the player he used to be is probably worth a paragraph. So here it is. The Carragaffe paragraph. But seriously, he really doesn't look capable week in, week out anymore. Sometimes awesome, ie. United games, sometimes crap, ie. Fulham et al.

And the players coming in are all a bit Quantity Mart. There have been some gudduns, but a lot of the time at least a third of the red XI look like mid table Spaniards to me. If they put a bit more thought in surely things would be much more rosy. Liverpool have signed a lot, I mean a lot of duds, and missed out on some diamonds. They really should have made more of the Dutch exodus of Real Madrid. Schneider or Robben would have been a sensational, yet realistic signature . I reckon Chelski's transfer ban is a blessing for the 'Pool aswell and they reallly need to take advantage of that. But yeah, recent signings records reads over priced or over ratted in my humble, Pierpaolo Marino esque, opinion. Infact, getting Pierpaolo onboard would be genius. This is the man that built Napoli's current first team, aka the most highly rated young team in Italy right now. They should totally get Transfer Pat on board. That would rule.

And another thing. If they do go out of the Champions League, the Europa League ain't that bad is it? They would be up there amongst the contenders, and a good run would bring a bit of a feelgood factor to the fields of Anfeild Road no? And lets speculate here, Bayern Munchen/Valencia/HSV/Sporting/Villareal vs. Liverpool would a glorious tie, whatever competition it is in. Remember those nights against Roma and Barcelona many moons ago. An exact repeat wouldn't be so bad?

So yeah, if Evans came back, that would be a crisis. All Liverpool need to do is win a but of Europa glory, poach a few from Chelsea, get Pat Marino onside and Anfield is smelling of roses eh? That ain't to much to ask is it now Rafa lad?

Team of The Time #3

NB. (Can these go at the front?) Kids, 4 & 5 are Iain J. Christ's first meaningful contributions. It is a brave new dawn for Radetto

Isn't the Champions League group stage the best thing ever. Er...Hells yes. There is no other way that Tuesday nights in November could be quite so uber rad. And that means Team of the Time time is upon us. Check out these picks kids. They are way bad ass.

1. Sergio Aguero - The man is going out with Maradonna's daughter. Often that would be rad enough for the slack standards of a TOTT call up. But this week he went and put two past Chelsea. And did you see the second? Did you see? It was Jan Koller powerful, way more impressive when you consider Ageuro is a tiny man with a bit of a faux mullet. Faux mullets rule kids. It is like a mullet, but you can keep your job, although I think Atletico would be cool with whatever barnet the little fella chose.

2. Zvjezdan Misimovic - Yet more Bosnian success in Europe. I am starting to genuinely believe they might actually be able to do one on Portugal the week after next. Dzeko scored as well. Might have to put my money where my mouth is. I genuinely think Bosnia could make the last 16 with their team playing like it is at the minute. But anyway, Misimovic bossed it from the midfield, but way way more importantly, scored a beauty. Check it out kids. VID

3. Carlos Puyol - Puyol has allways been the raddest captain of any team and one of those classic hard bastard center backs to boot. Then he wore short sleeves in Tartarstan. It was minus 7. Solid

4. Caster Semenya - Total powerhouse, great speed, will run 800 meters without blinking, if any member club of soon-to-be-formed Chicks Football League is listening, watching or reading I'd advise them to snap her up ASAP... and for them to do my washing and learn to drive! I jest! South Africa will claim the next World Chicks Cup, mark my words. Come to think of it... Is he the perfect partner for Torres? Let's be honest we all think they need a bit more muscle up front. In fact I would pay good money to watch her fight to the death with Jamie Carragher. IJC

5. Berbs - To round off the most tactically unbalanced 5-aside team of all time, the man off whom Michael Owen steals 20 minutes of football every week. It's of no small consequence that Manchester United's sexiest football and coolest victories happen when Berbs is keeping it pro ice in and around the area and it's only the goalkeeping heroics of Jääskeläinen that keep people on his case. Nevermind the potential of a deft, brain boiling flick from Berbs and an aggressive, pounding take from Rooney, Lil' Mickey can completely skin a Barnsley defence. IJC