This is a quotation from self-proclaimed 'Ambassador of Possibility' Mark Victor Hansen. If Kenny Dalglish feels a lack of belief is the problem at Liverpool he would do well to pin this quote beneath the immortal THIS IS ANFIELD sign leading onto the pitch.
Trouble is Kenny, that simple self-belief is just one of a number of problems with this once-great football club.
Never before have the Kop turned on a manager quite like they did to Roy Hodgson, who inherited a poor squad, down on confidence and with owners who were destined to fly the nest as soon as they got enough millions to make their initial stake worthwhile. Hodgson didn't do a great job and even he would admit that, but what else could have been expected of him? He was allowed to dip his toes in the transfer market; nothing more.
The squad is poor, there are no two ways about this fact. Dalglish is already filling round holes with square pegs (Johnson at left-back?) and that is not the way forward. The new owners need to back their new manager if they are to achieve anything more than mid-table mediocrity this season, but even that is not guaranteed.
After losing to Blackpool for the second time this season the five-time European Cup winners sit only four points ahead of Aston Villa who occupy the final relegation slot. They are surely to big a club to be sucked into that battle? Why are they?! Villa themselves have a European Cup win and a decent pedigree in the history of English football, but ask any Villa fan at present and they will admit trepidation that their beloved club could fall through the Football League trapdoor.
Four or five quality individuals are required to turn things around, improving the squad must come before installing the self-belief that Dalglish so desperately yearns for. His current side can play better, of that I have no doubt, but just how much better remains to be seen.
King Kenny has been seeking a return to the Liverpool helm for so long, and now he has it he must realise it has come at the worst possible moment. Good luck Kenny, you're most definitely going to need it, along with that belief.
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