From BBC: Former Liverpool striker John Aldridge says in the Liverpool Echo that the club are "now in crisis" and "are becoming a laughing stock." Here's some more quotes from former Liverpool striker John Aldridge who claims the Reds are now a club "in crisis". The club have lost eight out of 12 since the turn of the year, leaving them eighth in the table. "To have picked up just eight points out of 36 since the turn of the year is shambolic - that's relegation form. The fact that this is the worst run in the league since 1954 speaks volumes. We're becoming a laughing stock. At the moment being a Liverpool fan is just embarrassing and that's something I haven't had to say before." Thoughts?
Im slightly disapointed in Aldo. He has a history of criticising managers, he did the same with Rafa and Houllier and maybe rightly so as a footballing pundit he should be balanced with his views. However, 'crisis' 'embarrassing' 'laughing stock' he has a very short memory. Are we in a crisis right now? I would say thats a strong word to use, yes the league position and form is not good, but in reality 8th is no better than 5th (in terms of being in crisis). His comments do nothing other than put more pressure onto a team that the media is already so happy to critise. As a red (a former player of Dalglish) and someone who witnessed the club almost be run into the ground, I would not have expected him to stoke the fire with such comments.
I'll admit, the jokes and banter at our expense are on the up and things are pretty uncomfortable. But we have a trophy and are going strong in the FA cup.
I generally stop taking notice of a player when they start getting paid to talk about the game rather than play it. If they were any better at it than a normal fan they'd be managing...he had a wee "try" at that didn't he?....in the unlikely event we're in a failed relegation struggle I'll remember to ask his opinion. There are some exceptions like Barnes who can make me stop and listen but Alderidge? Na...
No one can deny Aldo has the good of the club at heart but what does he gain by sensationalising the situation,we all know Kenny is here for at least the rest of the season. Unity is strength and theres far less unity amongst us than there should be at the moment.
"To have picked up just eight points out of 36 since the turn of the year is shambolic - that's relegation form. The fact that this is the worst run in the league since 1954 speaks volumes. We're becoming a laughing stock. At the moment being a Liverpool fan is just embarrassing and that's something I haven't had to say before." The statistics Aldo quotes are not made up,invented, like the papers do, THEY ARE FACTS. Its a shame some fans choose to ignore the facts,whether some fans like it or not ALDO IS TELLING IT LIKE IT IS
You can shout at me DOOMED DOOMED all you want mate. 1) It'll not change my mind that it simply isn't true. 2) nobody; (and be it a fellow fan or ex player turned hack,) I mean NOBODY will ever, ever, tell me I should be embarrassed to be a Liverpool supporter. So the sky ain't falling, the myan calendar is wrong and Liverpool football club is merely having a bad season in the league. The bad ones have come the bad ones have gone; personally I'm not going to pull my pigtails & stomp around screaming at everybody that its so unfair! If I thought it would change your mind I'd suggest chill as it'll do LFC no good having one less passionate supporter because of a heart attack but you do what you think you have to!
I agree with him largely. For the third year running we've become the laughing stock. However i'm surprised Alddo said this as I expected him to have good connections to Kenny. This will put more pressure on him. Freedom of speach you could argue. Havent we lost something like 9 in last 11 of 12 or something since the new year?
Aldo still hasn't forgiven Kenny for ending his Liverpool career,Aldo got sold after KD brought his mate Rushie back from Juve.
I'm all for freedom of speech; that's what's starting to grate a bit. I've seen you for example decide that Kenny isn't good enough Bow & should probably go. You personally feel that we've been a laughing stock; fine. You may even be right! I personally don't think these things for reasons I've shared in other threads. I'm not getting tired of people having a different opinion to me, I'm getting tired of some of those people (not you btw) thinking they have the right to bully me into agreeing with them and if I resist; being labeled a moron or rose tinted glass wearing blind twat, with my head up my arse (I'm not even sure all of that is possible together lol) If anything makes us a laughing stock it is us squabbling like Fishwives in front of the neighbours who are at best pointing & laughing or as usual stirring the pot.
Do I get annoyed after cr*p performance after cr*p performance, yes, am I annoyed a couple of hours after the game but generally I am ok with us being mid table mediocre sh*t I am not embaressed about being an LFC supporter, but is Aldo telling IT LIKE IT IS,yes hes telling the truth We have picked up just eight points out of 36 since the turn of the year is shambolic - that's relegation form. We have had worst run in the league since 1954 speaks volumes. We're becoming a laughing stock We are in crisis Aldo is telling the TRUTH, this article is on the Liverpool Echo Website,and over 150 people have commented it, so he has obviously said something which has touched a nerve.Thye have also asked if Aldo Right with what he says.NINETY ONE PERCENT of fans agree with him I just wish fans would stop IGNORING THE FACTS,and the TRUTH, if we are sh*t , admit we are sh*t.And face up to the reasons as to why that is, if we dont face up to FACTS, we will continue to be sh*t.Dalglish IS THE MAIN REASON we have been poor this season, thats the truth whether you like it or not
February 28th after the Carling cup win. Everything is brilliant and apparently our squad is miles better than what Dalglish inherited from Roy Hodgson/Rafa Benitez: I don't see how a reasonable person can go from viewing us as much improved from last year to this knee jerk article now only a month later. Aldo's articles are based on passion and the emotion of when he's writing. He doesn't really reflect sensibly on anything, he goes from one extreme to another depending on if we've won or lost in that week.
It's called sensationalism, gets the extreme response from both ends, the middle come to see what the fuss is about: hits and or circulation goes up; job done, he buys another flash car we keep arguing with each other while everyone else laughs. As I said I'll take a fellow fans opinion at face value even when they are directky opposed to me; way before a guy who couldn't hack it as a manager himself and now gets paid to pretend he knows how it's done.
You 99% of the time talk sense PMK.But this is utter cr*p Of course Aldo was distraught when he was offloaded, but does he hold a grudge about it.DEFINITELY NOT.I have heard him 100's of times on City Talk and TV,and he is so passionate and honest about Liverpool it is untrue, and I am 10000000% convinced he holds no grudge to Kenny,and that has ZERO reason for his comments in the Echo And regards off loading Aldo, that was ANOTHER massive Kenny f**k up,out of the 3 pairings at the time the best one UNDOUBTEDLY was Beardsley/Aldo, Kenny made Rushie his 1st choice cos HE WAS HIS PAL( players picked on whose favourite, NOT on perforamnce, ring any bells!!!), despite the other 2 gelling the best.Kenny shoehorned Rushie into the side,despite the other 2 having a telepathic understanding,and he brought Rushie back from Italy, despite the team need strengthening in other areas MORE.He spent a fortune on a striker in which was probably our strongest position,he bought him back cos HE WAS HIS PAL, not cos we really needed a top striker.We already had a awesome strikeforce.And Rushie 2nd time round wasnt a patch on Rushie 1st time round.Aldo was sold,Beardsley was hardly ever spoke to,it is common knowledge how Kenny/Beardsley didnt get on,and a lot of fans believe that Kenny was the start of the end of LFC being the best team in the country, he sewed the seeds which flourished under Souey.The money Kenny used on buying back Rushie should have been spent on freshening up the squad in other areas.What happened is the squad got old together under Kenny,they all reached 30 at the same time.And some would say Souey took over a squad full of 30 yos, slightly past there best, a good manager would nt have let that happen Aldos like me he wants the best for LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB.And he respects the fans probably MORE than ANY of our ex players, is the clubs entier history.If something is wrong he will say something is wrong, he wont LIE to keep the peace, he tells the TRUTH I will be honest I dont care that much about Kenny Dalglish, Kenny him self would say LFC is more important than any one individual, I do care about LFC, LFC success if infinitly more important than the future of KD
I didn't say he holds a grudge,i said Aldo still hasn't forgiven him as stated by John Aldridge himself on LFC.TV on the 'an hour with' programme. I only brought this up because b4f was under the impression that maybe Kenny and him had 'good coonections'.
Right! so when he thought this team was the best thing since sliced bread not much more than a month ago & wrote in the same paper as much,he wasn't "deluded" or "asleep" like the rest of us eh? Any chance of seeing how many people commented on THAT article & how many we're to say he was talking rubbish or was deluded? And I'm really loving these loyal fans and their revisionist history of picking apart everything KD ever achieved in a lame attempt to fuel their opinions today. In doing so, you are picking apart the "history" you supposedly want us to return to! I'll not be surprised if we don't see a photoshopped image of KD in a united shirt soon!
