Listening to their ever deluded hoards of glory supporters you would think its the absolute opposite..... `we`ve got some world class youngsters coming through`...... `Roy Rodgers will take us back to the top`.....`we`ll be signing Huntelaar and Walcott in January`..... are just a few examples of the Mouse delusion I have heard recently.
The top restaurants that once upon a time Liverpool dined at, have now been replaced by the local chippy.
Tell tale signs of Mouser desperation is the constant moaning and whining, it does now seem that the only way they can win games is with the favourable assistance of Referees (or at least it seems as though that is what they are asking for with their whinging comments).
Every single one of those could easily become reality, especially Walcott unless Arsenal make a last minute concession to his demands, or Man City come in for him which I'm hearing could be a possibility, and we are defo after Hunterlaar on a free. Just because you don't like it, and don't believe it doesn't automatically make you right, and all Liverpool fans 'deluded'. Just as many Spurs fans believe you have a chance for 4th over Arsenal, but I don't believe this will happen and think Spurs fans are deluding themselves by thinking this given what happened last year and the fact that you never ever finish above the Goons. However, just as with your opinion regarding Liverpool, this doesn't mean I'm right though does it? We'll have to wait and see in May.
Also, on a different note, football clubs the size of Liverpool don't just deteriorate into a irrelevant, unappealing, and unambitious club after just 3 unsuccessful seasons btw, especially when you have a global fan base the size of Liverpool's, and bring in the level of revenue that we do. We've only had 3 poor seasons in the league in the whole of the last decade and been in CL almost every year. Even if you look as far back to the beginning of the Premier League you can count our poor seasons on just one hand. In this time we have also one 14 cups. All this success isnt undone in just 3 seasons.
In the grand scheme of things, and in its proper context, 2 seasons finishing outside the top 6 and another coming 6th isn't catastrophic and doesn't suddenly make us a 'small' club. This is why, despite our recent blip, we can still bring in massive kit sponsorship deals and still attract players the calibre of Nuri Sahin. However, if in 5 years time were still around 8th-12th, then all this will be different, but due to our recent history and what we've accomplished (13 trophies since 2000), I think players etc still believe Liverpool are a big club that in a couple of years can be right back where we were in 2009, and have took the first few steps towards achieving this, this Summer.
Now, I know how much a few people on here hate us, and are desperate to see us fall deeper and deeper into mediocrity whilst you enjoy watching on from the outside, which is fair enough, thats your decision and choice, but I'm afraid the reality is that for this to happen to a club the size of Liverpool, it will take a lot more and a lot longer than just 3 poor seasons . If we continue to miss out on top 4-6 consistently over the coming years, then eventually you may see Liverpool's stature as a club dwindle, and thus lose a significant amount of our large global fan base, see our very lucrative sponsorship deals shrink down to match those offered to mid-table clubs, and lose our best players whilst no longer being able to attract the type/level of player that we can currently, and would need to attract if were to climb up the table again back into the top 4.
However, I and may other LFC fans, see plenty of reasons to be optimistic. We still have bigger and better resources than most teams in the country, like a world class training facility, a fantastic academy system that is starting to feed through several quality footballers with fantastic potential, some of which are already in our first team, FSG giving Rodger's plenty of funds for January if worthwhile deals can be done, and most importantly that we will soon be starting the expansion of Anfield, which is going to massively increase the clubs revenue, which means better players being brought in.
Having hope, belief and trust/faith in your club is not 'deluded'. Its what being a supporter is all about. For example,I don't think you lot have got this amazing future of top 4 every year and overtaking Arsenal that some of your fans believe will happen, but that doesn't mean I think, or even that you are, 'deluded'. You have every right to feel like that about your club and in fact, it would be weird if you didn't and felt the opposite!
In my opinion, I think 5 years down the line, unless one of us is sold to a sugar daddy, we will be both be at the same level at least. I also believe that starting next summer, Arsenal will start spending lots of the huge amount of money they are making from their Stadium and the CL, which they haven't yet done up to now. I think then they will put distance between you (and Liverpool too) and them, and then every year the top 4 will be both Manc clubs, Chelsea and Arsenal with both of our clubs missing out.
Now when you attack my opinion I have just given here because it doesn't fit in with what you believe the future holds for Spurs, and offer what you think will happen with Spurs, I could also respond by ripping the piss and calling you 'deluded' and offering plenty of reasons and evidence as to why this is the case, just like you do with us. However, It doesn't mean its true. Only time will prove us right or wrong. Nothing or no-one else can.
The real truth here, is that every fan of nearly every club is 'deluded' when it comes to their own club in some way or another. Its really a meaningless term. Every fan believes there club is the better one and comes up with all kinds of things that show this, whilst at the same time coming up with stuff showing how their rivals are inferior and ignoring everything else that doesn't fit in with their one-sided agenda and what they want to believe.
This is why I think its funny when football fans act as they do. We are all hypocrites because we will criticize or take the piss out of a rivals fans for doing or saying something in regards to their club that we don't agree with or think is nonsensical, but then we'll go and say something that seems just as stupid, in regards to our own club and not think anything of it. Like at the beginning of last season a Spurs fan laughed at a Red who thought LFC could get 4th place. That same Spurs fan later started a thread about Spurs challenging for the title which seemed as equally deluded as the LFC supporter believing 4th was doable. Were all deluded to some degree.
Liverpool have turned the corner now and I believe the only way is up. We have a young, hungry and talented Coach who likes to play nice football in the right way and we have owners who seen to be in this for the long haul and want success and are finally getting the stadium issue sorted. We have got a group of really talented young players coming through the system and into the first team that will form the nucleus to our team for years to come. Given what Liverpool have been through in the last 3 years on and off the pitch, I can't see why the supporters wouldn't be excited and hopeful now.
they haven't been that since the 70s.
We take great pleasure at slagging off your club - get over it.
