Is this the worst Liverpool squad

[readingbedding]

Under Mr Benitez's tenure?

[Barry the bird boggler]

Absolutely.

[cmonurz]

No strength in depth whatsoever. In terms of best XI, I think it's as good as Benitez has had it, perhaps with the exception of the loss of Alonso, but the rest are awful.

[Deathy]

Under Mr Benitez's tenure?

Dissapointingly, yes. He can't have much longer.

[1871 Royal]

Have said for a while now that they are a two man team. Gerrard and Torres, without them they are awful. They only have one world class striker, whereas the other top 3 have at least 2.

Man Utd - Berba and Rooney
Arsenal - Van Persie and Eduardo
Chelsea - Drogba and Anelka

[winchester_royal]

Eduardo is not a world class striker.

[1871 Royal]

Maybe not but he is far better than Vorinin/N'Gog

[Deathy]

Reading - Simon Church and Greg Rasiak

[1871 Royal]

World Class

[cmonurz]

Have said for a while now that they are a two man team. Gerrard and Torres, without them they are awful. They only have one world class striker, whereas the other top 3 have at least 2.

On this - I read a stat last week that showed that PPG-wise, Liverpool are not actually signficantly worse off when these players are missing, in fact iirc, yesterday's defeat is their first where Torres has played and Gerrard hasn't.

[Starfish]

Eduardo is not a world class striker.

One could also argue that Berbatov has not been world class for 18 months.

[winchester_royal]

Eduardo is not a world class striker.

One could also argue that Berbatov has not been world class for 18 months.

I wouldn't argue with that TBH.

[Deathy]

Eduardo is not a world class striker.

One could also argue that Berbatov has not been world class for 18 months.

Ever.

[1960]

Are the deluded "in Rafa we trust" brigade still trusting in Rafa?

[Victor Meldrew]

As a by-the-way have
Chelsea
Spurs
Man City
Sunderland
Stoke
Aston Villa
got the best squads they have had for the past 40 years or so?

[AndyRFC]

I read somewhere that Rafa had signed 20 right backs/wing backs since taking over.

[cmonurz]

Liverpool's defence is on the whole perfectly good, its in attack that Benitez has to look at his transfer record and ask what has gone wrong. Torres, Kuyt and Voronin is not a great return on five years of trying to win the league.

[1871 Royal]

I read somewhere that Rafa had signed 20 right backs/wing backs since taking over.

Yep, unless we both imagined it

[silas]

I read somewhere that Rafa had signed 20 right backs/wing backs since taking over.

And give or take one or two, they have all been absolutely awful

[cmonurz]

Johnson
Degen
Dossena
Arbeloa
Kromkamp

I think the problem with these stats for the big clubs is that they include speculative nominal purchases of academy players, but I think the five above are the only ones that have impacted on the first team (although I've probably missed an obvious one knowing me).

silas can obviously name them all though, I await with excitement.