"it's difficult to say if we will compete up till the last day for a Champions league spot, for me it will depend on the quality of the acquisitions during the last days of the current window, admitted that there won't be those! anyway a top 6 is more realistic."
"As much as I admire the positivity and I've bought into the optimism as much as anyone, I just don't see it happening. Not without another quality signing in midfield and left back.
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"I don't know of defender as I think Coates & Carragher can still step up until end of season! Main problem is Midfield Midfield Midfield!!! Both Defending and attacking are lacking! Sneijder fits the floating role alongside Stevie! Lucas needs to regain his ability or we support him by signing Diamme for £3m! with fire power of the three up front top 4 yes!!! "
"Sorry Ray think your hoping for far to much , lost two many points to so called weaker teams and not beaten any of the teams above us so how can we get to forth spot "
"Sorry to say it Ray but you're well off the mark. With our current tactical naivety we have no chance of a top four finish. Maybe if we adapt to the strengths of the players we have rather than try and make them play a system that doesn't suit them then we might challenge but that will never happen."
"Ray is always honest.We can sneak fourth only with 3 new additions and consistency. Arsenal and Spurs are vulnerable and Chelsea could collapse if the stick with Rafa and Torres much longer!!!"
"need magic lamp maybe. Not sure we grabs 3 point vs Norwich but sure we will lose vs Arsenal and MC. After 3 match, LFC will down to 15th in BPL table. So realistic to grabs top 4?"
"If if if if if...lets be honest top 6 would be good result this season. Top 4 will only happen if we get another one or two top quality players in and if Arsenal,Spurs, Bluesh*te have poor second half to the season.."
"Agree with Jan Molby if we need players to compete and strengthen the team age and future sell on value should not be the even considered, pity we dont have someone like him in charge of transfer policy instead of the bean counters"
"There needs to be silence from the club and its former players in the media from now until the end of the season. If we get 4th spot, then come out and talk. "
"i think its very clear that Most fans want to see Sneijder come in, and i am 1 of them, but i cant see Rodgers being able to get him. Rodgers lacks football knowledge and only signs player he has worked with before, and he wont change from a 4-3-3 formation whether we win lose or draw.. "
"i do think we could get intop the top 4 if we sign the right players, not players with potential but top class experienced players like Sneijder, Alonso, David Villa and maybe get Coentrao on loan as he has fallen out with Mourinho at Real... Diakete has said he wants to join us so thats a CD in place maybe??"
"Requires a lot of slip ups by a lot of teams.Being the optimist and playing with an attacking mentality of SG behind DS and LS I think we can do it ;)"
"i am a positive person but fourth is way beyond us at this winning rate. we were four points before and we started the talk about it and then nothing came out of it and we nine points now. We need more players worth their salt"
"4th place in the championship in 2 years i agree but definatley not the premiership unless we can sign 2 class players.
BR get SNEIJDER before someone like barnet come in for him.
Man £6.3 is a steal considering we paid £7 million for coates.
If this dont happen i dont think i will be renewing my season ticket next year."
"Do me a favour , stop talking about fourth. I live in hope we finish second or third but realisticly sixth is about were we are at ,IF, we get it together for the rest of the season. Third would mean Arsenal, Everton, Spurs would need to have a terrible last few months of the season. Thats way beyond hope , we are talking miricals then."
"A proper defensive coach is what we need, and then a world class midfielder. We have the defenders but they have all gone off th boild this season. So much for Brendans tiki-taka closing down the other teams stlye.... not been on show too much to date!"
"With 16 games to go,I just don't see that 4th is realistic propsition.
Listen to Ray quite a bit on TalkSport and he usually talks a lot of sense.
He also says that he doesn't see what Allen offers us.
Without quality experienced additions i still think we will finish 7th or 8th."
"When we were almost in serious danger. We plead for Suarez and we had Suarez. Till date we as LFC fans are still benefiting from the good buy. Now, we are begging for Sneider but if only BR could listen... My only problem he hardly listens to the fans when the transfer market opens!!!!"
"two hopes Ray,no hope and Bob hope,we probably have more chance of getting fourth over getting another two or three players before the window shuts such is farcical goings on at the club under fsg."
""I'd still like to see another two or three players come in before the end of the transferwindow, because I think they need a bit more depth -maybe a defender and midfieldplayer.
"Then they could compete for a top-four spot."
Wonder if BR expects top-4 without more quality signings...YNWA!"
"I think ray is sending a message out to the owners and manager to spend the money we have a good squad of players but we only have 2 outstanding players in gerrard and suarez if we dont get anymore players in and dont get in europe next season then the buck stops with the owners and manager its no use rodgers cryin next month about the squad been to small."
"Here we go again. Being unrealistic in optimism could cost us again. Let's win the next game. And only then the next one... And then we'll see in May how we did throughout the season. Now we just need to play and win games. YNWA"
"brucelee, do you ever watch us play, even on tv? How can you say we have only 2 marque players. What about Agger, Skrtel, Johnson. These three are the best in their respective positions. Reina despite his drop in levels is still one of the best. I understand being critical but it should be based on facts. "
"top four is still an achievable ambition, we have a good squad which is capable to achieve this. br has got to get it done as he has to prove himself to be a top manager. i think a left back as cover for enrique is important as jonno is a must at right back."
"if we had taken 3 points from Manure then i would be believing we could finish 4th - other teams had dropped points and so we needed to win...we would have 34 points now. If a couple experienced good players come in - ?"
"I like Glen J but he's not a great defender - a threat going forward. Against Manure he was CR-P. I am not even going to talk about Joe Allen- send him on loan. Hmmmmm Valdes to LFC, Reina to Barca?"
"24 points behind man u and people think were making progress,top aint gonna happen.squad is too small but at least fsg will make a profit at the end of the season.rodgers,ayre and fsg already have their excuses ready for the next 8th place finish."
"some people need to consider how they'd be acting if we'd beaten utd-probably not attacking rodgers in ways that are far from constructive. 9 points is achievable with the run-in we have and with spurs and everton stumbling. We need a defender as an injury/card or rest for Martin/Daniel and we look a bit thin."
"Classandsucsess do you mean 9 Pts from our next 16 lg games? As that is more likely than 9pts from next 4 games. And I am an optimist But Also realist! If we get WS then it could be inspired move . "
"I don't think we can anymore, I thought we could b4 the Aston Villa game, but we blew it against a team you'd pick to play out of anyone in the league. This Norwich game couldn't come fast enough, it's all doom and gloom at LFC at the moment! YNWA "
"lets be real about it < all the stupid points we have droped this season ,shows we are knowere near getten 4th , players like joe allen ,downing arnt liverpool players ! and untill rodgers sees that we are a middle off the table club ."
"Hopefully, but I won't be too disappointed if we don't. Let's not unrealistically raise expectations. Next season we should be really close to the top 4!"
"Well, Ray unfortunately all calls for quality players are falling to deaf ears as Rodgers has his own plan to make us a mid table team like Swansea!!! He comes up with pathetic excuses and can't see quality players but shows faith in Allen. We need someone like Sneijder and another top striker to fight on all fronts!!"
"Top4 ? thats a joke look at our pionts,,top places have near double the pionts we have,and its not like we are signing all the players we needed the first half of the season is it ,,,youll never walk alone,but lfc will not be running to the top sadly"
"...sorry lads but i dont believe theres enuff beliefe or fighting spirit for 4th...droping too many points..shortened squad..not getting in replacements ..too many problems that need fixing .id be happy if we win the fa cup and make the final in europa vs ath madrid..sorry lads but we dont have ruthlessness in our team to much respect for teams who dont respect us"
"as i've said all along we can make top 4 with the right additions now we've got 1 now just add another 2 before the end of the window and we will do it come on brendan and the lads lets fight for 4th place YNWA "
"Usually in a premier league season 65-70 points guarantees a champions league spot. If we can manage to get another 35 points in the 16 remaining games we will have a huge chance to quallify. This will be very difficult to do but if we are consistent we can do it. "
"At the end of the day we lost 2-1 to the prem's current best side. We lacked belief and mental strength in the first half so Brendan had a word, tweeked the set up and BINGO! we were the better side! Some of you need to open your eyes and get on board with what Rodgers is doing."
"Well if milan1960 doesn't think we can do it we may as well pack it in now, have the rest of the season off and not worry about it too much. Or maybe we could support OUR team and stop slating OUR players? Just a thought. "
"Kingofclubs - well said mate. Sometimes feels like a manure troll convention on this site. If one of our young players was to happen on to his own club's website and read the comments of his own fans his confidence and belief would be tered. They should do away with these comments sections, just a breeding ground for negativity and vitriol."
"NOT here we go again there is a big difference between players and managers coming out with this and other people. Players run the risk of believeing their own hype and forgetting they still have to go out there and do it. Others dont have that problem if you want to be self delusional no one cares."
"Milan1960, why stop at Mourinho, what about Fergusson who I am sure would walk across the Mersey to manage us. Or maybe Cruyff who has been out of a job for a few years. I like the fact that you are shooting high, but please be realistic, why would Mourinho come to us? "
"milan 1960 i would like jose m but he cant get is act together at real madrid there 18 points behind barca and real have a better side than us but hes struggling with them and theyve spent mega bucks on the likes of ronaldo and modric i no he won the league last season but hes strugglin"
"Moroniho? No thanks! He's at the right club taking centre stage ast a bunch of prima donnas, we don't need the ringmaster and all his circus acts, let him go to the Mancs and bring down their theatre of dreams!"
"We are not gonna get 4th place when are certain pundits gonna wake up and smell the coffee it's just not going to happen who are they trying to kid not me that's for sure"
"we can get 4th place. it is not easy but with hard work and support and consistency we can get 3pts sat and push on. with 2 difficult games coming up now will be good time to start showing what we can really do. come on you reds. 3pts please. YNWA & J4T96"
"We are all saying the same thing but will BR listen NO NO NO lets wait until someone else puts a bid in for him gets him and he turns out to be a steal don't get it we just got rid of joe cole and sahin where is the replacements"
"GET WESLEY SNEIJDER OR JUST KISS IT GOODBYE!!! We're tired of waiting and hoping!!! This is Liverpool FC for God's Sake!!! Can't we afford Sneijder??? if we can't then we have no business in the champions league!!! "
"Yes,that's all that matters till the end of this season.We have to beat Spurs,Everton and WBA-they are involved in fight for 4th.But,Arsenal will be the strongest oponent in this campaign,for me.Yes,we need CREATIVITY in the mid,his name is Sneijder.YNWA>"
"How 'bout we just work on getting our winning ratio up...beating someone in the top ten even. Last time Rodgers opened his mouth...we lost the following game and haven't really looked liked a contender since!"
"The character of a team is seen when we are losing. Too many times we have demonstrated a lack of fighting this season. We need a top quality striker to support what we have if we want fourth spot, win more and become consistent. "
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