All those coaches came into the job from a low base. Souness as I said, inherited a top side with very high quality players. They had lost their way a bit maybe, but won away games 7-1 and 5-4 weeks before, so they still were in a great position to maintain our domination of the league at the time. I've heard his reasoning for his transfer policy, but I don't accept it.
Evans took over a side struggling to keep up with the mancs, Blackburn, and Newcastle. Houllier took over a side almost halfway down the league, while Rafa took over a side barely able to keep in touch with Newcastle, let alone cope with free-flowing Arsenal, big spending Chelsea, and had just finished 30 points behind the champions. Each of them playing catch up with the opposition at the time. The lack of success and long gaps without silverware in the meantime affected us off the field, as players went elsewhere, and the boards struggled with the demands of running the club in a competent manner.
Kenny is trying now, and he's doing his best. But the problems started with GS, and there is still a long way to go before we're back top of the tree again.
There wasn't exactly long waits of silverware, we went two years between 90 and 92. Three years between 92 and 95. Six years between 95 and 01. If we don't win a thing this year, it'll be our longest run since the two League Cups in 95 and 01. It was hardly a stretch of lengthy time without a trophy.
Fair enough Souness fu**ed the club up but it's not his fault 20 years on that we haven't won the League. He set us back in some ways and moved us forward in other ways by handing debuts to the likes of Fowler and Redknapp. Signing Mark Wright, Rob Jones and Stig Inge Bjornebye who were three of our very best defenders during the 90s. He's often credited for F***ing the team up with his signings, fair enough he bought some sh*t. But he brought in some quality players as well.
As for the others, well it was because of their inability to keep up with the sides above them as to why they were told to go. If they weren't falling behind the rest, we wouldn't of needed to change manager so it's a bit obvious (and a bit silly) to rattle off how Rafa inherited a side that couldn't keep up as did Houllier as did Evans. Well yeah because if they could keep up, we wouldn't be changing manager.
Logged