6 questions Liverpool will need to answer ahead of the 2015/16 season
Liverpool FC gets ready for a challenging season aheadFor Liverpool Football Club, last season (2014-15) started and ended on a hugely disappointing note. More disappointing if you were still hung-over from a season before that when Suarez and Sturridge were hammering the opponents. Let’s accept it, these 2 made Liverpool look better than they were in totality.I say they made Liverpool look “better than they were” because though the team scored 101 goals, they conceded 50 goals as well. And this came to haunt them big time when Suarez was gone and Sturridge was sadly sidelined with injury again.Liverpool trying to spend money they got from Suarez sale on players who did not even tick Liverpool’s Transfer Committee’s Parameters and their desperate last minute acquisition of Mario Balotelli highlighted their dismal and desperate preparation, let alone the performance on the pitch.Most of the followers of the club saw the problems in open and waited for a few agonizing months to see if the club is learning from the mistakes and if the once top flight club will rise to the occasion again. So, have they learnt their lessons? Have they made better choices, in terms of preparing the team for the new season? The club has invested yet again. And this week they got what they have been wanting for a long time now. Their answer to the goal dearth problem last season – Christian Benteke.But, the Answers to these 6 Questions may decide where the club stands in Premier League table come May 2016.
#1 Will the back room reshuffle change the dynamics?
The club needs to answer whether the reshuffle in the back room help the team in changing its fortune. First team coach Mike Marsh is replaced by Gary McAllister and Sean O’Driscoll is the new assistant manager to Brendan Rodgers in place of Colin Pascoe.
In an honest opinion, the club followers have given a mixed reaction to this reshuffle, but Brendan Rodgers did go on record last season that a lack of support and/or stealth from back room staff didn’t help the club in a season where it had to deal with Champions League football as well. Sean brings to the table a mixed past, whereas, Gary was always a huge fan favorite while he played for Liverpool, winning UEFA cup, League Cup and FA cup.
Now the changes are done. What impact it brings to the team is the question that will be answered sooner than later.