When I look back on what I've seen over the last twenty years watching Juventus, this has to rank as the most thoughless, lacklustre and frankly hopeless squad of all.
As for replacing or keeping Del Neri or firing him even both of these options have a greater negative risk than positive potential bearing in mind that with so many in the squad just not up the mark. It's 'no win' situation either way you look at it.
To say that our situation is not too dissimilar to Liverpool might appear to be a massive oversimplification. Nevertheless, though their core squad is significantly better than ours with players like Gerrard, Reina, Sanchez, Kuyt, Carroll (eventually) and so on there are some common circumstances and, their sacking of Roy Hodgson was a result of his strategical and tactical bankrupcy combined with a complete inability to convince the players and fans that he could turn things round. In that respect we are in a very similar position but without the revenue streams to be able to act more decisively in the way that the new Liverpool owners did. Add to that we do not have a Kenny Dalglish equivalent waiting in the shadows.
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