Paddy Power poke fun at John Henry’s lack of spending in scathing criticism of Liverpool owners

I’m a die hard Pool fan. But only delusional ones amongst us can possibly be dreaming of title this year. We are an excellent team, many great players and an amazing gaffer but we have no way to keep up over a very long season with City, period. They have and keep investing in their team for years and it shows. They can always rotate and bring in equal value players. We generally can’t. Occasionally our reserves do wonders, head to head on our best day we can also beat them but over 38 games plus cups and such eventually we are found. Think for a second how would Pep react to Mane literally contributing nothing over the last 10 games, in fact he is simply killing our offensive patterns with wrong choices at all times. He would be on the bench for 2-3 games guaranteed as is Sterling now, or has been the case with all his attackers at one point or another. You can not expect 3, maybe 4 players to carry on game after game year after year always at the highest level, not possible. That’s why inevitably we will have a few games where we drop intensity and efficiency. Also our style of play full of intensity and high pressure and running is far more difficult to sustain then Pep’s possession based. They conserve their efforts by the way they play and by having the front 3 constantly rotating. Sterling, Jesus, DeBruyne, Mahrez, Silva, Grealish, Fodden, not to mention Ferran Torres whom they are now selling.. are constantly interchanged and rested! By contrast we have to always rely on 4 players maximum as Minamino, Origi are simply not good enough consistently.. that is the difference and every year around this time it starts showing and we lose ground. Even when we won it all we still looked awful for many games and only the huge lead we built that year saved us. City will win this year too (4th in 5 years!) and there is no debate about the greatest team ever, way above United or Arsenal or us. The way things are going apart from Chelsea who may be able to challenge them next year as they will add even more players there is no one who can compete over a whole season.. and it pains me to admit it but this is reality. We are already net 6 pts behind them, going to Chelsea, facing two league games with Minamino and Origi as starters and have a game at City as well.. if anyone thinks we can make up that difference I have a bridge to sell you.. we should have been up 6-7 pts now to stand any chance whatsoever.