Football News: Yet Another Season Of Transition For Liverpool

This summer has already been one of change at Liverpool FC, another season in transition is beckoning as players and coaches are in a state of flux, with just a few weeks before the 2015-16 season kicks off in earnest. This year the first competitive match will be at the end of July, as the Reds have to face qualifying matches for the Europa League.

With a trip to Asia being squeezed in ahead of the Europa League fixtures, is there time for the new coaching staff to settle in and work with the players, especially as so many of them are also new? The plans to visit Asia now seem a major mistake, with failure to even qualify for the first round proper in either European competition due to finishing only 6th in the Premier League last season.

Added to all the changes, even more extreme than last summer's changes, which saw the club finish the previous year in 2nd and clearly only needing a tweak. Instead there was almost a complete rebuild, with a large number of players signed creating an unsettled team, which struggled to find a way to work together.

Even the manager was subject to change, from the beaming Brendan Rodgers basking in the adulation of the fans, to the bumbling permatanned Brendan Rodgers who was struggling to find support. So far though, despite the loss of his assistant manager and first team coach, in Colin Pascoe and Mike Marsh respectively, Rodgers has managed to hang on to his job, despite last season's debacle.

For a man who proclaims himself to be a great coach, it is odd that he made comments about defence being uncoachable, yet still FSG saw fit to keep him. If your coach admits to being unable to coach an entire aspect of the sport he is employed to do, you would think that makes him entirely unsuited for the job.

Or, at the very least, would see him look for someone who is capable of coaching a defence to help him. Coaching a defence has never seemed to be a problem for many managers around the world, surely he could find someone to teach him about it?

Instead Liverpool fans will get to look forward to more transition, yet another season wasted waiting for the club to finally get its act together and put a settled team together to challenge consistently for trophies.

Written by Tris Burke June 16 2015 18:17:48