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can get themselves into a position where they have more to spend each year, they aren't likely to be able to improve over teams who can outspend them.

Liverpool players and managers are continually bombarded with huge expectations from fans, despite the fact that for the most part they aren't met. Some of the fans expect and predict each year that Liverpool will again return to their dominance of the top division that they had in the 70s. This simply isn't going to happen, and managers are often unfairly dealt with by the fans for doing one of the most difficult jobs in football today. Propping up the top four but being able to break into the top three is never an easy prospect, but when you also lack the resources needed to change that position each season the fans are bound to be disappointed.

Often poor managerial decisions are also to blame for Liverpool's lack of progression, most prominently the constant and destructive player rotation that Rafa Benitez insists on. Moving players around and playing them in unfamiliar positions not only disrupts them individually, but stops the team from playing well as a unit. A good example of this is Stephen Gerrard, who often looks ineffective for Liverpool when played in the wrong position, but excels for England when he is played where he is most comfortable.

While his rotations ideas might have worked at other clubs he has been at, this simply isn't the case in the premiership, and any other coach wouldn't dream of rotating players without good reason. The Spanish leagues where these tactics might have worked a little better tend to play a slower paced and less physical game than the English premiership. This may have to do with the mistakes of rotated players being more noticeable in a faster paced game.

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