I don't believe that the brunt of our team doesn't give a shit, and I don't believe that the manager doesn't give a shit either.
Our owners lead the way in signalling to the team, the supporters, and the media, that we were going backward this summer, after coming so close. I understand the reasoning, but this was sickening to me.
Our manager made the last in an increasingly atrocious series of recent transfer blunders, ones which are grounds, in themselves, for sacking.
Our team has been weak in essential positions, particularly in CM, where only two of our four CMs seem to belong in english football, let alone at a top four side, and at striker only one belongs.
Our two best players have injury problems which have gone from unlucky to potentially changing their function and reliability in a broader sense. Can we really rely on Torres to be fit for a season? Is Gerrard going to be back at his best again?
The rest of our team, which last year was greater than the sum of its parts, has lost confidence and fallen apart. A number of players do not suffer from lack of effort, they are just well off form, infected by our crisis of confidence, young and still developing, or not good enough. Then there's the ones that are being lazy, but I don't think there are more for our team than anything else.
If it becomes obvious we are unlikely to make 4th, which I would say has already happened, then there isn't much reason to keep Rafa, because we won't be keeping him anyway. If we are due to get new investment in the near future, and they aren't mentally insane, they will demand the same anyway.
Rafa has been put in a challenging position, and though things beyond his control have heaped further challenges, much of how challenging it is, is down to his own failures in the transfer market over the last couple seasons.
