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Liverpool Legend Tommy Smith: Owners To Blame For Champions League Failure
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Nov 26, 2009 8:19:51 AM
Liverpool legend Tommy Smith believes that the club's early exit from the Champions League ultimately boils down to the owners' inability to raise funds for manager Rafael Benitez.
Smith - who won two European Cups during a 16-year stay at Anfield - has in the past indicated that Tom Hicks and George Gillett are the cause of the Reds' problems, and has once again pointed a finger at the Americans.
"Europe’s upper echelons is where Liverpool Football Club belongs," he said, according to The Daily Mail.
"So being dumped out of a Champions League group which any Liverpool side should ordinarily have been able to conquer is not good enough.
"Liverpool supporters are magnificent and unique - and the reason why Rafael Benitez and everyone at Anfield knows they deserve far better than they’re suddenly getting this season.
"And the question is, will the owners, who hardly ever turn up to watch a game, either sell up or somehow give him [Benitez] the money he needs to ensure this stuttering and deeply frustrating season is not repeated?"
Adithya Ananth, Goal.com UK
Smith - who won two European Cups during a 16-year stay at Anfield - has in the past indicated that Tom Hicks and George Gillett are the cause of the Reds' problems, and has once again pointed a finger at the Americans.
"Europe’s upper echelons is where Liverpool Football Club belongs," he said, according to The Daily Mail.
"So being dumped out of a Champions League group which any Liverpool side should ordinarily have been able to conquer is not good enough.
"Liverpool supporters are magnificent and unique - and the reason why Rafael Benitez and everyone at Anfield knows they deserve far better than they’re suddenly getting this season.
"And the question is, will the owners, who hardly ever turn up to watch a game, either sell up or somehow give him [Benitez] the money he needs to ensure this stuttering and deeply frustrating season is not repeated?"
Adithya Ananth, Goal.com UK
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