Daniel Pacheco signed from Barcelona in 2007 and has just been promoted to the Liverpool first team with shirt number 12. This shows how people at Liverpool think highly of him.
During the UEFA U19 Championship held in France in July, Daniel played brilliantly and won the Golden boot after scoring four goals and helping Spain get to the final. He was chosen as World Player of the Week by Goal.com because of this.
I feel 2010-2011 will be the year of Daniel Pacheco. This kid has real talent. Of course, he lacks experience but he’s lucky enough to have Fernando Torres as mentor… Maybe not getting a striker during this transfer window is a blessing in disguise: this will force the Manager to play Daniel Pacheco more often and, consequently, give him the needed playing time to further his development.
Who needs big-name players when you have a 19 year old gem in your side?
According to the Peter Principle:
In a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently.
Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (they have reached their level of incompetence), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions.
The obvious deduction is:
In time, every post tends to be occupied by someone who is incompetent.
Now I understand a lot of bizarre things happening in our beloved country every day…
I’ve just watched my team, Liverpool, get beaten 3-0 by Manchester City. I was watching the match on Canal+ Sport and the commentators said two interesting things:
- Manchester City has been assembled using hundreds of million of pounds,
- Manchester City played very well as a team.
On hearing this, I realised that English football as a game is dead. Arguably, it died as a game the day Abramovich bought Chelsea. Football has become a show. And, consequently, everything is showbiz now.
I am not Steven Gerrard. But, right now, 15 minutes after the defeat, he must be wondering whether the only solution is for Liverpool to be sold to a billionaire. Maybe that’s the only rational solution. But, sincerely, I would prefer Liverpool to remain as it is. We, Liverpool supporters, are very patient. And I would like to think that we still have some love for the game…
