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26 years without a league title says it all. A club whose name was synonymous to success in the 70s and 80s, it speaks volumes about the club's current stature that a hint of a title race is viewed as a significant overachievement.
Regulars for European nights in the 2000s, even European football has turned into a luxurious dream for the Kop at the moment. It doesn't feel right when the floodlights light up Anfield and the raucous fanbase rattle the rooftops just for an uninspiring Europa League contest.
A couple of £100m+ spending sprees, one each under former managers Kenny Dalglish and Brendan Rodgers, inexplicably set the progress of the club back by a number of years.
With the kind of money that Liverpool has made in the transfer market with sales (£50m each for Torres and Sterling, £65m for Suarez) means any talk of amount spent alone is skewed – yet Liverpool FC has been the story of a string of missed opportunities over the last two decades. Liverpool fans, although painfully, have started to accept that their route back to the top will be long and arduous.
