Disagree Several things where different from last seasons Liverpool 1) Left back - he has finally realised riise is not the best defender and has decided to use riise higher up the pitch and get a proper solid defender in at left back, whether that be arbeola or heinze 2) Central midfield - he has decided to loosen the shackles on central midfield and play gerrard and alonso who are finally going to get the chance to work on a partnership, I wouldnt mind mascerano in there, either him or alonso would do for me but now gerrard, the best centre midfielder in the world iis playing central, which leads nicely onto 3 3) Pennant is finally starting to develop into the player we all hoped he would be and that means we do not need to use gerrard there anymore. Pennant was fantastic yesterday, would alves for example have offered any more than pennant yesterday ? I do not think he would. 4) We now have a balanced striking partnership in Kuyt and Torres that offers everything, workrate, movement, pace ability etc etc etc. We can play long, short, down the channels and either one of them can drop off into the hole. 5) Competition - Every player knows they have to perform or they will be out as there is a good player waiting to come in and take their place. As for the new signings, they where clever, quality signings. Yes they did not make the bench today but that is more an indication on the quality of our sqaud than the weakness of them. We where not a bad side last year yeh know, we did not need a major overhaul, just a bit of quality up front and out wide, and gerrard moved into the middle which is what we have now got