{"id":461394,"date":"2011-07-15T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/15\/liverpool-are-still-a-fair-bit-behind-the-top-clubs-in-the-premier-league-former-boss-roy-evans\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T07:48:00","slug":"liverpool-are-still-a-fair-bit-behind-the-top-clubs-in-the-premier-league-former-boss-roy-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/liverpool-are-still-a-fair-bit-behind-the-top-clubs-in-the-premier-league-former-boss-roy-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool are still a fair bit behind the top clubs in the Premier League &#8211; former boss Roy Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By David Lynch<\/h3>\n<h4>15 Jul 2011 08:48:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"77.9513209393\">\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kenny Dalglish\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/131400\/131420_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kenny Dalglish<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"46.7634228188\">Ex-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/98\/liverpool\">Liverpool<\/a> boss Roy Evans has warned his former club that they still have a long way to go before winning back their place in the top four.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds have spent big so far this summer in acquiring Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam, whilst Stewart Downing also looks set to join the club from Aston Villa after undergoing a medical.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Liverpool&#8217;s resurgence in the second half of last season, Evans says the club are &#8220;still a fair bit being the top four or five clubs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He told <em>talkSPORT<\/em>: \u201cWhen you\u2019re at Liverpool, you always expect \u00adsilverware. That\u2019s the name of the game and that\u2019s what comes with the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be quite as easy as \u00adeverybody thinks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenny has done a fantastic job and took them to a reasonable place last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, in the last home game of the season against Tottenham you saw that we were short of a little bit of class against the better teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s going to be tough. Everyone expects Kenny to turn it around quickly. But I think it\u2019s going to take a little bit more time than the fans would like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still a fair bit behind the top four or five clubs in the Premier League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool&#8217;s defence, where they are yet to make a new signing under Dalglish, is one area which Evans says needs improving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do feel they\u2019re going to need a little bit of cover in defence,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel Agger is a great footballer, but obviously injury-prone, and Jamie Carragher is still the lynchpin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gives so much \u00adinformation to the players around him and the two young lads, Martin Kelly and John Flanagan. Carragher helps them an awful lot and he\u2019ll be the biggest loss when he goes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do feel we need to find a centre-back, as we seem a bit short at the back, and that\u2019s a worry.\u201d<br \/><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/15\/2575549\/liverpool-are-still-a-fair-bit-behind-the-top-clubs-in-the\" title=\"Liverpool are still a fair bit behind the top clubs in the Premier League - former boss Roy Evans\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liverpool are still a fair bit behind the top clubs in the Premier League &#8211; former boss Roy Evans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By David Lynch 15 Jul 2011 08:48:00 Kenny Dalglish Related Links Teams Ex- Liverpool boss Roy Evans has warned his former club that they still have a long way to go before winning back their place in the top four. The Reds have spent big so far this summer in acquiring Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam, whilst Stewart Downing also looks set to join the club from Aston Villa after undergoing a medical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liverpool are still a fair bit behind the top clubs in the Premier League - former boss Roy Evans - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/liverpool-are-still-a-fair-bit-behind-the-top-clubs-in-the-premier-league-former-boss-roy-evans\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Liverpool are still a fair bit behind the top clubs in the Premier League - former boss Roy Evans - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By David Lynch 15 Jul 2011 08:48:00 Kenny Dalglish Related Links Teams Ex- Liverpool boss Roy Evans has warned his former club that they still have a long way to go before winning back their place in the top four. 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