We're a joke of a club, simple. It's almost embarrassing how far we've fallen in the space of 5 fecking years.
You know what's even worse? There doesn't seem to be a way out of this demise. There are no worthy managers available and we have a squad stacked with shit players. In the current market it would take us at least 3 seasons to replace our squad excl. Shaw, Martial, Pogba & De Gea. In those 3 years would we even hold on to 3/4 of those worthy players? Probably not.
While trying to get great players in, we have to compete with much more promising destinations (Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, Bayern, City & Liverpool). Which will probably lead to even more overpaid mediocre players.
Its sad but true.
I know that as Liverpool fans, we get hammered with our pre season optimism only to usually see it fall ('slip' before anyone corrects me) down around us but this is at the other extreme.
It's like when you break up from a long term relationship, you have good days and bad days. On the bad days, you don't think it's ever going to get any better but it inevitably will.
Since Fergie left, Liverpool very very nearly won the league, dropped down to 7th, failed to qualify for the Champions League after being dumped out in the group stages and sacked a manager.
Within 3 years, we've got a quality manager in who has signed some world class talent, got rid of the dross, played in 2 European Finals (albeit unsuccessfully) and now we're just about keeping pace with one of the best teams to ever play in the Premier League.
Things change bloody quickly in football. The bad times are shit but they make you appreciate the good times even more