I don't think Liverpool are as good as all that, the way they're set up, with Crouch and a 5 man midfield they're bound to dominate posession a lot, but if they replaced Crouch with someone like Owen it'd affect their strle of play and he'd either become isolated or they'd just be playing long balls into him all the time since he can't hold the ball up well. So them they'd need another striker to link play with Owen and they wouldn't be so dominant in midfield.

I mean if you have one team who can score goals and one who can't then the team who can score would hve to be considered the better team, since that's the point of football, however much posession the other team's getting. Clearly Rafa's picking players who help with posession, but not so much with scoring goals so they'd have to sacrifice some of the posession to get more goals... And one striker's not going to cure everything, you'll need at least 2, though Morientes and perhaps Fowler could probably do the job given the chance, right style of football etc...

Morientes can't have become a bad player over night.