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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 12:52:48 GMT 1
 News just in Roy HODGSON has left Liverpool by Mutual Consent (Sacked). It is not often that I have liked a Liverpool FC Manager but Roy is the first one since Shanks and Bob Paisley that I have liked. I do not think he was given a chance by our red chums, and I think the players have a lot of blame to take, due to the teams current position. In essence he inherited a poor team which was left by the previous manager. Good luck to Roy in the future- he will leave the club who are still in debt with a nice little handshake. Dalglish- he left the club the last time they had a bad side- we will see what he can do- no doubt he will be the saviour if they beat Man U tomorrow- if they do it would have been the players who had not been pulling their weight. Bob 
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Post by mersi on Jan 8, 2011 16:55:25 GMT 1
King Kenny is Back.....
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Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson has left the club by mutual consent.
Hodgson, 63, won only seven of 20 Premier League games after taking over from Rafael Benitez in July 2010 and led the club to 12th in the table.
Former player and manager Kenny Dalglish has been placed in charge until the end of the season.
"Both parties thought it in the best interests of the club that he stand down," said American owner John W Henry in a statement on the club's website.
Hodgson refused to answer questions about his Anfield future following Liverpool's 3-1 defeat by Blackburn on Wednesday, the club's third loss in four Premier League games, which left them just four points clear of the relegation zone.
And when his press conference ahead of Liverpool's FA Cup third-round match against Manchester United on Sunday was cancelled on Friday, it fuelled further speculation that the former Fulham manager's tenure was drawing to a close.
"I have found the last few months some of the most challenging of my career," read a statement from Hodgson on the club's website.
"I am very sad not to have been able to put my stamp on the squad, to be given the time to bring new players into the club in this transfer window and to have been able to be part of the rebuilding process at Liverpool."
Club ambassador Dalglish will oversee team matters for Sunday's FA Cup tie at Old Trafford.
The 59-year-old won eight league titles with Liverpool as a player and manager, taking charge of the club for a six-year spell between 1985 and 1991.
He also helped the Anfield side to three European Cup triumphs before hanging up his boots.
"Kenny was not just a legendary footballer, he was the third of our three most successful managers - three giants," said Henry, who bought Liverpool in October.
"We are extraordinarily fortunate and grateful that he has decided to step in during the middle of this season."
There will be sympathy for Hodgson, a proud and decent man who has worked tirelessly but in vain to turn Liverpool around, but brutal reality dictates this was the only decision Fenway Sports Group could take
Hodgson has extensive domestic, European and international managerial experience, which includes spells with Blackburn Rovers and Switzerland, who he guided to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup.
He also had a period in charge of Italian giants Inter Milan.
He joined Fulham in December 2007 and steered the club away from the relegation zone, escaping the drop on the final day of that season.
He transformed the Cottagers and guided them to their highest ever top-flight finish in 2008-09, reaching the Europa League final the following year.
His results in west London were enough to persuade Liverpool, searching for a successor to Spaniard Benitez, to offer Hodgson a three-year contract in July.
Despite losing influential Argentina midfielder Javier Mascherano to Barcelona for £17.25m in August, Hodgson spent over £20m bringing in Christian Poulsen, Raul Meireles, Danny Wilson and Brad Jones, as well as signing Joe Cole and Paul Konchesky.
But Hodgson endured a tough start in his new job, as his side were knocked out of the Carling Cup by League Two Northampton at Anfield on 22 September, while a 2-1 home defeat to Blackpool on 3 October meant they dropped into the bottom three of the top flight for the first time since September 1964.
And following Liverpool's third league defeat in four matches, at Ewood Park on Wednesday, Hodgson's position at Anfield became untenable.
Former Liverpool defender now BBC Sport football expert Mark Lawrenson said he was "surprised" the team has not gelled under Hodgson.
"He was renowned for improving players at Fulham, coaching them and making them better but at Liverpool the opposite has happened," he said.
"Liverpool have gone backwards and the players he has brought in just haven't worked. I think unfortunately Roy was the wrong man at the wrong time for Liverpool and it has been a case of thanks but no thanks."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 18:35:25 GMT 1
Bobby - Happy to take the bait....
Hodgson simply didn't have what it takes to be a successful Liverpool manager and was out of his depth.
Aside from overachieving at Fulham he has done little in his career at such stellar clubs like FC Copenhagen, Malmo and Grasshoppers. His time at Inter Milan saw the team finish 7th in his first season...
Inherited a poor team ? Liverpool sent more players to the World Cup (16) than any other Premiership team; sure, the players have to take some of the blame but a manager is appointed to motivate players and his 'tactics' and style of play is negative.
As my (Evertonian) dad reminds me, 'Colin Harvey, lovely fella but not good enough as a manager'.
As a season-ticket holder I am so happy Hodgson is gone and I can only look forward - not sure King Kenny will be a long term appointment but it appeases the fans and gives NESV time to choose their own man.
Just the boost we need for tomorrow....!
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Post by Biggles on Jan 8, 2011 20:58:58 GMT 1
Perhaps the time has come to find a manager that will enter the dressing room and tell some of these over paid z list celebs masquarading as footballers, that people every weekend play football in parks all over the UK, without earning millions of pounds. they also have less sensitive egos and hardly a wag to to be seen yet they do better usually in every match and all without computer generated pre match planning. They work, arrive get changed play the game score goals and go home. Not rocket science is it ?
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Post by liverpoolman1 on Jan 8, 2011 21:50:29 GMT 1
I find myself agreeing with Biggles for once. The Manager to enter the dressing room and tell the big egos to get off their backsides is Martin O'Neill. Kenny is in for the short term. Having said that there are not many managers in the premiership who are the gentleman that Roy Hodgson is. I wish him well in whatever future job he takes.
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Post by Biggles on Jan 8, 2011 22:35:18 GMT 1
"I find myself agreeing with Biggles for once." OMG It would make a good reality show MO doing just that I mean. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 23:41:55 GMT 1
OMG It would make a good reality show MO doing just that I mean. I take it that simple sentence was meant to read like this; What!!!! Do you really think they'd listen to him? These guys don't give a dam as long as their getting paid He can say what the hell he likes but they will probably only do it if it suits them. How much did it cost LFC to be beaten by the bottom club in the league? It may well be a good idea to invite the camera's in. It could show the manager in a good light and may well entice the players to get off their backsides and justify earning at least a tenth of their wage. ;D Sorry, even as a Liverpool fan I couldn't resist. |
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Post by johnoakes on Jan 8, 2011 23:59:42 GMT 1
As a Reds fan since the 1960s I too have been dismayed at the recent happenings.
As a former inhabitant of Burnley could I suggest that Owen Coyle is a possible future manager worth more than a glance in the long termAs for now thanklGod Kennyis back.
He has the personality,ability,history and kudos that makes him fully capable of saying,"Get off your arses and earn the salary you are paid and the respect of the fans."
he gets my vote anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2011 2:28:48 GMT 1
Hawker, No bait really- I feel sorry for the guy, I think he was badly done too. Happy days Bob
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Post by Biggles on Jan 9, 2011 2:57:34 GMT 1
He was/is a nice guy, that was the problem, he just did not do what was needed to be done. Time now for no more Mr.Nice Guy as the saying goes.
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Post by davel on Jan 9, 2011 13:09:16 GMT 1
As an Evertonian I have no axe to grind but didn't Dalglish jack it in before because he couldn't stand the strain!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2011 16:37:32 GMT 1
King Kenny will be under more pressure now that they are out of the cup. ;D Should have kept Roy!!!!! Happy Days Bob
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Post by owensy on Jan 9, 2011 16:48:46 GMT 1
King Kenny will be under more pressure now that they are out of the cup. ;D Should have kept Roy!!!!! Happy Days Bob Bob Shut up!! How can you say that! Look at our away record and to lose to a penalty that wasnt and to play 60 mins with 10 men against one of the best teams in the country in there own back garden!! How can you come up with this rubbish....? Oh yes your a bitter blue!! |
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Post by LPL on Jan 9, 2011 19:59:39 GMT 1
You have to be in it to win it, or in it to be knocked out of it.
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Post by Biggles on Jan 9, 2011 22:20:44 GMT 1
I seem to recall there was some outside influences on KD last time such as illness when his wife was diagnosed with cancer I think. Doubt it was strain of football. Today would have been a different story had the correct decison on the non penalty been given and Gerhard had kept his head, and feet on the ground. So a good start I reckon.
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