Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

Van Persie has 30 goals in all competitions this year, same number as Liverpool in the league.

Long live King Kenny!

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02155/Harry-Poster_AI_2155432b.jpg

If only he could read.

Harry must stay, surely?

This piece on Villas Boas is good on the dysfunctionality at Chelsea, and where loyalties lie. The summer there is going to be fascinating, especially as I can't think who might actually end up in the job. Rafa really does seem like the obvious candidate now.

wishful thinking from a scarred Liverpool fan?

Maybe. He'd be a poor fit for the other half of what Abramovich wants to achieve, other than being great at knock outs, but he'd be good for cutting out the dead wood. I had been coming round to the idea of his having another go at Anfield, but he can't wait around forever and there aren't many other elite candidates for the Chelsea job. Capello would be an even less attractive option you'd think.

Villas-Boas knew he was running out of time but although the decision to sack him was made within minutes of the match ending at the Hawthorns last weekend, Roman Abramovich agonised until the early hours of Sunday morning about whether he should give the young Portuguese, whom he admired and liked, one more game.

Abramovich had been agonising for weeks, ever since he turned up unannounced at the training ground to observe the manager at work and gauge the mood in the camp. Chelsea went on to throw away a three-goal lead against Manchester United and lose miserably to Everton on Feb 11. Abramovich changed his mind that evening. He decided that maybe, as some in his so-called 'golden circle’ had been arguing since the international break in early September, Villas-Boas could not carry on.

Pure fiction? No one knows what Abramovich thinks about anything.

Rafa for Spurs obv. Reckon its a better 'project' for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFssfEub3uk

He's got a twitch. If Wenger behaved like that it would be back page news.

gotta be dalglish out, don't know a liverpool fan who thinks differently. the whole "he can't be sacked" thing is just from your ilx-style "i fear my shoes are developing a sense of entitlement" person. obv there's a hardcore in liverpool who might disagree but i foresee no controversy in the forthcoming shuffle upstairs with "i did a job for the club when they needed me".

just please, no rafa. they have the money and imo aren't miles off having the players to do well.

i've thought all along he'd be shoved into a Director of Football type position soon enough. his appointment always felt like a placeholder, tho a placeholder was probably v. necessary at the time.

the whole "he can't be sacked" thing is just from your ilx-style "i fear my shoes are developing a sense of entitlement" person

Haha what are you talking about?! I did think that tbf (and about Kenny, not the shoes) until Fenway eventually stepped in over the handshake thing. Now I agree with nv though, paradoxically, I think he's got to win the FA Cup for it to happen, because it'd be a nightmare to have him upstairs feeling like he's got unfinished business. Fortunately, he will.

The only silver lining to yesterday

would bet my house on liverpool losing this

― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Saturday, March 10, 2012 3:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

LG still has a roof over his head.

never in doubt!

tbh I think Dalglish probably has enough humility and enough love for the club that he'll happily step aside when the appropriate time comes

i agree completely, i was sort of ridiculing the prevalent theory that somehow getting rid of him would be some huge acrimonious struggle. it really won't.

I'm not quite sure about that. That he was willing publicly to throw his hat in at time of Hodgson's appointment isn't a great omen for a smooth transition. Though I guess if there was an agreed successor lined up like, say, Villas Boas, it'd be a lot easier.

the perceived turmoil at the club at the end of Hodgson's tenure was very different to any likely situation now

I meant the start of Hodgson's tenure - remember KD was appointed to find successor to Rafa but nominated himself instead. But yes, the club's in a better place all round, except in the league.

aren't miles off having the players to do well.

really?

If Spurs somehow end up finishing 5th I will be v amused.

they're underachieving imo NN, not saying they should be topping the table but they have played most of the top sides off the park at one point this season. good defence too.

I agree with that actually. One goalscorer and more mobility in the centre of the park and they'd be good against anyone. I realise I'm asking for a whole new midfield and the return of Torres here, but hey.

gotta be dalglish out, don't know a liverpool fan who thinks differently.

i dont agree. i think some of the signings didnt work out this year but ive no problem with him staying on tbh

Yesterday was the first full game i've watched in a while but they were alarmingly shit, with Charlie Adam in particular barely looking like a footballer. There's a lot of average and past it players in that squad. I'd argue that it needs a complete revamp

that's performance not ability. as i say, the evidence is there that they can wallop good teams, both man u and city have been given a run for their money.

Darren Dein's mouthpiece:

Arsenal face the prospect of losing a fifth player to Manchester City in three years after Robin van Persie provisionally agreed a contract with the Premier League leaders that promises to make him the division's best paid footballer.

City's proposal, which sources close to both club and player say has been accepted, is worth £10.9 million (Dh63.05m) a year, a deal that will place him atop the club's pay scale once Carlos Tevez, whose contract was worth £12.55m including loyalty bonuses, is sold this summer.

Hey, The Sunday Times are saying RVP has agreed to join City. Great!

ha

xpost Really, you think Dalglish has done enough to justify staying in the job? The fact that so many of the signings didn't work out is precisely the problem. It's not that any of them are poor players, but they're certainly not good enough for the fees paid, and when you make that kind of expenditure you know the League Cup isn't a good enough return. Charlie Adam? Stewart Downing? Liverpool marquee signings? Puts me in mind of Jimmy Carter …

Rumours also abound that Pogba has signed a new contract with Utd. He's on the bench today

Oh dear, poor Arsenal. Does this mean we have five more months of the story while they negotiate a fee?

fancy Swansea to put City to the sword today. Well maybe not, but Savic is playing

Probably gone first week of transfer window instead of a fight till almost the end re: Nasri.

Podolski has been signed - that's hadly any cover, but by even trying to get any sort of replacement etc. its an attempt to avoid the fiasco at the start of last season.

Getting back line signings as impt.

or nearly agreed, from the gossip nearly true stories anyway.

It's also taking as read that Tevez is leaving I notice, which I think they have to do for Financial Fair Play. Will be interesting to see how little the signing club manages to pay for him, even if the rest of it will be tedious.

shit, Swansea had a penalty saved? Anyone watching?

yeah, hart slid out on routledge then was talking shit to sinclair the whole build up, sinclair hit a weak shot that hart saved easily. swansea totally bossing the game so far.

hart fingerwagging not in my house type stuff, like a nba center

Swansea look like me when I play FIFA - fluid going forward, can't hold a defensive shape for shit. Balotelli's looking handy.

lol balotelli just shot from halfway line

when you make that kind of expenditure you know the League Cup isn't a good enough return

An ordinary League Cup victory, maybe, but you seem to be ignoring the impressive manner in which Liverpool put Cardiff to the sword. The gulf in class was immense and the thrashing handed out will live long in the memory.

^ a small poster with a small mentality

just lucky we didn't play crystal palace I suppose

City just can't get or keep the ball, this is very strange

When this Palace team go on to sweep all before them, history will look kindly on that defeat

Rooney!

great finish

It really is inexplicable. There is just absolutely no argument whatsoever.

Look at all the other sports that use it (goal-line technology). They laugh at us.

Do they Mark? Do they really?

Aguero on for Barry already

the whole "he can't be sacked" thing is just from your ilx-style "i fear my shoes are developing a sense of entitlement" person