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

Except that Dalglish explicitly stated this morning that he himself identified every single player Commolli signed.

DOF is a great idea, it is just Commolli sucks. He has, what, two successes to his name? (finding us kolo toure when he was a shitty right midfielder and i guess berbatov to spurs?).

Suarez is a good footballer.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3326/3274342549_2105bd78c5.jpg

Yeah but its not exactly a successful signing for Liverpool. Guy who spends half the season not playing and bringing down the reputation of the club.

definitive list of commolli signings is tough to compile, tbh.

If g bale was loaned out to forest two years ago he'd be a commolli failure too by now, non?

thats hardly his fault, at any other team suarez would have been told to do a mea culpa statement, the press would be briefed that he was unaware of local decorum and he might have got a two or three game ban, the decision to introduce a race war element to the liverpool persecution complex wasnt exactly comolli's

comolli was probably decisive in signing bale and modric and for that all his minor failures can be forgiven

darren bent was sold at or near the price paid

i think it's pretty clear that dalglish was the biggest determinant of last summer's transfer policy

be interesting to see if fsg appoint another dof and what happens structurally

couple of tweets appear to be suggesting there may be more news today

seems that peter brukner head of sports science has gone too. more departures to follow apparently.

because you didnt have a head of sports science when kenny was last successful, he feels like such modern nonsense is holding them back

brukner was a purslow appointment, guessing they want their own people in.

Btw don't know if it was mentioned up thread but Lucas still leading the LFC stats for 'tackles made' this season when he hasn't played since NOVEMBER is a disgreaceful indictment of the rest of our shambles of a midfield.

disgraceful eben

EVEN FFS

where's a good place to see league stats?

think i read somewhere alejandro faurlin was leading the tackles chart months after doing his cruciates

http://www.whoscored.com/Regions/252/Tournaments/2/Seasons/2935/Stages/5476/PlayerStatistics/England-Premier-League-2011-2012

according to this he still is...? can't even find lucas on there though

bullshit stat anyway tbh

Lucas isn't on that list because he didn't play enough matches to qualify, you can see his stats if you look at Liverpool individually tho. Tackles + interceptions probably a better measure of effectiveness.

I got the Lucas stat from Jonathon Wilson's 'Are LFC better off without Gerrard' column from earlier in the week. It was total # of tackles won.
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adebayor's stats are noteworthy for being p much exactly what you'd expect.

i could've told you that

really hope we don't sign him permanently, get a centre forward who wants to be a centre forward instead

We're much better with Adebayor in the team, but lately he's been dropping deeper and deeper. Better than Saha at any rate.

But he's clearly going to Liverpool. Reckon he'd give up after a few months of a permanent deal anyway.

he's given up after a few non-permanent ones with us at any rate

bale LEFT lennon COVERED adebayor GET UP THERE AND JUMP YOU CLOWN how hard can coaching be, really?

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kenny goes before comolli

lol

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/s5jJv5UBslfWCN7UW24NA7A/view.m?id=15&gid=football/2012/apr/12/hillsborough-battle-orgreave&cat=football
Conn on South Yorkshire Police at Orgreave and Hillsborough

The idea that Cryuff or Van Gaal would want to be DOF at Liverpool seems far fetched to me. Can't see them getting on with KD, although perhaps that's the idea.

won't matter by june 1st tbf

looks like fsg haven't a clue what they're doing

They were bounced into giving Dalglish the job full-time after a great second half of last season, but now he's pretty much unsackable and they're flapping by taking out everyone else.

Don't really get the idea he's unsackable tbh.

i don't think he's unsackable but he does seem to have inordinate influence with FSG

he didn't have to be given the job in the summer and he's eminently sackable now- there is no problem here.

he won't be "sacked" though, will he?

There'd be uproar among the fans and I'm not sure Henry wants to by That Guy. OTOH if Liverpool aren't in the CL at the end of next season he probably won't care any more.

probably not- tbf to him i'm not sure that would be a problem, either

are there any fans that would really get all UPROAR now? kenny is one of the worst managers in the league atm and if their best players (lucas and suarez) leave for a european league top half team then they are p screwed.

You don't understand football fans. Kevin Keegan was a worse manager and that didn't stop Newcastle fans baying for Ashley's blood after he was sacked. Longstanding club heroes are just different.

I suspect privately there's some kind of agreement whereby Kenny will stand aside if they don't make the CL next season, with Henry giving him probably saner financial backing. Suarez and Lucas aren't really showing any signs of wanting to leave from what I can see.

if

it's very hard to see this squad with this manager finishing top 4, or will it be 3 since we sucked at Europe this year?

false analogy there with keegan, he hadnt nearly shown himself up like kenny has and there were loads of mitigating circumstances to point to like the cockney mafia unilaterally signing xisco and random uruguayan dudes and whatnot

think kenny will stay purely because cos i don't think there's a candidate to replace him right now that would make it look like progress rather than starting again from square one

save maybe idk... o'neill? or rafa just as the pointless new kenny.

villas-boas was probably the right man last summer, now too tarnished

cruyff and van gaal would be far better ideas as managers not dofs tbh

cruyff has accepted a deal in principle, so says twitter. if cruyff does come then who takes care of the contract negotioations and admin side of things, which i believe was part of comolli's job. does cruyff have a law degree? do you get someone else in as well? i mean if you're after a figurehead who's going to ensure there's a philosophy and style of play running through the club then wouldn't it make sense to either move dalglish upstairs or promote the academy directors who were brought in to establish that continuity in the first place and who know the blueprint better than anybody?

loooooool cryuff will be a massive disaster, i'm calling it

total football visions with jay spearing and stewart downing and king kenny

will be a revolt come november

didnt rafa steal a bunch of the guys who were in the barca youth set-up, which is why the pool kids are doing p well now? cryuff will come in and fuck around with that because he is cryuff and he was very good at stuff 40/20 years ago

i just dont see it working on any level

your shrill "predictions" are repetitive and tiresome.

anyway i read today that apparently david dein been in the stand with fsg at a few recent games.

just like cryuff's yearly revolts at ajax amirite