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

xposts. i honestly can't tell rght now. maybe 50/50? i think the general feeling is sadness that it ended this way. no idea what i think right now, still in shock. for some reason i was really expecting him to be given another season with a new director of football and some changes to the coaching staff.

re strategy ,to have a bit more luck iirc
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really don't want martinez. that's never going to work out well.

am i right in recalling that the death blow for rafa was stevie & carra had had enough of him and said so

that may have had something to do with it

isn't that what people say about big/loved/hated players whenever any manager leaves? eg every time chelsea change boss...

yeah i mean i can believe Abramovich might be over-cuddly with his dead-eyed golden boys but who the fuck is gonna take advice off Carra?

neither has played well since mind you

ya but chelsea bosses are never 2/1 to come back is my point

i'm no rater of martinez either but i can well imagine the empire of the kop forming a new cult around him

xposts. or it may not have.

poor roy, bet he was well looking forward to being the main man today with his big squad announcement.

i have no idea what Martinez might be capable of but i can see the Kop lynching him in effigy before his team's kicked a ball

martinez strikes me as the sort of manager who, if he stayed at wigan, would prob be sacked in a year or two mid-season or after relegation.

now rumours ian ayre is gone

this is like the end of hamlet

like kenny in another two years if he'd stayed

Lfc as is are a conundrum atm

Martinez was on the brink much of last season, supposedly. I can't imagine FSG being swayed by an eight-game purple patch, nor by a couple of senior players. It's kind of unnerving to have dead-eyed pros at the helm, though in keeping with the lord/vassal ethos of the English game.

martinez for wba, capello for lfc, rafa for the lolz

AND rumours david dein is running the club now.

looking down the betting list the only one that's given me brief pause is jurgen klopp. progressive manager, probably reached as high as he can, that klinsi-style deutsche optimism americans like... bit fanciful but could work maybe? meh, maybe not

o'neill would probably be delighted with the squad he'd already have, unique selling point right there

it is imperative to have dead-eyed pros at the helm

haha urghhhh xp

Shankly hologram.

stolen from my facebook?

Anyway farewell King Kenny. You were playing in the first match I ever saw. Then 29 years later I saw your Liverpool team. You did other stuff before, between and after, most of which was great. My heart's not really in this.

sort of grimly amused that none of this can unseat "i hate my face" from top of the uk trends on twitter

i mean you'd think fsg would have already have someone in mind at least? seems foolhardy to throw away the time to plan kenny's immunity buys you

houllier was looking well the last day, and has at least been involved in title celebrations in the last while

Ronan: ha! No, hadn't seen that. Well, obv joke s'pose.

this isn't as good as when rafa went

I suspect someone's been lined up for about six weeks, hence clearing the decks of Comolli before any transfer activity would be going on. Has Rafa been angling for anything recently?

won't be rafa. i reckon it'll be martinez or rodgers.

you all know about the lfc documentary fox sports are filming btw?

The day's delay was for reaction shots, reverse angles, etc

fyi lpool -- stevie nichol is available XD

Martinez? Seriously? I know Wigan have pulled off a couple of miraculous escapes but nothing I'd imagine would convince the Liverpool board that he's the man to take Liverpool back into the CL. West Brom or Villa are better bets, he needs to show what he can do at a medium-sized club first.

I would wonder about O'Neill but surely he's not been at Sunderland for long enough for that.

Poor old Fulop. His contract expired at West Brom, not really the last game you want to attract new suitors.

Are LFC not a medium sized club?

who else would come though? guardiola?

I agree tho. Martinez would seem like a gamble to me.
There's a lot of managers btw Martinez level and Guardiola level surely.

not many would take lfc

depends who else is advising them. david dein? anyone else? do they still want a director of football?

Nonsense, it's a big opportunity. It shouldn't be too difficult to improve them, and you've got a professional organisation at your back.

Where's the David Dein thing come from?

twitter and a couple of forums. hmm.

it is a big opportunity. i dunno. not thinking straight tbf.

i'm kidding. there's money, a following, the club's a huge name. Tbrr, you deserve a better manager than martinez or rafa.

I've been meaning to ask for a while and now's as good a time as any - what on earth led Arsenal to go for Wenger in 1996? I know he'd done well at Monaco, but that was years previously.

dein was a personal friend of wenger

also he hadnt exactly gone to pasture, he went to japan for the cash

maybe better qn would be why wenger went to the kicknrush provincial wasteland that was mid90s epl

when pundits trot out the "look at fergie, look at wenger, clubs need stability and to stick with their manager" spiel I always think of arsenal deciding to stick with rioch instead of going for wenger.

how many examples are there where a club clearly should not have sacked the manager

not just cuz they then appointed a shit one, but where the sacking itself was demonstrably wrong

madrid / del bosque