When a Liverpool side makes their worse start for 18 years and are knocked out at home in the League Cup against a League Two side, it is enough for any Reds fan to worry. Especially after finishing seventh the season before, the concern from some Reds fans when Roy Hodgson was appointed was that he would continue to keep the club in mid table mediocrity. The start of the season has reinforced this belief and already some fans, especially those who didn’t want Roy in the first place, are expressing their displeasure. The question becomes, is it really time yet to go down the route that some papers are already going down, using such hyperbolic terminology as “approaching crisis point,” to describe the situation at Anfield? I will set out here two opposing points of view as how we could perceive our start to the season.
The Case for the Defence:
Roy Hodgson has been in charge for 5 league matches, 2 games at home and three away, three of which have been against top four contenders and one against a team who hadn’t lost a home league match for a year. The other game, against West Brom, which although wasn’t a convincing performance, we won. On top of this Roy Hodgson has won his first 5 European matches in a row, the best run of any Reds manager, and all of this has happened within his first three months as manager. Three months is all he has had to implement his style on the team, a process that will take at least half a season to perfect, especially considering Roy did not have a proper pre-season with many World Cup players only returning two weeks before the start of the Premier League season.
Furthermore, if we also take into consideration, the off-field changes that have taken place, it puts everything into perspective. Roy had two short months to assess his squad, change around a squad he believes was high in quantity but low in quality, and get a team out to perform in a mean time while significant personnel changes were taking place. Even at the end of the transfer window, Hodgson wanted to do more business and I have no doubt there will be more changes to the squad when the transfer window opens in January. This is still not Hodgson’s squad, and it will take at least a year before we see what sort of team Hodgson prefers. It is a team in a transition during a time when the club is also in a period of change.
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if the media, players and agents are to be believed woy would in big trouble – how could we have paid for the eleven strikers he bid for on the final day – what if they had all said yes ?
Sorry, I cannot agree. Hodgson is simply not good enough manager to take Liverpool forward. He was supposed to steady the ship, not sink it!! If I didn’t know better I would say he is a spy within the camp trying to destroy the great club of Liverpool FC. Also, in this interview with Purslow, he said Rafa left by “mutual consent” in answer to the question was Rafa sacked. Well, answer the question Purslow, because mutual consent means that that board wanted him to go and Rafa wanted to leave. Well, we ALL know that Rafa had no intention of leaving – so who sacked Rafa, Purslow, Broughton or Ayres or all three. It was obvious that Rafa’s position became untenable therefore he had no option to leave. Now we are stuck with Roy who will take us into a relegation battle, take the price at the bookies now for Liverpool to be relegated because Hodgson is a disaster!!
woy cudda got us up high
if he could buy
he cudda bought big and got us up high
if he could buy
but now we are so bloody low
and woy knows why
cos he cant buy,cos he cant buy, cos he cant buy
dada da dat dat dat da
we could have been at the top
if woy could buy
we would not now be a flop
if woy could buy
we are playing like a load of crap
and woy knows why
cos he cant buy, cos he cant buy cos he cant buy.
Last season, the squad had quality but not quantity hence all the pundits and articles criticizing Rafa for not having enough depth in the squad
Now with practically the same squad, with a few changes made by Roy (besides Mascherano), suddenly the team lacks quality but high in quantity?
So by your own words, Roy got rid of quality players and filled up the squad with fillers? Thats your case for defence?
The main thing is: we have a British manager.
he hasn’t had time to assess his squad? liverpool football club because of it’s (fast eroding) staure in the game, is constantly under scrutiny and analasys, everybody in football and every armchair fan knows what liverpool is all about, we don’t need to assess them, it’s been obvious over the past 2 years who are world class (pepe, SG and nando) and who are not fit to wear the shirt(too many to mention).
i was an advocate of both rafa’s removal and hodgson’s appointment but, although i will never regret the ousting of bungling benny, i do regret roy’s appointment! he’s clearly a very nice bloke but unfortunately, even this early in his tenure, i think it’s pretty obvious that the job is simply too big for him. i agree that the side he fielded last night SHOULD have won the game but the fact he had no ‘big guns’ on the bench, should the unthinkable happen, says it all!
i was hoping when benitez left, the negativity would follow, obviously not!
i also thought his postmatch comments at st. andrews were disgraceful, he didn’t expect to win! WE ARE LIVERPOOL FC, WE EXPECT TO WIN EVERY MATCH! we are not foolish or conceited enough to believe we WILL win every match but we have to EXPECT to and believe we CAN!
like i said, roy is a nice bloke and i like him but i am afraid he has to step down while there is plenty of time for a new man to save our season, i have thoughtabout what i’m saying and it’s not a knee-jerk reaction, i just believe it’s very obvious that roy, unfortunately, hasn’t got what it takes!
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Play attacking game after this games all…
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Play 4-3-3 formation…
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Johnson——————————————————-Aurelio
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(Im Akash here)
(Anybody give comment please about this formation)
please give Akash the job – he might do a better job than Hodgson. If not at least he’ll make us laugh!!!
simply sack roy n appoint king kenny .. and oust those yanks out of our club. That’s all.
After all: we have a British manager.
Hodgson doesn’t believe in Liverpool.
He has no faith that the players can go out there and win.
He has no faith we can even finish 4th. He treats the team like he’d treat Fulham – and as a result we play like Fulham, take comfort in grinding out draws like Fulham, and are scared of the “big boys” like Fulham.
Nevermind the boardroom antics or the lack of funds. We’ll excuse that, it’s not his fault. What’s inexcusable is a lack of ambition and lack of faith in Liverpool as a team.
There’s no defence for that.
woy is just not good enough. we can all say thanks to the ignorant fans who called for rafa’s head. thanks to the LFC board too.
Appoint Mr.Akash as new liverpool Manager