Responding yesterday to newspaper speculation linking Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina with a move away from Anfield, Reds boss Roy Hodgson declared that the Spanish international was not for sale:
“Pepe is fantastic here; he is a lifeblood of this team. Everything he does around the club is excellent – he is always lively in the dressing room, he is always first class in training and he always wants to do more to improve. He is a player who we hold in the highest esteem. We have heard nothing from Manchester United and, more to the point; we don’t want to hear anything from Manchester United. If (Alex) Ferguson is looking around at the end of the season and he has got lots of money to replace van der Sar, he might very well want Pepe Reina because he is the best around. But we do not want to sell him. I would like to think that we are going to become a successful club once again and Pepe is crucial to that.”
This sort of bullish response is something Reds fans have wanted to hear for a long time. Many see Roy as having a small club mentality more befitting a club like Fulham rather than Liverpool FC. They feel that Roy has on many occasions played down the chances of a side who should be looking up rather than down, and who has tried to lower expectations of a club who should be challenging for honours in the not too distant future.
Roy has certainly added fuel to this narrative in the comments he has made in recent weeks. One of the most frequent examples used is his recent comments concerning Fernando Torres. Responding to speculation that Wayne Rooney was leaving Old Trafford and that Ferguson would try to poach the Spanish striker from Liverpool, Roy seemingly admitted that he would struggle to keep his biggest star if a club like United came calling.
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What Roy said yesterday about Pepe was all done for him too look good in the media for a change. He knows what weve thought of his comments and him taking too long to defend players like Torres from Fergus. I personally think Roy and Fergus planned this on purpose to make Roy look like he means business. Fergus knows Torres nor Pepe would never sign for Utd so he sewed the seed to help his pal Roy.
Win Lose or Draw, Show Roy the Door!!!!!!!!!……YNWA
@zahid
damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t!! as for your conspiracy theory, WISE UP MAN!
i think roy hodgson should go because of his inability not because he considers slur alex a friend!
@steve, although it looks like i want Roy out because of his friendship with Fergus thats far from it, hes the wrong man for the job full stop. He should go back to managing smaller clubs or retire.
As for my conspiracy theory i wouldn’t put it past them to do it, Fergus has the British media in his pocket and uses them as he wishes.
Atleast we agree on 1 thing Roy should jog on……YNWA
sorry roy it’s to late you have already lost the fans.
Every poll of Liverpool fans has resulted in a call for Roy to go. He’s a nice man but an average manager and certainly not a Liverpool manager.
Instead of raising his aspirations to match the club he’s reducing the aspirations to match his.
The fans see this and that is the reason that they want him to go.
Please stop whining like spoiled brats and stand up to the team and the gaffer. Roy is only an interim manager anyway. Let’s get into Europe and swap to Mourinho in the summer.
Lars your seriously deluded if you think Mourinhos going to come to Liverpool, havnt you heard him in his interviews? he wants the utd job and wouldn’t do anything to ruin that dream, besides he also said hed go back to Chelsea, hed manager Arsenal etc just never Liverpool but he wouldn’t say why he wouldn’t.
Hiddink would be ideal……YNWA
I heard Mourinho was in the equation for LFC job but it was given to Rafa. When he was at Chelsea he always seemed to have a problem with us. Remember them putting flags on the seats to try and get an atmosphere like we have at Anfield (in their dreams)
We have to play more attacking football
so maybe4.3.3. makes more sence But we have
to get behind our team and the manager
or nothing different will work.
roy go away.u are a man u fan.
LFC in relegation Zone is outrightly unacceptable no matter d circumstance. Liverpool is not d only club dat changed coach dis season. Aston villa is not in d relegation zone @ least for now. Yes we have some players dat are not good enof but some team in d league can’t even boast of what we have n are in top 10. Roy has no excuse. Am not sure we can get 3 points tomorrow against bolton or @least play GOOD football.