Posted on Tuesday, 19th October 2010 by Kevin Messam
Liverpool had the chance to make a statement about the manager’s future last week but they did not, now the new owners have to call it a loss and say goodbye to Roy Hodgson. Yes, it was a difficult game against Everton; however, we shouldn’t be in this position. Hodgson’s way of playing has become somewhat predictable and for a top class manager he should be able to make better choices and be more proactive when necessary.
He constantly gets caught out of the game and tends to wonder off until the opposition makes the first change. Once again we have clearly been out played, yet Maxi Rodriguez was kept on the field with little or no impact on the game what so ever, Lucas Leiva was not needed on the field at the same time as Raul Meireles and Fernando Torres obviously needed some support up front. Therefore, even though our bench is not the quality we would want to see, he should have made changes from half time or minutes after, not wait until the end of the match. Clearly Hodgson didn’t know he was in a derby game .He demonstrated little awareness of what should be done and that is not what we need at this moment.
Blackpool’s Manager Ian Holloway spoke of one of his key strategies in motivating his Blackpool squad, in that he used the Bill Shankly’s approach in getting his team to believe in their abilities and their passion and desire to achieve, and clearly it is working. What then is the reason why Hodgson fails time after time to motivate this Liverpool squad, which in my opinion is leaps and bounds better than a Blackpool’s squad? As mentioned before the problem sadly lies with Hodgson, his failure to follow the game throughout cost us dearly, he allowed David Moyes to pull all the strings with great success.
Come January transfer window, Hodgson will probably be given £40million or so to spend on new players. Now is that a wise move,to allow Hodgson with that much cash or should it be in the hands of a more high calibre manager who has the experience of managing big clubs with more ,i.e. Guus Hiddink,Frank Rijkaard?
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
I think someone should pass Woy the pack of fags and let him have one last taste of things that go up in smoke.
He isnt Liverpool caliber. He isnt the man to lead us to no.19. He isnt the man who will lead the current team back up the league.
He is THE man who will take us down to the championship, no matter how many pundits say “oh liverpool are too good to go down”.
Try saying that to life long Leeds fans…I remember what they were like when they went down.
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
I wouldn’t trust him with a Pound, get rid of him now so that the damage hes already done can be fixed……YNWA
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
I wouldn’t trust him with £1 never mind £40 million , Hodgson do one now !
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Lovely Man. But how many reds fans wanted him to be our manager. Kenny should have been given the job. We need an injection of pashion and aggression otherwise we will go down and the super stars will fly the nest
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
they sould fire him rihgt know befour he take us down please he is not for a big team like liverpool he wait 75 minut befour he make a sub when we where down two nill and he is talking a bout liverpool play a good game again everton are we watching the same game the first half everton kill us liverpool players wear scard to pass the midfild rafa beat them with ten man plus felani and pinnare he is going to spend that money in players like joe cole pulsen kuncsky he still think he is in fulham
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
40 MIL??????? If that is true then I gues we will get a load of 5h1t3 second rate players or he’ll spend it on a lavish grannies tea party
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
I wouldn’t even let him touch my grandaughter’s piggy bank ,,, John Henry would be utterly mad to even let him have a sniff at that kind of money.Give the money to Kenny to spend. He’s a wise Scot who will make things happen. Roy has to go. He has been tactically clueless in every match go far , and only realises that things are going bad is in the 85th minutes when he decides to substitute a player or two . Roy , you are out of your depth here old man. Hand over the reigns to someone who knows the Liverpool way and plays attractive football and wins matches at the same time.
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Oh my god NO!!
Look at our targets so far? It’s petrifying – we’ve morphed into Everton with a shortlist that even they would be nervous about!!
Why buy Konchesky, when Fulham buy Salcido who’s ten times better and cheaper? What the eff is that about?!
Charles INSOMNIA?? Give me a break..
I fear for the players he would bring in given the money! He buys Mereiles when we have Cole and Gerrard who do the exact same thing, then whacks him on the wing…..why not just buy Turan who is deperate to come to us, and actually plays there?????????????
HODGSON OUT – Sorry Woy you’re a nice guy but do us a favour please – we’ve had enough campaigning against H&G to last us a lifetime – stop making us do it again!!
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
I think more high calibre manager need to lead.
Marcello Lippi or Kenny Dalglish!
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Nah, much better to have let Wafa waste it
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
I think Roy is clearly showing that his Blackburn misadventure was not a one off, only that this time he is showing he is also capable of taking a bigger side down.
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Will people stop asking for Dalglish to be given the job. This man has been out of football for almost as long as Roy has been in it! The tactics he used in the 80′s are old news. He is out of touch with the modern game. We need somebody young to inject some new ideas into the team. Pellegrini or Rijkaard?
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Zahid Reply:
October 19th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
He may have not managed for ages, but its not like hes been on another planet, he eats, breathes, bleeds football and stays in touch with it wherever he is. Besides i can’t see him doing any worse than Roy the players might play with more heart under him.
However i do have to agree if Roy resignes or gets sacked Hiddink should be first choice but hes too loyal to his job in Turkey, Reijkaard or Oneil would also be good. I think King Kenny should have been given the job when Roy got it not now, Oneils available sat at home come on John Henry pull your finger out and tell Roy YOUR FIRED!! YNWA
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Dave Reply:
October 19th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
We need to be looking at one of Hiddink, Van Gaal, Peligrini or Rjikaard. Dont with to hear anymore calls for Kenny or O’neill
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Get rid and spend some of it to undo a great wrong.
Lets get Rafa back!
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Pellegrini was my pre-hogdson choice – either him or rijkaard would be a top acquisition – pellegrini is my choice though!! bought exciting, top players and had a really good, solid season –
just another victim of the real madrid managerial roller coaster – on that note, is Vicente Del Bosque free??
The fat git’s won everything with spain, and god knows theres a lack of fat spanish waiters in liverpool nowadays!!
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Hodgson is not a winner and has not won anything in years…unless you count tropies in scandinavia. His away record is abissmal. He is out of his depth. LEAVE NOW.
We need to bring in Kenny to stady the ship and a possible replacement should be Hiddink or Rikarrd.
If we wait til xmas – we will be relegated.
LEAVE HODGSON NOW!
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
I’d take Rafa before anybody but it won’t happen. One or two senior players would need to go first and they seem to be running the club at the minute. Pellegrini would be my second choice but I also like Hiddink and Rijkaard. One or two people on Twitter seem to think that without Ten Cate, Rijkaard is nothing…
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Nice guy not good enough to instill the pride and motivate the team. How could we begin the season so good and end up so bad within 8 games? Liverpool is a big team and we need a big manager with a good win ratio! Rikard, Pelligrini, Hiddink or ONeil as a last resort! I am sure we would prefer to have Kenny in place until January or put him on the bench with Roy to help out and to show Roy how its done! Other than that 4 league wins in a row and I am sure you (Roy) could have the fans singing your name!
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
To be honest, I wouldn’t trust Hodgson with a pound for some penny sweets. He’d probably come back with a pint of milk instead! If Cole, Poulsen, Konchesky and Jones are any indication, he isn’t great with money.
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Indy Reply:
October 19th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Effing priceless – that’s my new FB status!!
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October 19th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
A few seasons ago, looking at the forhcoming fixtures you would think can in those games …… now with Woy at the wreal and wunning things I cant see any winning wun coming from anywhere …
Blackburn ????
Bolton????
the Chelsea ????
another 3 games without a win coming up???
Sorry but thats how down I feel
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October 19th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I wouldn’t trust him with a single penny now, we need someone like Frank Rijkaard or pellegrini to take over, someone high profile, i think rijkaard would be a perfect match for our beloved liverpool and would get them playing football again not ball watching on the field and playing like fairies! Hodgson should leave or be sacked now before its too late, if he hasn’t done anything in 8 games what is another two games going to do? so might as well sack him now before we go more deeper.
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October 19th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Roy has got to go , lets hope Henry is reading websites like this as well as listening to the fans . make the change now and the new manager will have in place his views for the January transfer window . Hodgson is small club minded . he thinks we’re fulham or Blackburn … well were not we are the most successful club in Britain and we should be thinking like that .. he should have come out after the everton game and said simply NOT GOOD ENOUGH !!!!!
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October 19th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
The quickest way for NESV to get the fans onside??
SACK WOY WOY!!!
Like other Liver fans, I’ve never called for a managers head, or even written on these bloomin boards – but dear god this is almost on par with H&G — ok exaggerating but before long it will be!!!
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October 19th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Picture on the article says it all – a wet so-and-so.
Just heard on another www breaking news – Gerrard and Carragher have had bust up with Torres – wots going on lads!!!
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October 19th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
NOT A PENNY. Roy ‘give me 10 games’ Hodgson, must know the writings on the wall if the first 8 are anything to go by, watched him on sunday, woeful. Big club big manager, Sorry Roy, should have stayed at Fulham…oh they’re doing alright without you..sorry.
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October 19th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Everyone seems to have got the idea that Roy will choose which players to buy, I suspect the American way may be different.
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October 19th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
wot a woad of wubbish woy
Time you made twacks out of wiverpool before your weputation and our cwub is twashed beyond wepair!
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Zahid Reply:
October 19th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
LMAO WELL SAID WOB WOY
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October 19th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
too quick to write off kenny he won the prem. with blackburn and is 10 years younger than fergie and fat guus is older than kenny the jocks are the best in the prem they have bollox
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October 19th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Well said the jocks are probably the best british managers and probably pundits. Shankley, Sir Alex, Moyes and now Mcleash and Hanson and Andy Gray even tho i hate him. I think Souness was shit tho……YNWA
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October 19th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
save our club! sack roy now!
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October 19th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
For that type of money I can see Roy going and buying the whole fulham squad !! He is not a ‘quality’ manager he has never achieved sucess at any club… Is failing to win the Europa league with fulham really success ? No
Bad choice by the board, wrong man.. If he stays at the club any longer it will only get worse, clearly he cannot motivate players as he is not strong willed enough to enforce any action upon them! The sooner he’s gone the better!
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October 19th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
After benitez’s milk rant on purslow, now it becomes obvious that its purslow who had the effect of liverpool’s drop from second to seventh. It appears that benitez is saying that purslow undid much of what he had done. I’ve been thinking that benitez had become crap but no, he is still winning it with Inter. Seems that Benitez was the man to take pool to the title. Shame now we have dropped a tactical genius to a woy. I think that but from a rapid move for a new manager, we are for the drop.
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October 19th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
It’s a real shame because I’ve always been a fan of Roys and really wanted him to be a success but I think the tide is definately turning. I think that there really is something going on behind the scenes and if we don’t win against Blackburn he’ll get the sack…..and lets be honest, could he really complain with 1 league win in 9 with us?!
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October 19th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
i wouldn’t trust roy with 40p
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October 19th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
APPARANTLY ITS 30 MILLION NOT 40, WITH 70 MILL + IN THE SUMMER……
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October 19th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
I’m not saying he doesn’t have the know how, but I do think it’s his age that has something to do with him not taking risk. Way!! to defensive even when your down 2-0, makes no sense to me. You get no points for a 1-0 lost, or 10-0 lost. Attack!!!Attack!!!Attack!! You can’t do that with two holding midfields! It’s not rocket science. A substitute needs 25 to 30 minutes to be effective.
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October 19th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
the January transfer window is crap – $30m would almost certainly be wasted on second choice players. We’re better off waiting until the summer when all the top players will become available again, rather than spending good money on players that will barely be any better than what we’ve got (and are misusing) already
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October 19th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Stop saying Roy is a nice guy. He is paid well to do his job. Only Liverpool would be so stupid to pay 3 mil a year for Roy to wreak havoc at the club. And does his comments sound nice to you. Egoecentric, sycophantic prick.
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October 20th, 2010 at 4:26 am
With that kind of money, Hogdson would most likely bring in his trusted soldiers,i.e. Hangeland (10mil)to shore up the leaking defence, ever reliable Murphy (4mil) to play the holding role in midfield,skilful Dempsey (8mil) in the mole, pacey Duff (5mil) to partner Konchesky on the left and of course targetman Zamora (13mil) to replace out of form Torres. Money well spend and at the same time resolve whatever problems he has with the Fullham Chairman. End result, Liverpool could have more home grown British boys in the team. Hodgson dream team – Jones,Johnson,Carra,Hangeland,Konchesky,Cole,Gerard,Murphy,Duff,Demsey and Zamora. Subs-Reina,Torres,Kuyt,Poulsen,Meireles,Skrtel. Thumbs up for Hodgson the Saviour and could not wait for January to come!
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October 20th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Kwong is that Roys dream Liverpool team or the one he hopes to take back to Fulham.
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October 20th, 2010 at 6:20 am
Absolutelyyyyyyyyyy NOT!!!
Rafa would be soo happy he’ll be on spending spree on players like nunez, josemi or whatever and hodgson can’t know what he gonna do but sure waste it all on over-rated old players that’s got only few years left to play at top level, the likes of konchesky etc… actually bobby zamora is a decent finisher better than c.cole!!! the midfield is the problem sort it out quickly and the team might perform and jovanovic should get more attacking role that’s what he does for his country, did great job against germany and give maxi a break lacks quality!!! And dammit use agger at the back the greek guy is slow carra is going crazy???!!!
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October 20th, 2010 at 6:53 am
I agree,new ownners must replace RH ASAP , I believe the current Dutch Internatinal coach Bert should replace him , he is doing wonders for the Dutch team , took them to the World Cup final and playing well in the Euro 2012 qualifiers
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