How Liverpool FC Got Back On The Right Track
Good Old Days Of Glory
It wasn’t long ago that the club was on the verge of administration and everything at Anfield just seemed grey. Liverpool were languishing in the bottom half of the table. The Anfield faithful had become both frustrated and restless. Mass protests were being held outside the stadium and the general atmosphere around the club became ever so negative. Even on rare occasions when Liverpool did perform well on the pitch, their performances were met with sarcasm and calls for a change in the Anfield set up.
Those miserable times were as much down to Hicks and Gillett as it was down to Roy Hodgson. In fairness, Roy Hodgson was a decent manager. After spells at Internazionale, Blackburn and Udinese among others, Roy Hodgson enjoyed great success at Fulham and later on at West Brom. Helping a midtable team such as Fulham to the Europa Cup final was truly remarkable. However, he just couldn’t cope with the sky high demands of a club of Liverpool’s caliber. Roy Hodgson and Liverpool were a misfit. Wrong club, wrong time.
His horrendous transfer policy contributed largely to his downfall. Christian Poulsen was a guy playing in his early 30′s who just wasn’t cut out for life in the Premier League. Paul Konchesky and Joe Cole both failed miserably while Raul Meireles was the only summer recruit who went on to become a regular in the side.
With the kind of mediocre team Hodgson had assembled, add to it a very unhappy Fernando Torres, Liverpool failed to even score goals, let alone win games. Calls for a new manager were loud and clear. A takeover was imminent and a sense of optimism returned to the club.
On 8th January, Kenny Dalglish was appointed as the new Liverpool manager for a second stint at the club. Liverpool found in him a renewed sense of purpose and the Anfield aura of yesteryear returned. The much hated duo of Tom Hicks and George Gillett were quite literally thrown out the backdoor and in came Fenway Sports Group – spearheaded by John W. Henry. The new owners brought stability back to the club by appointing Damien Comolli as their new Director of Football Strategy and recruiting Steve Clarke to the management setup.
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Newcastle News 24/7
July 22nd, 2011
For gods sake is this all that you can come up with now? another boring re hash of the yanks out/Hodgson era. Write something pertinent or don’t bother
July 22nd, 2011
Whatever it is you’re smoking, send some over the Pond my way, LOL. We’re going to be in a dog fight with the Gooners for 4th. We don’t have the squad to compete with Utd or Desert City, not yet. Chelsea may be older, but they have the nut bag owner willing to shell out big money, and that has a quality of its own.
We’ve improved dramatically, IF we finish the window as strongly as we’ve started. We have enough to beat Arsenal to the last CL spot. KK is assembling a squad capable of flexibility and creativity to break down those bottom teams who keep 10 men behind the ball. They also have the physical strength to deal with the kick-the-lumps-out-of-you teams too. We’re a strong team, but if we have a consistent, strong season, we’ll still only take 4th.
YNWA
July 22nd, 2011
marc d red, you are dull and fearful. We have a squad of above average player who have something to prove. That is the key to winning as B. Dortmund showed. It is easy to go from 3rd position to champions. You remove your smoke screen our current team of player and mgt came 3rd last time. They can win the league easily.