2) During his very successful time in charge at Barcelona, Rijkaard did have a lot of help financially to get the team back to the top of La Liga. Players such as Ronaldinho, Deco, Ludovic Giuly, Samuel Eto’o, Rafael Marquez, Gianluca Zambrotta, Eric Abidal and Lillian Thuram were all brought in for expensive fees, allowing Rijkaard to mould a team of stars. He did however do this very successfully, making a team which played attractive attacking football. In his second and third seasons he won the La Liga title twice and the Champions League. Things did start to turn sour in his last two years at the club though as players lacked the discipline they had in previous years, and the team failed to win La Liga in both of those campaigns.
3) His time at Galatasaray was also not very successful. After taking over the reins at the Turkish club he finished third in his first season in charge, 11 points behind eventual champions Bursaspor. He had bought a large number of players for significant prices such as Zvjezdan Misimovic, Elano and Lorik Cana and he also had former Liverpool players Harry Kewell, Milan Baros and Emiliano Insua playing under him at the Turkish Club. He was however sacked yesterday after a dismal start to the season with Galatasaray sitting ninth in the table.
Don’t get me wrong about Rijkaard, he is an excellent coach as his time at Barcelona shows, but the conditions have to be absolutely right. At Barcelona he had the support of Johan Cruyff and had both the finances and the philosophy already ingrained at the club. Louis van Gaal and Cruyff played a 4-3-3 at Barca before Rijkaard which led to many titles and he carried the torch further utilising Barca’s spending power to bring in the right players. In the summer, I would have put him alongside Dalglish, Manuel Pellegrini and Guus Hiddink as the prime candidates for the job but I think those three may have the slight edge in many respects as coaches.
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Get Slavan Bilic in. Great man manager. Filled with passion and a drive to win. Exactly what our underperforming stars need to help them out of their sorry state.
AGet Slavan Bilic in. Great man manager. Filled with passion and a drive to win. Exactly what our underperforming stars need to help them out of their sorry state.a
please not daglish back…
At what point do we need to change managers
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Doesn’t matter a crap who you think for manager. He will be appointed by the new owners and thank god for that some of these comments make me feel like crying.
get kenny dalglish,hey.
Bring in Guus, Frank, King Kenny or anyone other than Roy. Rafa? please no, he had done a lot of damages and left behind shit players, Lucas,…
I’d like to see Roy sacked ASAP and try for Rafa, Hiddink or O’Neil in that order!
It’s either Hiddink or Pellegrini for me.
And after Roy’s recent comments about Torres and Man U, i’d like to see him replaced asap. Was willing to give him a chance but no longer! YNWA
Good bye Woy… Put in Kenny to help with stability and passion, and take our time for the right Manager for the job…
I think we should bring Kenny in until Crimbo while we try to get Hiddink or Pelligrini! Pelligrini may not have won things with Real but he did get them playing and winning games again!Roy was never first choice, not sure about Rikard as he like Rafa lost the plot near the end of his reign at Barca and has not done much with Galatassary!
he turned barca around won la liga titles and champions league cup. Made Ronaldino, etoo, messi, iniesta, xavi in worlds stars. plays attacking football, and always plays for a win. cant say the same for Roy
Frank has achieved more than Rafa did before he can to LFC!!! I think we should get him….anyone is better than Roy and him negative tactics!!!!!
Do you also know that, even former super eagle coach (amodu shaibu) can win CL at barca during that time.
Hiddink would be my option but Kenny to manage until he’s available. Will probably get Rijkaard, could be good too.Is Roy Hodgson really picking this team or has Stevie G got a massive influence? What has Cole, his England team-mate, done since he started???? Jamie Carragher has been class but I’ve heard the only reason he’s there is to keep the defence in line. If well-paid (overpaid?)professional players need to be told where to stand, how to tackle, play offside etc there’s something wrong.Johnson is always a threat going forward. Surely Aurelio is worth a try ahead of Konchesky. Here’s my 11, bring on the slagging!
4-3-2-1
Reina
Aurelio
Skrtel
Agger
Kelly
Gerrard
Meireles
Johnson
Pacheco
Kuyt
Torres
frank rijkaard is the best choice for Liverpool. believe me this man is genius with his management. the players of Liverpool needs this kind of stable man who had seen so many ups and downs. he is the right man.