In 1990, Liverpool were Champions of England for a record 18th time. 2010 and Liverpool are 11th in the Premier League and going backwards under the latest Liverpool manager who has failed to deliver for the famous club. Graeme Souness, Roy Evans, Gerrard Houllier, Rafael Benitez and now Roy Hodgson have palpably failed in their times in charge of the famous club.
On Saturday we were toothless against Stoke, of all teams. Let us hope that the new regime of John Henry and NESV have seen enough of this dross and they decide to act in bringing in a top-class manager or else we are in for a relgation dog-fight for the rest of the season, I’m afraid.
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How on earth can some people blame benitez or houllier for this mess? houllier was actually very successful if you look at what we won, albeit in an un-entertaining way. benitez didn’t sell aquilani and replace him with meireles. benitez didnt sell masch and replace him with poulson. benitez didnt sell insua and replace him with konchesky. It wasnt benitez who couldn’t find the time to sign a striker or winger. In fact this mess shows how well benitez WAS doing without the finances or backing of the previous board (in the final year). hodgson best is simply not good enough. i partly blame purslow for the players that were sold and replaced, but hod should have had time to find players before the transfer window shut. Hodgson out!
Please stop arguing on the past. Benitez was master tactician and won CL. The fact he is some where responsible for situation because of his transfers. Now we are in big trouble as we have the most ediot manager on the planet.
houllierwas the best of the three.he won us 5 cups in one season, rafa won 4 cups in 6 years.as for roy,he is simply not good enough.wat did he win apart from globetrotting from one country to another coaching useless teams and winning nuthin.fire the loser
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We should let the boad do the talking. Ever since the loudmouth scallies that followed SOS in the street and demonstrated CLASSLESS behaviour the fans now seem to think that they can shout and scream the club to do what ever they want!
Poor Roy Hodgson hasnt had a chance, Meirless is a very good player. MASCH wanted to go. Poulson is a stop gap until more money is available. Ensua was poor, very poor and cost us lots of goals. BENITEZ had the chance to sign a winger and a striker but signed JOHNSON and AQUA (injured) and stunk the place out with boreing tactics and petty public outburts.
If we where real dignified fans we would back Roy taking on such a difficult job. Who is to say Kenny would do any better..he got sacked from newcastle for playing boreing football!!
Give Roy a break..
Roy and Benitez are both poor managers that brought Liverpool down. We need new manager in the coming summer. In the mean time, we need King Kenny…
Poor old Max is seemly blaming everyone from SOS to the most successful manager we’ve had since Bob Paisley and Kenny Dalglish, (Rafa). But not that useless non-achieving failure Hodgson. Then has the temerity and audacity to back a non-entity mediocre manager who managed to win just 13 away games in over 100-odd attempts. Your knowledge and stupidy on the beautiful game Max and everything LFC, knows no bounds. You’re in a minority of one, you absolute beaut!
I agree with kris. Having been to the European Cup final twice Rafa only failed to qualify for that competition once. Two years ago we were second in the league and walloped ManU and RealM. Rafa could attract big name players also. We should
not have got rid of him.
You cannot compare Roy with that.
In some ways it is unfair to criticise Roy. Those who appointed him are to blame. But you have to say its not going to work. Presumerably those who appointed Roy are the same people who turned down Pellegrini because his english was poor.No wonder Rafa said there is nobody on the Liverpool Board who knows anything about football.
Lots of managers learn to speak english.
I’m afraid you’re completely wrong on all counts – Hodgson aside. As somebody said further up: Houllier actually did very well as our manager, we won loads and achieved our highest finishes in over a decade. He was only let go when it became clear that he’d lost the dressing room and the fans, and that was after a big operation the season before. He clearly needed time away from management.
As for Benitez: he did a remarkable job and was managing the entire club on his own, not just the 20-odd players that Hodgson’s coaching now. He was fighting battles on and off the pitch, and oh, guess what? He actually took the club to 4 finals while he was here and took us to within a few points of winning the title, with our highest points total since the last time we won the league. So please, don’t use the fact that neither of them won the league as a stick to beat them with. Both men signed poor players but they both also signed world-class, era-defining players too and no managers since Dalglish in the 80’s could claim that.
Really lazy article.
Souness and Evans were certainly failures and took the club backwards. Houlier was overall good for Liverpool, although I think the decision to let him go in 2004 was the right one.
Rafa came close to bringing the Premier League title to Liverpool and won the Champions’ League. He created a competitive outfit, brought talented young players to the club after a period of stagnation, revitalised the first team and made fans proud to support the club. Moreover, Rafa has unfinished business and – from his own comments – the drive and motivation to come back and succeed where all managers since 1990 have failed. My first choice would therefore be to bring Rafa back to Anfield; in the meantime, it seems that sooner or later Roy will have to be replaced – and in the short term (since it is unlikely we can have Rafa back before the end of the season, failing some unexpected development at the San Siro) I hope we give King Kenny the chance to stabilise the club and, who knows, perhaps repeat the success he had as the manager of Liverpool in the eighties.
Evans was a failure?? You obviously have forgotten/don’t know how bad we were under Sounness!!
Evans embraced a positive brand of football but just didn’t have the eye/money for a quality defender or keeper and so the porous defence always held his teams back. The defence back then was probably about the same quality as it is now – if we didn’t get Hyppia we’d have remained a soft touch over the last 10 years imho
We need an attacking minded mangager.
the negativity here is astounding.
one wud think weve just become an above average side in the last few months! the harsh reality is weve been above average since the season before. we have no consistency this is not one mans fault it is a collective.
yes rh has made some mistakes , I note also the media have rounded on this and fished as they do for snippets (the fergie thing the other week to mane one)
I take issue with the lynch mob rounding on another manager,
who the hell r we gonna get at this stage and dont say daggers as thats the heart ruling the head.
I also detest the recent premature annihilation of yet another lfc player (c polusen)
seen it all b4 whelan,lucas,even alonso have had bad starts at our club, yet they turned it round.
fickle and beyond any sensible balance is the treatment polusen has recived. its a discrace shame on those who boo a red man after such a sh.ort time. U can see he does have vision and his passes in some games have been first rate. before jesus weeps will these morons ever see the damage they start.
danish player of the year,
a strong heart , loyal, international experriance , italian leaugeue etc….
he hasnet turned into a bad palyer on the flight over for goodnesss sake.form is temp class is permannet
seen it all b4 whelan,lucas,even alonso have had bad starts at our club, yet they turned it round.
fickle and beyond any sensible balance is the treatment polusen has recived. its a discrace shame on those who boo a red man after such a sh.ort time. U can see he does have vision and his passes in some games have been first rate. before jesus weeps will these morons ever see the damage they start.
danish player of the year,
a strong heart , loyal, international experriance , italian leaugeue etc….
he hasnet turned into a bad palyer on the flight over for goodnesss sake.
rummors of a pepe move ? no feckin wonder when he sees fellow players treated like this,
its a war at our club its been going on for too long yet recent months have seen some stability , we are nearly throu the storm yet still the feever continues with a witch hunt.
when ur at war u need to tow the line its called discipline and it gets the collective throu the s**t.
The thing is Houllier lost the dressing room,Rafa lost the dressing room??? i now hope those players are pleased with themselves because they MUST know now that Rafa for all the in-fighting was i`m afraid
STREETS ahead of Roy,and i dont need anymore of his tactics or interviews to tell me any different,so sorry for the mess we`re in.
We should’nt be looking backward to Benitez,he is doing the scatterings at Inter now
Look forward to QUALITY COACHES that are better than him
why is this garbage travelling the LFC blogs, someone needs their heads examined to right such drivel. we need to concentrate on the worst manager I can remember in LFC history instead of belittling the legacy of a geat like Rafa or others who contributed to the trophy cabinet such as Hollier.
imo Hiddink is the only man who could fix this club. Just have to look at his record, NESV would want to make love to his ‘stats’
rh has bee here for five minutes
the hesteria is unbecoming to our great club
I cant help but feel its a clouded view and stinks of succsess hungry ‘me generation’ fans
fans are guilty of allowing last years troubles spill into this situation, yes wever all suffered, and it a nasty time.
of coursce the new manager is having a bad time, a lot of issues concern me, yet we simmply ignore the upheaval,the moves(mascherano)a new regime,the lack of money etc… on balance he needs an adequate period to be judged, (end of this year?) anything sooner would be sacralige and a lynch mob action.