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Of the extreme reaction to Liverpool's poor early season form, Hodgson says: "Like everyone else I get really immersed in the subject. I start looking through the eye of the microscope at the miniscule particles of dust, trying to see if there is an atom there. Maybe it is just a bit of dust."
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The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.Comment
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Yes it is dust Roy, and it's in your eyes by the sounds of it!"Like everyone else I get really immersed in the subject. I start looking through the eye of the microscope at the miniscule particles of dust, trying to see if there is an atom there. Maybe it is just a bit of dust."
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What happens if you compare Roy's result since he took over with Wenger, Redknapp, Moyes and Fergie. Won't be much different then with Kenny.Comment
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The bodge seems to have slipped to page 2 so I'm posting this to get him back to his rightful page 1 position even though it's a day old.
Incidentally I didn't know that Bascombe was at the DT now.
Hodgson’s glowing scouting report on the merits of signing Luis Suárez played a role in ensuring the South American arrived at Anfield.
It is a quirky fact for the current West Bromwich Albion manager, facing his old club at the Hawthorns on Saturday, that the most important fixture he attended during six months at Anfield did not involve Liverpool.
On Sept 28 last season, Hodgson diverted from his route to Utrecht, where Liverpool were playing in the Europa League, and headed to Amsterdam.
A 1-1 draw between Ajax and AC Milan in the Champions League was notable for an outstanding performance by Suárez.
Hodgson was dismissed three weeks before the striker arrived at Liverpool in January, and he was left to lament what might have been had his disintegrating reign staggered along until the injection of the dynamic Uruguayan.
Suárez was first pursued by Liverpool after the World Cup, with Hodgson newly appointed, but their dire financial situation made him unobtainable. They were quoted £23million by Ajax in August 2010.
By late September, knowing the possibility of fresh investment made a January deal possible, Hodgson travelled to Holland to satisfy himself Ajax’s valuation was justified.
Hodgson was certainly not the first Liverpool representative to assess the 23 year-old South American, and his critics will maintain whatever role he had in his capture was peripheral.
Kenny Dalglish and former Liverpool chief scout Eduardo Macia were also frequent visitors to the Amsterdam Arena as it became widely known one of the World Cup’s shining stars was available.
“Yes we looked at Suárez,” confirmed Hodgson. “Kenny also saw him play. Kenny was doing a lot of scouting alongside me.
“It was at a time the club was in the throes of a change of ownership. There was no question of making a bid and it was in between the two transfer windows. He was well researched. They took the plunge with Suárez and have been well rewarded.”
Current director of football Damien Comolli, appointed a month after Hodgson’s scouting trip, sealed the deal with fresh American dollars.
Dalglish gives most credit to Comolli’s “thorough due diligence” and admitted yesterday Suárez “was coming in, irrespective of anything else that happened in the transfer window”.
Hodgson’s (and Comolli’s) Anfield detractors will argue spotting the potential of World Cup semi-finalist was hardly visionary.
Given the sums spent since his departure it is also worth noting how Hodgson rated the second major signing last January, Andy Carroll.
Carroll was among those considered shortly after Hodgson’s arrival from Fulham, but not for anything more than £15million.
Hodgson preferred Bayern Munich’s Mario Gómez and a season-long loan deal was called off 24 hours before the striker was due arrive on Merseyside. While Gómez re-established himself in the Bundesliga - he finished top scorer with 28 last season - Liverpool turned back to Carroll for the somewhat extraordinary £35million.
As Hodgson considers his Anfield fate, the notion of him being the wrong man, in the wrong place at the wrong time has been even more apparent since his departure.
“The situation now is vastly different to the situation I had,” he said.
“I went in at a time of transition and the first job for the people who employed me was to make sure the club didn’t go into liquidation. It didn’t get close because of the great job Martin Broughton and Christian Purslow did. The new owners have invested in the squad but I realised when I went in there that there was going to be a change of ownership and that these things can always happen.”
Nevertheless, Hodgson will surely consider ‘what if’ given the £110 million spent at Anfield since he left. He is mocked for the transfers of Paul Konchesky and Christian Poulsen, lightweights whose combined fee was just £6 million, when the evidence is plentiful, as it was with his predecessor Rafa Benítez, that more desirable targets were beyond his budget.
Hodgson’s only expensive signing, Raul Meireles, was a success and sold for a profit to Chelsea last summer.
Had Hodgson survived long enough to manage Suárez, who faces a fitness test before Saturday's game, the best he could have hoped for was another six-month stay of execution before exiting with more dignity than he was granted.
Given his rehabilitation at West Brom and Liverpool’s progress under Dalglish, that would have done more harm than good to all concerned.
Liverpool and Hodgson evidently function more effectively away from each other.Last edited by Cormack74; 30-10-11, 11:01 AM.Comment
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He's such a lying cunt....
Really? Not what you said back in December 2010:“Yes we looked at Suárez,” confirmed Hodgson.
"Ronaldinho and Suarez are players who we have never even thought about but I would think there is not a manager in the Premier League who has not given Ashley Young a thought at some stage or another," said Hodgson.Comment
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Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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He's quickly becoming, behind MacKenzie, Liverpool's most hated figure. I don't wish bad on him but I'd be delighted if his face was rubbed off.Are we winning?Comment
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Nigey, you're entertainingly daft..
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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....didn't read your post properly. 
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