dear god... hicks : we lined up klinsmann

[CAD]

I don't blame him tbh.

We don't know what went on with DIC but Bill (hicks) and Ben (Gillett) have run sporting clubs before seemed to have the financial clout and won us all over with there first press conference.

Since then they have turned out to be 2 clueless cunts who are ruining our club.

I don't blame Moores I blame the yanks.

I blame Moores for the stagnation he brought with him and for not selling much much sooner. He is the prime reason why we are so far behind the others. A blind man could see that

[Guest]

Johnny mate, how on earth can you still dispute these facts ? These yanks are a bunch of clowns ... ! It's exactly Martin Jol revisited !!

[Johnny]

Christ!! It's in the ECHO!!

If this is true we are ****ed until they leave. Amateur doesn't even begin to cover this scenario...if it's true!

That i`ll agree to.

Theres no mention of Rafa getting sacked but if he had jumped they thought Klinnsmann was a good option.



Hold on,Bayern Munich are no Mugs either!!!!
After being out of the CL this yr they`ve appointed klinsmann to bring them back to their glory days.Stupid Germans Know nothing about football.

[el matador]

custodians of the club
custodians of our brand
custodians of our heritage and our principles

what a bunch of ****ing liars.

Mr. hicks and gillett,

you have continuously lied to the fans and to the manager about what your intentions were for this club. You have lost our respect and have no understanding of what it means to be the owners of this club.

Do the right thing and get lost.

[Pacman]

Why is it so much more unlikely that Rafa HASN'T put feelers out to Spain and Italy. Are you really that gullible?

I'm sure he has but Jurgen ****ing Kilnsmann?

[Reece]

Will be interesting to see what Rafa's response will be to this if questioned by the media. I assume there is a press conference today or tomorrow for the Luton game?

[Harv]

****ing hell.

we are in real strife with Statler and Waldorf running the show.

Rafa will be well pissed.

[StevieG08]

So it looks like it's confirmed that they talked to another manager about taking over the job, and that it could easily have happened if a) the public spat hadn't been dampened and/or b) we didn't get past Marseille.

What a sorry state of affairs.

Looks like Rafa backed down to the owners, it makes me a bit concerned that if the press were spot on with the Klinsman story what else are they spot on with. Mourinho's agent has come out and claimed the story is rubish linking him, however it's fair to say that's what you would expect if the owners have him lined up in the summer. I would be amazed if Rafa doesn't walk to be fair, he did it at Valencia when the chairman was trying to sack him.

[Dhav]

For ****s sake, some of you lot are ridiculous.

You criticise the club for NOT revealing what's going on and now Hicks has responded you're still having a go

As for the revelations - I see a hell of a difference between what they did (cover bases) and how the press have spun it.

Are you saying Hicks hasn't spun this himself?

So you believe they were worried Rafa was going to leave of his own accord and go to Real Madrid, so they lined up Klinsmann (FFS, I cant believe it's ****ing Klinsmann), because they were never going to sack Rafa but they were scared that he would leave of his own accord? What they've done is discuss giving Rafa's job to someone else, while Rafa was still in the job. They had no knowledge that Rafa was going to leave (becasue he said he wanted to stay for 20 years), so why did they ask Klinsmann if he would be willing to replace Rafa, unless they had intentions to fire him? Rafa deserves more loyalty and respect than this. How many times has he already rejected Real Madrid to stay here?

Call me hysterical, but I'm not ashamed that this is how I feel - **** these yankee cowboys and the horses they rode in on.

[Johnny]

It shouldnt have been done in the first place. It you are going to replace a manager then do it, but to 'line up replacements just in case' smacks of mismanagement and incompetence.

If Rafa had jumped ship and the yanks had no replacement lined up you`d be calling them Muppets.they are in a no win situation.

[Shaggy]

Why is Klinsmann a no mark by the way? Yes, he has little experience, but he has more than Kenny had when he too kover. Christ, he took a very poor German team to third in the world cup

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....which was a failure. They were at home FFS. They should've won it or at least got to the final. What Germany did merely matched South Korea at the previous World Cup.

He also had a right-hand man who was the brains behind the operation - Joachim Low. Klinsmann was a figurehead...a motivational type.

As for Bayern...he'll do okay there cos any of us could win the league with them.

[Elvis]

Looks like Rafa backed down to the owners, it makes me a bit concerned that if the press were spot on with the Klinsman story what else are they spot on with. Mourinho's agent has come out and claimed the story is rubish linking him, however it's fair to say that's what you would expect if the owners have him lined up in the summer. I would be amazed if Rafa doesn't walk to be fair, he did it at Valencia when the chairman was trying to sack him.

Many of our best players might walk with him...Perhaps they already know he's off, hence their form?

[Pacman]

Why is Klinsmann a no mark by the way? Yes, he has little experience, but he has more than Kenny had when he too kover. Christ, he took a very poor German team to third in the world cup, and has just gone to Germany's biggest club.

I don't think he's a bad manager. Not a manager i'd like to see in charge of us, but not the inept fool he's being portrayed as on here.

If (and i still don't think it's true) Rafa leaves, i still think Mourinho would be the ideal choice. Yes, he's a cnut of the highest order, but the players would respect him, and he is well equipped to deal with egos and no one could deny his motivational skills.

Do you remember what Germany were like before the tournament? ****ing awful and it's also widely regarded in Germany that the reason Germany did so well was because of his number 2 who is now their manager.

[Bob]

We are finished with these 2 clowns at our club.

Sad sad day to be a Liverpool fan.

Not quite finished, but we've turned into a joke.

The latter sentence is true. Sad, very sad.

*heads off to write a begging letter to DIC*

[Johnny]

Johnny mate, how on earth can you still dispute these facts ? These yanks are a bunch of clowns ... ! It's exactly Martin Jol revisited !!

The Echo just reported in a roundabout way that the Yanks had no intention of sacking Rafa,care to comment.