Welcome to LFC Roy Hodgson (Officially Confirmed)

[SB]

Dunk and I always knew it would be Roy

Let me guess. You and Dunk took photos from on top of a wheelie bin at Melwood? Sounds familiar don't it !

[cadmium]

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/lates...ppoint-hodgson

Roy Hodgson has been appointed the new manager of Liverpool FC.

The 62-year-old former Fulham, Inter Milan and Switzerland manager has agreed terms with the club on a three-year contract and becomes the 18th manager in our history.

He will be unveiled to the world's media this afternoon after overseeing the first day of pre-season training at Melwood.

Hodgson joins us from Fulham, where he guided the Cottagers to the Europa League final in May and was voted Manager of the Year by the League Managers' Association.

He exclusively told Liverpoolfc.tv: "This is the biggest job in club football and I'm honoured to be taking on the role of manager of Britain's most successful football club. I look forward to meeting the players and the supporters and getting down to work at Melwood."

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I expect we will be bringing in a few more scandinivians over the next few months just hope they are more hyppia than torben picnic!!

[SB]

I expect we will be bringing in a few more scandinivians over the next few months just hope they are more hyppia than torben picnic!!

No shaggy jokes please

[the rev leeroy brown]

bit strange giving a new man a 3 year deal when we meant to be getting sold though. i'd have thought whoever had got it would have at most a 12 month rolling contract.

[badpiggy]

"He likens his career to Russian expressionist painter Wassily Kandinsky. "I've gone sideways, backwards and then upwards again. If you did a graph of my career it would look like a Kandinsky painting.

He is fluent in several languages including Italian, Swedish and Norwegian. He is also known to speak good German and some Danish, Japanese, French and Finnish.

Hodgson is a bit of a culture vulture. Not only does he enjoy literature but he is also a connoisseur of foreign film. Gerard Depardieu's recent French hit 'The Singer' is amongst his favourites."

Plenty to like about him if you're a bit of a pretentious cunt like me. Allez Le Roi!!!

[Jop]

some good ones in here.


1. Roy's 34-year livelihood in management has taken him to 12 clubs in six countries, as well as three spells in charge of national teams. He likens his career to Russian expressionist painter Wassily Kandinsky. "I've gone sideways, backwards and then upwards again. If you did a graph of my career it would look like a Kandinsky painting."

2. When it comes to literature, Hodgson admits to being a fan of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Philip Roth, whose titles include 'The Ghost Writer' and 'American Pastoral'. He is also an admirer of the work of Milan Kunder and John Updike.

3. Roy shouldn't have much trouble getting his views across to Liverpool's cosmopolitan squad - he is fluent in several languages including Italian, Swedish and Norwegian. He is also known to speak good German and some Danish, Japanese, French and Finnish.

4. Hodgson has participated in four UEFA Technical Study Groups and one with FIFA. He was invited to Euro 2008 as a member of UEFA's Technical Team.

5. Prior to his achievements in leading Fulham to the Europa League final, Hodgson had previously described his first job in Sweden as his finest moment. He said: "My greatest achievement would have to be the water-into-wine job at Halmstads."

6. Any new signing declaring his 'love' of Liverpool FC should beware. Hodgson once told the Telegraph newspaper: "We get all these agents saying their man would 'love to play for you, he's always loved Fulham Football Club'. What they are really saying is his wife wants to do a bit of shopping in Harrods. Once you've seen past that the next question is what sort of wages do you want. They umm and arr until you press them. Then you just say 'Don't bother ringing, don't waste our time or yours'."

7. If it wasn't already obvious from the vast number of countries he has managed in, Hodgson admits to having a love of travelling. "I'm lucky in that my job has taken me places and I always try to get out of the hotel and see the churches and sights."

8. Such was Hodgson's impact at Fulham that one of the Cottagers' celebrity fans, Hugh Grant, famously quipped at a film premiere: "I want to sleep with Roy Hodgson!"

9. Hodgson is a bit of a culture vulture. Not only does he enjoy literature but he is also a connoisseur of foreign film. Gerard Depardieu's recent French hit 'The Singer' is amongst his favourites.

10. Roy is a qualified PE teacher and is already well-informed when it comes to Liverpool culture as his wife Sheila hails from the city.

[el matador]

He's been officially confirmed and we need to get behind him and the team. Our supporters are the most loyal and savvy out there and all liverpool managers have always had the full support of the fans. We know Roy probably wasnt most fans first choice but it doesnt matter now.

Lets give him some time and see what he brings to the club. I admit im not overly optimistic (andmy earlier posts will bear this out) but its probably better to under promise and over deliver.

He's got my backing.

[badpiggy]

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[SB]

bit strange giving a new man a 3 year deal when we meant to be getting sold though. i'd have thought whoever had got it would have at most a 12 month rolling contract.

The England job could be available in 2 years (may explain it)

[Matt]

Welcome (officially) Roy - you'll be delighted to know I'm feeling more positive about you this morning, although I don't know why

[Vermilion]

This fiasco wont last long....hopefully!!

[lickedlollipop]

Welcome (officially) Roy - you'll be delighted to know I'm feeling more positive about you this morning, although I don't know why

interesting. same here

[BobTheCharmer]

Any new signing declaring his 'love' of Liverpool FC should beware. Hodgson once told the Telegraph newspaper: "We get all these agents saying their man would 'love to play for you, he's always loved Fulham Football Club'. What they are really saying is his wife wants to do a bit of shopping in Harrods. Once you've seen past that the next question is what sort of wages do you want. They umm and arr until you press them. Then you just say 'Don't bother ringing, don't waste our time or yours'."



Won't be taken for a mug. Wiley old fox. Come on Roy.