Welcome to LFC Roy Hodgson (Officially Confirmed)

[Vermilion]

I haven't felt less inspired by an appointment since we appointed Roy Evans, who came in out of the blue just for being Souness's sidekick, having been reserve team coach not long before and who absolutely nobody at the time would have considered short-list material, much less manager.

Good luck to him, but I feel no connection to him whatsoever and am hoping that he's a Yes Man stop-gap until the owners eventually go and then we can kick on with a real manager

If he was so good, he'd have been manger ages ago, lets be honest, all those singing his praises now, would'nt have given him a second look if the club was'nt in such a ****ty state, and the club would'nt have given Hodgson the job, this is i believe the reality, see it for what it is, we are not hiring a top manager because we can't get one...hodgson is not a top manager, no matter how many times anyone says it.

[BobTheCharmer]

He's 92 ffs. and he STILL hasn't won anything...

so if he'd won the FA Cup in 1982 and the league cup in 85 you'd be more accepting?

[paulg]

Incidentally, does this mean we'll get Danny Murphy back?

[Redspin]

The Mancs and Chavs can kiss our arse
Liverpool's got Hodgson signed at last !


It needs some work Shaggy but nowhere near as lame as your effort

But it doesn't remotely rhyme - unless you speak with a horrible chav southern accent of course

[Vermilion]

so if he'd won the FA Cup in 1982 and the league cup in 85 you'd be more accepting?

Id be more accepting if he'd managed and had sucess at a BIG club., he's had long enough, winning nothing of note in all those years says it all for me, and i'd have rather seen an up and coming younger manager who's won nothing given a go than an old manger who still has'nt done anything.

[BobTheCharmer]

Id be more accepting if he'd managed and had sucess at a BIG club., he's had long enough.

but he hasn't managed a big club apart from Inter 10 years ago. So how the **** could he have had success?

[the rev leeroy brown]

Yes lets get Capello. The bloke who has failed to do his job with England. Lets get a manager from Spain that has never managed here before and will take a year or two to grasp what our league is about.

i havent championed capello as manager but he had more experience than hodgson and at a far higher level of football. so he couldnt get a nation of overrated footballers to win the world cup..........big deal - no-one could. i'd take him over hodgson in a heart beat.
and the manager from spain (pellegrini??) the man who took madrid to a record points haul and was only beating by the most complete football team on the planet by a matter of 1 or 2 points......another gaffer who is head and shoulders above roy and who has managed at a high level.

I think as a manager Roy Hodgson is ****ing excellent. I think there have been some ****ing excellent managers in the lowers leagues over the years. Look at Dario Gradi, could anyone have done a better job with Crewe? Ferguson, Mourinho or Rafa? I doubt it very much. They are excellent managers used to working with quality players, although Fergie also proved himself up in Scotland. Roy has done well with the resources he's had. He knows the football world inside out. Finally a top team has rewarded this with an opportunity. Just because he hasn't won a European cup or league title in Spain or Italy doesn't make him a **** manager.

sorry but are you seriously comparing gradi at crewe to fergie at manure?? fergie who has won countlesss trophys and even though it sickens me to say, made united the juggernaught they are today! jose is a proven winner wherever he has gone and rafa won us the CL. you dont think any of these managers could have kept crewe at the very bottom of english football for 20+years?

roy has worked at alomost every level in every league availablke and never been what you would class as a top level manager. he has been average every where he has been. by that reckoning craig levein should be our new gaffer cause he has been **** too.

On the other point, he may bring the odd player in from Fulham, if it helps us out why are you so opposed?

if it helps then i would not be opposed but bar hangeland ( who we have no chance in hell of getting ) there is not another player at fulham i would rate as a top level footballer.

ste and torres who are our backbone and sole chance for regaining our top 4 status want to see "4 or 5 big name signings". will they be happy to read "lfc capture zoltan gera" or "danny murphy rejoins the pool" or even "zamora in 7 mill move to pool"? they would not be happy so why should we as fans as fans?

[Vermilion]

but he hasn't managed a big club apart from Inter 10 years ago. So how the **** could he have had success?

Exactly, why hasn't he had a big job during all the years in the game he's had, and all this so called knowledge he has, ask your self why it takes a club like lfc, that's a skint club in crisis to hire him.

Anyone can get excited by a new manager, but look at the facts, apart form pundit mates telling us he's great and knowledgeble, what the **** has he done..really ?

[Parr_Zee]

So Hodgson for two years, Capello another two years until after the European Championships. Hodgson then to take over as England manager by which time Mourinho and Real Madrid will be sick of each other?

Hodgson to England, Capello to Inter, Rafa to Real, Mourinho to LFC. A managerial merry-go-round in which everyone is happy.

[The_weatherman]

To be fair to Roy he are not expecting a title challenge, the board isn't and I think most of the fans are not. Depending on what players we are able to keep we can hope for a finish from 3rd-8th and I'm being optimistic about the upper limit.

We need to tone down these expectations IMO.

[the rev leeroy brown]

Hodgson to England, Capello to Inter, Rafa to Real, Mourinho to LFC. A managerial merry-go-round in which everyone is happy.

[Scratch]

**** it, not my first choice, but i reckon he'll do alright...bet he finishes higher than 7th in any case. And if he brings Hangeland and Zamora with him on the cheap, those are two good squad players that improve on the reserves we have straight away.

[Vermilion]

To be fair to Roy he are not expecting a title challenge, the board isn't and I think most of the fans are not. Depending on what players we are able to keep we can hope for a finish from 3rd-8th and I'm being optimistic about the upper limit.

We need to tone down these expectations IMO.

I'm way ahead of you there.

[the rev leeroy brown]

To be fair to Roy he are not expecting a title challenge, the board isn't and I think most of the fans are not. Depending on what players we are able to keep we can hope for a finish from 3rd-8th and I'm being optimistic about the upper limit.

We need to tone down these expectations IMO.

to be honest, i can see 1st to 4th being seperated by only a handful of points this year so if we are to break into top 4 which is what we need, then he'll have to challenge for the title IMO. ****ty situation to find yourself in with a club as ****ed as ours but one he is going to be in.

[the rev leeroy brown]

**** it, not my first choice, but i reckon he'll do alright...bet he finishes higher than 7th in any case. And if he brings Hangeland and Zamora with him on the cheap, those are two good squad players that improve on the reserves we have straight away.

i'd have hangeland above a reserve player for us.

agger and hangeland at the back for us would suit me down to the ground.