Motormouth Houllier at it again

[RichC]

i always thought collymore looked like the proper ronaldo when they where both young.

the power the pace a frighteningly good player. him and God what a combo.

Bang on could turn on a six pence and run at defenders with the ball was truely talented - like you said Robbie in his pomp as well wow!

[CJ]

Bang on could turn on a six pence and run at defenders with the ball was truely talented - like you said Robbie in his pomp as well wow!

even better than nando. thats how good he could have been
though he never lived up to that potential.

[RichC]

even better than nando. thats how good he could have been
though he never lived up to that potential.

scary that isn't it - he could have been better than Nando!!!!!

shame slapping women about and cracking one off whilst dogging seemed to take priority in the end!

[CJ]

scary that isn't it - he could have been better than Nando!!!!!

shame slapping women about and cracking one off whilst dogging seemed to take priority in the end!

i know what an arsehole

[McDermotX]

I never felt any affinity for Houllier, but Benitez was genuinely adored by the fans. Benitez will be remembered for bringing some pride back to Liverpool,

I particularly liked his recent quotes around the speculation around Inter sales: -

"They (Inter and Liverpool) are two similar clubs, even the fans. We're used to fighting against all, and this has ended up strengthening the mentality of teams, has made them stronger.

"At Liverpool I have never pulled back, I also went to war together with my fans, and if necessary I would also do at Inter."

Great man....willl always have my respect for what he done, and what he was trying to do.

[frank the tank]

i don't think Rafa will have the same affection for Inter as he did for LFC........

As for Houllier, go **** yourself Ged - you are only embarrassing yourself with comments like that. The fans were pretty united in their believe that you should **** right off - probably so in 2003 yet you got 1 more year simply because of the Liverpool way - the club probably trusted you to come out and say you weren't the right man for the job....

[BG1973]

some of comments in that piece are a bit sickening though, but i'd never call him a prick etc . . . . . cause he did win us some silverware and he did leave us a team that won the CL.

once Rafa retrained them how to play football.

What a cuntish thing of houllier to come out and say if indeed he did say it. Sticking the knife in benitez like this.

PRICK

[barnes10]

i wouldnt normally say this about an ex manager. players who slag us off are another thing but a manager i back 100% even if i have doubts.

this is a despicable thing of houllier to say. what a piece of sh1t of a bitter (he should have been a blue) man. so disappointed to hear this kind of bullsh1t. fook you gerard

[Dhav]

Houllier is an embarrassment to himself and LFC. Houllier's conduct since he left LFC contrasts sharply with Rafa's. It highlights the huge gulf in class and dignity between the two and to an extent hints at why, even after such a disastrous season, Rafa is still held in far higher esteem amongst LFC fans than Houllier ever was.

In fact contrast Roy Evans with Houllier; Roy was pushed into a corner by a gutless board which did not have the courage to sack him, so he left with a clean break from the club because he didn't want to be a "ghost on the wall". What does Houllier do when he leaves? He gatecrashes the CL celebrations and even 5 years later wallows in being called "Boss" by one of the two players still at the club, tries to take the credit for Istanbul and talks about his legacy being destroyed by his successor. He talks about Rafa destroying the boot room tradition and Roy Hodgson being the man to re-establish it when he spent he last days at Anfield bumbling on about how if the club wanted to return to the 70s and 80s it wouldn't be with him.

His comments are utterly, utterly derisory and deserving of unmitigated contempt. Have any of our previous managers, Souness included, acted with such a lack of dignity? I doubt it.

I could write pages on why Houllier is utterly contemptible, but frankly the clown is not worthy of my time.

[Shaggy]

[Dhav]

Looking back, I am ****ing embarrassed at the way I, as a grown man of 22, acted when he returned to the bench for that Roma game, particularly as he turned out to be such an utter knob and left the club probably in a worse state than when he took over.

[Tee]

Houllier is an embarrassment to himself and LFC. Houllier's conduct since he left LFC contrasts sharply with Rafa's. It highlights the huge gulf in class and dignity between the two and to an extent hints at why, even after such a disastrous season, Rafa is still held in far higher esteem amongst LFC fans than Houllier ever was.

In fact contrast Roy Evans with Houllier; Roy was pushed into a corner by a gutless board which did not have the courage to sack him, so he left with a clean break from the club because he didn't want to be a "ghost on the wall". What does Houllier do when he leaves? He gatecrashes the CL celebrations and even 5 years later wallows in being called "Boss" by one of the two players still at the club, tries to take the credit for Istanbul and talks about his legacy being destroyed by his successor. He talks about Rafa destroying the boot room tradition and Roy Hodgson being the man to re-establish it when he spent he last days at Anfield bumbling on about how if the club wanted to return to the 70s and 80s it wouldn't be with him.

His comments are utterly, utterly derisory and deserving of unmitigated contempt. Have any of our previous managers, Souness included, acted with such a lack of dignity? I doubt it.

I could write pages on why Houllier is utterly contemptible, but frankly the clown is not worthy of my time.

[DannyMan2006]

Had some great times under Houllier so I'll not slate him. I think like Rafa he pretty much got all the way to the top of the mountain but couldn't quite reach the summit whan everything seemed right for him to do so.

I personally think that if it wasn't for a poor summers dealing with transfers both Benitez and Houllier would have won the league. Houllier messed up by signing Diuf, Diao and Cheyrou, Rafa messed up when he brought in Robbie Keane and Dossena. Rafa then also had a bad time of it when the board failed to back him.

Hopefully the next time we get in such a strong position our manager at the time brings in the right players.

[RichC]

Quite an amusing article about GED, seems even the national newspapers find his ramblings just insane!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/23/football-transfer-rumours-liverpool

Many foolish Liverpool fans were disappointed by the appointment of Roy Hodgson to the helm of their club but the new manager has begun winning them over thanks to the signing of Joe Cole, sensible utterances in press conferences and, of course, the abiding mastery of Gérard Houllier.

As anyone who read Houllier's interview in the Evening Standard this week knows, Houllier inspired Liverpool to victory in the 2005 Champions League and may well be responsible for everything good that has ever happened to the club and, indeed, the city.

For, in reality, was it not the boundless mastery of Houllier that convinced Cole and, come to think of it, Kenny Dalglish and Bill Shankly to go to Anfield? And who do you think it was who persuaded Fernando Torres to get rid of that Bruno-esque barnet? And do you really think that it is mere coincidence that the most successful band of all time came from the city that was fleetingly home to Houllier, the Secret Driver Of All Men and Deeds?

So when Hodgson announces some time soon that he has resolved Liverpool's left-back problems by recruiting either Paul Konchesky, Marseille's Taye Taiwo, Wayne Bridge or Maynor Figueroa, remember who's really responsible.

Similarly, if another word on the grapevine turns out to be true – such as that Hodgson is closing in on the capture of Milan's Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, remember who conceived, cultivated and propagated that grapevine, that callous, ungrateful cad of a grapevine.

There is, of course, life beyond Liverpool, even if Houllier has never quite accepted that. In Manchester, for instance, Nemanja Vidic is about to sign a bumper contract that will keep him at Old Trafford and Real Madrid at bay. The Serbian will soon have a new team-mate too, as Sir Alex Ferguson and Standard Liège midfielder Steven Defour are finally going to consummate their long-distance love affair.

[Vermilion]

Well, Hodgson once said...if people really looked at his own record abroad, they would find it stood up against Fergies record over here.