Is Hodgson the right man for LFC

[Leyton388]

George Sephton calling for people to leave Winter and Redknapp alone.

LEAVE JAMIE ALONE! LOL

[Kenneth]

Not sure why someone who says "would the owner of a green Nissan Micra, registration ....please contact a steward" or "bob smith, please report to a steward, you're dad's dead", or "the winning ticket is blue 12345" etc for a living should be heeded on such matters tbh.

[Fredo]

Not sure why someone who says "would the owner of a green Nissan Micra, registration ....please contact a steward" or "bob smith, please report to a steward, you're dad's dead", or "the winning ticket is blue 12345" etc for a living should be heeded on such matters tbh.

"Operation Anfield Exercise"!

[Kenneth]

"Operation Anfield Exercise"!

of course

Listen guys, leave winter alone.

[Tee]

Not sure why someone who says "would the owner of a green Nissan Micra, registration ....please contact a steward" or "bob smith, please report to a steward, you're dad's dead", or "the winning ticket is blue 12345" etc for a living should be heeded on such matters tbh.

[peekay]

On the matter of conspiracy theories

RushianLFC
Amazing how theres no Purslow mention in the @henrywinter article today after effusive praise in the past #lfc
is @henrywinter trying to dissocate his friend/confidente Purslow from the Hodgson appointment and blame it all on Broughton? #lfc


I was wondering about the same thing. All articles criticizing the Hodgson appointment have Broughton's name but not a single mention of Purslow.

[Neil Young]

On the matter of conspiracy theories

RushianLFC
Amazing how theres no Purslow mention in the @henrywinter article today after effusive praise in the past #lfc
is @henrywinter trying to dissocate his friend/confidente Purslow from the Hodgson appointment and blame it all on Broughton? #lfc


I was wondering about the same thing. All articles criticizing the Hodgson appointment have Broughton's name but not a single mention of Purslow.

First sign of a crack in the united front of our great defenders in the boardroom?

[peekay]

The desire among those who stand on The Kop is to see it start where it ended so painfully more than 19 years earlier; to see Kenny Dalglish return to the scene of his last act as Liverpool manager.

The club's next match is the stuff of nightmares for Roy Hodgson and an alarmingly inexperienced board of directors trying to navigate the club through a major crisis.

It is a trip to Goodison Park, for an encounter with an Everton side that, despite their early season problems, look to be in much better order than their illustrious neighbours.

They have a better manager and a better team, and come Sunday week they might even have been facing a Liverpool side at the very bottom of the Barclays Premier League had the two teams below them not been playing each other the day before.

For Dalglish, however, it might not seem so daunting because going back to Goodison would be a chance to finally address some unfinished business.

To scratch an itch that has been troubling him for the best part of two decades.

It was after a 4-4 draw at Goodison on February 20, 1991, a cup-tie Dalglish said in his latest memoirs was 'like watching a car-crash and not knowing which emergency service to call first', that he decided he could not continue.


That he feared for his health, and for his family, because of the stress that had been building since Hillsborough.

'The nation's amateur psychologists claimed it was the stress and strain of that extraordinary game that tipped me over the precipice. It wasn't. My nerves were shredded long before then,' he said.

The next day he walked into Anfield, his body covered in a rash, and informed the hierarchy of his decision, complaining that he felt his head was 'exploding'.

His resignation was reluctantly accepted. But Peter Robinson, then the club's all-powerful secretary, urged him to take a sabbatical and return the following season. Dalglish's wife, Marina, spoke to Tom Saunders, also by then on the board, and urged them to leave it a couple of weeks. She said once her husband had taken a holiday with his family, he would be fit to return to work.


It was while Dalglish was still in Florida that Graeme Souness was appointed. And soon after Robinson had suggested to Dalglish, by then at Blackburn, that it was time he 'came home' as Souness's replacement three years later, he was left surprised and disappointed for a second time. Roy Evans was promoted to the role of manager.

Anfield insiders on Monday insisted there was little chance of Dalglish, 59, returning this time, even after the greatest player in the club's history had the courage to put himself forward as a candidate in the wake of Rafa Benitez's exit.

Even after he took one look at the candidates he was asked to consider as a member of the selection committee - with Hodgson among them - and said he was a better alternative.

That he was dismissed as an option as disrespectfully as he was by chairman Martin Broughton pretty much summed up the sad state of affairs at Anfield. A club being run into the ground by men with a head for business but not football.

The chairman of British Airways, Broughton was appointed to wrestle the club from the grasp of American owners and into safer hands; not to determine who should be hired to resuscitate a stuttering team.

In Dalglish they had a man not only four years Hodgson's junior but with the club in his blood; someone who would have even accepted the role on a temporary basis and stepped aside when the club was in a position to recruit one of Europe's leading managers.

As Ray Clemence said, it matters not that Dalglish has not managed for 10 years.


'Kenny's never been out of the game,' said the former keeper who won two European Cups with Dalglish.

'He's been working behind the scenes, he's a football man.

'I've read about Kenny being interested and if he did put himself up, it certainly wouldn't have been a bad decision.'

Clemence went on to say he 'didn't think Roy Hodgson was a bad decision either', adding that he thought it premature for the fans to turn against him.

But today Broughton and his colleagues still have to reflect on Liverpool's worst start to a season in 57 years, and the £20million they have seen Hodgson waste on players like Raul Meireles, Christian Poulsen and Paul Konchesky.

And the fact that the same fans who never rose against Benitez, who have proved so loyal to all their managers over the years, have decided after seven Premier League matches that Hodgson must go.

'Dalglish, Dalglish,' they chanted as their side crumbled against Blackpool.

The least someone should do is listen.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz11VND2dyf

[peekay]

First sign of a crack in the united front of our great defenders in the boardroom?

Something which worries me. That is the last thing we need. For example, see the Matt Lawton article above. It is all about Broughton and his colleagues.

[Mattshark]

Did anyone, hand on heart, think Roy would be this bad?

I thought he wouldn't be as bad as Souness, I was wrong.

[Lecter]

Henry Winter is an absolute cunt of a journalist.

Agreed hes become the total opposite of what he was

Hes a parody of himself now

Pathetic

[little dave hedgehog]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLiVGuzmudY"]YouTube - Fulham 1-3 Sunderland // Hodgson Interview 05/04/08[/ame]

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TEAMtalk's Simon Wilkes believes Roy Hodgson needs to drastically change his formation if he is to reverse Liverpool's dismal slump in form.

Liverpool's potential new owners New England Sports Ventures have reassured Roy Hodgson over his managerial future at Anfield, saying they feel he is "the right person to take this club forward" if their takeover goes through.

I'm happy to admit that I thought Hodgson was a fantastic appointment as Rafael Benitez's successor in the summer - and even went as far as tipping them for a top-four finish.

But now I'm not so sure.

Having watched Liverpool's disastrous start to the season under his tutelage, albeit only seven league games in, I just can't see how things will get better for the Reds under the former Fulham boss, who already has an embarrassing League Cup exit to Northampton and a humiliating home defeat by Blackpool on his record.

I can't shake the feeling that Hodgson is simply out of his depth at Anfield, with the glare of the constant spotlight on him overwhelming a man who now looks like he has the world on his shoulders.

The alarm bells started to ring a few weeks ago when Hodgson dropped into a press conference how many extra hours he was working in his new job.

You get the impression he was left to his own devices by Mohammed Al Fayed at Craven Cottage, and thrived on the freedom he had in west London.

But this is Liverpool Football Club - a club in crisis but still a club steeped in the grandest tradition and still one of the biggest in world football when it comes to history, silverware and fanbase.

I was never Benitez's biggest fan but there was never any doubt that he had red running through his veins while he was in charge on Merseyside, and he clearly worked around the clock, living and breathing Liverpool FC.

Benitez's meticulous approach to training and tactics seems to be something the players are only fully appreciating now that he's gone - and although Hodgson is desperate to stamp his own style on his new team, I just don't think the two are compatible.

"My methods have translated from Halmstads to Malmo to Orebro to Neuchatel Xamax to the Swiss national team," Hodgson has claimed in his defence, but that very list of clubs tells its own story, with his methods perhaps not suited to the bigger clubs in world football, where world-class and World Cup-winning footballers are used to a much different approach.

Despite the distractions of the ongoing ownership and takeover wranglings since the summer, there's simply no way Liverpool should be in the relegation zone with the squad at Hodgson's disposal.

Many critics have pointed the finger at Benitez for the Reds' shortcomings, but although the squad as a whole needs greater depth, there is still a top-class starting XI there if the right players are picked.

Understandably Hodgson has transferred the formation and style that served Fulham so well last season from London to Merseyside - but Fernando Torres as good as he is, is no Bobby Zamora, so asking him to do a similar job in a lone striker role has been a key factor in the Spaniard's dip in form, body language and goals return.

Under Benitez, Torres had the likes of Steven Gerrard and Yossi Benayoun buzzing around him, pressing defenders, winning possession and providing ammunition for his predatory finishing skills in the attacking third.

Liverpool's midfield and attack has looked totally disjointed under Hodgson, with Torres' frustration at his lack of service visible to everyone.

The Reds boss needs to realise he has dropped a clanger in his recruitment of Christian Poulsen, and play the classy Raul Meireles in his best position - which is certainly not on the right wing.

I personally think Hodgson should take a look at the top of the table and mirror Chelsea's 4-3-3 formation, which has served them pretty well so far.

The Blues have a solid back four who are protected by a three-man midfield shield which could be provided by talismanic skipper Steven Gerrard in the centre, Meireles and the much-maligned Lucas Leiva (or Fabio Aurelio when fit for balance on the left of the trio). Jonjo Shelvey could even be an option alongside Gerrard and Meireles, while some Reds fans have called for Daniel Agger to be given a chance in a holding midfield role given Hodgson doesn't seem to want him in central defence.

This midfield trio would allow Glen Johnson the freedom to bomb forward in much the same way Ashley Cole does for the Blues, giving the Reds some much-needed width and delivery from the right flank which has been sorely missing so far.

With Lucas/Aurelio/Agger in the team, Gerrard could be the heartbeat pulling the strings from the middle of the pitch and the man tasked with linking midfield with an attacking trio of Joe Cole, Dirk Kuyt and Torres.

Chelsea play with Nicolas Anelka and Florent Malouda supporting star striker Didier Drogba, and although I'm not Kuyt's biggest fan, his workrate, passion and eye for goal put him way ahead of David Ngog and Ryan Babel, with Maxi Rodriguez another option for Kuyt's position if the Dutchman is unavailable.

This formation would give Torres plenty of company up top and allow him to harass defenders in a gang, rather than ploughing a lone furrow.

With so many teams starting to adopt this formation - one of which being Blackpool who rocked Roy's Reds last time out - Hodgson needs to realise his tried and tested methods are simply not working at Anfield.

Although Liverpool have previously tended to stand by their man, defeat to Everton in the upcoming Merseyside derby could make the call for Hodgson's head deafening, with Reds fans chanting the name of Kenny Dalglish in the humiliating defeat by Ian Holloway's Seasiders last weekend.

Hodgson insists he has not "lost any ability which has served me so well in 35 years of coaching" - and I'm sure he hasn't.

But his current methods are simply not working at the moment - and unless he accepts he may have to adapt his ways sooner rather than later, he may give Liverpool's hierarchy no other choice but to usher him towards the exit door

http://www.teamtalk.com/liverpool/6432626/Roy-s-methods-aren-t-working

[Fierce]

Been saying for ages that I think 4-3-3 is the way to go

Gerrard, Meireles and Lucas in the centre

Cole, Torres, Kuyt up top

No brainer given the players we have surely?

[Fredo]

Been saying for ages that I think 4-3-3 is the way to go

Gerrard, Meireles and Lucas in the centre

Cole, Torres, Kuyt up top

No brainer given the players we have surely?

Altering formation won't change anything as his teams just sit back. So, even in a 4-3-3 for example, his team will sit back.