Pack your bags Roy

[little dave hedgehog]

From what I heard they appointed a 30 year old stats wizz who wasn't even coaching at the time. Not sure that would work in football, but they seem to like young managers with fresh ideas (The Anti-Roy).

theo epstein doesn't do any coaching in point of fact. he's more like a director of football. most of what he does is buying and selling players.

at the coaching level, they replaced grady within 8 days of taking over, and then changed head coaches again a year later. they still have terry francona since that last change, and he is the man, together with theo running the office, who brought them success.

[MosRay]

So that would imply the only signings due to Hodgson have been Poulsen and Konchesky

You forgot the world class goal keeper Brad Jones is it? (cannot recall his name and too lazy to look it up..

So I think we can safely say JCole and RM probably were not Hodgson signings.. They don't fit the Hodgson Needs another oldie in the squad syndrom type of target.

[cream]

I'm watching the game fully now after seeing only glimpses yesterday.

Prior to the Bolton game I would have suggested to improve in January we needed to look at the back 4 and getting a quality holding mid in.

Against Bolton it really opened my eyes to how poor are Star players have been this year. Cole, Gerrard and Torres were very poor. If they started playing how they can we would be doing much better. I'm not impressed with Roy, but regardless of the manager if this current eleven is going to do anything those three need to buck their ideas up.

And if Cole doesn't improve prior to January, I'd be bringing someone in to take his place in the starting XI.

This is what i said yesterday, the players were awful and you can't simply put that down to Roy, formations and tactics. These are supposed to be world class footballers and yet they couldn't control a football or even make a simple five yard pass to a team mate. Don't rate Cole, I think he was a pointless signing, but Gerrard and Torres were ****ing garbage and that really pisses me off.

[Craig_H]

I love how Torres being **** is Hodgson's fault, but with Cole, he's just '****' - nothing to do with Hodgson.

[Mostar]

I think we had to get Cole because he was a good player available on a free, a player of his quality would be going for at least £10m+ if he were under contract. But he's not shown us anything yet. I imagine him being like the Harry Kewell signing, everyone being made up when we sign him, but him ultimately being a let down, shows some signs of promise but not enough (not that I'm writing him off, that's just how it seems at the moment).

Yet being an operative word. Nobody excelled in Roy's bull**** formation set up and Cole is not an exception. It's little bit prematured imo to be all over Cole as being a poor signing as he has quality to be a very good player for us. He is low on confidence as pretty much our entire squad but in contrast to many he is one of few that came forward and admitted that his form dipped and I personally respect that. He will bounce back but he needs to play in his best postion and not as a left winger..

[Exiled_red]

You forgot the world class goal keeper Brad Jones is it? (cannot recall his name and too lazy to look it up..

So I think we can safely say JCole and RM probably were not Hodgson signings.. They don't fit the Hodgson Needs another oldie in the squad syndrom type of target.

I forgot about him

[MosRay]

I forgot about him

Don't worry about it mate, we'd all like to forget him too... a long with the other two players - ''Roy the Cogger Hodgson I've an eye for talent'' - actually paid money for.

God help us in January

[banditos]

Don't worry about it mate, we'd all like to forget him too... a long with the other two players - ''Roy the Cogger Hodgson I've an eye for talent'' - actually paid money for.

God help us in January

Oi, lay off Aussie Brad ya flamin galah's. He's a true-blue, dinky-di cobba and a top bloke.

What I really mean is he's decent enough for a back-up keeper.

[ashey]

Rafael Benitez has hit back at Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson, after he made accusations about him banning Kenny Dalglish.

Benitez, back in England as his new side Inter Milan get ready to face Tottenham in the UEFA Champions League this week, was asked about Hodgson's comments that he banned Dalglish from the club's training ground during his tenure.

The Spaniard issued a somewhat cryptic and angry response to Hodgson.

"I think that Mr Hodgson, he doesn't understand," Benitez said.

"Every single press conference is even worse than the last one. He's talking about things that he doesn't know.

"And some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

"Maybe he hasn't been in Liverpool too long. We gave the fans their pride again. We fought for the fans, we fought for the club and we fought for our players.

"So maybe he cannot understand this.

"I brought back Kenny Dalglish to do a role in the club and Christian Purslow gave him another role.

"He (Hodgson) doesn't know but I will explain it to him.

"So, instead of talking about the flips or the flops, he has to concentrate on his players, try to do his best.

"He has a good job to do."
Defence

Once again defending his own record as Liverpool manager during a six-year reign that ended in the summer, Benitez continued: "They've signed nine players.

"With £10million net spending, I left that squad with £300million value, 13 internationals.

"So, instead of talking about flips and flops, he has to concentrate on his job, try to do his best and not talk about the level of his players or the new players.

"Concentrate, try to do your best because it will be the best for the club and it will be the best for the fans."

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...481714,00.html

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'And some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar'..?

[Darkon]

'And some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar'..?

I wondered about that one myself. Together with the milk one I am staring to worry about Rafa!

[andrewces38]

Rafael Benitez has hit back at Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson, after he made accusations about him banning Kenny Dalglish.

Benitez, back in England as his new side Inter Milan get ready to face Tottenham in the UEFA Champions League this week, was asked about Hodgson's comments that he banned Dalglish from the club's training ground during his tenure.

The Spaniard issued a somewhat cryptic and angry response to Hodgson.

"I think that Mr Hodgson, he doesn't understand," Benitez said.

"Every single press conference is even worse than the last one. He's talking about things that he doesn't know.

"And some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

"Maybe he hasn't been in Liverpool too long. We gave the fans their pride again. We fought for the fans, we fought for the club and we fought for our players.

"So maybe he cannot understand this.

"I brought back Kenny Dalglish to do a role in the club and Christian Purslow gave him another role.

"He (Hodgson) doesn't know but I will explain it to him.

"So, instead of talking about the flips or the flops, he has to concentrate on his players, try to do his best.

"He has a good job to do."
Defence

Once again defending his own record as Liverpool manager during a six-year reign that ended in the summer, Benitez continued: "They've signed nine players.

"With £10million net spending, I left that squad with £300million value, 13 internationals.

"So, instead of talking about flips and flops, he has to concentrate on his job, try to do his best and not talk about the level of his players or the new players.

"Concentrate, try to do your best because it will be the best for the club and it will be the best for the fans."

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...481714,00.html

Get In There Rafa , Have some of that Roy my Boy,
I'm Loving Rafa's quotes lately , Flips and Flops ****ing quality

[Fredo]

I wondered about that one myself. Together with the milk one I am staring to worry about Rafa!

I'd start to worry about yourself if you cannot understand that.

[SERVO2]

Rafael Benitez has hit back at Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson, after he made accusations about him banning Kenny Dalglish.

Benitez, back in England as his new side Inter Milan get ready to face Tottenham in the UEFA Champions League this week, was asked about Hodgson's comments that he banned Dalglish from the club's training ground during his tenure.

The Spaniard issued a somewhat cryptic and angry response to Hodgson.

"I think that Mr Hodgson, he doesn't understand," Benitez said.

"Every single press conference is even worse than the last one. He's talking about things that he doesn't know.

"And some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

"Maybe he hasn't been in Liverpool too long. We gave the fans their pride again. We fought for the fans, we fought for the club and we fought for our players.

"So maybe he cannot understand this.

"I brought back Kenny Dalglish to do a role in the club and Christian Purslow gave him another role.

"He (Hodgson) doesn't know but I will explain it to him.

"So, instead of talking about the flips or the flops, he has to concentrate on his players, try to do his best.

"He has a good job to do."
Defence

Once again defending his own record as Liverpool manager during a six-year reign that ended in the summer, Benitez continued: "They've signed nine players.

"With £10million net spending, I left that squad with £300million value, 13 internationals.

"So, instead of talking about flips and flops, he has to concentrate on his job, try to do his best and not talk about the level of his players or the new players.

"Concentrate, try to do your best because it will be the best for the club and it will be the best for the fans."

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...481714,00.html

Although the Priest & sugar WTF

[Shaggy]

Ah just get him back here sharpish FFS. Come on NESV, do the right thing