Pack your bags Roy

[souliv]

While it is embarrassing to see a Liverpool manager completely put in his place, Rafa nailed Hodgson completely

Will be interesting to see what awful comments come from Hodgson

Tomorrow's meeting might just have got more interesting.......

[DannyMan2006]

I thought the point in getting a new manager was to upgrade personaly. Even a lunatic can see we haven't done that.

[TheElephantMan]

I thought the point in getting a new manager was to upgrade personaly. Even a lunatic can see we haven't done that.

The point in getting a new manager was to stop questions being asked. Rafa rattled cages and the owners and executives didn't like it. I'm not sure NESV would appreciate that either, but Roy Hodgson has no spirit whatsoever. He's a spineless idiot who will be sacked soon.

[DannyMan2006]

The point in getting a new manager was to stop questions being asked. Rafa rattled cages and the owners and executives didn't like it. I'm not sure NESV would appreciate that either, but Roy Hodgson has no spirit whatsoever. He's a spineless idiot who will be sacked soon.

I agree that was the reason. Kinda my point tbh. That said, in the summer we had plenty of options, more than just Roy. Crazy appointment and possibly the worst one they could have made out of all the realistic candidates.

[TheElephantMan]

I agree that was the reason. Kinda my point tbh. That said, in the summer we had plenty of options, more than just Roy. Crazy appointment and possibly the worst one they could have made out of all the realistic candidates.

[Buzzo]

Roy could win us the Title and i would still hate the old ****er. Its not the fact we are playing like **** being the reason i hate him. Its the consistent arse kissing to bacon face and his loser mentality.

[alunevans]

What did Roy say to trigger Rafa response?

I've missed something. What did RH say about Kenny Dalglish that triggered that response from Rafa tonight?

[Lecter]

Rafa gets LFC, Hodgson doesnt

Simple as that.

[Lecter]

Oliver Kay
November 1 2010 12:01AM
A familiar perch on the touchline at White Hart Lane awaits Rafael Benítez tomorrow evening. It was there, on a baking-hot August day in 2004, that the Inter Milan coach began his tenure in the Barclays Premier League, immediately attracting quizzical looks with his peripatetic approach, furrowed brow, paunch and notepad.
Benítez was viewed as an oddity then and, as he returns to English soil against Tottenham Hotspur tomorrow, he might be forgiven for thinking that little has changed.
There is little by way of measured debate where Benítez is concerned. Liverpool supporters, in the main, tend to view him as the best thing to happen to their club in the past decade. Farther afield, at least until you get to mainland Europe, he tends to be regarded as a frivolous eccentric who fluked a Champions League triumph and then lost his mind, overseeing a dramatic lurch into mediocrity while blaming everything on the American owners who had given him untold riches to splurge on a procession of wasters.
The truth, as ever, lies somewhere between the two extreme views, but if it is impossible to sit on the fence where this most divisive figure is concerned, count me as a Rafaelite. There was plenty to criticise during his six years at Anfield — and, from a personal perspective, the criticisms were less to do with zonal marking, squad rotation and his transfer record than his divisive behaviour, a scattergun approach to recruiting young players and a lack of interest in intangibles, such as team spirit — but there was far more to commend.
With hindsight, Benítez stayed on a season too long at Anfield — for his and the club’s good — but would anyone have dared to suggest in May last year that he should be sacked after guiding Liverpool to second place in the Premier League with 86 points? In fact, yes, some suggested so, but they tended to be the ones who had been saying so for years and were unwilling or unable to believe that a series of strong runs in the Champions League and top-four finishes were an acceptable return for a squad that, on paper, did not appear to be in the same class as Manchester United, Chelsea or, technically at least, Arsenal.
And whose fault was that? Of course Benítez had the funds, over the course of six years, to find a better left winger than Albert Riera and should have gone into his final season in charge with a suitable replacement for the sorely missed Xabi Alonso and more experienced back-up for Fernando Torres. And that is the point at which his wheeling and dealing in the transfer market — and his inability to arrest what was by now a severe psychological slump — became a problem.
Roy Hodgson inherited a difficult situation at Liverpool, not least in terms of the disaffection of many of his leading players, but if it was myopic and misguided for some observers to blame all of last season’s ills on Benítez, it has been even more so to characterise the troubles in this campaign as an inevitable consequence of the Spaniard’s legacy.
Somehow, though, that suits the narrative when it comes to Benítez: the narrative that he is merely reaping the fruits of José Mourinho’s labour at Inter, as he did with Gérard Houllier’s team in Liverpool in his first season. And, with that narrative in mind, Liverpool’s struggles under Hodgson are used as another stick with which to beat the Spaniard (as, laughably, is the fact that Valencia, La Liga champions and Uefa Cup winners in his final season, collapsed like a pack of cards in the aftermath of his departure).
Benítez once claimed that he would have to do a “perfect” job to turn Liverpool into champions. And it is clear now that he fell short of that standard. But despite some obvious flaws, there are not too many better coaches in world football, hence his latest appointment.
Woe betide Benítez, though, if Inter concede a goal from a set-piece tomorrow, in which case it will all be down to his weird penchant for something called zonal marking. Woe betide him if, with his team already well placed to reach the Champions League knockout stages, he rests a well-known player or two and his team fail to pick up maximum points. And pity his critics — perhaps not least Hodgson — if Inter’s performance does anything to support the alternative view that one of Europe’s most successful coaches might actually know what he is doing

[peekay]

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

Kenny's reaction to the story will be interesting. If he keeps quite and not defend the manager, there could not be a better message being sent out to Roy that he is not wanted here.

[Lecter]

I've missed something. What did RH say about Kenny Dalglish that triggered that response from Rafa tonight?

Hodgson not threatened by the spectre of Dalglish
Published 23:00 30/10/10 By Derick Allsop

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Roy Hodgson lifted clouds of uncertainty shrouding his position at Liverpool by insisting: “I don’t fear Kenny Dalglish will take my job.”

Instead, the under-*pressure Anfield boss *maintains he is content that he and the *Liverpool legend are *working side by side to *restore the club to its former glory.

Hodgson contends *Dalglish – who offered his services as manager in the summer – is no longer the man to take the reins, but still has crucial roles to play in their future.

In an extraordinary and candid interview, Hodgson revealed also that he brought Dalglish in from the cold after the Scot had been shunned by previous *manager Rafael Benitez.

Hodgson said: “If Kenny’s presence is a threat it is, but the fact is I’m not prepared to pass up on quality *people who can help us move forward because I’m personally frightened.

“If the day comes that they decide they want Kenny *Dalglish and not me then so be it.

“That wasn’t the case in the summer, but that’s not to say it won’t be forever more. But I have no fears in that respect.

“I know what I can bring to the job and what qualities I have. I’m not a political person, I’m not frightened of these things.

“I don’t know about his ambition, but you can *understand that I can’t ask him, ‘do you want my job?’

“I was disappointed – and I’ve told him this – that he *applied for the job in the *summer because I don’t think that was ever really going to happen for him.” But unlike his predecessor, Hodgson is untroubled by the spectre of Dalglish and keen to harness his stature to enhance the club’s cause.

He said: “When they wanted me for the job, I made it clear to Kenny that he would be with me – not like with Benitez, when he was here in name but not allowed to step foot in Melwood and it was ‘we don’t want anything to do with you’.

“I told Kenny, ‘that won’t be the case, I want to tap into you for all the things you can bring’, not least his iconic status. He’s doing a very good job, helping us with our scouting, he still does a lot with the younger players at the academy and he also plays an ambassadorial role.

“You could not find a better person in the world to do that job for Liverpool Football Club and he should be doing it for other managers when I leave.

“His job should be a *permanent one.”

Dalglish, who joined *Hodgson last week at Wigan to check on today’s hosts Bolton, is helping the search for at least one new striker to recruit in January.

Hodgson will be alerted by Manchester City’s announcement that Roque Santa Cruz is available, but has ruled out signing Kevin Davies for a second time because, at 33, the Bolton and England hitman is considered too old.

Admitting he wants up to six players to bolster his squad, Hodgson said: “We’re desperately short up front, but whether we can get the real big-hitter we’d like might be difficult. We might have to take a chance on something second best.”



Read more: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news...#ixzz13vIj7KQv

[Baracus]

Good piece that from Oilver, Disagree that Rafa spent a season too long at LFC, especially as most critics say it was last season given he finished 2nd the season before. Why can they not pick another season instead of last season to beat him with a stick with.



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Rafael Benitez

[Lecter]

Paul Dalglish has apparently dismissed these comments as "rubbish" (according to Tomkins)

[Baracus]

Kenny's reaction to the story will be interesting. If he keeps quite and not defend the manager, there could not be a better message being sent out to Roy that he is not wanted here.

Kenny's far too wise to get involved. His son on the other hand might tell us one or two things

[peekay]

Kenny's far too wise to get involved. His son on the other hand might tell us one or two things

I have the same feeling.

And Roy. Stop picking fights with Champions League winning managers, you tool. You are lucky that Rijkaard did not tear you a new one last week. Now you go and pick a fight with Rafa.