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Roy Hodgson warns Liverpool's fat cats to choose if they want a career or big money
By Joe Bernstein
Liverpool's rebuilding plans are being threatened by the refusal of several out-of-favour stars to walk away from fat contracts.
Stars like Ryan Babel, Milan Jovanovic and Joe Cole will not go unless their Anfield salaries are matched elsewhere.
The situation is frustrating manager Roy Hodgson and director of football strategy Damien Comolli, who want to free up space in the club's 25-man Premier League squad.
Frustrated: Roy Hodgson is losing patience with his big name stars
It may even explain Hodgson's extraordinary comment last week that Cole was not his original choice of signing.
The 29-year-old England international has struggled at Anfield and is wanted on loan for the rest of the season by his former club West Ham. Hamburg and Genoa are interested in Jovanovic, while Babel turned down moves last summer to Birmingham, Tottenham and West Ham because they could not match his £70,000-a-week wage.
Cole's friend, Glen Johnson, would also like to leave after falling out with Hodgson but he is struggling to find another club prepared to offer the £120,000 a week he is paid.
It leaves Liverpool in a difficult position to reshape the squad and owners NESV are furious that previous managing- director, Christian Purslow, awarded several long-term contracts in the dying embers of the Tom Hicks-George Gillett regime.
Cole was given a four-year contract worth £90,000 a week last summer while 29-year-old Jovanovic arrived on a three-year deal at £60,000 a week.
If neither goes, it adds up to a staggering financial commitment of £27million.
Hodgson will not name the players he wants to leave - although his comments about Cole were particularly revealing - but he did say he hoped out-of-favour players put ambition before money.
He said: 'It's the usual question - money versus playing. How much does playing mean to you and how much does money mean to you?
'Some players not in the team will find other clubs want them, but the same sum of money [in wages] is not there. So the player has to ask if they are so uninterested in playing, will they sit for three years despite the fact that the club has made it perfectly clear they don't want them and there's no game for them.
'If they want that for three years, they've virtually got to kiss [their career] goodbye. If you spend three years on your backside, not kicking a ball apart from the odd reserve game, you'll find you're not going to be a player at all.'
Hodgson has been under pressure from virtually the first day he succeeded Rafa Benitez, whose decision to spend Christmas on Merseyside in the house he bought when Liverpool manager is doing little to ease the situation.
There is certainly no chance that NESV will welcome back the Spaniard who has been sacked by Inter Milan, but Hodgson still has to improve on a record of just one away win all season if he is to keep his job.
Yet the Liverpool boss seems remarkably calm about his situation, saying even long-serving Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been under pressure in recent times.
'If there is speculation about me, I'm in good company,' he said. 'It's easier to name the people who aren't in that position than those who are.
'I remember going to Arsenal with Fulham a couple of years ago and after we held them 0-0 the booing [from Arsenal fans] towards their team was quite incredible.
'Arsene was visibly upset and saddened by that reaction, and at that time people were suggesting he'd had a good run and it was time to bring in the man with the magic wand.
'That's what we have to live with, we have to live with the situation. People are quite happy to see changes on a very regular basis, and a fan will have no qualms about seeing three managers a year at his club, waiting for a man with a magic wand that can turn all of the ills that everyone has seen into something different.
'Those of us who work in the game and have been working in the game a long time know that magic wands don't exist. You work with the set of players you find at your club and before you can really say this is a team I put together, this is a club I have fashioned, you're going to need quite a long time before that day will come around.
'In the meantime, results give you that time or they might not and you might be in and out before you've had a chance to do that.'
With Jovanovic unlikely to accept a drop in wages to move on, Liverpool will have to decide whether to give him a 'Golden Goodbye' to get him out.
Hodgson at least is boosted by the return of captain Steve Gerrard at Blackpool today if the match survives the big freeze, and at home to Wolves next week.
But the manager's New Year resolution is to pick up more away points after that one Barclays Premier League victory at Bolton.
In all, he has just one win in his last 27 away games as a manager in the top flight 'We have to take more points away from home.
You can't finish in the top four if you have so few away points as we took in 2010. That's a no-brainer,' he added.
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Few more classics in there from Roy.
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When do all these interviews take place
He must be interviewed like twice a day at least, there is always something new coming out. Some critics of Rafa said that he shouldn't air the dirty linen in public, but I feel Hodger is doing exactly that tbh. He should speak like this in public, way to risky and certainly Cole is getting rather pissed off, I know I would.
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No mention of massive contacts handed out to Carra, PFK and Poulsen. This is a big problem and could hold us back a couple of years.Brandt - Keita - Van Dijk - SessegnonComment
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Would be classic if Cole or Babel would come out and say that they dont intend to sit on their backside for next 3 years but refuse to leave cause they are sure that the next manager will give them a fair chance.Comment
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He is a ****ing embarrassing prick and I am fed up with hearing arguements from people on here that we shouldn't chant for Kenny or Rafa etc... as it's not the Liverpool way.
To me The Liverpool way is striving to win every game and be the best we can be and anyone who doesn't support getting Hodgson sacked as our manager immediately really has no idea about football, Liverpool football club and what we stand for.
Hodgson's inadequate apathay is killing our football club very slowly and he spends all of his time trying to deflect away from the fact he is **** and presided over -
Long term deals for Poulsen and Konchesky, Hodgson was in charge for almose 3 weeks before we signed Joe Cole so he had plenty of time to put a stop to it and he agreed to a 90k a week 2 year extension for Carragher but still finds the time to.......................
Criticise Rafa/the previous regime for their 'expensive, short term transfer strategy'Last edited by The Birdman; 26-12-10, 10:22 AM.The King was back for a short while. Long live The King.Comment
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The Liverpool way
hodgson and anything remotely linked to him is NOT THE LIVERPOOL WAY
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Whilst this may be true, just shut the **** up! Why can't the dickhead keep his fat gob shut? Why does he keep giving these interviews? I didn't think Hodgson could irritate me any more, but he embarrasses himself increasingly every single ****ing day. Just stop talking Roy please just stop it.'Some players not in the team will find other clubs want them, but the same sum of money [in wages] is not there. So the player has to ask if they are so uninterested in playing, will they sit for three years despite the fact that the club has made it perfectly clear they don't want them and there's no game for them.Comment
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Didier Deschamps is top of the list to replace under pressure Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson.
Full story: News of the World
Crap source, but good news if true.Trey Nyoni: countdown to stardom-2 years1year0.5 yearsComment
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What's really ****ing pissing me off is that EVERY interview he gives is riddled with ****ing excuses. "I inherited this", "I didn't inherited that", "this isn't my squad", "I didn't buy this player", "It was like this last year too" etc. It's a ****ing outrage this excuse for a ****ing manager is still clinging on. I can see why NESV are playing it out this way to some extent but it's not making this situation any easier to take. I really am sick of his stupid ****ing voice and pointless rambling. I cannot believe the support he's getting from ex players, even so-called "legends", and the press
. Sorry for the (needless)bad language but I'm ****ed off with this gob****e. How on earth has our club sunk to this level of mediocrity? 
I have one word to offer - honesty. I couldn't be devious if I tried. Joe Fagan.Comment
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he's a decent young manager. he's in charge of one of the biggest clubs in france and doing a good job.Originally posted by Kenneth View Post
the next manager will need to completely rebuild the side because the likes of reina, torres and gerrard arent gonna hang about.
Within 3 years we will have lost alonso, hyypia, mascherano, torres, gerrard and reina. Add carragher into that mix and its almost a full team,
you cant do a lot with whats left and it will have to be a complete overhaul. For that reason alone i think its a bad choice because it will take a lot of money and time to get us back competitive again.
I think that rafa is the only choice because he knows the first team players because he signed most of them, he knows the youth set up because he created it.
He knows what players are coming through and when. If you want someone to combine 4 or 5 lads from the youth system with some decent young acquisitions then its him.
Didier deschamps means another 5 years in the wilderness, whereas rafa comes back, buys three or four players and we're back in the champions league.[B]Sir Isaac Newton knew the universal law of karma - any action has its equal and opposite reaction.[B]Comment
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Originally posted by wavydavy View PostWhat's really ****ing pissing me off is that EVERY interview he gives is riddled with ****ing excuses. "I inherited this", "I didn't inherited that", "this isn't my squad", "I didn't buy this player", "It was like this last year too" etc. It's a ****ing outrage this excuse for a ****ing manager is still clinging on. I can see why NESV are playing it out this way to some extent but it's not making this situation any easier to take. I really am sick of his stupid ****ing voice and pointless rambling. I cannot believe the support he's getting from ex players, even so-called "legends", and the press. Sorry for the (needless)bad language but I'm ****ed off with this gob****e. How on earth has our club sunk to this level of mediocrity? 
I know how you feel.
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Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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Someone please contact Mr Fayed and beg him to take his Roy back. I think Fulham are getting pumped by West Ham.
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