Pack your bags Roy

[greenbloodred]

Hes on £3million a year isn't he? over 2 or 3 years isit?

Jesus football "coaching" is a right lucrative racket

[Paddy]

He is a dead man walking. FSG will move quickly and recruit the new manager in time to bring in some players this January.

[Daniel 7]

Its ****ing stupid! How can we get players after this? They don't even know who they'll be playing for and the style of play to expect. Just sack the ****er.

[Craig_H]

Why is it at Liverpool we have to have these dramatic and unusual twists? FSG recognise he's not doing his job, he's the most unpopular manager ever - so why can't they just sack him when there's two men who could jump straight in to take over and do a better job, if not just for the short term.

Jesus, its not easy following the Reds.

I think they are worried about appointing Kenny and then having to put someone else in at the end of the season, if Kenny's done really well. If he was to take over as caretaker, and then did well - removing him would be impossible. And NESV want a long term manager - eg, young.

I think this is the problem. And that's if Kenny even wants it, which i have been told he doesnt.

Anyway, i'm finally off out Happy New Year lads.

[BigChief]

He is a dead man walking. FSG will move quickly and recruit the new manager in time to bring in some players this January.

As most of us always believed was the case. I'm just surprised this is being 'leaked' to the papers (because you just know FSG have a hand in the timing), as I thought FSG would work quietly in the background.

Hey-ho, now we know he's a goner and can start focusing on the future (new players, CEO, Commolli's scouting abilities, etc).

[Rudo]

who is FSG?

[saj]

If I was an LFC player, a defender, I'd smash in a couple of own goals tomorrow. For the first time in my life I wanted us to lose against Wolves. I'm praying we lose tomorrow: 0 - 3.

Happy new years everyone.

[saj]

According to Sack Roy Hodgson:

Media now confirming that Roy has been ordered to resign and hes refused so he will be pushed basically what we said earlier hes doing a blackburn

That doesn't make sense - what did the OLD ****ING CUNT do at Blackburn?

[Daniel 7]

who is FSG?

Fenway Sports Group

[Rich]

No way Hodgson will walk, not a chance. Not in his make-up.

[Daniel 7]

According to Sack Roy Hodgson:



That doesn't make sense - what did the OLD ****ING CUNT do at Blackburn?

He was offered the chance to make a dignified exit - leave without a sacking. He refused. They sacked.

[Joey Jones]

According to Sack Roy Hodgson:



That doesn't make sense - what did the OLD ****ING CUNT do at Blackburn?

Apparently, he refused to go when he was kindly asked to resign.

[Sprouty]

According to Sack Roy Hodgson:



That doesn't make sense - what did the OLD ****ING CUNT do at Blackburn?

Hodgson said: "To Blackburn's honour, Jack Walker wanted me to resign, he wanted to still pay for the rest of my contract. He said, 'Why don't you resign? You've had enough, it's not working out.' I refused to do that, arrogant of course as I was in those days.

"I thought if they stuck with me I'd save them from relegation. I do think that the players were very much still with me, so I couldn't resign because that would be a suggestion that in some way I was doing something or something was happening which I didn't see to be the case or the truth. I gave him no choice but to sack me, so they behaved very honourably in that way. I did take it very hard, but that's a personal thing."

[Daniel 7]

That sounds so apt its frustrating as ****. He clearly hasn't learned from his past mistakes, the arrogant, vain old prick

[peekay]

Roy Hodgson became manager of Liverpool 183 days ago. On the day he got the job he said: 'I always knew Liverpool fans were special. The motto "You'll never walk alone" is really lived by the fans. It's a club where you feel you're not alone.' Today those words came back to haunt him.

"After the defeat by Wolves I thought I did quite a good job to disguise the hurt, the sadness and, to some extent, the anger that I was feeling. To take stick from the crowd and then to stand up in a press conference and say I understood and sympathised with them ... It is always going to be the case as a manager that when things are going wrong you are going to get that flak, that stick. It is unfortunate for me that fans should think I went into a press conference with a view to attacking them because nothing could be further from the truth.

"Two or three weeks ago we were on a good roll and playing some good football and everything looked so bright and positive. A very good performance at Tottenham, which should have encouraged people, has now become just another defeat. Then we had the last two defeats, against Newcastle and Wolves, which have hurt us very badly and hurt me very badly. It has swung things round enormously and put us in the situation where we find ourselves today. I cannot emphasise enough that it hurts me deeply. It hurts my professional pride. It hurts all the things I believe in to find myself in the situation I am in but I have to accept it. I feel very bad and very down.

"I have the experience but it has been an uphill struggle since I came here. Maybe that was the point I was trying to make [about the famous Anfield support] which has been interpreted as a crack against the fans. I have had a lot of situations to deal with and worked very hard to put together a team that knows what it is doing and can produce winning football. Along the way there have been some very big setbacks which have thrown me into the limelight and the firing line. I accept it as part of taking a job of this stature.

"Last night I saw a quote from Benjamin Disraeli when he became prime minster: 'I have achieved my goal and climbed to the top of the greasy pole.' That is really what we do. That is how I feel. Coming to Liverpool for me was a pinnacle; to some extent it was a reward for the work I had put in, not just at Fulham but in the years before. It was a recognition of my competence. You come here hoping you will keep flying forward but, yes, I did know it would be difficult. If we can between now and the end of the season get the results everybody wants, people will respect us more for the hardship we have gone through. It is a cliché but we coaches do need time, patience and support. Support at this club is of vital importance because that is what has made it great through the years – the feeling that Liverpool is a bit special and that people get together when things are not going well.

"It would be nice to have people around you who could help you a bit more but it doesn't really work that way. It is a lonely job being the manager of a top club. You can't expect people to help you too much. The staff are very good and supportive – and so too are the players – but your family is the most important during these times. They try to encourage you that life isn't all doom and gloom and there might be a bright spot somewhere along the way. That is what you have to cling on to.

"Two defeats in a row – and one of them at home against a team you are expected to beat – that is a time when you are going to be very hurt and upset about everything. Lonely is not the wrong word to use because, to be quite honest, you don't want company anyway. You want to be left alone with your thoughts. They are not pleasant thoughts but you don't have the desire to do anything other than sit around with them.



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