Pack your bags Roy

[Rowan]

ok so people are allowed different opinions, agree with that - don't agree with how you describe Carra in your posts, shows a lack of class and probably a very loose grasp of the English langauage.

Carra is past his best certainly, but no need to be crass and rude about how you describe him hey, the bloke has done an awful lot for LFC over the past decade or so

Ouch. Well they say timing is everything

[Fivex]

Then who the hell's Carheex?

[RichC]

Ouch. Well they say timing is everything

touche!

[peekay]

Another day brings another bunch of ****ty statements from Dodgson

Roy Hodgson out to forget his troubles with spree at the January sales

Tony Barrett
1 minute ago

Roy Hodgson has pleaded with the owners of Liverpool, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), to allow him to spend his way out of trouble despite his future at the club being shrouded in uncertainty.

FSG has already determined that Hodgson will be replaced as manager, the only question being whether or not his successor will be identified and appointed before the end of the season.

Only a dramatic and unlikely U-turn by the club’s American owners prompted by an upsurge in form would afford the 63-year-old any chance of remaining in situ, but Hodgson is seeking an opportunity to stamp his “authority and philosophy” on the team by staging a spending spree during the January transfer window.

Hodgson maintains that the present Liverpool team cannot truly be described as his unless and until it contains more of his own signings. After his appointment as manager last July, Liverpool recruited seven players, including Joe Cole, Raul Meireles, Paul Konchesky and Christian Poulsen, but Hodgson says that an even more significant incursion into the transfer market is necessary if he is to bring about the kind of revival that his critics claim is beyond him.

“I’m hoping that one day I will get a chance to stamp a little bit more of my authority and philosophy on the team by choosing some more of the players,” Hodgson said. “Although it’s not often mentioned, I’ve not been that active in the transfer market since I’ve been here.

“The players are the ones you have watched playing for the past few years and who’ve done exceptionally well for me in accepting a new manager with a new style and a new training method, albeit that unfortunately we have been guilty of inconsistency.”

The dilemma for FSG is that in planning for a future without Hodgson, it may be loath to offer him substantial transfer funds this month, but the decline in Liverpool’s fortunes could force FSG to be more liberal with its spending than had previously been expected.

The presence of Damien Comolli, however, may offer a solution because the club’s recently appointed director of football strategy could be empowered to direct all transfer operations regardless of the managerial uncertainty.

Hodgson’s desperation for top-class recruits stems in part from his belief that Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres cannot be relied on to figure in each and every game. The manager’s concern is such that he has warned the Liverpool supporters not to expect the pair to start all the games in January as he seeks to protect them for the rest of the season.

“I think we will have to [put Torres on the bench in some games] and have to hope that the fans and supporters understand that,” Hodgson said. “Fernando had a very serious knee injury, which seems to be in the past, but when you’ve had an injury there’s always the little risk of recurrence. And Steven, of course, is susceptible to muscle injury if he plays too many games one after the other.

“So I’ve got to hope that the ones who just seem to keep going, the Duracell bunnies — the Dirk Kuyts and the Lucas Leivas of this world — can keep us going and give me a chance of giving a rest to the others.

“But I think you’ll find a lot of teams have a lot of matches coming up. Our good fortune is that the squad going into these matches is relatively whole. We don’t have that many injuries, touch wood.”

[DannyMan2006]

Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson could be replaced by Ralf Rangnick, the former manager of Hoffenheim - Rory Smith, The Telegraph

Liverpool’s fans may know who they want to replace Roy Hodgson, but the club’s owners are evidently less certain.

Kenny Dalglish seems the obvious choice to return to the post he last occupied 19 years ago, given the vociferous backing from the Kop he has already received. Ralf Rangnick, the little-known former manager of German side Hoffenheim, is a little more left field.

It would be easy to characterise the 52 year-old as a continental nobody, to mock his previous engagements at the likes of Ulm and Reutlingen in his homeland and his brief playing stint at Sussex County League side Southwick FC as evidence of how inappropriate his CV is for the task of taking over English football’s most decorated club.

Yet his work at Hoffenheim qualifies him perfectly. After comparatively unsuccessful spells at Stuttgart and Schalke, Rangnick, nicknamed ‘The Professor’ by a German football establishment suspicious of his modernity, took the tiny village club — admittedly bankrolled by the billionaire Dieter Hopp — from the German third division to the cusp of Europe.

His Hoffenheim side played thrilling, rapid football — an offensive 4-3-3 with two wingers, Demba Ba and Chinedu Obasi, employed purely offensively — which took Germany by storm and by surprise; he sought out bargains, like striker Vedad Ibisevic; and he invested heavily in youth, preferring to sign players between the ages of 17 and 24. He is fluent in English, having studied in Sussex in his youth.

On Saturday, he left Hoffenheim, together with his assistant, ostensibly over the sale of defender Gustavo Luiz to Bayern Munich.

Rumour suggests he – or Dalglish, Guus Hiddink or Frank Rijkaard – might take over when Fenway Sports Group decide to end Hodgson’s reign. Rangnick remains the outsider, as he has always been. He likes it that way.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8237744/Liverpool-manager-Roy-Hodgson-could-be-replaced-by-Ralf-Rangnick-the-former-manager-of-Hoffenheim.html

[DannyMan2006]

FSG has already determined that Hodgson will be replaced as manager, the only question being whether or not his successor will be identified and appointed before the end of the season.

Only a dramatic and unlikely U-turn by the club’s American owners prompted by an upsurge in form would afford the 63-year-old any chance of remaining in situ

Say it aint so Tony!!!!!!!

[DannyMan2006]

Barretts article is exactly what I said previously I feared. If they delay Hodgson could blag himself another season in charge.

[Neil Young]

I actually think the claims in one article that Hodgson believes that there are no journeyman teams any more and that all team shave one match winner now is interesting. If he accepts that different challenges are faced now in the PL (not that I'm sure that I agree) then surely he must accept it is possible that new methods are required to counter them, surely?

I've been thinking more about this. You're right about how his own words condemn him but in addition to me it suggests Hodgson believes goals are scored by individuals rather than teams. It's certainly true of how we've been playing - no shape in attack, just hit it up and see what happens. Usually, as at the weekend, it requires a bit of magic from Gerrard and/or Torres.

It's an antediluvian approach to football and I hate it.

[Arn]

Interesting that Rory links us with Hiddink.

I doubt that he will leave Turkey but you never now.

[Armchairkopite]

Barretts article is exactly what I said previously I feared. If they delay Hodgson could blag himself another season in charge.

There isn't a hope in hell he will be here after the summer mate, he's a goner and he knows it.

In fact the more I think about it the more sense it makes, excuses like 'I haven't been given any money to spend' and 'this isn't my squad'. That's the talk of a down and outer trying to buy time, but in reflection as a manager how wise is it to criticise the squad that you are relying on to save your job time after time.

He must have the strongest finger nails in the World but a gentle tug on the ankles he is on the way that's for definite.

[little dave hedgehog]

use words only 5 of us understand in a well thought out critique of a man we all hate!

[DannyMan2006]

If Hodgson blags a few decent results he could stay.

We are capable of 6th even under Hodgson due to no stand out teams other than top 5. An improvement on last year position wise and a trophy and I think there's no way he'd get the boot.

We are the best team in the Europa Cup and if we beat Man Utd at Old Trafford I'd fancy us to have a real go at winning that too.

It's all ifs and buts. I've been saying if this and if that all season with Roy, and he always ****s up. But the chance is always there that he suddenly starts to get things right enough to drag himself over the finish line and keep himself in the job.

**** me, if we beat Blackburn the media and roy will probably think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread and that he is once again turning the corner.

[Arn]

use words only 5 of us understand in a well thought out critique of a man we all hate!

Anfall, va fan är det?

[little dave hedgehog]

tal dog engelsk for fanden

[Mattshark]

Roy lugter af afføring