Dalglish

[Mattshark]

People won't like me for this but Daglish now seems to be enjoying the gravy train too much to risk rocking the boat. He comes across as a company man now. It's just how I see it.

He is an employee of the club, he can't publicly talk about a lack of support for the manager. What he says and what he thinks are likely two very different things.

[Craig_H]

I would say that it'd be 'utopia' if Bodger gets the boot soon.

Truly a formidable decision.

[alunevans]

He is an employee of the club, he can't publicly talk about a lack of support for the manager. What he says and what he thinks are likely two very different things.

He wouldn't publicly talk about a lack of support for the manager whether an employee or not and again I think rightly so. That's not his role and I like how Kenny just backs LFC no matter what personally.

[Mostar]

He is an employee of the club, he can't publicly talk about a lack of support for the manager. What he says and what he thinks are likely two very different things.

[Roboklopp]

He is an employee of the club, he can't publicly talk about a lack of support for the manager. What he says and what he thinks are likely two very different things.

I agree with that & I suppose he might have been asked directly, but sometimes silence or as little as is possible is a better policy.

[red g]

I agree with that & I suppose he might have been asked directly, but sometimes silence or as little as is possible is a better policy.

yes but silence jsut leads to 'kenny doesn't back manager etc'

truly a no-win situation......I am sure JWH was left in no doubt what a cunt Roy was after the dinner they had.

[SimonNo7]

He is an employee of the club, he can't publicly talk about a lack of support for the manager. What he says and what he thinks are likely two very different things.

He wouldn't publicly talk about a lack of support for the manager whether an employee or not and again I think rightly so. That's not his role and I like how Kenny just backs LFC no matter what personally.

Absolutely. I really do not understand why fans think that they should know everything that is going on at our club and get upset when the powers that be don't say publicly exactly the same as we are saying or do exactly what we want them to do when we want them to.

They, like any business and we are a business whether we like it or not, will be doing a hell of a lot behind closed doors, away from those it affects at the club - staff and those away from the club - namely us fans!

Things will happen when they decide they want them to happen, just like the takeover itself.

[Vermilion]

Sure the article has been posted elsewhere, other than in just the 'news thread', but the bit about having dinner with the Dalglish's is heartening, really happy to know they are making a point of getting to know him.

Kop owners fail to shield Hodgson from fans fury
Published 23:00 13/12/10 By Mike Walters [Mirror]

Liverpool owner John W Henry rattled Roy Hodgson with a warning shot about “unacceptable” results last night.

As Anfield militants peppered the club’s new American power brokers with calls to axe Hodgson, Henry provided his under-fire manager little shelter from the crossfire.

In a live phone-in on *Liverpool’s in-house TV channel, Henry and chairman Tom Werner were left in little doubt about the grievances stacking up against their manager after Saturday’s derisory 3-1 defeat at Newcastle.

Hodgson had earlier acknowledged the *chatroom rage by staging a long inquest into the shambles on Tyneside, which left the Reds with a pathetic five points from a possible 27 away from home this season.

Liverpool’s next four games – at home to his old club Fulham, away at Blackpool and an Anfield double header with Wolves and Bolton – will give Hodgson a chance to avert a full-blown crisis.

But Henry, the Boston Red Sox magnate who ousted hated cowboys Tom Hicks and George Gillett in a £300million takeover two months ago, offered only qualified support for Hodgson – and ominously spoke of handing Kop legend Kenny Dalglish a “more substantive role” at the club.

Henry said: “There’s no doubt about it that this season and the second half of last season was unacceptable for *Liverpool, and we are in sync with the fans for what it’s going to take going forward.

“It doesn’t take a lot of time for the club to go downhill but it takes time to rebuild, and over the last two years there have been some short-term decisions which have really hurt the club.

“It’s up to us to turn the tide, but we are in it for the long term.

“We see this as an *opportunity to return the club to where it was 20 years ago.

“Where we are at this point is not acceptable, but when I say rebuilding I mean building for the top of the table. That’s going to be really difficult to do this year and a real *challenge next year as well.”

Of Dalglish, the club *ambassador who enjoyed widespread support for a second spell in charge until Hodgson was appointed in the summer, Henry added: “We actually met a couple of times to talk about things.

“He needs to have a more substantive role within the club and that’s something we are working on with (director of football strategy) Damien Comolli.”

Werner said: “We had a lovely dinner with Kenny, his wife Marina and his son Paul – I understood about half of what he said, and I just nodded when I couldn’t understand.

“But we know what he means to this club, and we would be well-served with his spirit and tradition. We believe in what Roy is doing, and we certainly feel the performances have to improve.”


Read more: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news...#ixzz1863mKA9m

[Big-Red-Ed]

Wishful thinking but maybe this dinner with Kenny and his missus was to try and talk him into reconsidering his alleged decision not to take on the management mantle in the short term. Maybe it's Marina that is set against Kenny taking on the pressure again.