Liverpool owner John W Henry: Dalglish doing “very well”

[Big-Red-Ed]

You see all this I can't understand Kenny bull****e, it really winds me up. Are you all feckin deaf or something. He has a bit of a scottish accent, it's not like he is from mars. You all sound like public school toffs.

It's such a media inhouse gag to take the piss out of Kenny or Carra for having an accent. Please don't play into the Little England media's hands.

[Vermilion]

You see all this I can't understand Kenny bull****e, it really winds me up. Are you all feckin deaf or something. He has a bit of a scottish accent, it's not like he is from mars. You all sound like public school toffs.

It's such a media inhouse gag to take the piss out of Kenny or Carra for having an accent. Please don't play into the Little England media's hands.

What. did. you. say. ? speak. slower. thaaank yooou

[Rudo]

You see all this I can't understand Kenny bull****e, it really winds me up. Are you all feckin deaf or something. He has a bit of a scottish accent, it's not like he is from mars. You all sound like public school toffs.

It's such a media inhouse gag to take the piss out of Kenny or Carra for having an accent. Please don't play into the Little England media's hands.

It is rather strange, like can people seriously not make him out???

I can and i'm from Norn Iron... it's actually rather ignorant and rude when someone says they can't make him out(or anyone for that matter) when really they should be able to.

[Gray]

Anyone who can't understand Kenny is a simpleton

[RedReet]

Anyone who can't understand Kenny is a simpleton

Oi!

[Neil Young]

It's easier to see how an American might have difficulty with British regional accents.

I understand Dalglish but I sometimes can't understand Ferguson. I'd like to believe it's because he's drunk so he slurs his words and occasionally breaks into song at random intervals but in reality I think it's probably due to the fact that I don't pay as much attention.

[Mostar]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/31/kenny-dalglish-liverpool

Kenny Dalglish knows Liverpool 'progress' must not be allowed to stall

Luis Suárez and Andy Carroll have livened up Anfield but the Liverpool manager realises more is needed – and securing his own future is just as important a step as signing the strikers

Luis Suárez is a hit, Fernando Torres a flop so far at Chelsea and Andy Carroll has scored his first England goal. No wonder "progress" is the mantra at Anfield as Kenny Dalglish prepares to take Liverpool to West Bromwich Albion, where Roy Hodgson found refuge from the swirl of blame that blew him away from Merseyside.

Liverpool's coup in attracting Suárez and Carroll was surely the greatest zero-balance transfer trade in Premier League history. Out went the trudging and disaffected Torres (and Ryan Babel) and in came a Uruguayan with electrifying spacial awareness and a kind of Alan Shearer on steroids who could yet restore the standing of the giant English No9.

Carroll was not answering the call of the Mersey so much as the desire of his loss-making hometown club to snatch the £35m before Liverpool ceased to be cash-rich from the Torres deal. But Suárez appears to have been motivated by an authentic urge to become a Liverpool player, which shows in his play. He ignored the Premier League table. Will others, this summer, and in January? These are the two big windows on John W Henry's ownership.

All the talk of recovery is music to the Kop. For it to be sustained, though, Liverpool will have to cull again this summer and attract the kind of player who may reasonably look at their final league position and balk if it fails to offer continental action. Dalglish – assuming his contract is sorted out – and Damien Comolli, who has a lot to prove as the newly promoted director of football, already know they will not be able to entice recruits with the promise of great Champions League nights at Anfield.

So Liverpool are a hard sell, for 12 months at least, but Suárez and Carroll certainly brighten up the brochure at a club where the goalscoring department had tumbleweeds blowing through it before the sale of Torres came to feel less like a tragedy than a catharsis.

The England setup is not somewhere the average Liverpool fan looks to for inspiration (many decline to look at it at all) but the sight of Carroll scoring against Ghana revived the hope on Merseyside that he will cause damage in the eight league games the club have left. "It is a great reward for his recuperation and it will give him a lift and kick him on further," Dalglish says. "He's got a wee bit to go before getting up to match fitness but he came in here for five and a half years, not two months."

Dalglish also insisted Carroll was "focused" on his task, rather than his pint, three days after Fabio Capello, the England manager, had warned him to drink less beer. King Kenny will recognise that kind of missive from his own playing days, when heroes were thirstier than they are allowed to be today, but he also appreciates Carroll's symbolic importance, as the most expensive English footballer, and the author of the biggest footprint on the road to recovery.

The clearing out of stowaways will freshen the air again this summer: players such as Insúa, Degen, El Zhar and Konchesky, who are all on loan. A measure of progress is that Lucas Leiva, a bete noire to many before this campaign, has improved dramatically and signed a contract extension. Steven Gerrard is on the way back and could feature at West Brom. Milan Jovanovic, a Rafael Benítez fancy who arrived in the short Hodgson era, will be shipped back out. Pepe Reina talks as if he wants to leave. Keeping the star goalkeeper is the biggest challenge within the existing squad.

A promising hardcore is in place: Reina, Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Glen Johnson, Lucas, Raul Meireles, Carroll, Suárez and Dirk Kuyt, who runs his legs into stumps. But it is far too small to sustain a title challenge, which is what makes the summer pivotal. Inside Anfield, though, they will tell you the financial outlook has been transformed by the club not having to dish out interest on the takeover debt piled up by Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

All of which leaves the biggest issue unresolved: Dalglish's contract, and the demarcation lines between the manager and Comolli, the Minister for Moneyball in the new cabinet. The owners may take the view that extending Dalglish's deal is unnecessary before the season's end but the football industry is not keen on hesitation.

Already agents are lining up moves, players are studying options. Dalglish has already exploded the myth that 10 years away from the frontline are enfeebling. His first move was to restore old Anfield values from before the Benítez and Gérard Houllier eras. His next trick will be to move with the times. Signing Carroll and Suárez shows he can, and will, but the owners need to tell the industry he is their man and then go out and do some business.

[Craig_H]

I seriously think that if Kenny is given a longterm contract and backed, he will win us the PL.

[Colonel Angus]

I seriously think that if Kenny is given a longterm contract and backed, he will win us the PL.

I concur, Kenny is in his natural element now, he's happy, that much is obvious.

[anfieldanfield]

I seriously think that if Kenny is given a longterm contract and backed, he will win us the PL.

Mourinho, if backed, WOULD win us the league. No doubt.

If he's available we are mad not to be in for him.

[banditos]

Mourinho, if backed, WOULD win us the league. No doubt.

If he's available we are mad not to be in for him.

Coz he's a winner!




And an egotistical ******. Much rather Kenny. It's not the Liverpool way to win at any cost, regardless of style of play, dignity and integrity. Keep that cunt away from LFC please.

[Mostar]

Mourinho, if backed, WOULD win us the league. No doubt.

If he's available we are mad not to be in for him.

I don't think the special one would come unless he is given an ample amount of cash for the new signing and full authority who to sign.

Also he's salary could be astronomical.

[Craig_H]

Mourinho, if backed, WOULD win us the league. No doubt.

If he's available we are mad not to be in for him.

I think the same could be said of Kenny.

[The Birdman]

Mourinho, if backed, WOULD win us the league. No doubt.

If he's available we are mad not to be in for him.

Why would he?? Now I'm not anti Mourinho like some on here but everything needs to be put into perspective.
Portugal was a 2 team league, he inherited Ranieri's Chelsea that had finished 3 rd (I think) and they had already signed Robben and Cech and he got a blank chequebook.
Inter had won the league something like 3 out of the last 4 years before he arrived so they were hardly a **** team and well Madrid are Madrid, again hardly struggling.

We'd be the side in the worst position with the most ground to make up of any of his managerial jobs to date.

Hypothetically if Mourinho came to us in the summer we'd be bottom of 6 clubs who thought they had a chance of winning the PL.
Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs all have stronger squads, more or the same amount of money to spend and are more attractive clubs for top players to play for.
We don't have CL football and we may not have any European football.

Some of our fans need to realise where we are squad and finances wise in relation to the other top teams

[Rudo]

Mourinho doesn't do stability, no thanks.