Comolli Sacked

[Alex]

Pleased about this. Glad the club is showing leadership over the failings.

[BobTheCharmer]

What odds on Kenny moving into that role with Rafa coming back into the hot seat?

hopefully 10million to one.

The director of football role has no place in our game. It always fails over here.

[Shaggy]

The whole family reasons thing smells of bull**** to me.

No-one gets sacked anymore, they just get mutually consented.

[npinn001]

Think it's inevitable that Kenny will go at the end of the season now.

Totally agree. It seems to indicate that they are paving the way for either:
a) Kenny to move back upsatiars with a pat on the back, and a new manager coming in.
or
b) A new manager who wants total control ala Rafa in his last few years.

But I think its all in place for the end of the season now.

[Chazza]

Rory Smith @RorySmithTimes
Can read the Comolli news two ways: either Dalglish wins power games or FSG - as promised - are prepared to act swiftly on anyone. #LFC

[Bender]

this shows fsg won't put up with failure ...... players and dalglish beware time to raise your game

[Drew Peacock]

What odds on Kenny moving into that role with Rafa coming back into the hot seat?

Now THAT would be a backward step

[RichC]

If he has been sacked then why has he been sacked?

Surely this now puts more pressure on Dalglish. Dalglish has final say on the players the club bought.

Why, oh why, didn't this come on in the summer?!

I wonder if he Kenny actually did now, clearly DomCom has been blamed for the transfers made in the summer.

[BobTheCharmer]

this shows fsg won't put up with failure

it also shows their timing leaves a lot to be desired.

[Buzzo]

The whole family reasons thing smells of bull**** to me.

No-one gets sacked anymore, they just get mutually consented.

He is allowed to feel he has left with his head held high for family reasons, whilst the real reason is apparent to everyone and leaked to the press.

No doubt Comolli has just put forward his proposals for signings for next season, and they have not been accepted.

[Gingawaria]

Could possibly mean Kenny will step aside in the summer as they already have another man in mind for the job? They'd never sack Kenny, but Comolli's fair game IMO.

Maybe it makes more sense that they'd get rid of Comolli first as he was less likely to step aside in the summer.

[Galb]

I have to say, Im not that disappointed with this news. Not nice to say when someone's lost their job but Im almost pleased. There was something about Comolli that I didnt like. His record at Arsenal and Spurs was more mixed than he claims, and there were always whispers that the view at those clubs (especially Arsenal) was that he claimed credit for things that had little to do with him. Our record didnt exactly contradict that (poor recent signings and credit being claimed immediately for Suarez when we had certainly scouted/been linked heavily to him before Comolli ever arrived).

The appointment always struck me as one based on the recommendation of baseball Moneyball people who he had hung out with/sucked up to. This looks to me like FSG (or their people in the UK) have taken their time to get to get a feel for football, recognise the need for some differences of strategy/approach, and acted ruthlessly to do so.

If they are willing to re-think strategy and be ruthless, that gives me some hope for the future.

[Chris]

I wonder if he Kenny actually did now, clearly DomCom has been blamed for the transfers made in the summer.

Same here, or maybe he'll get sacked once the season is over aswell. But its interesting if he stays and suggests he had less say than we thought.

[Lecter]

Henry Winter@henrywinter
Comolli leaves #lfc. Reflects Dalglish power. I never thought that relationship would work. But test of Dalglish to get signings right now

Rory Smith@RorySmithTimes
Can read the Comolli news two ways: either Dalglish wins power games or FSG - as promised - are prepared to act swiftly on anyone. #LFC

[Rowan]

Totally agree. It seems to indicate that they are paving the way for either:
a) Kenny to move back upsatiars with a pat on the back, and a new manager coming in.
or
b) A new manager who wants total control ala Rafa in his last few years.

But I think its all in place for the end of the season now.

or we are about to rip our scouting network apart and implement either something entirely new or somebody elses ideas