Comolli Sacked

[CJ]

To be fair he scored about 12 in his first season (all comps) which was pretty good. Looked a real prospect then but never kicked on.

oh i didnt agree with the purchase but in the end he never developed and wasnt good enough in the end.

[Lee]

both players not good enough so should have been sold.

In the end this turned out to be the case.

To be fair he scored about 12 in his first season (all comps) which was pretty good. Looked a real prospect then but never kicked on.

Yup, his first season was his best by far. Dunno why it went wrong for him in the end.

[Fivex]

Rap.

[little dave hedgehog]

lol.

[Zapater]

His record was terrible. Never scored over 4 goals in the legaue for us. As much as I liked him, he was not very good was he. Id rather we kept Ngog.

Not that I'm at all distraught about his departure, but I'd like to see a Craig like minute to goal ratio to see how many goals he scored per 90 mins, because clearly coming on for the last 5-15 minutes of games isn't going to do one justice statistically. That being said, I thought it was about right when he left. He could and should have been better, but he didn't really develop. Although, considering our lack of variation and consistency in attacking areas it wouldn't have hurt to have him here another season to see how he went.

[el matador]

the latest version of the anfield wrap more or less says that kenny and commoli were too pally pally and were watching each others backs when it came to justifying results.

The americans got rid of comolli, ayres gonna be moved out of the football side of things. kennys next.

I have a lot of respect for these guys.

Really Really simple. Brutally efficient. Divide and conquer.

[kris90210]

the latest version of the anfield wrap more or less says that kenny and commoli were too pally pally and were watching each others backs when it came to justifying results.

The americans got rid of comolli, ayres gonna be moved out of the football side of things. kennys next.

I have a lot of respect for these guys.

Really Really simple. Brutally efficient. Divide and conquer.

Wow, that's pretty huge if true. How reliable are these guys? Wonder who they would get that kindof info from!

[Roboklopp]

Anfield Wrap is usually pretty good in my experience.

[Liverpel]

Liverpool owners ditch popluar weekly club magazine as part of cutbacks

THE root-and-branch American review of operations at Liverpool, which was being personally supervised on Merseyside by principal owner John W Henry yesterday, has led to the club ditching its popular weekly club magazine in favour of a monthly publication, to be published by the same London company which produces Manchester United's magazine and match programme.

Programme Master, which took over the United Review publications from Haymarket in November, will take over the Liverpool titles from 1 July – taking the management out of Liverpool, where Trinity Mirror had previously run it. Staff have been told that Trinity Mirror had lost the rights to maintain production and they may have the chance to apply for their positions. But the monthly format is likely to provide fewer opportunities.

The loss of the weekly publication does demonstrate the scrutiny of costs at all levels at Anfield, where the commercial director Graham Bartlett parted company with the club last month.

Henry, whose Fenway Sports Group dismissed director of football, Damien Comolli, last week, yesterday met manager Kenny Dalglish and held a second meeting in the space of 24 hours with Frank McParland, director of the club's Kirkby academy and one of the last vestiges of the infrastructure created by former manager Rafael Benitez. McParland has told friends that Henry is happy with his work at Kirkby and that there will be more investment. The academy's Under-18s reached the semi-finals of the NextGen European tournament this season, only to lose 6-1 to Ajax in a game which revealed the distance still to travel.

FSG have always cited the academy as a vital part of their "project" at Anfield, with Martin Kelly and Jon Flanagan among those emerging in the early months of Dalglish's second period at the helm. This season has proved more frustrating for those who might have expected to be next. Greater pressure on Dalglish to demonstrate the value of his signings has led to fewer opportunities.

Raheem Sterling and Andre Wisdom are considered two of the prime assets, but Sterling got the last five minutes of this month's home defeat by Wigan Athletic, while Wisdom has yet to feature. A fee of £850,000 was paid for Sporting Lisbon's 19-year-old Joao Teixeira in January, after his strong performance for Sporting Lisbon against Liverpool in the NextGen tournament, though fans still await the chance to see what that fee has bought.

Though Comolli was dismissed because the Americans viewed the £35m transfer fee paid for Andy Carroll to be a poor piece of business, he also took close interest in the academy and was to be found at a surprising number of reserve and academy games for someone of his seniority. Though very different personalities, he and McParland – who began his Liverpool career in the club's community office before Benitez promoted him and brought him back to Anfield from a period at Bolton Wanderers with Sammy Lee – are understood to have enjoyed a good relationship. Dalglish is believed to feel that McParland should remain a part of the Academy set-up.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/liverpool-owners-ditch-popluar-weekly-club-magazine-as-part-of-cutbacks-3086947.html

[Rishi73]

Liverpool owners ditch popluar weekly club magazine as part of cutbacks

THE root-and-branch American review of operations at Liverpool, which was being personally supervised on Merseyside by principal owner John W Henry yesterday, has led to the club ditching its popular weekly club magazine in favour of a monthly publication, to be published by the same London company which produces Manchester United's magazine and match programme.

Programme Master, which took over the United Review publications from Haymarket in November, will take over the Liverpool titles from 1 July – taking the management out of Liverpool, where Trinity Mirror had previously run it. Staff have been told that Trinity Mirror had lost the rights to maintain production and they may have the chance to apply for their positions. But the monthly format is likely to provide fewer opportunities.

The loss of the weekly publication does demonstrate the scrutiny of costs at all levels at Anfield, where the commercial director Graham Bartlett parted company with the club last month.

Henry, whose Fenway Sports Group dismissed director of football, Damien Comolli, last week, yesterday met manager Kenny Dalglish and held a second meeting in the space of 24 hours with Frank McParland, director of the club's Kirkby academy and one of the last vestiges of the infrastructure created by former manager Rafael Benitez. McParland has told friends that Henry is happy with his work at Kirkby and that there will be more investment. The academy's Under-18s reached the semi-finals of the NextGen European tournament this season, only to lose 6-1 to Ajax in a game which revealed the distance still to travel.

FSG have always cited the academy as a vital part of their "project" at Anfield, with Martin Kelly and Jon Flanagan among those emerging in the early months of Dalglish's second period at the helm. This season has proved more frustrating for those who might have expected to be next. Greater pressure on Dalglish to demonstrate the value of his signings has led to fewer opportunities.

Raheem Sterling and Andre Wisdom are considered two of the prime assets, but Sterling got the last five minutes of this month's home defeat by Wigan Athletic, while Wisdom has yet to feature. A fee of £850,000 was paid for Sporting Lisbon's 19-year-old Joao Teixeira in January, after his strong performance for Sporting Lisbon against Liverpool in the NextGen tournament, though fans still await the chance to see what that fee has bought.

Though Comolli was dismissed because the Americans viewed the £35m transfer fee paid for Andy Carroll to be a poor piece of business, he also took close interest in the academy and was to be found at a surprising number of reserve and academy games for someone of his seniority. Though very different personalities, he and McParland – who began his Liverpool career in the club's community office before Benitez promoted him and brought him back to Anfield from a period at Bolton Wanderers with Sammy Lee – are understood to have enjoyed a good relationship. Dalglish is believed to feel that McParland should remain a part of the Academy set-up.


http://www.independent.ie/opinion/an...s-3086947.html

Do I dare open a can of worms so early in the morning and say the only thing that seems to be working at the club is something Rafa put in place?

Bring him back!

[Resu]

Do I dare open a can of worms so early in the morning and say the only thing that seems to be working at the club is something Rafa put in place?

Bring him back!

I think that has just as much to do with time as it as with brilliance from Rafa.
RH, luckily, didn`t get enough time to change much and the year Kenny has been here is not a long time either.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Interesting that it says they were covering eachothers backs. Some of the interviews I've heard and seen do seem to be avoiding the point, we've done poorly, we can tell, the players can tell. Why not just admit we've had a poor season in the league.

[Shanks]

Do I dare open a can of worms so early in the morning and say the only thing that seems to be working at the club is something Rafa put in place?

Bring him back!

Are you talking about the youth set up??

Ironic really considering he never really give the young lads a chance, eh!

How many of Benitez youth buys have been a success?

Instead of these lads being given a chance, we had to endure Degen and Dossena..

I think Kenny has done more in this dept, since his appontment.

[dom9]

Do I dare open a can of worms so early in the morning and say the only thing that seems to be working at the club is something Rafa put in place?

Bring him back!

Or you could argue that of all the things he put in place, only one is left and they have taken the axe to everything else.

[kris90210]

Are you talking about the youth set up??

Ironic really considering he never really give the young lads a chance, eh!

How many of Benitez youth buys have been a success?

Instead of these lads being given a chance, we had to endure Degen and Dossena..

I think Kenny has done more in this dept, since his appontment.

I think it's clear he would have liked to have given youth a chance. He overhauled the whole system, brought in world class youth coaches, but sadly we just never developed anyone who was good enough while he was here. Pacheco and Nemeth have hardly gone on to prove him wrong for not playing them.

The set up is in place now, so hopefully this will be his legacy (Borrell and Segura).