New manager thread

[Fredo]

Sausage or Neil Young.

[Cormack74]

It's been fairly apparent that playing for Liverpool has been too big for some of our recent signings to cope with and I don't see why the same wouldn't apply to a new manager.

Appointing Martinez (nice fella btw) on the basis of 6 good weeks would be insanity.

Even scarier, there was a Gerrard to become player manager vibe doing the rounds on the radio earlier.

[spud_gun]

Even scarier, there was a Gerrard to become player manager vibe doing the rounds on the radio earlier.

Stop listening to talkSPORT

[Cormack74]

Stop listening to talkSPORT

On the beeb too

[BootRoom]

I've gone for AVB on the basis that he was hijacked by the Chelsea pensioners, with the Russian gangster siding with them, and if he came here he'd have the full backing of FSG if the old guard got stroppy.

[Shaggy]

Two people have voted for someone else - who?

[Pablo]

1. Rafa
2. Klopp
3. AVB

[Kloppster]

Two people have voted for someone else - who?

Three.... I want Rafa but dont think he will be back, so I vote Paul Lambert

[BrooklynRed]

Ayre denies Liverpool have shortlisted Martinez

Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre has insisted the club are yet to draw up a shortlist of potential successors to Kenny Dalglish as the club's manager.

Dalglish was dismissed from his position on Wednesday, after a season that saw victory in the Carling Cup tempered by a disappointing eighth place finish in the Premier League.

Wigan manager Roberto Martinez has immediately been installed as the hot favourite for the Anfield post, but Ayre denied the Spaniard was already on the club's shortlist.

"Not at the moment, no," Ayre told Sky Sports, when asked if the club had already identified any candidates for the job. "We come back tomorrow and look for a new appointment, that's when we start on that."

Ayre revealed that league form was the primary reason why Reds owner John W Henry decided to remove Dalglish from his position, one the Scot took up - originally on a temporary basis - after Roy Hodgson was fired in the early weeks of 2011.

"Results, perhaps, were not where we wanted them to be and that drives the decision," Ayre noted. "We feel it's the right decision and one we have to move forward with, but there's lots of praise and admiration for him.

"We have a big long-term plan for this football club, we've always talked about progress and moving forward. We've made a lot of progress off the pitch, creating a lot of foundations to build the business on and improve revenues, and the next important thing to move forward is football."

Ayre was evasive when asked whether Dalglish could be set for a quick return to Anfield in an ambassadorial or boardroom role, saying "that's a discussion for the future", but was quick to reject reports that he is set to be the next high-profile figure to lose his job at the club.

"Absolutely not," he said. "No question from my point of view [that I will leave], and certainly no indication of that from upstairs."

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/151181.html

[BootRoom]

I think the headline writers would prefer Klopp.

[Gibbo]

That means its gonna be Martinez

[spud_gun]

Two people have voted for someone else - who?

McLeish

[danperkins]

Two people have voted for someone else - who?

Rikjaard or Deschamps for me, along with AVB.

[Kenneth]

Rikjaard or Deschamps for me, along with AVB.

All good. It will be Martinez.

[Shaggy]

McLeish

Rikjaard or Deschamps for me, along with AVB.

Deschamps?!

Often been said he along with AVB were their preferred candidates before Kenny succeeded in the caretaker role. Last time I looked Marseille were doing ****. Very uninspired by Deschamps.