The Kenny Dalglish Stand

[RedReet]

Fair play to FSG. For all the criticism they get, they could easily have sold naming rights to the highest bidder.

[dom9]

I'd rather they did that and put the money towards rebuilding the Anfield Road end.

[RedReet]

I'd rather they did that and put the money towards rebuilding the Anfield Road end.

I'm not sentimental at all, couldn't care what the stand is called, so I'd have been happy if it was the McDonald's stand and the money was used to improve the team. They get heavily criticised though as using the club as a cash cow, asset stripping etc, when quite often it's not the case.

[dom9]

There is loads of money available for the team already. It's just not being spent (for the multitude of reasons covered endlessly in other threads).

I also suspect that there is money available to build the ARE too, but FSG are stalling for whatever reason (I can think of several).

[BobTheCharmer]

I'm not sentimental at all, couldn't care what the stand is called, so I'd have been happy if it was the McDonald's stand and the money was used to improve the team. They get heavily criticised though as using the club as a cash cow, asset stripping etc, when quite often it's not the case.

You would happily sell the soul of the club for extra cash? What's the point? The money won't make a difference between a place in the league. If we renamed the ground Shell or Topshop and earnt £100m doing it. That would get you two Danny rose's. It's completely irrelevant. All the teams are awash with money. It's better to retain some dignity and class and mean something. Once you sell out where do you go next? If we were going down that route it should have been ten years ago whereby the extra cash could of made a real difference. It's too late now.

[RedReet]

You would happily sell the soul of the club for extra cash? What's the point? The money won't make a difference between a place in the league. If we renamed the ground Shell or Topshop and earnt £100m doing it. That would get you two Danny rose's. It's completely irrelevant. All the teams are awash with money. It's better to retain some dignity and class and mean something. Once you sell out where do you go next? If we were going down that route it should have been ten years ago whereby the extra cash could of made a real difference. It's too late now.

You are missing my point. A stand is a stand for me. If renaming it meant more success on the pitch, I'm all for it. Whether or not it would is a different argument. So despite my personal feelings about the stand, I know others feel different, which is why I started my first post in saying fair play to FSG as they were under no obligation to do this.

[Vermilion]

About bloody time. Much better than the Melwood lean.

[Phoenix07]

Kenny Dalglish thought he was getting sacked again when he was called into Jurgen Klopp's office - only to discover he was being immortalised at Anfield.

The 66-year-old Liverpool legend will attend a ceremony on Friday where the former Centenary Stand will be renamed the Kenny Dalglish Stand in his honour.

Family, former team-mates and also rivals - including Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson and Sir Bobby Charlton - will be present to see the man still regarded as the best player in the club's history recognised.

It will be a slightly different feeling for Dalglish, a non-executive director with an ambassadorial role, than the day late last season when he was called to the club's Melwood training ground.

"Mike Gordon (Fenway Sports Group president - and the man who sacked Brendan Rodgers) was over and he asked to see me at Melwood," said Dalglish, who was sacked in his second spell as manager in 2012 after leading Liverpool to victory in the League Cup, an FA Cup final and eighth place in the Premier League.

"I went up to Jurgen's office and there was a laptop there and John (FSG's principal owner) and Linda (his wife) were on it and there was another one with Tom Werner (Liverpool chairman) on it.

"John started speaking and I thought, 'What have I done now?' I thought I was getting the sack again.

"I thought I was in trouble and then he said they wanted to name the stand after myself, as well as for the football it was for the work done with the community with Marina (Dalglish's wife) and the charity and everything."

The unveiling will come less than 24 hours before the arrival of arch-rivals Manchester United, live on Sky Sports, for the resumption of the Premier League and Ferguson and Charlton are both on Dalglish's guest list for the event.

Despite the public perception being of a frosty relationship between the two Scots when they were in charge of England's two most successful clubs in the 1980s and 1990s the former Reds boss insists the pair are friends and always have been - despite Ferguson succeeding in his quest to "knock Liverpool off their perch".

"If he wanted to get to the top he had to target Liverpool, and Everton, because when he came down here in the 80s Liverpool and Everton were winning at least one thing every year," added Dalglish.

"I don't even remember him saying that comment. It wouldn't have registered with me. How can you criticise someone who is totally supportive of his club? He made a massive contribution to Manchester United.

"Away from working there has never been a problem with him. After the end of the game there was never any animosity or dissent from either of us, there would always be a drink.

"His actions speak louder than a thousand words, him and Sir Bobby coming over. They did exactly the same after Hillsborough. They were over here early doors.

"There is rivalry on and off the pitch but when it comes to something like that there is not even a doubt about it - they will be over here supporting us and hopefully we would do the same for them."

http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...amed-after-him

[baitman]

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[Shaggy]

Anyone watching this? He's not passed away ffs.

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[labourRed]

I wonder what Tomorrow's mosaic will say

[Shaggy]

I've seen it mate, it says King Jenny.

[Buzzo]

The Kia Sportage?