Next Liverpool Manager

[fowler9]

we're expected to accept its Hodgson because the mirror have said he is coming by the end of the week for the last 27 weeks?

[JohnnyH]

Tony Barrett has been very quiet on this. Is he on holidays or something?

[Gary Mac Legend]

Tony Barrett has been very quiet on this. Is he on holidays or something?

 

Didn't he recently break the story of Kenny leaving as he opposes Hodgson's appointment?

[Chinandeler Bong]

Gary Jacob, Tony Evans

Updated 41 minutes ago

Roy Hodgson is expected to be in place as Liverpool manager on Thursday — and his first job will be to field formal offers for the club’s crown jewels, Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres.

Real Madrid have tabled a £20 million take-it-or-leave-it bid for the England captain, whom Liverpool value at £35 million.

Torres, the Spain striker, would cost in excess of £60 million, but Chelsea and Real are aware that Liverpool’s precarious financial situation allows the opportunity to acquire their players at knockdown prices. There were suggestions last night that the London club’s initial offer could be as low as £25 million.

Hodgson, 62, who took Fulham to the Europa League final last season, will be consulted over any decision to sell, but can expect to receive only a small proportion of any money raised.

Liverpool are expected to have to pay Fulham about £2 million in compensation for the services of Hodgson, who would also have been a candidate to become the next England manager should the Football Association decide to part company with Fabio Capello.

The Italian said yesterday that the FA wanted two weeks to think about his position, but by then Hodgson will be installed at Anfield.

Liverpool needed to act quickly because only Sammy Lee remains from Rafael Benítez’s coaching staff. Benítez left Anfield on June 3 by mutual agreement with a £6 million payoff.

Hodgson can expect a muted reception from the fans, especially since his appointment will raise questions about the future of Kenny Dalglish.

The former manager and club icon was charged by Christian Purslow, the managing director, with finding a successor to Benítez. After assessing the candidates, the Scot put himself forward for the job, despite a longstanding friendship with Hodgson.

Internal politics may be the least of Hodgson’s problems at Anfield, however. Despite Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr, the co-owners, putting Liverpool up for sale in April, there is no buyer on the horizon. The club owe £351 million in loans, mainly to Royal Bank of Scotland, which is irritated with the Americans’ inability to sell.

 

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/premierleague/article2578501.ece

[Dicko]

Tony Barrett has been very quiet on this. Is he on holidays or something?

 

He's just become a Dad.

[Il Fenomeno]

Real Madrid have tabled a £20 million take-it-or-leave-it bid for the England captain, whom Liverpool value at £35 million. There were suggestions last night that the London club’s initial offer could be as low as £25 million.

Despite Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr, the co-owners, putting Liverpool up for sale in April, there is no buyer on the horizon. The club owe £351 million in loans, mainly to Royal Bank of Scotland, which is irritated with the Americans’ inability to sell.

 

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/premierleague/article2578501.ece

 

Fuck that, depressing.

[Arl arse]

Gary Jacob, Tony Evans

Updated 41 minutes ago

Roy Hodgson is expected to be in place as Liverpool manager on Thursday — and his first job will be to field formal offers for the club’s crown jewels, Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres.

Real Madrid have tabled a £20 million take-it-or-leave-it bid for the England captain, whom Liverpool value at £35 million.

Torres, the Spain striker, would cost in excess of £60 million, but Chelsea and Real are aware that Liverpool’s precarious financial situation allows the opportunity to acquire their players at knockdown prices. There were suggestions last night that the London club’s initial offer could be as low as £25 million.

Hodgson, 62, who took Fulham to the Europa League final last season, will be consulted over any decision to sell, but can expect to receive only a small proportion of any money raised.

Liverpool are expected to have to pay Fulham about £2 million in compensation for the services of Hodgson, who would also have been a candidate to become the next England manager should the Football Association decide to part company with Fabio Capello.

The Italian said yesterday that the FA wanted two weeks to think about his position, but by then Hodgson will be installed at Anfield.

Liverpool needed to act quickly because only Sammy Lee remains from Rafael Benítez’s coaching staff. Benítez left Anfield on June 3 by mutual agreement with a £6 million payoff.

Hodgson can expect a muted reception from the fans, especially since his appointment will raise questions about the future of Kenny Dalglish.

The former manager and club icon was charged by Christian Purslow, the managing director, with finding a successor to Benítez. After assessing the candidates, the Scot put himself forward for the job, despite a longstanding friendship with Hodgson.

Internal politics may be the least of Hodgson’s problems at Anfield, however. Despite Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr, the co-owners, putting Liverpool up for sale in April, there is no buyer on the horizon. The club owe £351 million in loans, mainly to Royal Bank of Scotland, which is irritated with the Americans’ inability to sell.

 

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/premierleague/article2578501.ece

 

Now the truth comes out.

 

No money.

Clubs picking at our carcase like vultures.

No sale on the horizon.

and Roy fuckin Hogson installed as captain of the Titanic.

 

 

Thanks DM.

[Hair Police]

Roy Hodgson deserves respect, but Liverpool’s board should listen to the supporters this time | Football Sense

 

Roy Hodgson deserves respect, but Liverpool’s board should listen to the supporters this time.

 

Read more: Roy Hodgson deserves respect, but Liverpool’s board should listen to the supporters this time | Football Sense

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He hasn’t been introduced to the media, or the players, yet. He hasn’t walked around Melwood and seen the up-to-the-minute technology or the unrivalled silverware. He hasn’t even been formally announced as Liverpool’s manager yet. And yet Roy Hodgson is THE big talking point on Merseyside, one which is already dividing opinion as much as his predecessor, Rafa Benítez, ever did.

 

His arrival – which is expected to be confirmed at least by the time the bulk of Liverpool’s squad report back for pre-season training on July 14 – is unlikely to be met by the kind of ‘flag and chant’ rally which marked Benítez’s departure, but there is undoubted opposition to the Fulham manager’s appointment. And not just from supporters.

 

Few characters, living at least, can boast the kind of adulation reserved for Kenny Dalglish at Anfield, and when it emerged last month that the 59-year-old was willing to be considered for the role, there was a clear and genuine groundswell of support from sections of the Liverpool faithful. Dalglish may have been out of management since an inglorious stint at Celtic a decade ago, but his appointment seemed both logical and necessary.

 

Now, the word is that Hodgson’s imminent arrival is set to alienate not just those supporters who hoped for a nostalgic ‘second coming’ for Dalglish at Anfield – or pined for a more flamboyant, forward-thinking appointment, such as Manuel Pellegrini, Frank Rijkaard or Didier Deschamps – but also their favourite son. Dalglish is reportedly prepared to quit his position as youth academy ambassador should Hodgson be given the job he held for six years between 1985 and 1991.

 

Dalglish’s logic is clear, even if his campaign – aided by media friends, favourable stories and strong support from his son, Paul – seems a little ham-fisted. It seems he felt that, by throwing his hat into the ring, he would appeal to both the Liverpool board’s need for thriftiness, and their desire to lessen the ferocious criticism aimed their way from the club’s increasingly disillusioned supporters. But whilst it looked for a time as though King Kenny was on his way back to the big chair, it now seems as though Hodgson will get the nod ahead of him.

 

‘Why?’ scream the Liverpool supporters, and with ample reason. Hodgson may have edged his way into the affections of many a neutral thanks to Fulham’s unlikely run to the Europa League final last season, but this is not one of the world’s premier managers we are talking about. Liverpool may only have finished seventh under Benítez last season, but the club’s name and (current) playing squad remains strong enough to suggest that the disappointment of 2010 can still be turned into a positive 2011. With the right manager, that is.

 

Of course it would be unfair to say, straight off the bat, that Hodgson is not the right manager for Liverpool. This is, after all, the man who revived a Fulham side who were destined for relegation from the Premier League just two years ago, and turned them into a side who could outperform the Reds in their maiden European campaign. He is the current LMA Manager of the Year, no less, and Liverpool’s parlous financial situation means they can probably ill-afford to spend big on a big name, who would likely demand equal ambition in the transfer market.

 

But, for all Benítez’s faults, he is replacing a man with one of the finest European pedigrees around. Liverpool, in five years under the Spaniard, reached two Champions League finals (winning one), a semi-final, and a quarter-final. They were even, amid the wreckage of last season, semi-finalists in the Europa League. He guided them to their highest ever Premier League finish, their highest ever Premier League points total, and took them as close as any manager has since 1990 to capturing their 19th league championship. His stock may have fallen significantly during the past twelve months, but Benítez is a tough act to follow – and one who enjoyed a strong rapport with the supporters, even when the road narrowed.

 

Whether Hodgson can do so, whether he can win over the notoriously supportive Kop, remains to be seen – and like I say, his appointment is yet to be confirmed – but certainly the apathy which will great the 62-year-old’s arrival is not without reason. And whilst appointing a manager to appease supporters can backfire – Kevin Keegan, Alan Shearer – it is about time the Anfield chiefs showed they cared for their club’s most important asset. Liverpool fans know their football, and just for once, maybe their board should listen to them.

 

Read more: Roy Hodgson deserves respect, but Liverpool’s board should listen to the supporters this time | Football Sense

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A good read, in my opinion. A piece that sums up what a lot of us are feeling at present.

[Gary Mac Legend]

Gary Jacob, Tony Evans

Updated 41 minutes ago

Roy Hodgson is expected to be in place as Liverpool manager on Thursday — and his first job will be to field formal offers for the club’s crown jewels, Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres.

Real Madrid have tabled a £20 million take-it-or-leave-it bid for the England captain, whom Liverpool value at £35 million.

Torres, the Spain striker, would cost in excess of £60 million, but Chelsea and Real are aware that Liverpool’s precarious financial situation allows the opportunity to acquire their players at knockdown prices. There were suggestions last night that the London club’s initial offer could be as low as £25 million.

Hodgson, 62, who took Fulham to the Europa League final last season, will be consulted over any decision to sell, but can expect to receive only a small proportion of any money raised.

Liverpool are expected to have to pay Fulham about £2 million in compensation for the services of Hodgson, who would also have been a candidate to become the next England manager should the Football Association decide to part company with Fabio Capello.

The Italian said yesterday that the FA wanted two weeks to think about his position, but by then Hodgson will be installed at Anfield.

Liverpool needed to act quickly because only Sammy Lee remains from Rafael Benítez’s coaching staff. Benítez left Anfield on June 3 by mutual agreement with a £6 million payoff.

Hodgson can expect a muted reception from the fans, especially since his appointment will raise questions about the future of Kenny Dalglish.

The former manager and club icon was charged by Christian Purslow, the managing director, with finding a successor to Benítez. After assessing the candidates, the Scot put himself forward for the job, despite a longstanding friendship with Hodgson.

Internal politics may be the least of Hodgson’s problems at Anfield, however. Despite Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr, the co-owners, putting Liverpool up for sale in April, there is no buyer on the horizon. The club owe £351 million in loans, mainly to Royal Bank of Scotland, which is irritated with the Americans’ inability to sell.

 

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/premierleague/article2578501.ece

 

Fuck me. Can't say i didn't see it coming though, I've been saying this for weeks, we'll get ripped off badly for our top players. Then again,that's the point of asset stripping and fire sales

[ngogswilly]

I hope Tom and George die of Aids. Thats all.

[Chinandeler Bong]

I hope Tom and George die of Aids. Thats all.

 

I just hope they die.

Which they will, but immediately.

[Gary Mac Legend]

Thank you David Moores,. What a wonderful custodian you were to this club, not forgetting the efforts of Rick Parry also. That despite your inability to effectively manage the club whilst you were here, in parting, you well and truly destroyed the club you 'love'.

 

Q.How does David Moores sleep at night?

A.On a bed lined with the extra £8 million he received for signing the death certificate of LFC from Cancer and Aids

[chauncey]

I have a feeling the decision to sell our top players was taken long ago (if they wish to leave). Keep thinking back to that bizarre post-Hull press conference where Benitez went on and on about 'senior sources' potentially leaking information to the press about any sales being down to Rafa himself. He was at pains to state that any player sales would NOT be at his behest and was pre-empting the smear campaign he saw coming.

 

Of course that's all academic now. But Hodgson will presumably know what he's walking into.

[Rex Banner]

If we really got Hodgson and sold Torres and Gerrard surely there would be a full boycott, I'm talking picket lines at the games.

[chauncey]

If we really got Hodgson and sold Torres and Gerrard surely there would be a full boycott, I'm talking picket lines at the games.

 

Not sure about that - though we may get to find out...

[Arl arse]

If we really got Hodgson and sold Torres and Gerrard surely there would be a full boycott, I'm talking picket lines at the games.

 

There should be, but there's too many daytripping twats and idiots who will claim that we can't do anything as it might effect our fragile ikkle players.

[TheDrowningMan]

Just imagine...if we were a proper club we'd be on the phone to Capello's agent offering him a route away from the preposterous scenario of failed football chairman 'Sir' Dave Richards' giving the press two weeks to hound him out of his job. As it is, we're desperately scrambling like blind men in a whore house to install Roy Hodgson before he completes Capello's humiliation by taking the England job.

[Jim MM]

I have a feeling the decision to sell our top players was taken long ago (if they wish to leave).

 

I think you're right and I think the two twats want them gone so they can generate some cash regardless of whether the players want to go or not.

It makes sense from an LBO perspective. When they announced, in April, that they were selling the club they didn't rule out doing it in bits, for the maximum possible aggregate value.

[StevieH]

England's World Cup crisis could be thrown further into chaos by the imminent appointment of Roy Hodgson as Liverpool manager.

Hodgson would be the hot favourite to succeed Fabio Capello if the Football Association part company with the Italian after England's crushing exit here in South Africa.

But Liverpool are hopeful of snapping up the highly regarded 62-year-old Fulham manager before the end of the week.

 

 

Read more: Roy Hodgson close to Anfield arrival as Fulham boss opts for Liverpool - EXCLUSIVE | Mail Online

[Rex Banner]

Well isn't Roy the flavour of the month in the media, you would think we would of learned our lesson about signing flavours of the month after Diouf.

[Trucker Paddy]

Once again articles with no quotes. I'm nit saying hodgson won't takeover, but why do people think there's been a delay? The man is not gona agree to take over and oversee a sale of all his best players without getting the money back to spend,he doesn't need the greif. I'm sure he will have the assurances that maddock and bascombe have said, Hodgson is a very well respected inteligent man he won't be anybodys patsy, maybe Tony Evans should say who's telling him the opposite

[bastard oot]

Once again articles with no quotes. I'm nit saying hodgson won't takeover, but why do people think there's been a delay? The man is not gona agree to take over and oversee a sale of all his best players without getting the money back to spend,he doesn't need the greif. I'm sure he will have the assurances that maddock and bascombe have said, Hodgson is a very well respected inteligent man he won't be anybodys patsy, maybe Tony Evans should say who's telling him the opposite

 

why do you think theres been a delay?

[Trucker Paddy]

why do you think theres been a delay?

 

I think hodgson had serious reservations and may have knocked us back, Purslow has no doubt had to go back to hodgson with gurantees. I've no doubt despite the other names mentioned he's been the 1st choice since Rafa left,TBH I'm still not sure hodgson will except it after the story about Dalglish leaving if he arrives

[Rex Banner]

[Jose Jones]

The beeb are going with Roy appointed by thursday*, and they don't normally take as many risks as the papers.

 

BBC Sport - Football - Roy Hodgson poised to become new Liverpool manager

 

Roy Hodgson is set to be appointed Liverpool's new manager by Thursday, BBC Sport understands.

 

The Reds were granted permission to speak to the 62-year-old two weeks ago by his current club Fulham.

 

Hodgson has also been linked with the England manager's job following the team's humiliating exit from the World Cup but Liverpool have acted quickly.

 

The Englishman will replace Rafael Benitez in the Anfield hot seat after the Spaniard left at the start of June.

 

"Hodgson has always been the number one target of the board at Anfield to replace Benitez," said Ian Dennis, Radio 5 live's senior football reporter.

 

"After Fulham granted Liverpool permission to speak to Hodgson, it was just a matter of the clubs agreeing a compensation deal for him."

 

Hodgson has been in charge of Fulham since December 2007 and signed a new 12-month rolling contract in December 2009.

 

Although he suffered a difficult start to his tenure, winning only nine points from his first 13 league matches, he saved the club from relegation in 2007/8, securing survival on the final day of the campaign.

 

The following season he steered the club to seventh place in the Premier League - their highest ever finish - and a place in the Europa League.

 

His achievement in guiding Fulham to the final of that competition, when they beat Juventus and Wolfsburg en route, saw him named last season's manager of the year by the League Manager's Association.

 

Hodgson has also managed Italian giants Inter Milan, Blackburn and Switzerland, who he guided to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup.

 

Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill, former Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini, ex-Chelsea boss Guus Hiddink, Croatia coach Slaven Bilic and former Manchester City manager Mark Hughes have all been linked with the Liverpool post.

 

 

 

* already starting off on the wrong foot.