The Roy Hodgson Thread

[Elite]

I'm fully behind him. He needs to be given as much backing as whoever was appointed. Good luck Woy.

[Chinandeler Bong]

I'm fully behind him. .

 

Gay.

[Elite]

Gay.

 

Homophobe.

[razor]

Gay.

 

If I could....

[Bogman]

Not gonna accept this at all.

Yeah he'll get my support, but this stinks.

 

Not good enough, not good enough by along way.

[Trumo]

I think all Liverpool fans are behind Woy. Some are just waiting to stick the knife in.

[Chinandeler Bong]

Perhaps we can see this as a new beginning. Difficult I know but we have to see the positives. A British manager for me is very appealing.

[nigecardiff]

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[nigecardiff]

On the official it says he's agreed a 3 month contract!! The media are reporting 2 year contract - shows what they know eh...

 

I'm a bit happier about that as it shows that a sale is around the corner and this is effectively just an interim appointment. We'll see how he does though.

[razor]

We've got to find some loving here today

 

What's going on?

 

No really, what IS going on?

 

I back Roy 100% because he is our manager and we have to. Not we 'have' to blinkered, but we have to because we need to. But it's not the start of a golden era, let's face it.

 

But remember the darkest hour is the one just before dawn...

[Antynwa]

It's official, On the Offal

 

"This is the biggest job in club football and I'm honoured to be taking on the role of manager of Britain's most successful football club. I look forward to meeting the players and the supporters and getting down to work at Melwood."

[Glen C]

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/liverpool-appoint-hodgson

 

Roy Hodgson has been appointed the new manager of Liverpool FC.

 

The 62-year-old former Fulham, Inter Milan and Switzerland manager has agreed terms with the club on a three-year contract and becomes the 18th manager in our history.

 

He will be unveiled to the world's media this afternoon after overseeing the first day of pre-season training at Melwood.

 

Hodgson joins us from Fulham, where he guided the Cottagers to the Europa League final in May and was voted Manager of the Year by the League Managers' Association.

 

He exclusively told Liverpoolfc.tv: "This is the biggest job in club football and I'm honoured to be taking on the role of manager of Britain's most successful football club. I look forward to meeting the players and the supporters and getting down to work at Melwoo

[Gary Mac Legend]

Liverpool appoint Hodgson - Liverpool FC

 

 

Roy Hodgson has been appointed the new manager of Liverpool FC.

 

The 62-year-old former Fulham, Inter Milan and Switzerland manager has agreed terms with the club on a three-year contract and becomes the 18th manager in our history.

 

He will be unveiled to the world's media this afternoon after overseeing the first day of pre-season training at Melwood.

 

Hodgson joins us from Fulham, where he guided the Cottagers to the Europa League final in May and was voted Manager of the Year by the League Managers' Association.

 

He exclusively told Liverpoolfc.tv: "This is the biggest job in club football and I'm honoured to be taking on the role of manager of Britain's most successful football club. I look forward to meeting the players and the supporters and getting down to work at Melwood."

 

 

 

 

 

A 3 year contract? Fuck sake! Tom, George, take your monkeys purslow and Broughton and get the fuck out of town. 3 years!? Why!? This is beyond a joke, steadying the ship eh? more like maintaining our decline and keeping us above relegation.

 

What a joke, never been so disappointed at a managerial appointment at this club. The day Benitez walked out, and Hodgson came in is gonna mirror the time Kenny walked out and Souness came in.

[nigecardiff]

ah OK they just changed it as when I read it it said "three month contract"!

[Bogman]

Jesus, a 3 year contract.

 

Sublime to the ridiculous.

[Carra_is_legend]

My first feeling is very underwhelming but I welcome him. Lets give the guy, who is highly respected, a chance.

[d.k.E.]

Very interesting article with a lot of valid observations about the end of the Benitez era, the reasons why we dont need a "Hollywood" manager and a reason to be optimistic for the future:

 

Kop needed a sage to restore spirit – now they have one in Roy Hodgson | Paul Hayward | Football | The Guardian

 

 

Kop needed a sage to restore spirit – now they have one in Roy Hodgson

 

Liverpool have taken the first step out of the darkness by appointing a wise head with an eye for undiscovered talent

 

A legacy of the Bill Shankly era is that a Liverpool manager is expected to double up as priest, community leader and father figure at an institution that retained its family feel until two American speculators took it for a ride. The bonds are still there, under crushing corporate debt, but Roy Hodgson ought to be spared the cult of the leader.

 

The Kop could grumble at Hodgson's arrival on Merseyside only if they think Liverpool needed a Hollywood gesture to end a 20-year wait for their 19th league title and restore them to the Champions League. What they need is 34 years of experience at club and international level and a restoration of the side's forthright spirit. By the end of the Rafael Benítez reign one of the game's great clubs had adopted a kind of mechanical pragmatism designed to destroy the opposition's plans rather than impose their own.

 

Anfield's regulars were suffering but were too loyal to complain. They filed out through the Shankly Gates bored. It was inimical to Liverpool's followers to see their heroes win games by calculation alone. They revered Benítez for the 2005 Champions League win in Istanbul but could recognise the creeping joylessness of his football and his apparent inability to derive any pleasure from a goal.

 

Assuming the deal goes through, Hodgson's Liverpool will get back on the front foot. They will assert their pedigree. Nullifying the opposition will not be their religion. This is the first step out of the darkness for a side who finished seventh in the Premier League and now face a second Europa League campaign. Some will shout that keeping Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres, Javier Mascherano and Pepe Reina is the real first step to a renaissance and they would be right, except that those stars may be persuaded to stay only if they think Liverpool will recover their old identity and stop playing chess.

 

High on Hodgson's to-do list will be a purge of all the obscure shadow men brought in by Benítez during a carnival of talent speculation. Clearing out the no-names and nearly men is a vital task which Hodgson has performed already at Fulham. This will lighten the wage bill, provide money for acquisitions and offer chinks of light to a marginalised academy, the finishing school for Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman, Jamie Carragher and Gerrard.

 

A widely expressed doubt is that Hodgson's main skill is reviving the careers of discards and journeymen rather than dealing with household names, which would be news to Internazionale, who hired him to coach a team sporting Roberto Carlos and Paul Ince.

 

At Fulham he turned capable players into good ones by vigorous pattern-of-play work on the training ground. "Width in attack, depth in defence" was one of the first lessons he was taught. Liverpool will advance with pace and ingenuity but defend resolutely. His Fulham back five were a marvel of consistency achieved through familiarity. Mark Schwarzer, John Pantsil (a figure of fun at West Ham, but now a World Cup quarter-finalist with Ghana), Aaron Hughes, Brede Hangeland and Paul Konchesky were serial over-achievers. Hangeland's arrival from Norway displayed Hodgson's eye for an undiscovered talent: a virtue to be appreciated at a club £350m in debt.

 

So Liverpool have taken the sensible course of not chasing Marcello Lippi or Frank Rijkaard but hiring a sage who understands every nuance of the English game and will perform expert surgery on a bloated squad. Nor was a punt on a young manager advisable at this point. "There's no question in my mind that an experienced manager who retains the passion and enthusiasm of his youth is going to be arguably a better manager than the energetic youthful one who doesn't have the experience," Hodgson said before Fulham's Europa League final.

 

From boardroom chaos, miraculously, comes an appointment straight out of the old Liverpool school of wisdom.

[Lee909]

The 62-year-old former Fulham, Inter Milan and Switzerland manager has agreed terms with the club on a three-year contract and becomes the 18th manager in our history.

 

He will be unveiled to the world's media this afternoon after overseeing the first day of pre-season training at Melwood.

 

Hodgson joins us from Fulham, where he guided the Cottagers to the Europa League final in May and was voted Manager of the Year by the League Managers' Association.

 

He exclusively told Liverpoolfc.tv: "This is the biggest job in club football and I'm honoured to be taking on the role of manager of Britain's most successful football club. I look forward to meeting the players and the supporters and getting down to work at Melwood."

[goatboy59]

Again, the eye for undiscovered talent is pushing it more than a tad!

[Bogman]

Well, he's either extremely stupid, or very thick skinned.

 

For all those who wanted Rafa out, here's your new future. Get used to it.

[ManxRed]

Welcome Roy.

 

You have my full support.

 

Lets hope that you prove the doubters wrong before you are linched by the press at the very first opportunity they possibly can.

[Rex Banner]

"This is the biggest job in club football"

 

Oh no he's already telling lies. JOKING!

[Chinandeler Bong]

Well, he's either extremely stupid, or very thick skinned.

 

For all those who wanted Rafa out, here's your new future. Get used to it.

 

Why so negative mate ? Serious like.

[R Kid]

Welcome Roy hope you do well!

 

Just said he has a transfere kitty of between £5 million and £12 million, what the fuck is that going to do for us? Does that increase in we end up selling other players, think we are going to be in for a battle for the Europa cup next season.

[Gary Mac Legend]

I wonder how long until the media and fans start slaughtering him? will he last past January? Next June? Than who will we downgrade to? after he's 'mutually consented'.