The Dalglish fear factor.

[gingerhulk]

Just keep it how it is. Everyone knows kenny will get the job, so is there any point in confirming it?

 

Keep it all "hush hush" till the end of season, then on the last day of season when the mancs fuck up the title and hand it to arsenal, announce it.

[The Special One]

"What kind of manager will they want?"

A winning one.

 

"What type of players will they buy?"

Winning ones.

 

They're gonna hire Charlie Sheen?!

[nickjt]

Their may be a big game coming later in the season (hopefully in the league fighting for fourth, but more than likely it will be in the europa cup), announce it just before this said game. Another little boost.

[lucozade]

Alan Hansen: Liverpool owners must act now and give Kenny Dalglish the full-time manager's job at Anfield

 

Liverpool’s American owners would be making a huge mistake if they delay their decision on a permanent manager at Anfield until the end of the season because, in Kenny Dalglish, they already have the only man for the job.

 

If you had taken a poll of 100 Liverpool supporters last Christmas and offered them a choice of Kenny or Jose Mourinho to succeed Roy Hodgson, Kenny’s standing at the club would have ensured he would probably have won by 75-25.

 

But the same vote now would see him win 100-nil because of the impact he has had at Anfield since returning in January.

 

Any manager other than Kenny would now be a disappointment for the club’s supporters, but that’s because of the turnaround on the pitch during his two months in charge, rather than his status as a god-like figure at Anfield.

 

But Liverpool’s owners have to be careful now because, if they don’t act quickly, there might be a vacancy at a club like Chelsea in the summer and who knows what would happen? I’m not suggesting for one minute that Kenny would want to leave Liverpool, but there is no value in waiting until the summer to give him the job.

 

Now is the time to give him the job on a full-time basis because the challenge at Liverpool is getting the club back into the Champions League and the planning for next season needs to start now.

 

Kenny being Kenny, he still believes that he can get Liverpool into the Champions League this season and he will be focusing on getting the team as close as possible to that objective.

 

When I played under him in 1986, we had just lost to Everton and I said to Kenny that it was the worst Liverpool team that I had played in. But he still believed the team could achieve something and, ten weeks later, we ended the season by winning the Double.

 

Back then, he spoke about the need to get some impetus going and that is what he will be thinking now. He has now generated that impetus again by getting the team winning, lifting morale and the victory against Manchester United, following on from the win at Chelsea last month, has given the club real impetus.

 

So the time is right for the owners to hand Kenny the full-time contract because it would just give the club another boost and allow everybody to turn their attentions to getting Liverpool back to where those at Anfield believe they belong.

 

There is a theory that the owners might not want to stick with Kenny in the long-term because he is such a powerful figure that he could put them in an impossible position if things go wrong.

 

But for all of Kenny’s popularity, if his team are lying fourth from bottom and producing rubbish, the supporters would not put up with it, regardless of who he is. And there would not be a problem with Kenny working with Damien Comolli, Liverpool’s director of football, so long as Kenny had the final say on the players he brought in.

 

Kenny has changed the whole mood of the club. It is now a completely different place to walk into compared to the dark days of last November.

 

On the pitch, too, there is a different ethos. In the past, if the likes of Rafa Benítez, Roy Hodgson or Gérard Houllier played with two holding midfielders, you would expect to see eight men behind the ball. But against United, Liverpool had two holding midfielders, yet they attacked the Premier League leaders and were rewarded for doing so.

 

The cynics that claimed that Kenny had been out of the game too long when he came back have all been proved wrong because they overlooked the reality that all the changes in football over the last 10 years have happened off the pitch.

 

A flat back-four is the same as it was in 1977, just as it was in 1937! It will be the same again in 2097.

 

Kenny’s knowledge of the game and the players involved is still as detailed as it has always been and maybe the proof of that has come with the results that Liverpool have had under him.

 

I don’t see anybody out there who could do the job better than Kenny and hopefully the owners will not wait much longer before making it a permanent appointment.

 

At 60, he is still young enough for the job and he will also be cheap. There will be no compensation fee required to get Kenny to sign a contract and it would make perfect sense to make the decision now.

Alan Hansen: Liverpool owners must act now and give Kenny Dalglish the full-time manager's job at Anfield - Telegraph

 

I thought this article was interesting, seeing as Alan Hansen is Kenny's best mate.

[G Richards]

Good article by big Al that. I'm sure it will be a formality and announced in due course. Kenny was always in great standing with the fans, but the fears that some had i.e. that this may not work out because Kenny has been out of the game so long, have more than been allayed. The upturn in form has been remarkable. As has the whole feel around the club.

 

And as for the age thing, Kenny has a decade on Fergie, who is still going strong. And Kenny, having had such a long time away from the frontline, is well rested and more than ready for battle for a good while yet.

 

I can't wait.

[RedinSweden]

Tiger blood!

[stringvest]

Tiger blood!

 

Tiger feet!!

[Torvald Utne]

I'll judge him at the end of the season.

 

Lovely.

[toneloc]

I reckon they are waiting until they appoint the CEO and then allow him a quick win by appointing Kenny as manager.

 

Not heard anything on the CEO front though, since they said they would be appointing early 2011 ...

[Captain]

£20-30m plus sales. On transfer fees. Minimum.

 

That's not major investment, that's treading water.

[silverlining]

That's not major investment, that's treading water.

 

I suppose it depends on the amount of players we sell.

 

But yeah, that's a bare minimum.

[Sut]

Tiger feet!!

 

That's neat.

[Guest ShoePiss]

That's not major investment, that's treading water.

 

I think it's more than treading water, we would improve the squad with that amount but yeah it's not a major investment.

 

It's been said by many that the squad we have is pathetically bad, we were left with a hopeless group of players so surely the owners have to heavily invest this summer or our expectations for the foreseeable should be just hoping to nick a CL spot and not being unhappy with finishing 5th/6th.

 

Or do people think Kenny will be able to transform us to title winners spending 20m?

[Guest barralad]

I dont see the problem waiting until the end of the season.I think Kenny will want to be judged then anyway.That was the deal.Being an honourable man,a virtue sadly lacking in some notable areas of our club in recent years,he will want to honour this deal.

I dont think available funds enters into it with him.

We all know he will get the job permanently.