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    I don't recall him playing any reserve games after that. If you want my honest opinion Flanagan will end up at the level of Danny Guthrie; good enough to start regularly for a mid-table side, but unless he wants to spend most of his career on the bench not going to be Liverpool material (no jokes about our current position, please). That reminds me of a player I should have mentioned in my previous post - Ryan McLaughlin. A bit younger, but for my money the best bet to make it out of the youth setup bar only Sterling. Tremendous player, pacy, skillful, and puts in a great cross. An attacking right back, reminds me of a younger Dani Alves. A long ways off the first team right now, obviously, as he's just 17, but he's a good bet to get there in 3-4 years.
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    Sterling will get the odd game here and there, I'm sure, and he might get more than that if both Maxi and Kuyt are moved on, as per rumours. Suso is a bit further behind, but the last half of last season he really stepped it up and if he continues that level of progress, he'll debut next season. Coady is a long shot, in my opinion. If he weren't a defender I'd say that Wisdom was probably closest of the rest, but he might have to wait a bit. Robinson and Shelvey I assume don't count as they're already part of the first team squad. Joao Carlos is the wild card. We haven't seen him for the reserves yet, though he finally was on the bench for that friendly last week. Hopefully he's fit for preseason and we can see what he's about. At his age (19, turns 20 next January) you have to figure they must think he's not too far off first team material, else why buy him?
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    Come, now. Even if he's not the very best man for the job, even his detractors would have to admit he's in the top 5. Since we seem to be interviewing at least that many people, he should clearly be given an interview at the very least, unless the people making the decision have some political/personal vendetta against him.
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    Was involved (though it's not clear to what extent) in the racist quota scandal recently. Though he may not have done anything wrong, I think it's a long shot that the owners would appoint anyone with any hint of racist scandal in his past at this point in time.
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    I think everyone has been too quick to panic over the Martinez shortlist article. There are only so many possible candidates, just because he's on the list doesn't mean he's not on the bottom of it. I think the owners would know he would be a huge risk and if it went Roy-shaped early they could be looking for another manager, and that would be a total disaster. Someone like AVB would mean a LOT more patience from the supporters if he's struggling early. Bad as we've gotten, we're still not Chelsea. I'm still strangely optimistic. The news about Segura is very encouraging, and if we end up with, say, a management team of Txiki Beguiristain as general manager (whatever that means, exactly), Pep Segura as technical director, and Villas Boas as manager (presumably setting up the team on gameday, etc) or something similar then we could look back on this whole thing as a masterstroke, strange as it seems right now.
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    Klopp of all of them. I think the odds we could get him are low, but we should still pursue it until he slams the door in our face. Of the realistic candidates, I'd probably rather AVB. Though I have to say I wouldn't mind Benitez again, and I'm quite surprised to see that I'm not alone in that. I wonder how he would do if he had a Director of Football over/beside him, though? I could see it working well if they shared a tactical vision and the DoF held him in check at times, or I could see it being a disaster if they clashed with what they wanted for the team.
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    That same goal.com article shows the odds of the various potential Dalglish replacements, and the one the bookies have as third favourites is ... Mourinho. So I think it's safe to say they have no idea what they're talking about.
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    This could be a total disaster. It's one thing if Kenny has gone up to the owners and said "I think it's time I left," it's another if they've called him on the carpet and sacked him. And if it DOES prove to be the latter, they'd better have a solid replacement lined up already. If it turns out they've sacked him and the best we can do is Martinez, then I really fear for us.
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    That's a pretty good shout, actually. Upon consideration, I might just give it to Aquilani, who cost about the same amount and was never even fit enough to play. At least Downing was on the pitch for a reasonable number of minutes, and surely we could con Villa or QPR or someone into giving us 10 million if we sold him now. We basically offered Aquilani on a plate to Milan and they played him just enough to not activate his sale clause. But don't tell anyone on RAWK that he's not that good; for some reason everyone on there thinks he's the second coming of Bergkamp.
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    I know I'm comparing one man at the end of his career with another at the start of his. I'm also comparing one Liverpool manager with his potential replacement, and my point is that if the best we can do is Martinez, we should keep Kenny. Look, if we bring in someone on the Capello/Villas Boas-level, most will look past it them if we have another mixed summer and a 5th place finish next season. Because managers on that level have earned some trust when things are a bit wobbly, even if the improvement is slow. The problem is that Martinez, much as I respect him as a manager with a lot of potential for the future, will not get that. If we finish 5th or 6th next season and have at least one buy that doesn't work out this summer, the fans will be divided about whether he should go or stay, because he hasn't earned the trust that those others have. And if it really goes pear-shaped and we're 10th at Christmas, we could be looking at another mid-season change and then we're really in trouble. For that reason, Martinez right now for us would be a mistake. Sure, it's a risk that has a chance of paying off, but the odds are long and the situation is a dangerous one.
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    I've heard this argument before and it makes no sense to me. When Hodgson was brought in and it went badly in the first few months, fans demanded his ouster. "You're not being fair," cried the media. "Give him time." But we didn't want him in the first place, and knew he would be out of his depth, so when it proved to be true, we didn't have a lot of patience to sit around and wait for him to turn it around. The odds were very high, given his history, that he couldn't, so why waste time proving what you already know? In Kenny's case, it's the opposite. The man has earned our respect, as a player and a manager, so if he has a few rough months you don't just come in and throw him on the street. He has earned the right to more than that. Especially if the best you can come up with to replace him is Roberto Martinez.
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    I can see both sides of the "Kenny stays" debate, but the thing that settles it in his favour is the lack of a clear replacement candidate. I think the owners will have seen what happened when we sacked Benitez without a replacement lined up; all of a sudden we were stuck looking around as if we were surprised a top manager wouldn't be interested in Liverpool in the state we were in at the time. Things are definitely improved, but I hardly think we're going to get a Klopp-type manager to come here right now, so what does it serve to sack Kenny? For me, if they did that we'd be stuck with the realisation that none of those big name managers are going to come, and we'd end up with someone on the level of Martinez.
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    Still think City will bottle it on Sunday, making this whole conversation into "How much money do you need to spend to finish second?"
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    Unless Krasic is on paltry wages 10 million is not very good value for him, in my opinion. Won't track back, according to his current manager, and it's not like he's Ronaldo going forward to justify it. Now Altintop for 2 million? That actually is a pretty good value, if he'd be happy to sit on the bench. Cover for CM and fullback? An Aurelio replacement, perhaps. I don't think that would be the worst thing in the world, especially with only Enrique and young Robinson at LB.
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    I'm hoping the DOF thing is settled within a week of our final game; if we go into the transfer window without one I'm really going to worry. Unless they come out with some announcement that Kenny is adding those duties to the ones he already has, sort of making him a more traditional English manager. As for a guess about Kenny's future, I wouldn't like to make one. You can see why they'd keep him, you can also see why they'd demand better. My one hope is that this time we don't sack a manager without a better one waiting in the wings. Hopefully everyone will have learned from how the Benitez sacking went.
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    The thing that differentiates Shelvey from Henderson is that he takes risks. He doesn't always get it to come off, but I'd far rather a player like him is on the ball when we're steaming forward than Henderson, who always seems scared to try a through ball or run at a defender. He'll lose the ball every once in a while, Shelvey, but at least he does something special with it once or twice a game, leading to goalscoring chances often as not.
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    I hope the owl takes Holt and Bent to the Euros and fails miserably, and Andy stays at the Olympics and scores shedloads for the U-23s.
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    I cannot agree strongly enough with this. People saying things like "Let's bring in Dempsey; he's better than what we have so we will improve the team with him" drive me insane. Yes, he's marginally better than Kuyt or Maxi, but he's not going to be the kind of player we need to win the league, is he? If we want to finish 5th or 6th next season and call it an "improvement," then by all means, let's buy the likes of Dempsey. If we want to win the league in the next two or three years, or at least challenge, we need to be aiming higher.
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    This is a very interesting thread, so well done to the OP for raising the question. For me, there are two major factors in the success of a team. The first, and more important one, is the amount of talent the players have, and is determined by scouting and recruiting. The second is the ability of a leader to get the most out of the talent those players have, whether by using tactics and formations, motivation, or what have you. If you have a continental setup with a Director of Football who is responsible for the player analysis, scouting, and recruitment, then he is going to have the lion's share of the success or failure of the club on the pitch in his hands. If he brings in turds, then no amount of managerial genius is going to do better than get slightly-better-than-turd results. If the manager is more along the lines of a traditional English manager, then he is responsible for everything and can obviously have a huge bearing on results. The difficulty is in assessing blame/credit in our present situation, where from everything that's been said publicly Comolli and Dalglish worked together in recruitment. Who is responsible for the last 12 month's purchases of Carroll, Downing, et al? We don't know, but once those players were bought, it's Kenny's job to set the team up and to motivate them to get the best out of them. I'm not saying it's all his fault, by any means, but when I see effort like we had for the first 65 minutes of an FA Cup final, for me some of that has to be on the manager. How can he allow unmotivated players to wear the shirt? When he sees it, how can he allow them come out after halftime and continue to play that way? In the end, I think the primary driver of success is whoever is buying the players. If that's the manager, he can be hugely important. If it's not the manager, then the manager is of limited importance unless you're talking about the very best in the game. It takes a very skilled manager indeed to motivate and set up a team of lesser talents to win games.
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    For me as well. Skrtel, and maybe Suarez the only other players in contention for this list, in all honesty. The rest were dreadful.
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    Why would Klopp want to leave Dortmund to come here? Not saying that if Kenny were to leave I wouldn't have him, but he'd be mental to leave Dortmund to come to Liverpool right now.
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    I can't understand people who say it's DEFINITELY over/not over. It's within an inch or two either way, and it's pretty much impossible to say one way or the other. I also can't understand people who want to argue that "Henderson was shitter than Spearing" or vice versa. They were both atrocious today, as was Downing. Who was the shittest? Who cares? All I care about is that hopefully we don't have to ever see a team where all three of them play at the same time again. We can carry one passenger, two if the other players are doing well, but three is impossible.
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    We have needed a wide player with pace and ability for at least 10 years. I'd love to see that addressed this summer, but don't really expect it.
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    The way he's played the last few months I'm starting to come around to the idea of him as sort of a plan B, a third choice after Suarez and whomever we bring in this summer. He certainly changed the game when he came on today, and we haven't really had a player like that on the bench in a while. If we sold him (say, for 15 million), who could we bring in that would be better in that role for that price?
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    Not sure why we couldn't give any effort at all until 65 minutes in, but well done at least for showing something at the end. Carroll in particular was absolutely brilliant. Great save by Cech, otherwise we might be calling this the "Carroll final" (to go with the Owen final, the Gerrard final, etc.). If he had started it might have been a different story.
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