On Sunday evening, Kenny Dalglish and Steve Clarke flew to Boston for crunch talks with FSG over their future at the club. Predictably, after the last 24 hours of fevered speculation, the web is awash with rumours that Dalglish has resigned as Liverpool manager. What does the club have to say about this rumour?
About twenty minutes ago, I spoke with someone from the beleaguered LFC press office, which has been inundated with calls today from various journalists. The person I spoke with was clearly stressed, and when I asked about the Dalglish resignation rumour, I was curtly told that the club has no comment 'at this time'.
I then asked if they could confirm that Dalglish was still the manager of Liverpool FC, and noted that his name was still in the official site's 'Team' section as 'Manager'. Again, I was told that they couldn't comment 'at this time', and then the press officer hung up the phone. Testy!
Make of that what you will.
Jaimie Kanwar
About twenty minutes ago, I spoke with someone from the beleaguered LFC press office, which has been inundated with calls today from various journalists. The person I spoke with was clearly stressed, and when I asked about the Dalglish resignation rumour, I was curtly told that the club has no comment 'at this time'.
I then asked if they could confirm that Dalglish was still the manager of Liverpool FC, and noted that his name was still in the official site's 'Team' section as 'Manager'. Again, I was told that they couldn't comment 'at this time', and then the press officer hung up the phone. Testy!
Make of that what you will.
Jaimie Kanwar
no manager has ever drawn such top names as rafa, and no one, bar him, whos 'in the running' will. martinez would bring cheap south americans and some wigan lurkers. nice bloke and all that but give me the fat spanish waiter over any of the other 'possibilities'.
ReplyDeleteHe got a lot of transfer wrong, but name a manager who doesnt? even at the real level of purchases, nothing is guaranteed. by the same token, managers like martinez and curbs , who manage to find a load of bargains one season, will do their bollocks on dross during another. wenger, the transfer master has made a fair few cock ups, so stop using rafas transfer dealings as a stick to beat him with. if you want to talk about royal transfer spend fuck ups, we need look no further than the king, who needs to abdicate just over paul stewart downing alone.
Ian Dowie
ReplyDeleteBring back Fowler and Owen too! ...And Rednaaaap too!
ReplyDeleteYou dont want Rafa back becuse like i say you will look like a complete idiot when he succeeds,you wanted KD in and hes failed miserably.So now your piping up who you want next,anyone but Rafa,because like i say when Rafa succeeds it will make you look even sillier for wanting him out in the first place and wanting KD in.
ReplyDeleteLOL when I read the title Jaimie I succumbed to the sensationalist emotion that it evoked.
ReplyDeleteHowever the reason the press office cannot confirm or deny the Dalglish resigned rumour is because ...wait for it...WE DON'T HAVE A DIRECTOR OF COUUMINCATIIONS ...he was sacked...so the press office is MUTE..OH DEAR WHAT HAVE I SAID
Your comments are pathetic, you have no idea whether i wanted Kenny in or not.....
ReplyDeleteI was in fact very aprehensive about Kenny coming back....
AND im not sure whether he should continue as manager either... BUT he has done one thing this season that your love buddy benitez couldn't do for 4 seasons.....
Which was to win a trophy....
FACT.
He won't succeed, though. He'll fail miserably and I for one will be delighted. Can't wait to see what excuses the Rafa fanatics come up with. One thing is absolutely certain though - it won't be Benitez's fault. Nothing ever was. By the way, how did he get on at Milan? Oh, that's right - they booted him out in jig time. Still, he knows the Liverpool fans will put up with anything so his job should be safe. Maybe he'll even bring back Voronin and N'gog.
ReplyDeleteVery true. You've certainly put one of the Rafa fanatics in his place. Good for you.
ReplyDeleteNothing was ever Rafa's fault, was it? The man had an ego the size of Australia.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't think it is. I suspect he's serious. Five years?!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to get behind Rafa and kick his fat arse back to Milan. By the way, what did he win there?
ReplyDeleteHe bought Ngog and Voronin for a combined total of £1.5m,Ngog was sold to Bolton for £4m.See what Rafa was up against.The King has been given everything on a plate and wasted it,no wonder when KD offered his resignation it was immediately accepted,well done FSG well done.
ReplyDeleteyou always get what you deserve in the premier league all the managers know it bad luck is dropping two points at home once or twice or not getting a penalty finishing eighth over a season is not bad luck and for those who say kennys a legend i agree but so is john barnes would you let him manage liverpool ? kenny should be a booby charlton like igure and be an ambassador for the club.... its not the fact that weve finished so low that bothers me most its kennys tactics when things arnt going well it seems to me very rarley does anything change when were losing or drawing games we should win.... theres only one way to put it if chelsea or arsenal or man city or tottenham were in need of a manager right now would keeny be in the frame ? Not in a million years ! and i know we are not in the nest position to bring in a top quality coach at the moment but theres lots of hungry young managers out there that need a chance to sgow what they can do and liverpool would be perfect for them as long as they have shown they have tactics and player knowledge why not? thats why i rate martinez he may have not won anything but hes pushes wigan to the limit having lost his best player this year and the year before
ReplyDeleteGood for you. Keep putting the Rafa fanatics in their place.
ReplyDeleteSo what? Well, the result was a bloody disgrace, for one thing. One of the worst cup results in the history of the club.
ReplyDeleteCorrect. And well said. You can probably expect death threats from Benitez fanatics.
ReplyDeleteWhen will he arrive in 2012?
ReplyDeleteOf course it will be the same. Whoever takes over - if anyone does - will be stuck with Henderson, Downing, Adam and all the other dross ( I include the absurdly overrated Reina ). No chance whoever takes over. Mid table obscurity again.
ReplyDeleteDont know why you're blaming the owners. Theyve finally given this club an structure the sort of structure Arsenal and Manchester united success was built on...for the team that hasnt won the league in over 20 years i think the money theve brought in through kit sponserships amongst other things has been brilliant. They've set an stategy in buying younger players in addition invested heavily last summer. The one concern is the lack of progession in terms of the new stadium
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, I've been saying that all day but their are some people on here with very short memories. The way some of them talk you'd of thought he won every trophy possible whilst he was here. Kenny may well be leaving but I think it would be a massive step backwards to get Rafa back in.
ReplyDeleteC'mon, guys. He is being sarcastic. It's obvious. Whatever it is, I just hope Kenny is big enough to admit his mistakes and go. He always finds excuses this season. He is a legend and I think none of us will be happy to witness him having a fail season at Liverpool. All the best to him.
ReplyDeleteA good source....that's all I'm sayin!
ReplyDeletewith a weakened team yes. He should have taken the cups more seriously - but was also saving his teams a lot of the times from exhaustion as the EPL and Champions League were the priorities. Under KD, who put out his version of our best 11 - Wigan, Fulham and WBA have beaten us (the first 2 walking away with their first ever Anfield league victories).
ReplyDeletekD was given everything on a plate and failed,at least he did the decent thing and offered his resignation which was accepted in the blink of an eye.I think when Rafa is unveilled as the new manager he should be given an open top bus to announce his arrival,just like when he won the champions league,it will stir the emotions of every true LFC fan again and get us ready to acclaim a new season with the manager who gave the world the greatest ever ever sporting achievement ever.Welcome home Rafa welcome back.
ReplyDeleteWas it so complicated? I thought the reason the name 'Barry' comes to people's mind is all because media transfer rumours. I'm a huge fan of Xabi Alonso. Back to Liverpool prime during Rafa's reign, I always thought he is the most important player on the pitch, far more important than Gerrard and Torres. He is the mastermind of our midfield.
ReplyDeleteAlonso wanted to go. It's simple. It's Real Madrid who wanted him. Personally, I don't blame Alonso because it's a dream for many footballers to play in Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Rafa wanted Alonso and Mascherano to stay last time, saying that Liverpool made them better players with huge fame and they should repay their loyalty by sticking with the team for few more years. But still, both of them had gone to Real Madrid and Barcelona. Both of them submitted transfer requests. Yes, Rafa made some mistakes during his reign in Liverpool but I don't think that is the Rafa's fault in Alonso case.
so Rafa in his first season won us the Champions League - Kenny the Carling Cup, and our worst league points tally in 50-odd years.
ReplyDeleteKD is a legend, no one should dispute that. But he is not the right man to be managing us, I said it from the start and have supported the team through thick, but MY OPINION is he has to go, and I would take Rafa over KD. WOuld I take Rafa over everyone else? probably not - but the main reason would be how divisive it would be to the support (just see these blogs). But out of those available or likely to come then Rafa is probably still one of the best choices.
Interesting that it was Kenny who instigated the trip to see the owners....
ReplyDeleteI was under the impression that it was the other way round...
Rumour has it that he wasn't sacked and didn't resign....and that a seasonal review is ongoing....tweeted by Tony Barret i believe.
OriginalChan - so you mean like buying an injured Andy Caroll for £35m?? His low cost signings? how much money did we lose?? Ngog 1.5m sold for 4m?? I could go on. They were low risk and perhaps if he was allowed to buy his first choices we wouldn't have to rely on these cheap signings!!
ReplyDeleteOriginalChan (again I can't seem to reply directly to you):
ReplyDeleteWenger has got it wrong so many times too, like ALL managers:
Luzhny, Mertsacker (sp), Almunia, Fabianski, Boa Marte, Christophe Wren, Cygan, Stepanovs, Bronckhorst, Diawara. Not to mention big money buys of Reyes, Wiltord, Jeffers, Wright
Had you even heard of Alonso before RAFA signed him?
ReplyDeletewrong team for him... Think he could do wonders at the right team. he was asked to rebuild the team and was told he'd be given time to build his squad. Tried to drop the egos and paid the price.
ReplyDeleteIt's like those saying Brendan Rodgers - he got sacked from Reading!!! But he's proving he's in the right team now! (He still needs more time at Swansea for me and is not the right choice). Or even KD who was sacked at Newcastle!!
ReplyDeleteSo prioritising the domestic cups over the premier league is better?? You don't have a clue!
ReplyDeletetrouble is Mitzsu non of the information the papers have or the sites are based on fact, they want a story and the yearly review stated to happen weeks ago does not sell papers, the rest is gossip to drive hits and create news, most people are already saying who they want and i dont think he will go, we forget we are a micro minority on this site and its one of the most critical some would say negative, the millions of fans out there prob on balance will give him another year, at the games the Fans still sing his name and the board will know this.
ReplyDeleteTrue enough fella, but something ain't quite right about whats going on atm....been trying to get my head around it as im absolutely certain there is more to this story than meets the eye, a lot more....
ReplyDeleteI think you are ridiculous, read again what the guy has said above. He said that when Manchester lost with lower teams, nobody asked fergie to be sacked in reply to your barnsley lost. You say fergie was always at the top, well benitez made liverpool top of champions league. He mentioned that benitez never had 100 million to spend in one go in response to your "he wasted money just as much as ...". I think you should learn to read.
ReplyDeleteI think rafa even in his worst season never got us 8th place. How is that a MASSIVE step backwards? You are accusing of people of having short memory, but you also seem to forget all the joys we had as fans when liverpool in champions league.
ReplyDeleteYes, like buying an injured Carroll. I am neither pro-KK (the 2nd) or pro-Rafa.
ReplyDeleteOn the pitch is what I'm referring to, most of his low cost signings were a waste of time on the pitch. Hence why Rafa never could juggle both PL challenging and CL at the same time to the latter period in both at the same time. The two times we got in the CL finals, we were miles behind in the league. Because he bought in shit players for his squad rotation. He is purely a first XI man-manager, beyond that he is very questionable. You can't always buy expensive players, you have to make shrewd buys too to boost the squad in order to rotate properly, not just the first XI and he failed in that regard, big time. Utter shambles, in relation to beyond the first XI.
Rafa was and is not perfect.
Did I say Wenger was perfect or he got it right all the time? No, I didn't, so absolutely futile to bring up his failures, absolutely pointless.
ReplyDeleteOpen top bus.....fucking hell, another PR crap is just what we need after the Suarez debacle. We need to strip this club right back down to earth and be conservative for fucking once. Its been bloody two decades since we won the league, how long will it take for people to tone down the pressure and ambition. You just fucking know that Stevie G will come out with his usual pre-season rent-a-quote waffle again about the club challenging in the league, etc, and probably will say Suarez is as good as Messi too
ReplyDeleteYou don't know how much Steve Clarke loves basball, to be fair.
ReplyDeletepep please ....
ReplyDeleteking kenny will be appointed as Director of football...somebody else will replace him ...maybe pep..
ReplyDeleteOBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE TROUBLE READING. IF YOU COULD POINT OUT, WHERE I HAVE SAID "DOMESTIC CUPS OVER THE PREMIER LGE", I WOULD BE MOST INTERESTED. HAVE ANOTHER GO OR GET SOMEONE TO READ IT TO YOU. I'M TALKING ABOUT BENITEZ, I IMAGINE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT KD. LIKE I SAY,PAL, LEARN TO READ. IDIOT.
ReplyDeleteI WATCH FOOTBALL FROM ALL COUNTRIES, SO YES. I TAKE IT YOU HADN'T?
ReplyDeleteWAIT AND SEE, CHI BAI !
ReplyDeleteHenry sounds like the kind of guy to appreciate the benefit for all concerned in giving Kenny the opportunity to resign. Whether or not KD would accept is another thing entirely. He may have been sacked guess we'll soon find out
ReplyDeleteAll the praise for Paul Lambert now is very reminiscent to the praise for Owen Coyle over the last couple of years...
ReplyDeleteThe current Liverpool team was made weaker by Dalglish's woeful acquisition of Carroll, Adam, Henderson and Downing.
ReplyDeleteThe good thing is that YOU WILL HAVE NO EFFECT NOR PART ON THE FINAL DECISION.
ReplyDeleteYou have to understand the portfolio of this position, it includes well-travelled, aware of basically all important football leagues and PLAYERS and level-headed, good all-round communicator, ability to explain your decision clearly and precisely, when someone questions your decision...and the ability to SPOT A GOOD PLAYER...etc. You think KD has that? Well he should be nowhere near the footballing side.
ReplyDeleteAgain I post and I'm moderated
ReplyDeleteThe PL position counts for what you get at the end of season in terms of invest into the club...The Greatest Manager Shankley plainly explained this issue and I do not know whose version of importance you will chose, remember every manager inherits or buys some good and bad players, its how he sets them up. Managers do not time as achievement is expected in less time, and you will be judged on your results..Look at the likes of Wolves, BR, they went down because owners/bods take to long to make changes. All views are correct but fellow supporters we all want these players from here and there, where is the money suppossed to be from? the answer is OWNERS, SPONSORS, SUPPORTERS, EPL, TV RIGHTS, ECL, FA CUP AND THE OTHER LESSER CUPS. With all the issues! for the season the first two are not very HAPPY. That is the point for frequent changes. We NEED THE MONIES AND THE DAYS OF SENTIMENT IS LONG GONE. The new owners are wonderful, humble and remember they took us out of a dark period in our living history, gave us lots of monies to strengthen lets respect their decisions and after all they own the club on our behalf.YNWA
ReplyDeleteMourinho made Inter European champions but Rafa won the world championship with Inter..Rafa left 6 months later and had not sold anyone.
ReplyDeleteInfact Rafa's gripe was Inter were not strengthening or rejuvenating an ageing side and the same holds true now which is why they still have more than 90% of Mourinho's champions league winning side but continue sinking under several different managers.To then blame Rafa's 6 months for this downfall is short sighted at best if you cant name any flops he bought or star players he sold for Inter.
Its true he could not get the best out of them of the current Italian and European champion but it is hardly as catastrophic as it has gone on to become or many people seem to argue without facts.
Build up a custom table up between July and 23 December 2010 when he left inter on this site http://www.statto.com/football/stats/italy/serie-a/2010-2011/custom-table
You will then realise that 6 wins 5 draws and 4 losses is hardly of the catastrophic proportions bandied about especially when he was being judged on 15 games.
Besides his removal never stopped this abject decline, it just accelerated because changing drivers of the same beaten down bus is not going to make the bus travel any faster.
How anyone will still be expected to make a team that fielded 8 players over 30 world beaters is harder than many seem to think especially when they had already attained all they could at club level.
dont get me wrong anything could happen i mena comolli went to lunch with them it was all smiles then a few hours later was called to thier hotel and sacked, but i do feel if they were going to do it , it would have been while he was there. lets not forget to them they have made a statement a few weeks ago and this was a prearranged meeting to review the year, KK is on holiday from today so if he were to go it will not be now, The meeting took place in the states prob becuase the bosten red socks were playing and theres been critism from the fans that the owners wearnt at the games .
ReplyDeletewhen did he offer his resignation and rafa was given alot more money and time and failed to stay in the champ league thats whay KK is here due to Rafa's leaving by mutual consent due to poor performance.
ReplyDeleteto be fiar rafa left milna becuase he stated the team was old and he needed 100 mil to rebuild the 33 year old players and get new young players in for the next 5 to 10 years, the owner laughed ta him and said they had just won the league and so sacked him, of course rafa was right the eto etc were to old and now inter are struggerling with no new players or finance and jueva have won the league
ReplyDeletebe fiar rafa had aounf 250 million, and 6 years, and he bougth such dross sometimes, there ar so many that its impossible to state them all,
ReplyDeletethanks to ramesh from soccerlens for this nice round up of rafa
Robbie Keane – 20.3m – sold for 16m after starting just 19 games
Alberto Aquilani – 18m – about to leave on loan to Italy after Roy Hodgson declared that he was not a part of his plans.
Ryan Babel – 11.5m – has scored only 21 goals in 3 seasons at Anfield, and most of them as he came on from the bench in the second half. Still hasn’t lived up to his expectations.
Albert Riera – 8m – sold for 3.7m, made just 15 appearances last season and didn’t score even once.
Andrey Voronin – 1.8m – had two spells one on each side of his loan to Hertha BSC, and was finally sold to Dynamo Moscow for 1.8m
Andrea Dossena – 7m – sold for 3m, made almost zero impact
Phillip Degen – free – played only 10 games for Liverpool, has been loaned out to Stuttgart
Jermaine Pennant – 6.7m – scored 3 goals in 3 season, was loaned out to Portsmouth for the last season in his contract
Fernando Morientes – 6.3m – sold for 3m, one of the worst transfers in the history of the Premier League.
Craig Bellamy – 6m – didn’t make much of an impact but was sold for 7m
Mark González – 4.5m – lasted only one season at Liverpool, sold at 4m
Antonio Nunez – part of the deal which saw Michael Owen leave for Real Madrid.
Gabriel Paletta 2m – 3 appearances for 2m, young star, who didn’t shine
Josemi 2m – swapped by Jan Kromkamp who was also unsuccessful.
Well likewise Benitez has pulled off a few under £5m too! I don't see what your argument is?
ReplyDeleteNo I had - having lived in a number of Spanish countries in my life. but seeing as you have not yet mastered the caps lock I assumed you had no idea who Real Sociedad were. My bad!
ReplyDeleteI've never claimed him to be perfect. I think he is a very, very good manager but still human. I think he is still a good viable option for us, but appreciate your opinion. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on him coming back. I'd prefer Klopp - but can't see it happening. After that Rafa is right up there as one of the better choices. I think Martinez is a good manager but the leap of expectation from Wigan to Liverpool may be too great at this moment in time, but if he were to come in and show signs of progression then yes I would be patient and supportive - I fail to see too many signs under KD - but appreciate that you have not claimed that there have been any (this is just me venting).
ReplyDeletereplied a little bit higher on this point (sorry the 3 word columns have started to confuse me).
ReplyDeleteI thought Riera was quite good (if inconsistent) but by all accounts he was a bit of a w****r, which is why I think Rafa got rid of him - team morale/discipline.
ReplyDeleteHendersen especially,Downing and maybe Carroll are the ones who foster KK mediocre scenes.Hendersen could play about 89% of Liverpool matches while he contributed nothing.
ReplyDeleteI pray before Kenny leaves he doesnt spoil the club by selling Kuyt or Maxi.
....but Martinez will be shaky whenever Ferg16 confronts him.We wont like someone like Roy Hodgson who is afraid of Ferg166;s words in Anfield as a manager.
ReplyDeleteGuadiolar is good but I doubt if he can survive in England because he is a mute-manager.He is not vocal and if he comes here Ferg16 or Wenger will make him shed tears with their mind games.Except guadiolar changes his attitude to be vocal and aggressive then he can challenge here
ReplyDeleteBenitez obviously had no idea of the players' ages when he took the job? Well, he wouldn't, would he?
ReplyDeleteOh, yes - Degan! I forgot that Rafa gem.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is that nearly all players lose a hell of a lot when they start playing for Liverpool. Even Downing was much better for Villa than for Liverpool and Adam certainly was twice the player he is now. It's hard to think of anyone who has actually got better, at least for quite some time. Henderson, I imagine, was always rubbish.
ReplyDeleteIt's all very simple because football is a very simple game. KD was a brilliant player, one of the best we've ever had. I'm privileged to have seen so many of his goals. He was a great manager first time around and a total disaster the second time. Benitez was an arrogant, stubborn man
ReplyDeletewhose luck finally ran out. He would be an even bigger disaster now than when he was here last - four years without a trophy. Whoever takes over has a hell of a task ahead of him because with the exception of Suarez, Skrtel and Agger the players are below par. In the case of Adam, Henderson, Spearing and Downing they are severely below par. Lucas will make no difference whatsoever next season because he's hugely overrated by LFC fans and, in reality, can do hardly anything. Reina is a very ordinary 'keeper who makes stacks of blunders. A new manager would need to be very wise indeed to get any results out of what he will have available. Next season will be more mid-table mediocrity. No problem for many of the players because, as Agger hinted early on, lots of them don't take it too seriously ( he said after one home disaster - some players were more upset than others - a clear reference to the lack of dedication of some of his colleagues. And that clearly shows in many games I've watched this season ). So there you are folks - all explained for you. No great problem for me - my team is Juve. But thanks to Liverpool for the sixties, seventies and eighties - some brilliant memories there.
Maybe the press office only wanted to talk to real journalists!!!!:)
ReplyDeletePretty sure those two have constantly stated he's the right man for the job.
ReplyDeleteStewart Downing just named in the England squad for 2012?!?! What the hell?
ReplyDeleteLucas over rated? Benitez was lucky?
ReplyDeleteCouldn't disagree with you more. But if that's your opinion, fair enough.
Totally agree with you on everything...Lucas is an average player who looks better than he actually is since he is surrounded by below par players like henderson and company just like an "8" which looks like a perfect "10" when she is surrounded by ugly chicks...The only players we have that are worthy of wearing the LFC jersey next season are only Agger, Skrtel and Suarez. Even gerrard and carragher are not good enough for the team anymore. Reina has lost the will to play for us .He just put in the minimum effort possible and do not go out of his way to make a save. He should be kicked out of the team asap as his half hearted attitude during matches has cost us many times.You are also right about benitez, he is not what we need. He had his chance, was great at first but he lost it in the end. We need to stop dwelling in the past and start looking forward.
ReplyDeleteNo manager is immune from criticism. Just because I criticise him, doesn't mean he is being made out to be a manager. Sorry, if i don't paint him as a messiah who has never made any mistakes(!)
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