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That's for you sledgeh
That's for you sledgeh
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*Official* English Football Season 2010-11
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Ikki
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Nah, the English media overrate ol' Roy too much - it's as if they're going overboard for having not rated him highly enough in previous years. Just not good enough and anyone saying so either thinks he is better than he is or that Liverpool are much worse off than they are IMO. It's about as bad of an idea as the calls for Hughes were to replace Ferguson.
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marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
cpr
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Until you've got a stable board, you have fallen that far off the map, to managers at least (though maybe not to players). No manager with a brain cell will sign up to a club with a chairman who wants to sell, and wont give you a transfer kitty of note. They'd be on a hiding to nothing.
Liverpool would've kept Benitez if it wasn't so blatently obvious he wanted out, and they wanted him gone, they'd have kept him if the relationship hadn't deteriorated so far and so public.
Think Roy's got his eyes on a bigger prize now though.....
Ikki
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Benitez didn't want out. He has come out and said that Purslow effectively wanted him gone and that he made the situation what it was. If the board had any ounce of sense they'd know they couldn't get a coach like Benitez and wouldn't have risked pushing him out. That is, unless, they'd already been lining up some good coaches.
Anyway, Roy to Engerland!
Anyway, Roy to Engerland!
Misleading title. More like their board not letting us talk to him.
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sledger
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WAG. You'll hear from me again soon Smitteh.MANCHESTER CITY etc
That's for you sledgeh
marc71178
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And if you think that would've stopped him from going if he wanted to, then you're even more deluded than I thought you were.
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My interpretation was that player power meant this simply wasn't an option.
grecian
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The mail and Tranmere sux ballsLes Parry was daily Mail's League One manager of the year. Never said a bad word about that paper.
**** this World Cup ****, bring on Oldham at home
Ikki
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No, but it's possibly a reason considering he had only completed his first year of managing there.
Which player? Although there has been a lot of smoke, there's been nothing from the main group to suggest they wanted him gone.
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There's obviously no concrete evidence, players rarely speak out on the subject as a matter of decency. It just very much appeared that way to me- the fact that they fired him so suddenly, with a huge payoff and no obvious replacement, suggests to me that something had made his job untenable. Hence I'm inclined to believe that the rumours surrounding senior players are quite likely to be true.
Ikki
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Benitez has come out saying he had very warm talks with practically all of the players (I think he said something like 95%) and mentioned names (all the big players) and Reina and Kuyt came out and said outright that they were upset. Gerrard has refused to talk at all about anything other than the WC and Carra said he was disappointed but wanted to move on.
As you say, no one knows really what happened and it was clear the season past had grated on the trust of many players but I don't think it made it untenable for him to stay. The only thing that is for sure is that Benitez has come out and pointed the finger at Purslow.
As you say, no one knows really what happened and it was clear the season past had grated on the trust of many players but I don't think it made it untenable for him to stay. The only thing that is for sure is that Benitez has come out and pointed the finger at Purslow.
Craig
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According to Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini, Tottenham have bid for for Simon Kjaer and Edinson Cavani for around €35m, to which Palermo have accepted.
Zamparini is bit of a nut case it should be said, IIRC after the opening game of last season he went and sacked his manager
Zamparini is bit of a nut case it should be said, IIRC after the opening game of last season he went and sacked his manager
Scaly piscine
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Roy Hodgson now massive odds-on to become Liverpool manager.
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Citeh and Valencia have confirmed they've agreed a deal for David Silva (believed to be around the £25m mark) and he will sign a five-year deal after the World Cup. Yaya Toure all-but confirmed as well.
All reports are that Hodgson will be confirmed as Liverpool manager within days, possibly within 24 hours.
All reports are that Hodgson will be confirmed as Liverpool manager within days, possibly within 24 hours.
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Benitez's decisions were utterly baffling last year and his style was turgid, he didn't trust young players, made poor transfers, and played on the emotions of fans by painting the owners as the biggest villains (admittedly they are bad). He was excellent in the early part of his Liverpool stay but I think he pretty much lost the plot towards the end. There was no point keeping him when the players seemed to have lost all faith in him.