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    Manager Merry go round...

    Thought it would be worth it's own thread.

    • Starting with Eddie Howe turning down Celtic...Man U perhaps ?
    • No, looks like Ole's at the wheel for 3 more years.
    • Allardici is sitting by the front door, suitcase ready and with his Uber app on, passport in hand. Knowing there are no vacancies in Portugal or the Faroes Islands, he's waiting for the Los Blancos of Madrid to call
    • Roy Hodgson, on his third glass of malt vinegar, anxious to take any team that will have him.
    • Everton, very worried about the continental tectonic shifting, would like to wrap up Ancelotti in a no wifi zone, and have indeed thought the Faroe Isles might be a good hop for the next 6 weeks.
    • Pochettino wants Kane as part of his return deal, but the same cannot be said of their professional golfer, who will return to Spain for one more year.
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    Surely Roy Hodgson doesn't take another job? He must know Football has suffered enough?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Insidious View Post
    Surely Roy Hodgson doesn't take another job? He must know Football has suffered enough?
    Haha, so have the fans of the club's he's managed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skyebo View Post
    Haha, so have the fans of the club's he's managed.
    4 July - "I like a high-tempo passing game"

    "All the things I’ve always liked are the things Liverpool were famous for in their heyday. Pass and move, always move it quickly and once you lose it get back in to position. That was the mantra which took Liverpool through their great years. I like a high-tempo passing game. I like players to work hard, I like players to get back in position. Those are my principles. I was influenced by the Liverpool team which dominated the 70s with all its great players and playing the football they played."

    5 August - "Look into the mirror rather than look for excuses elsewhere" (On player complaints about squad quality)

    "As a player you have a chance to change things. If you don't think the team is doing as well as it should, as a player you can do something about it. If you are a big player, maybe you will. My attitude is that we want our big players because they will help the team to win. Now if they are not playing well and not helping the team to win, I will be advising them to look into the mirror rather than look for excuses elsewhere and blame the owners for not having spent £500m."

    13 August - "It was a very simple decision when I heard he might be available"

    "Christian (Poulsen) is an all-round player. He is capable of scoring goals, a good passer of the ball and a good defender too. I don't see him being limited to one particular role. For me, it was a very simple decision when I heard he might be available at what we considered to be a very reasonable price."

    9 September - "Unbelievably overstaffed" (After beating West Brom)

    "We were unbelievably over-staffed when I came to the club and, if the truth be known, we still are over-staffed. It was just as big a job making sure some of the players who never feature for the first team move on and that we limit our squad to players who are either in the frame to play first-team football or who have a bright future who are still anxious to play academy and reserve team football."

    9 September - "He's a good player and he's the right man for the job" (On Konchesky)

    "There aren't many quality left-backs around in the world, never mind in England - so to find an English one who can go straight into the team without any adjustment problems is a big advantage. He is a player I know, a player I have worked with and he knows the way we try to play and the things we try to do. That's another little advantage, but the main reason for bringing him here is because we think he's a good player and he's the right man for the job."

    10 September - "We'll have ample quality to see us through" (see also 30 October)

    "I preferred to put my weight behind David Ngog and Ryan Babel, who's never really been given a proper chance at centre-forward at the club. We have Fernando Torres, we have good players who can play behind a lone striker. I'm hoping that between now and Christmas we'll have ample quality to see us through that period. And in the meantime we have chance to do thorough scouting so that if the money is available, we could look into the situation again. I will be using David Ngog and Ryan Babel in certain games to give Fernando Torres a rest and it's up to them to prove to me that there's no need to look further than them."

    20 September - "It is very early for me to make very strong judgments about where his best position is" (On Meireles)

    "He had two training sessions and played on Thursday night and he played again on Sunday so it is very early for me to make very strong judgments about where his best position is. The work we do on the training field will show me how best to use him. He actually went out wide right late in the United game and did okay there also. All I can say is he has a lot of qualities and I'm sure we'll get a lot of use out of him."

    20 September - “Sir Alex is entitled to any opinion he wants to have” (After Ferguson accused Torres of diving)

    "I prefer to talk about the game and talk about issues that interest me. Sir Alex is entitled to any opinion he wants to have but I'm not going to come here and say I agree or disagree. I thought the referee refereed the game very well and I have a very ambivalent attitude to those type of things."

    22 September - “They’ll be a formidable challenge” (Before facing Fourth Division Northampton Town)

    "They'll pressure us, they'll be young and athletic, and our scouts have been quite impressed by what they've seen. They'll be a formidable challenge - there's no question about that."

    23 September - "These players have to accept responsibility" (After the defeat to Northampton)

    "These players have to accept responsibility. I accept responsibility for changing a lot of players in the team, I did it because I honestly thought the players I put on the field were good enough to win the game and they weren't. The obvious conclusion to that was I shouldn't have changed that many players but we should have been strong enough to get a result. We must all take our responsibility. I am just bitterly disappointed that the team I had so much faith in did not repay that faith this evening with the exception of one or two performances."

    24 September - "The protest does not help"

    "The protest does not help but it is something I have had to live with since I came to the club. I, like everyone else at Liverpool, would be very happy if the ownership situation was clarified and in particular if we got a very good owner that could help us move forward. It is a major issue for a group of people who are very much anti the owners and anti the current people who are trying to solve the situation. I knew the situation existed before I arrived and it doesn't help. But it is often the case that when things are conspiring against you there is always an extra thing to come in and make it that little bit worse."

    25 September - “I didn't think it was necessary to say it" (On not responding to Ferguson's Torres "diving" accusations, six days prior)

    "I didn't think it was necessary to say it because it was insulting people's intelligence. For me, it was one of Alex's inflammatory little digs to make his victory even sweeter and our defeat even harder and that's part of the game."

    25 September - “We deserved our point” (After drawing at home to Sunderland)

    "There are no easy home wins in the Premier League, you have to fight for everything. The way we came back from 2-1 down was very commendable and towards the end of the game we were creating a lot of chances. We deserved our point."

    1 October - “We don’t play with wingers” (On why Meireles was played on the right of midfield)

    "We don't play with wingers. The way he plays and the way Joe Cole plays, we think (playing wide midfield) is more than suited to their qualities. We saw evidence of that in the game because they often got into situations where they received and turned with the ball - especially in the first half. I think we can get some use from Raul Meireles there with his passing ability."

    3 October - "From Halmstad to Malmo to Orebo to Neuchatel Xamax..."

    "What do you mean do my methods translate? They have translated from Halmstad to Malmo to Orebo to Neuchatel Xamax to the Swiss national team. So I find the question insulting. To suggest that, because I have moved from one club to another, that the methods which have stood me in good stead for 35 years and made me one of the most respected coaches in Europe don’t suddenly work, is very hard to believe."

    3 October - "I don't understand questions about Liverpool and Fulham players being different types"

    "I don't understand questions about Liverpool and Fulham players being different types. At the moment arguably one or two of the players that are suggested as being very different to the Fulham players maybe aren't playing any better than the Fulham players played. So maybe people should be having a look at that."

    6 October - “I don't think I have suddenly changed or lost any ability”

    "I know the question is going to get asked but it shouldn't really be asked by people who have been in football a long time, because we all know in the game you have good and bad moments. At the end of May I was having a fantastic moment and here at the beginning of October I'm having bad moments. But I don't think I have suddenly changed or lost any ability which has served me so well in 35 years of coaching."

    17 October - "Feted as one of England's best managers"

    "I think it would be a sad day for football and for Liverpool if someone who had been brought in with the pomp and circumstance, and the money it took them to release me from my previous contract, and being feted as one of England's best managers – if after eight games people are deciding this guy has got to go. It would be sad for me. These things happen in football. You can't have the years in football I've had without ever being sacked, but it would be a sad day for Liverpool because that isn't Liverpool's style. So I find that type of question insulting to me and even more insulting to the club."

    17 October - "As good as we have played all season" (After the woeful loss to Everton)

    That was as good as we have played all season, and I have no qualms with the performance whatsoever. I only hope fair-minded people will see it the same way.

    17 October - “To get a result here would have been Utopia” (Also after the defeat to Everton)

    "To get a result here would have been Utopia. But I can only analyse the performance. There is no point trying to analyse dreams."

    17 October - “Maybe it is just a bit of dust” (On the poor start to the season)

    "Like everyone else I get really immersed in the subject. I start looking through the eye of the microscope at the miniscule particles of dust, trying to see if there is an atom there. Maybe it is just a bit of dust."

    21 October - "We will cross that bridge when we come to it" (On rumours of Torres to Manchester United)

    "I think we will cross that bridge when we come to it. There will always be speculation. When a great player like Wayne Rooney is looking to leave his club, then you know Manchester United will be in a position to target a lot of players around the world. I don't think Fernando will be the only striker they target - and I don't think we will be the only club worried that their striker is in their sights. I am not naive enough to believe that there won't be any danger and we will never lose a player like Torres. I understand these things can happen. I don't believe we will lose him."

    29 October - "It's all to do with how good your scouting and your eye is"

    "I think you can pay an awful lot of money for poor players and you can pay not very much money for very good ones – it is all to do with how good your scouting and your eye is. There are a lot of things here that the club has got to get right. We have got a lot more expensive failures on our list than good players that we have brought in for next to nothing. Free transfers don’t necessarily mean that you have got a bargain. My experience of them has been very mixed. You need to be sure that the player you get can do the job you want from him."

    30 October - "They can't all be wrong and we aren't that stupid either"

    "A club like Liverpool shouldn't have to rely on non-specialists like Dirk Kuyt or Ryan Babel ‘doing a job’ up front when they are primarily wide players. ...The first thing people say when I walk down the street is ‘We need a front player’. They can't all be wrong and we aren't that stupid either."

    30 October - “We’ve got those types of players ourselves”

    "We all know January is often a market for clubs trying to move on players they don't want. I don't want to be taking people's leftovers. We've got those types of players ourselves. If we are going to improve we need better."

    30 October - "That's what he's good at" (On Dalglish)

    "He is doing a great job alongside us and we involve him in our scouting while he still works at The Academy and plays an ambassadorial role. That's what he's good at."

    31 October - "A famous victory" (1-0 at Bolton)

    "Today was a famous victory because we hadn’t won more than once away in the whole of 2010. When you’re down the bottom, and keep being reminded you’re down the bottom, anxiety kicks in."

    31 October - "He was here in name but not allowed to set foot in Melwood"

    "When they wanted me for the job, I made it clear to Kenny that he would be with me - not like with Benitez, when he was here in name but not allowed to set foot in Melwood and it was 'we don't want anything to do with you"
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    12 November - "He's not that bad on the ball"

    "Unfortunately I can't do anything about the fans, but he's (Poulsen) had one or two games in front of our crowd where he's not played well and he knows he hasn't. He is devastated by that and the crowd, who aren't stupid, know he's not played well. It's a fact of life. He can only keep working hard and when he gets his chance he has to get on with his job. He had a job to do against Wigan and without his introduction, with a very tired Maxi Rodríguez and Dirk Kuyt, who knows we could even have lost the game. But he's got quality, he's a good defensive midfield player. He's not that bad on the ball, but let's not beat about the bush and try to disguise the fact – he's had a bad start."

    13 November - "He's not performed -- very often at least -- to the level I'd expect of him"

    "(Johnson) is the England right-back and, if he plays like that, one would expect him to come back in when he's fit. But then he'd have to play like the England right-back and up to now, to be quite frank, he's not performed - very often at least - to the level I'd expect of him. You would have to ask him 'do you think you're playing at top form and are you playing like the best right-back in the country for your club?' If he says yes, obviously we will have to agree to differ and if he says no, then you'd have to ask the question 'why not?"

    14 November - "I didn't realise I had been accused of criticising him"

    "It amazes me that when you make a statement of such obvious veracity people want to make headlines out of it. Everyone is saying what I am saying. I hope I am honest and I hope the players are honest. I didn't realise I had been accused of criticising him; I don't normally criticise my players and I'm sorry if that has been suggested."

    20 November - “In his naivety and frustration” (After previously not commenting on Capello reneging on the agreement to substitute Gerrard)

    "I don't know if I am being diplomatic, I am simply refusing to prolong a debate. Our fitness coach, Darren, in his naivety and frustration, was foolish enough to voice an opinion on Twitter and that's led to these two days of vitriol. I think it's time we got it stopped."

    20 November - “There will always be a certain number of people who wanted a different manager”

    "Every time I speak to you about fans, you seem to have a complete monopoly on how every fan thinks. How many of them? There will always be a certain number of people who wanted a different manager and are probably still unhappy they did not get that manager. I have every faith in Liverpool fans. Every manager who has come to this club has been well supported by the fans. Every manager has gone through periods where the team has not achieved what the fans would like them to achieve, so I have no fears in that respect."

    26 November - "We won't need to do too much in the January transfer window" (After beating West Ham)

    "I have a very clear picture now of what we should and need to be doing and the squad is stronger and getting stronger. It was probably stronger than I realised at certain stages in the early part of the season when we were losing games. Hopefully that will mean we won't need to do too much in the January transfer window"

    27 November - “’Liverpool will get worse and worse’ is what he said”

    "Everyone I know in football respects the job I’m doing here and aren’t too surprised it hasn’t been an easy start. In fact, 95 per cent would have predicted it as [Jose] Mourinho did. ‘Liverpool will get worse and worse’ is what he said and if the great man Mourinho says it, I don’t know why you don’t quote him."

    2 December - "He isn't a naturally confident character" (As Joe Cole returns from injury)

    "He isn't a naturally confident character. He suffers when things are not going his way. Everyone at the club has worked hard to make sure he doesn't take it too hard and take too much on himself, because he's quite happy to take responsibility. Sometimes those players can take too much on themselves and push themselves even further down."

    9 December - "I don't know where the stories came from" (After Brukner said Gerrard could be fit, on 30 November)

    "I don't know where the stories came from that Gerrard would be fit for Newcastle. We have always been thinking he would be fit to face Fulham the following weekend, it would be much too early to consider him for Newcastle."

    10 December - "He has been the first to recognise what a good job it was that we didn’t do these things" (On not letting Babel, Lucas et al leave)

    "Christian (Purslow) was here for two years and is a big fan with strong opinions about players. He fed me the information. I listened, of course, but made it clear I was not going to act on it. To be fair, when we’ve spoken or texted he has been the first to recognise what a good job it was that we didn’t do these things, because the boys have turned out well."

    11 December - "For a team that wants to be in the top half of the table it's not good enough"

    "Our away form continues to be very, very poor and it's something we need to do something about. If we'd played the whole of 90 minutes as we played the first 45 minutes maybe I wouldn't be as disappointed as I am. For a team that wants to be in the top half of the table, our away form is not good enough."

    14 December - "Unless there is a major influx of cash into the club..." (After losing to Newcastle)

    "Unless there is a major influx of cash into the club and the team is going to be changed from one moment to the next, then whoever takes my place will be doing a similar job with similar players."

    14 December - "We are right up there in terms of results" (having won 7 points from 18 and being 11th in the form table)

    "The only team with better results than us over the past five or six games is Arsenal or Manchester United. If you take the last five or six games we are right up there in terms of results"

    14 December - "I can't work harder and I can't work better"

    "The owners have made it perfectly clear they are in it for the long term. They realise it is going to take time. They realise we can't turn things round overnight and they also realise the team I am working with is not the team I put together. It [the speculation] doesn't bother me because I can't do more than I am doing. I can't work harder and I can't work better."

    15 December - "A bunch of also-rans"

    "I don't know if I would have considered using Fernando had David Ngog been fit. But he isn't and, having had a chat with Fernando, I think he'll enjoy it. It's not as if he'll be playing with a bunch of also-rans. I'm not asking him to play in the reserves."

    15 December - "They made me see sense"

    "I thought it would be a nice game for him (Torres) and a chance for him to get his confidence back. But I also had a talk to our fitness people and they made me see sense that it wasn't the wisest thing to do. And of course it would be very bad for us if he picked up an injury. The same applied to Pepe Reina. They made me see sense, I listened to the reason around me and I changed my mind."
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    19 December - "The other players I have inherited"

    "It is starting to feel more like my side,but it is still a team that I have not put together. I want to make that clear. I took the team over and I have not made that many changes. I brought in [Paul] Konchesky to play left back, Raul Meireles to replace [Javier] Mascherano and Joe Cole came in at the same time as me as well as Christian Poulsen. The other players I have inherited. I think I would be a good comparison with Tottenham because Harry [Redknapp] came in there just as I came into Fulham so he will just be completing three years and he has brought in a lot of players. So to really call it my team, I would have had to make a slightly bigger impact on those who have been brought in. I am more than happy to take responsibility for this squad but it takes a coach more than five or six months to make his stamp on a club. I am hoping we will do some good business in transfer windows to come and then I will be able say, ‘If you don’t like it then I have no one to blame but myself’."

    20 December - “I'm frightened as a manager that I might get rid of a player who will be good for the club”

    "I'm frightened as a manager that I might get rid of a player who will be good for the club on the basis that there might be a name out there that looks a bit higher than the player you already have at the club. When that player comes in and you work with them for two months, you realise that the name is great and it rings big bells but, in actual fact, he is no better than the player you let go. He maybe even worse."

    20 December - “I don’t think this group of players will let the club down”

    "I don't think it would be a bad thing for us to keep testing out this squad of players. Before I start bringing players in, I've got to be aware that when I do, I will be pushing Shelvey or Kelly back…I don't think we should be encouraging them to throw a lot of money at it straight away.,,I don't think this group of players will let the club down. I think they will play plenty of good matches between now and the end of the season. Whether we are going to start breaking into the top four or hitting the heights without some additions, I'm not prepared to say. I would like to keep my powder dry."

    20 December - “Clubs have virtually been destroyed by people making bad decisions”

    "Clubs have virtually been destroyed by people making bad decisions. It's not because the owners haven't given money or supported the manager. It's just that they have brought in the wrong people."

    23 December - “He's [Joe Cole] not so much a player I can take responsibility for.”

    "I was involved in the discussion with him, but the initiative and the desire to take Joe did come from the managing director perhaps more so than myself. I played my part in persuading him it was a good move, but I made it clear I couldn't promise him a certain position. He’s not so much a player I can take responsibility for. I’d have to share the responsibility for Joe, less so than people like Poulsen, Meireles and Konchesky, who are players I was happy to bring to the club."

    23 December - "When you get a job like this, should you be working for the long-term good of Liverpool or trying to get an extra result or two for Roy Hodgson?"

    "When you get a job like this, should you be working for the long-term good of Liverpool or trying to get an extra result or two for Roy Hodgson? I'd like to think I am big enough and confident enough to take the long-term view, even though it might work against me. I might even prefer that in some ways because I would be very disappointed if I went out in January and spent a lot of money on the wrong players and then, come the summer, we are no better off. All we would be doing is adding a few more players who we don't think are good enough to the roster. I would be disappointed if I did that. I can't guarantee it won't happen but it is not my intention."

    25 December - "Having been deified people have then started to crucify me"

    "I suppose you might say it’s been topsy-turvy in the sense that having been deified people have then started to crucify me but that’s part of the business... Getting the job at Liverpool was another major feather in my cap and the fact it hasn’t gone as well as I’d have hoped results-wise is just the nature of football. Maybe what we have realised is there is plenty of work to do here but I am certainly very satisfied with the job I have done here and I don’t feel any dissatisfaction whatsoever."

    26 December - “Fans are waiting for a man with a magic wand”

    "Fans are waiting for a man with a magic wand that can turn all of the ills that everyone has seen into something different. Those of us who work in the game and have been working in the game a long time know that magic wand doesn't exist."

    26 December - "I haven't worked any differently here than I did in the last six months at Fulham"

    "Maybe what we have realised is that there is plenty of work to do here, but I am certainly very satisfied with the job I have done here. The fact that it hasn't gone as well as I'd have hoped results-wise is just the nature of football. I haven't worked any differently here than I did in the last six months at Fulham. Yes, it's been topsy-turvy in the sense that having defied people they have started to crucify me, but that's part of the business and the way things are. Pedestals are built to put people on then knock them off and I have a fairly mature attitude to that. I can't do more and the players can't do more so we hope that work will turn our fortunes around and we get some batter results."

    27 December - "The less results you get, the less leaders you have"

    "Steven helps all players and it is harder to find leaders in the world of football today. You think of the great teams of the past and their leaders jump out at you. Often there were several in the same team. Danny Blanchflower and Dave Mackay at Spurs, the great Arsenal team with Adams etc. Today it is not so easy to pick out the leaders. We are lucky to have one or two but what you are fighting for as a coach is to get more leaders in your team. The less results you get the less leaders you have though, it’s as simple as that."

    29 December - "0-0 would have been a reasonable result for us" (On losing at home, to bottom of the table Wolves)

    "I'd like to give Wolves credit, but I think we were a bit unlucky to lose the game, probably 0-0 would have been a reasonable result for us. But we didn't do anything to deserve more than a 0-0."

    29 December - "The famous Anfield support has not really been there" (After being asked if the booing at the end of the Wolves game was understandable)

    "The fans have left angry and that's understandable. We've let them down. I am getting used to it, that is the way it is. We've had to live with that for quite a long time now as ever since I came here the famous Anfield support has not really been there. It is sad and I don't like hearing those things because I am trying to do the best job I can do. I am working as hard as I can so I can't say it is something I really appreciate."

    29 December - “I have to hope the fans will become supporters”

    "We are not deliberately losing games.I have to hope the fans will become supporters because we need support. We are not deliberately losing games."

    31 December - “I didn't mention the fans”

    "I didn't mention the fans… I think the fans will always get behind and support the team. They even did it the other night. After aiming a few jibes at me they were very quick to suddenly get behind the team and scream us on. All I can do is apologise if I've offended anyone and make it perfectly clear there was nothing offensive in my comments."

    5 January - “It'll be the next performance which could change things” (After losing again on the road, this time to Blackburn 3-1)

    "In football you do what you always do. You keep going as best you can, you make certain you try and get over the result, you make certain the next result is a better one and hopefully wipes away the memory, but that's all you can do. It'll be the next performance which could change things."

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    The gulf between him and Klopp is just frightening. It’s like a really bad dream, us having had him as a manager.

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    Some great quotes there Sid.

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    Surely Torres signed after Roy was sacked?

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    No, Torres left after he was sacked. Benitez signed him in 2007. Hodgson came in at a difficult time, a world cup year and turmoil over the owners. One of his first tasks was to try and persuade Torres to stay, he appeared to be happy at one point then when Chelsea turned his head he made a dramatic U Turn when Dalglish came in. Great player but his attitude in the final weeks on the field ruined any respect I had for him as a Liverpool player.

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