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B9 said:
I don't think many fans will be clamoring for an extention if he doesn't do well.

There might be a fair bit of fan pressure for it if he does though.
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You live among the scouse and you don't know their ways? Interesting...

I guess you're too busy shagging the hottest girl™ ever...
 

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phelans shorts said:
There's a line, not respecting players of the standard of Dalglish merely for allegiances is a bit pathetic.
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I'm not denying he was a decent player, anyone knows that. I've met him before along with Rushy. He was a complete cock. Rushy on the other hand was a gentleman. I don't see why someone should respect someone purely because they were/are a good player.
 

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Dalglish seems likable enough IMO. He comes across as slightly stand offish and boring but he does have a sense of humor if you hear some of his comments. And you simply can't look past what he's achieved in the game.

Liverpool fans also seem to go on about the work he's done for the Hillsborough families. Not aware of the details myself but if it is true then one can also not look past him as a decent man.

I have no problem with Dalglish at all. He's totally different to say someone like Rafa who was a bit of a cock face.

This however doesn't mean I won't be laughing at Dalglish's failings.
 

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Ole's_toe_poke said:
Dalglish seems likable enough IMO. He comes across as slightly stand offish and boring but he does have a sense of humor if you hear some of his comments. And you simply can't look past what he's achieved in the game.

Liverpool fans also seem to go on about the work he's done for the Hillsborough families. Not aware of the details myself but if it is true then one can also not look past him as a decent man.

I have no problem with Dalglish at all. He's totally different to say someone like Rafa who was a bit of a cock face.

This however doesn't mean I won't be laughing at Dalglish's failings.
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He went to all of the funerals IIRC.

Of course there's nothing wrong with laughing if the job doesn't go well, however he's done enough in the game to avoid such petty name calling really.
 

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I met Kenny when he was managing Blackburn - a miserable fecker, but he didn't turn away anyone wanting an autograph. Unlike Big Ron, the cnut.
 

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Ole's_toe_poke said:
Dalglish seems likable enough IMO. He comes across as slightly stand offish and boring but he does have a sense of humor if you hear some of his comments. And you simply can't look past what he's achieved in the game.

Liverpool fans also seem to go on about the work he's done for the Hillsborough families. Not aware of the details myself but if it is true then one can also not look past him as a decent man.

I have no problem with Dalglish at all. He's totally different to say someone like Rafa who was a bit of a cock face.

This however doesn't mean I won't be laughing at Dalglish's failings.
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phelans shorts said:
He went to all of the funerals IIRC.

Of course there's nothing wrong with laughing if the job doesn't go well, however he's done enough in the game to avoid such petty name calling really.
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I for one love seeing Liverpool flailing away dangerously close to the relegation zone...

But I also have respect for a man who has that much respect for the club that made him.

Again, i think someone mentioned that they didn't have the same level of abject disgust for him that they had for Rafa... it all comes down to respect.

I really think Kenny has one hell of a job to do keeping Liverpool in the top half of the table... other than Reina and the two under performing stars (one of whom will now miss the next 3 matches) this is as poor a Liverpool side as I can remember (I'm going to say worse than some of the Souness dross... but I'll allow our Scouse friends to chime in on that).

Rafa was right about one thing, they do need 5-6 new players, and they need to get rid of 8-9 of the ones they've got. Do either Gerard or Torres want to be a part of a several year rebuilding project. Gerrard especially, his time as an elite player is coming to a close... really at most, a couple of seasons (some might suggest the end is coming quicker than that).
 

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I'm looking forward to this one*. Pity Everton's best player is at the Asia cup. I guess Pienaar won't play?




* I'll watch until the dirties go two up
 

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There are no weaknesses in Anfield side, says Kenny Dalglish.

Thirteenth in the Premier League, beaten 10 times already this season, a Merseyside derby looming and just five points from the foot of the table. Had anyone other than Kenny Dalglish dared to suggest that Liverpool’s side contains no weaknesses, they would have been hounded from Anfield.

I think if you look at the team, there’s nothing that’s really weak, so that is a positive,” said the Scot on Friday, contrary to all received wisdom.

It is well known that Liverpool’s team is not good enough. As Rafael Benítez, the man blamed in most quarters for that plight, might say: fact.

Yet Dalglish has returned time and again in his first week in 20 years as Liverpool manager to the idea that the side he has inherited is not the ragtag mix of has-beens and never-will-bes as has been perpetuated.

Even after defeat to Blackpool, he insisted that the players at his disposal “look good enough” to wear the red shirt he graced with such distinction. If Dalglish, Anfield’s ultimate arbiter, believes in his squad, the Kop is not likely to disagree.

How, then, to explain that the Scot will trace those familiar steps from dressing room to dugout, bowing his head to pass under the ‘This Is Anfield’ sign, to take the rousing ovation of his public on Sunday with Liverpool in such dire straits?

“There are a lot of good footballers here,” he said. “Some aren’t realising their potential at the moment, but the only thing that’s stopping them is a bit of confidence and a little bit of luck.

“If you believe you can turn it, then you have got a better chance of being more fortunate than we have been. The players have to believe in what we are doing and what they are capable of doing.”

For almost two years, though, that belief has been conspicuous by its absence. Dalglish has clearly made it his mission to instil confidence back into a side devoid of faith.

It is easy to see his logic: for too long, Liverpool’s fringe players have been informed that they have little reason to believe in their abilities. Benítez, of course, spent much of his time bemoaning the lack of transfer funds at his disposal to replace them. Roy Hodgson, too, made it clear that Anfield’s fortunes rested largely on Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Pepe Reina.

Dalglish, though, is cast in a very different mould. The Liverpool sides he played in and the first generation of Liverpool sides he managed were built on collectivist lines. The man anointed as royalty in these parts is driven by a streak of socialism.

“There is not a team in the league that would not appreciate having Stevie [Gerrard] or [Jamie] Carragher in their team,” he said of the two men he will miss most against Everton. “We are no different. They are two big players. They won’t be available tomorrow but they are not important to us tomorrow.

“The important ones are the ones who are available. From within that, we have to find leadership. There is not any one person who will be designated leader. They have all got responsibilities and they cannot shy away from them. I don’t think they will.”

Dalglish’s return to Anfield, he admits, will be emotive, all the more so for the identity of the opposition. “Anfield is and always has been special,” he says. “If the supporters are pleased to see me sitting there, they will not be as pleased as I am.”

He insists, though, that is not a matter of “I”, but “we”. “It is all very well being romantic, but we have to start winning games.”

Liverpool v Everton: there are no weaknesses in Anfield side, says Kenny Dalglish - Telegraph
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Hodgson would have been slammed for this.
 

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Slap in the middle of the transfer window....
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Yeh but Kenny still looks like a fish out of water. He doesn't know the league well enough in my opinion. And its going to take him time to get up to date with it all. I think by the time he is properly with it, the window will be closed.

the fact they are going for Charlie adams shows their mentality. He is an average player. Going for him doesn't show a top 4 mentality. He isn't good enough for a top 4 team. So I recon he is just going to cram their squad full of average players, which is a bad idea.

Your also assuming he has money to spend...
 

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Yeh but Kenny still looks like a fish out of water. He doesn't know the league well enough in my opinion. And its going to take him time to get up to date with it all. I think by the time he is properly with it, the window will be closed.

the fact they are going for Charlie adams shows their mentality. He is an average player. Going for him doesn't show a top 4 mentality. He isn't good enough for a top 4 team. So I recon he is just going to cram their squad full of average players, which is a bad idea.

Your also assuming he has money to spend...
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I was actually referring to the Liverpool players if they get beat. Torres will have an eye on the door. I'm sure he wouldnt be the only one.
 

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I was actually referring to the Liverpool players if they get beat. Torres will have an eye on the door. I'm sure he wouldnt be the only one.
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I'd be very surprised if Torres had not already handed in a transfer request or two based on his play. Seems the kind of cnut who wouldn't give his all to force a transfer.
 

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peterstorey said:
I don't think so, Hodgson would have said a loss would be good cos we can't win.
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When it was coming towards the end they panned pretty much every Hodgson move, they were micro-analysing every single thing he did or said. They were right with some things, such as the defeatist attitude he seemed to adopt as their form went from bad to worse. But Dalglish has done and said as stupid things in his short spell - he picked a terrible team away to Blackpool and compounded it by leaving the subs far too late. Those two areas were where Hodgson received most criticism, apart from his interviews. Had he claimed that the clearly poor squad wasn't weak in any areas (hinting that there'll be no drastic changes), they'd be making snide references to his LMA award and writing poetry comparing him to Mao Tse-tung. LMAo Tse-tung they'd call him.
 

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Is that the same bad taste shown by Liverpool fans(sic) attacking the ambulance that was taking Alan Smith to hospital after breaking his leg? Or the Liverpool Fans(though not alone here) celebrating the deaths of people at Munich?
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Yeah, because those people are cnuts, therefore there's no problem at all in us being cnuts? What a fecking stupid point to try to make.

That said, I perfectly accept Padzillas not having connected Dalglish's first leaving with Hillborough - I didn't until similarly told that by a Liverpool fan. Of course that doesn't mean that it's definitely the case.
 

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peterstorey said:
I don't think so, Hodgson would have said a loss would be good cos we can't win.
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and then followed up with 'I hope the owners will release funds so I can make my mark on this team. These aren't really my players you know. Except for Poulsen, who hjad a great game two months ago that I am sure he will build on for the rest of the season. But anyway, if we can play as amazingly as we did the last time we lost to them, I will have no complaints.'
 

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Even their own are turning against them. I opened the Daily Mirror today (no, it wasn't my own copy) and saw that slimy cancerous piece of rectal sputum, Derek McGovern's column. He was talking about the possibiliy of Dalglish getting sacked already, whilst making his usual hilarious* quips and one liners and relegation.




*Hilarious as in Joe Longthorne hilarious
 

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peterstorey said:
Dalglish is an old tart, they were Webb fecked at OT, no one's too bothered about Blackpool. Beat the Blues and it's hallelujah time again.
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You are a scouser in disguise, end of. Dalgliesh was a great footballer but a dipper. In management he started brightly but then had the club fecked up leaving Souness in a mess with Speedie and Rosenthal upfront alongside other useless footballers in their 30:s. This time, King Kenny, I hope you stay long enough to take those miserable cnuts down. Come on EVERTON
 

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All this stuff he is the ideal manager to get the spirits up & put confidence running through the veins of the players again because of what he achieved in the past as a player & a manager is a load of bollix i reckon, the vast majority of the players were hardly born when he was at the top of his game, they won't give a crap about what he did in the past, especially the players not from Liverpool.
 

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The Black Pearl said:
All this stuff he is the ideal manager to get the spirits up & put confidence running through the veins of the players again because of what he achieved in the past as a player & a manager is a load of bollix i reckon, the vast majority of the players were hardly born when he was at the top of his game, they won't give a crap about what he did in the past, especially the players not from Liverpool.
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All most of them know about him is he's the creepy geezer who's always hanging around the place.
 
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