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If an asteroid suddenly rained down from the sky and obliterated that stadium, it would be a day that would remembered for all eternity, not for being bad but for being just.

 

Feck em.

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Oh aye, Kenny is pretty defensive, but nowhere near as much as Hodgson was. By all appearances, he really was planning to remodel Liverpool after his typical bottom-half scrapper sides.

 

hm, massive assumption for me - for a start he wasn't given 100m to splurge, chances are he'd have done things very differently had he been

 

He'd almost certainly have acted differently in the transfer market, but I don't think it would have changed anything on the pitch.

 

Sure, Hodgson's hands were tied in the transfer market (he had to sell to buy), but it's not like he inherited a crappy squad that forced him to play the way he chose to. £80m of the money Dalglish has spent came from selling players Hodgson had at his disposal, so the difference is about £40m, not £100m, and 10 points off the CL places, while by no means great, is a damn sight better 4 points off the relegation zone.

 

No, Dalglish is not doing particularly well, especially in view of how much he's spent (if only Rafa had been given that kind of backing!), but it's still a damn sight better than Hodgson did, and he was only getting worse when he got the boot.

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Oh aye, Kenny is pretty defensive, but nowhere near as much as Hodgson was. By all appearances, he really was planning to remodel Liverpool after his typical bottom-half scrapper sides.

 

hm, massive assumption for me - for a start he wasn't given 100m to splurge, chances are he'd have done things very differently had he been

 

He'd almost certainly have acted differently in the transfer market, but I don't think it would have changed anything on the pitch.

 

Sure, Hodgson's hands were tied in the transfer market (he had to sell to buy), but it's not like he inherited a crappy squad that forced him to play the way he chose to. £80m of the money Dalglish has spent came from selling players Hodgson had at his disposal, so the difference is about £40m, not £100m, and 10 points off the CL places, while by no means great, is a damn sight better 4 points off the relegation zone.

 

No, Dalglish is not doing particularly well, especially in view of how much he's spent (if only Rafa had been given that kind of backing!), but it's still a damn sight better than Hodgson did, and he was only getting worse when he got the boot.

 

Why compare Hodgson unfavourably with Rafa when they were never given the same resources and didn't even share the same football philosophy? Maybe if Hodgson had been given those resources to mould a team he would have done better? The fact is, King Kunny has been given plenty of money and shares a similar footballing philosophy to Rafa but has wasted it on over-priced home grown crap.

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Oh aye, Kenny is pretty defensive, but nowhere near as much as Hodgson was. By all appearances, he really was planning to remodel Liverpool after his typical bottom-half scrapper sides.

 

hm, massive assumption for me - for a start he wasn't given 100m to splurge, chances are he'd have done things very differently had he been

 

He'd almost certainly have acted differently in the transfer market, but I don't think it would have changed anything on the pitch.

 

Sure, Hodgson's hands were tied in the transfer market (he had to sell to buy), but it's not like he inherited a crappy squad that forced him to play the way he chose to. £80m of the money Dalglish has spent came from selling players Hodgson had at his disposal, so the difference is about £40m, not £100m, and 10 points off the CL places, while by no means great, is a damn sight better 4 points off the relegation zone.

 

No, Dalglish is not doing particularly well, especially in view of how much he's spent (if only Rafa had been given that kind of backing!), but it's still a damn sight better than Hodgson did, and he was only getting worse when he got the boot.

 

Why compare Hodgson unfavourably with Rafa when they were never given the same resources and didn't even share the same football philosophy?

 

;D

 

That's a good one. Rafa hardly shared a philosophy with Houllier, yet took his squad and won the Champions League. The fucking Champions League. With Djimi fucking Traore. He also spent less that first summer than Hodgson did. And got Xabi Alonso and Luis Garcia, not Christian shitting Poulsen.

 

Hodgson doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Benitez. I cannot possibly conceive how anyone could not compare Hodgson's face-rubbing dive for the relegation zone unfavorably with winning the fucking Champions League.

 

Maybe if Hodgson had been given those resources to mould a team he would have done better?

 

Maybe he would. So what? His performance was utterly unacceptable given the quality of the squad he had. His squad or not. He's supposed to be a professional football manager and be able to deal with such things. Instead, he was totally out of his depth.

 

The fact is, King Kunny has been given plenty of money and shares a similar footballing philosophy to Rafa but has wasted it on over-priced home grown crap.

 

And? That has nothing whatsoever to do with how unbelievably bad Hodgson was.

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