I caught a segment talking about hodgson as Liverpool manager, it took me by surprise, when did that happen? It seems I’d purposefully erased that horrible period from my memory, god it was ****e, embarrassing having that prick in charge of us.
Can't he talk to foreign clubs now regardless? Without Fulham's permission. Only English need permission first at this stage
Do you not rate Gerrard as a manager or do you just think taking over from Klopp would be too soon for him?
I do wonder if taking over from Klopp would be same as taking over from Ferguson or taking over from pep. Such massive expectations and almost a poisoned chalice?
It seemed that way when Shankly retired, but we built on it rather than collapsed, so it is possible.
Bit of column a bit of column b here. First we need to look to squad and hunger. in 2024 klopp could hand over a team with a decrepit VVD but wuld have alisson, kelleher, trent, gomez, konates, tsimikas, elliott, jones, diaz, (carvalho maybe) jota. Even an aged fabinho. Its a fairly good team. Compare that to what moyes got handed. aging players like giggs, evra, vidic, carrick etc etc no marks like anderson, rafael etc. there was a massive rebuild no matter who came to utd. on the other hand theres how much faith was actually put in moyes at all. Its not so much the expectations but rather the backing. Moyes ende dup 7h but he as in the QF of CL and in SF of league cup. They sacked him before a season was done then appointed an absolute hoofer in van gaal who bored the pants off fans. So the question has to be will fans take to a manager and will the board back that person properly to get things right thier way. Utd were indeed a poisoned chalice as Ferguson pick the new man not the board so he was simply not backed. (felliani in that summer was a ****ing joke of a window looking at the state of squad in age and legs) Ferguson also left a mess.
Good men like Robinson (for the era) over the thing, backing and a man who knew his own mind and did what he felt was needed FSG have mike gordan there to ride over egos in theory but the rest are very hands off. the choice of new man is critical as they have to have the ego to get the final say but have the humility to build on the technical and analytical structures we have rather than disrupt it. Inevitably if we hand a high pressing high energy type system and team built over 10 years off to a new man he better be a guy who likes high press high risk/reward football! it'd be tragic to appoint a tuchel after a klopp. (dortmund royally ****ed that one up)
I'd hate it if we changed to a less attacking style - regardless of whether or not it brought results.
agree. the difference in watching rafa's side winning where a chance falls to torres and bang and watching klopp's side making 20 chances and missing 18 of them is massive. (if blood pressure raising at times)
Honestly, I don't care if we play less attacking as long as we win. Some of the most exciting games I've ever seen were 0-0 draws in the second leg of Champions League games under Rafa where all we needed was a clean sheet to progress. Attacking style is great for the neutral though... And I suppose more likely to enlarge the fan base with newbies.
Every Liverpool manager has huge expectations placed on him because it's one of the biggest jobs in football. Whoever takes over from Klopp will have the same expected of him. I would like Klopp to keep extending his stay but the reality is that he will leave one day. I would like to see Ljinders given the job before Gerrard. It would be the new version of the boot room saint refers to. That, for me is the way forward. I think Gerrard is confident in his ability and I'd like to think has more sense than Lampard had in taking on a job that he isn't/wasn't ready for. Top jobs require a longer apprenticeship.
What if Klopp left but the rest of his team stayed? Part of the Fergie / Man Utd problem was too much change at once. Moyes changed the entire coaching team
I have always preferred attacking, free-flowing football. We've shown with several teams down the years that it can bring success, so imo everything else is second-best.
