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  1. Incredible day. What a victory for the families. Just came on here to say a little something about Bill Kenwright. When I think of the people we've had running Liverpool for the last 9 years and remember every little thoughtless snub and moments of sheer ignorance I can't help but reflect on what a fine custodian you've had these years. A man who, whatever his abilities as an administrator, I always believed conducted himself in a dignified and honest manor. Always seemed to genuinely want to do the right thing. It's so important today has proven that above all else I think. Anyway.. "They picked on the wrong mums" cheers Bill.
  2. hello again. From my point of view, it's not so much about replacing Suarez - we don't need to score 100+ league goals to have a good season - it's making sure the money we get for him counts for something. We conceded 50 goals, I think, last year. Shave a significant number off the GA column, improve the squad numbers so we're not reduced to bringing on the likes of aspas and moses to try and change games that aren't going our way, more depth in the creative departments to allow the develpoment of sterling and coutinho to continue without them bearing the extra burden of expectation that suarez leaving would bring, and share the goals more evenly between attack and midfield - these are all much more pressing issues than blowing the lot on someone like Falcao or Benzema and crossing our fingers he has a good season. Most importantly, it's a young squad with a lot of potential, next season isn't the be all and end all in terms of winning titles. In short - if it means beating stoke 3-0 instead of 5-3 and being able to actually defend a set piece, and hold on to a lead at palace, then we'll take it.
  3. nothing like man city, but yeah. under dalglish the net investment was around £35m, reports suggesting rodgers will be allowed £30m plus what he brings in through sales. these figures are all in line with the savings we're making from the lower debt payments, which were around £40m a year under hicks. the only time I remember us taking money off the chairman personally was a £10m loan David Moores gave us for Dirk Kuyt. everton are a big club, you should be making much more of that
  4. a skint chairman has nothing to do with it, like I said there's only 2 teams getting money off theirs. It's more a case of incompetence, don't you think? and you didn't ask me the question, it was redside, but seen as you have now then yes, I imagine they will. Finishing below everton is not good enough, and a big underachievement. on your other points...these kids already are throwing the money at us, our kits are the 4th highest sellers on the planet. our worldwide marketability means we can break records with our shirt sponsorship, and kit manufacturing deals, and this isn't a club from some huge european capital, it's the club a quarter mile from your own. It certainly weren't league cups that put us there, but don't kid yourself, you would kill for a small slice of success.
  5. big clubs have massive income streams they get to spend, it's tough shit really. start winning things and millions of kids on every continent will begin to throw money at your club. if you sit there though defending a chairman who either can't, or won't secure investment or sell up, and a manager who doesn't know how to win big games, then you can't really complain that other teams are getting to spend all the lovely money they earn. only 2 teams in england get to spend money right out of their chairman's pockets, everyone else does it the hard way.
  6. redknapp would be a disaster. what's he had, one european campaign in his entire career? 1 fa cup and a league cup in nearly 30 years as a manager. his dog has bankrupt more clubs than he's won trophies.
  7. http://cdn.caughtoffside.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Roy-Hodgsons-tactics-board.jpg *jaws theme music* http://i.imm.io/nIpx.jpeg
  8. 1. No need, I'll just ask Fellani to mark you. 2. Of course I was talking about his time at Liverpool, when did I deny that, and what else would I base it on...what the press say? 3. Dalglish is revered for many things. Percentages aren't one though, we can't get anything to rhyme with it for a start. That was just a simple and convenient way of showing how bad Hodgson was here, and why people turned on him. Not because we all study winning percentage figures on wikipedia, but because in the real world he lost loads of games he shouldn't. That, and his tactics were crap. And the football we played under him was crap. And the shite he spouted daily in press conferences was crap. And the fact that the press, and rest of the country were so up in arms that we dared to have an opinion on our own manager. Quite a lot of reasons, looking back. Anyway, we're both very happy with this news, albeit for different reasons, so lets make love, not war. I'll happily drink to a summer of football with Roy Hodgson in charge of England! and that man has still got a willy on his head ^^
  9. You were the one who brought up Dalglish, not me. This is about Hodgson you carrot, unless the FA give the job to Kenny that whole argument is meaningless. You seem to think he's a good manager, I think he isn't. It's really that simple. And as you clearly seem to know more about what Liverpool fans think than I do, I find that a very strange point of view to say the least. Anyway, I'm sure you know best, England are in safe hands and all that. They're 2/1 to not qualify from their group though...just saying!
  10. so you agree he's a poor motivator then? Dalglish's 3 European Cups, 8 League titles, and 2 FA Cups means he's revered here, yes. The dozens and dozens of funerals he attended in a period of weeks after hillsborough, most of them kids, count for a lot too. Does that surprise you? Look at Newcastle, all it takes is a dead badger on your head to be called a "messiah" there. And feel free to itemise this £200m you keep mentioning. I don't need another laugh today, but I'll take one anyway.
  11. No plan B was one of his biggest downfalls here. Tactically inept.
  12. england have only ever beaten someone "when it mattered" once in their entire history. It's this bizarre insistence that they should somehow be doing better that I find strange. What is it based on? and, I was replying to pete and marco when I was talking about "how the shite perceived him", not you. although thanks for allowing me this opportunity to reiterate how the cold hard facts influenced this perception. The players didn't play for him? Their motivation to play for him was his remit, not ours. These are the same players who had apparently fallen out of love with Benitez's aloof nature, don't forget. anyway, like I said, time will bare this one out...I've no doubt.
  13. I think that was more down to the fact that we were playing much better teams than us. In fact, taking Portugal to pennos was beyond what I expected.
  14. just to highlight the fact that it was poor results that had the fans turn on him, not Benitez. Everyone wanted success when he came, nobody was willing us to lose at home to Northampton and Blackpool, but we did anyway.
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