Liverpool officially announce Hodgson to take charge

sammo62 · 1 Jul 2010 at 10:22

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/liverpool-appoint-hodgson

He exclusively told Liverpoolfc.tv: "This is the biggest job in club football and I'm honoured to be taking on the role of manager of Britain's most successful football club. I look forward to meeting the players and the supporters and getting down to work at Melwood."

I know a lot of Liverpool fans wanted Kenny, and others think we can do a lot better, but I am happy with Roy's appointment. A good English manager who can hopefully stop the rot from last season. Maybe he can even get Babel to play well, who knows.

goonerfan · 1 Jul 2010 at 10:24

sammo62 said:
Maybe he can even get Babel to play well

He's a manager, not a magician!

jakeke · 1 Jul 2010 at 10:37

I liked Roy

Tombstone · 1 Jul 2010 at 10:56

Not really the sort of manager I wanted but nice to at least get something sorted out.

TheCenturion · 1 Jul 2010 at 10:59

I'm happy with this appointment. He won't have a big kitty, but hopefully can convince top players to stay. Quality manager, perfect fit to get us back into top 4

Caseh · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:02

Such a shame he's left Fulham. I liked what he was doing there.

Gribs · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:15

I remember his time at Blackburn and when he started we were still a big club. Loads of poor signing followed before eventual relegation. The highlights being strikers Kevin Davies (£7.5m, 1 goal) and Martin Dahlin (£5m, 4 goals).

He might bring some stability to Liverpool but I can see it going **** up if he's given money to spend and them ending up in similar positions to Leeds or Newcastle.

DanH84 · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:18

jakeke said:
I liked Roy

Woy

sammo62 · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:22

Gribs said:
if he's given money to spend

You know its going badly at Liverpool when this made me laugh. He'll get a shoestring budget and maybe 50% of any money made from transfers if that.

Caseh · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:23

Gribs said:
I remember his time at Blackburn and when he started we were still a big club. Loads of poor signing followed before eventual relegation. The highlights being strikers Kevin Davies (£7.5m, 1 goal) and Martin Dahlin (£5m, 4 goals).

He might bring some stability to Liverpool but I can see it going **** up if he's given money to spend and them ending up in similar positions to Leeds or Newcastle.

Yeah..

You realise he's had quite a bit of experience of management since then, right?

Gilly · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:41

Shame, I wanted to see him take Fulham on, hopefully to the detriment of Liverpool themselves.

Tummy · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:42

I really like "Woy"

Hopefully might be able to do something with Liverpool, they're in a bit of a state right now.

Weebull · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:45

I forgot Al-Fayed recently sold up his Harrods stake too. You'd have though the security of an owner who's just come into the money, and has been happy to bankroll the club before, would outweigh the financial restraints at the likes of Liverpool. Big gamble for him, really.

syke · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:48

Problem is, this has probably been Hodgson's dream since starting out in Management, to be one of the biggest names in England, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool. Now he's got that chance. Hope him the best, but just a shame it'll cost us

Fulham FC said:
Ray Lewington will take temporary charge of team matters, until a successor is announced in due course.

Good lord.

jakeke · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:52

Weebull said:
I forgot Al-Fayed recently sold up his Harrods stake too. You'd have though the security of an owner who's just come into the money, and has been happy to bankroll the club before, would outweigh the financial restraints at the likes of Liverpool. Big gamble for him, really.

I think he's selling Fulham soon too and retiring to an island to live out his days

syke · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:54

jakeke said:
I think he's selling Fulham soon too and retiring to an island to live out his days

As far as I know, he has said he has no intention of selling Fulham yet. He's actually a very, very good Chairman for us.

Tute · 1 Jul 2010 at 11:56

jakeke said:
I liked Roy

Me too.

Gribs · 1 Jul 2010 at 12:00

[Cas];16861210 said:
Yeah..

You realise he's had quite a bit of experience of management since then, right?

He'd had a lot of experience before as he joined us from Inter and hasn't had to deal with big name players/expectations in the last 10 years. A mid table finish and cup run was a very good acheivement at Fulham. Liverpool fans (unrealistically in my view) expect to challenge for the title or at the very least comfortably qualify for the champions league.

jakeke · 1 Jul 2010 at 12:03

syke said:
As far as I know, he has said he has no intention of selling Fulham yet. He's actually a very, very good Chairman for us.

Fair play, I thought I'd heard rumblings of it, must have got it wrong!

syke · 1 Jul 2010 at 12:03

Gribs said:
He'd had a lot of experience before as he joined us from Inter and hasn't had to deal with big name players/expectations in the last 10 years. A mid table finish and cup run was a very good acheivement at Fulham. Liverpool fans (unrealistically in my view) expect to challenge for the title or at the very least comfortably qualify for the champions league.

Yet he's one of the top managers around. Liverpool in it's current state probably wouldn't have even tempted one of the so called big names, regardless.

Hodgson NEEDS time, which unfortunately, Liverpool fans wont give him. As soon as there's a tiny slip up there will be cries of that he is a bad manager, wrong appointment. At least he has stepped up to the challenge, putting his reputation on the line.

Hodgson going will probably allow the likes of Schwarzer, Hangeland, Dempsey and maybe Zamora or someone to leave now

just hoping we keep Dempsey/Zamora, i'm hoping loyalty comes in for both, as Zamora has turned down two clubs now. Hodgson gone won't attract as many of the bigger names we could have got, ah well.