Are you sure about that?
IINM Fenway Sports Group (owned by NESV) were interested in some sort of commercial agreement not actually buying Fulham.
Regarding Hodgson's transfer dealings; Pigeon touched on it earlier, he comes across very short-sighted. I mentioned it during the summer transfer window but all his deals (both in and out) were focussed on the immediate future and not a year or 2 down the line. This doesn't tie-in with what NESV have done in Boston.
So he didn't have money to buy a high quality left back for the long term, so it would be better to buy no one if no ones available/no money, and have no left back, than get someone cheap whose got experience, really, thats a bad thing?
LIkewise, Poulsen may or may not be playing crap, he played crap for his country, he doesn't usually play crap for his country, therefore you can probably safely assume he's not playing anywhere near his best for Liverpool either.
I also find it funny people critise his being overly defensive until the last game. Well Liverpool are conceding a lot with fairly little discipline, he's trying to instill a new way of playing, thinking and new roles for the players. Once they are practiced and well drilled its easier to be more expansive but still know when to get back to defend.
This is ignoring that fact that with Torres playing like utter turd, Maxi/babel/Cole being anything but reliable scorers, playing an offensive game with more holes at the back, when your front line is playing like utter turd, is simply asking to lose.
This is the fundamental thing really, Fulham didn't become good overnight, before Hodgeson even signed you had Fulham fans across the country quoting their players, saying new systems, new training, hugely more disciplined and hard training took a long while to get used to, then it clicked and everyone loved how the team started playing.
So before he signed almost everyone was basically telling Liverpool fans exactly what to expect, a manager who knows his stuff actually trying to change the fundamental problems at the club(Reira/Babel/Maxi, several others who all like the money but have no interest in really doing much at all, all massively underperforming) and it would take time.
Then several games into the season you're all shocked it didn't happen instantly.
Then people having a go at him because he isn't completely honest with the press, since when is that a requirement of good management. He will have a go at players in private most likely, but to build confidence you tell the players they are improving, if you tell them they are getting worse constantly, they WILL NOT get better.
Again I'll point out Benitez, he said they could get 4th when no one else on earth thought they could, why, because if he tells the players its impossible, he's already lost the players, they all lose hope and all play worse.
Using what he says to the press as a reason to have a go at the guy is moronic. If you're in League 1 in two years, playing like crap, in the relegation zone and he's still saying it, you have a point, early in the season as he tries to build a team and inspire confidence, you're just undermining the team.
he was in the Searie A team of the week twice in a row now. And the end of last years form was amazing, 7 assists and a goal in 6 games if i recall.
