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Great tribute from one Liverpool great to another that. Thanks for the memories and good luck Dirk!

I'd have more faith in you than Roy to be fair! Having read the RAWK articles on Rodgers, he's definitely got ideas on how the game should be played and it's more in line with our players than the dinosaur that was appointed for 6 months. FoP! It's going to be an interesting ride either way!

Huge gamble to not have a more experienced set of hands onboard, if that is indeed where we end up. Excited by the prospect of Rodgers and LVG, apprehensive without someone of that calibre. The club still haven't said anything yet though, so nobody really knows yet.

Not necessary to apologise. I'd have loved you to have been right on this one, but it wasn't to be. Now got to get behind the new guy and see what he can do!

I don't think I'd be excited about Rodgers without someone akin to LVG though. The experienced DoF or whatever we are going to call it makes all the difference to an youthful appointment of Martinez or Rodgers.

Thanks Rafa. You are a genius.

Good post that! I didn't really want Kenny to be appointed after rafa partly because I didn't want him to go through hell managing under that lot, partly because I didn't want to hear fans calling for his head. The reason for me he was the right choice pre-Hodgson is that he was the only person we could trust would be looking out for the club after Rafa was removed.

Except it's not just a manager you are sacking. This is Liverpool football club sacking King Kenny Dalglish! There is a little bit of gravity around that.

I am with you. I will continue to believe until it is mathematically no longer possible!

Well said. I'd also prefer Rafa, well actually my preference was to see what Kenny could do. I felt we have a decent squad now, just need a few top class additions to push on. My thoughts have always been you only change to improve. Get better players, get better managers. I'm far from convinced we are going that way with our likely targets. I do have to admire the bravery in their decision, even though it's not the same call I would have made. If it goes badly, not only will we be on the managers back, but they will get it in the neck as well. Sack our king is a hell of a gamble. Sacking him and replacing him with Rodgers or Martinez when there are other more proven managers available seems like its sprinkled with insanity to me. Either way they are staking their ownership on this set of decisions. He's got a great family has Kenny!

The structure should be phased though. They truly should have 2 goals. 1. How to get back into the top 4 as quickly as possible. 2. How to sustain it. Beyond that there is trophies, but they appear to be lower down their priority list. Rafa is the best answer to number 1, it can be argued either way if he is the answer to number 2. I dont see how Martinez is the one to achieve their first goal, but he may well be the answer to phase 2.

Or trying to get on our good side before hodge the second comming happens after he is sacked from England on June 20th following his failure to get out of the group stages. He feels like he has unfinished business at Anfield!

I have no problem talking to Martinez. My concern is them allegedly not talking to Benitez. Not sure how you can realistically discount him without even having a chat. To be fair to the owners though, they haven't commented since they removed Kenny, so we don't really know what is going on beyond the rumours.

He's simply the least risky man for the job. As close to a sure thing for top 4 every season as they'll get. Back him and he'll achieve their goals and he will make us happy too. Everyone else is a greater risk than Kenny IMHO. I'd rather go into this next season with either these men in charge than Martinez, Rodgers, Lambert or AVB!

That makes me sad that I won't get to see him celebrate like that any more. Not going to lie, that video made me cry like a baby.

I put AVB above Martinez, Rodger, but not above Rafa and not in the same bracket as Klopp, Löw and Guardiola. AVB is the most intriguing of the potential realistic candidates, just not sure I'd have sacked Kenny for him, and I wouldn't pick him ahead of Rafa either. He'll be easier to get behind in my head than Martinez though.

Well for me if it was Klopp, Guardiola, Löw Vs Rafa I would also at this point in time not pick Rafa. I could see the ambition in that lot and would find it easy to get onboard with a different approach and a genuinely exciting manager coming in. It clearly isn't going to be that top tier of manager though and it is Martinez, Rodgers, AVB Vs Rafa. That is a very different gamble for me and I'd opt for safety and the known quantity in Rafa. I could get onboard an up and coming manager like Martinez assuming there is a solid appointment in that DOF like role(s) that we are looking at. Too many unknowns at this point for me to get my pitchfork out, yet there are also plenty of concerns.

I want it to be rafa, but he won't be considered. They want a Clean break If you ask me. Shame really as he'd have us right back in the mix very quickly.

True, but I choose to believe this time!

Rafa is the obvious choice and who I would pick. I think that the owners will go a different path though, they are already on thin ground having just let our King go. I don't think they'd take a chance on having to let go of two managers that are held in such high regard by the fans. Rafa, Klopp or Lowe for me. Certainly nobody currently managing in the premier league is the inspiring choice we need right now. I also think the owners have set a dangerous precedent. Only 4th and above will do and they don't give a crap about the cups. If they can't give Kenny 2 seasons to rectify that, I don't see what chance the next guy has unfortunately. The decision for change was made long before the season ended IMHO.

Only reason to change a manager is to improve. Houllier was an improvement on Evans Rafa was an improvement on Houllier Hodgson clearly was never going to be an improvement on Rafa, many of us said this at the time. Kenny clearly an improvment on Hodgson. Time will tell if we appoint someone with the credentials to improve on Kenny, but it's a tall order if you ask me. There are few names mentioned so far that inspire me. Rafa however is the smallest gamble out of them all. Since Shanks was appointed in 1959 we've had 11 managers, 12 once the new man is appointed. Since 2nd June 2010 we will have had 4 different managers once Kenny's replacement is appointed. That is really what is actually very Newcastle like!

Thanks Kenny! You came back and put hope back into my heart after it had been ripped to shreds between the rafa sacking and the Hodgson debacle! I've smiled gleefully watching your celebration of every one of our goals, your headers on the sideline. Your second reign wasn't quite what We all wanted, but you did make me happy for a while again! Gutted but you'll always be our king! YNWA

Gutted.

Agreed.. Now they need to sign the players the manager wants and show they actually mean what they say by backing him!

Perhaps they don't feel the need to comment as nothing has changed for them regarding Kenny since here: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1048299/liverpool-chairman-tom-werner:-kenny-dalglish-has-'full-support'?cc=5901 "We feel there is enough talent on the pitch to win and we've been dissatisfied, as most supporters have been, with the results so far," Werner said. "But we're also talking about the future - we have a strategy we need implemented and we felt Damien was probably not the right person to implement that strategy." The "disappointment" expressed by Werner in the team's results could easily be construed as a criticism of manager Dalglish, whose team currently sit eighth in the league table. But the chairman remains convinced the right man is at the helm. "We've got great confidence in Kenny. We feel the team is going to make strides in the future and he enjoys our full support," stated Werner. "I think it's fair to say no supporter would be delighted with the results we've achieved this year. We feel we are a club that needs to be perceived as the strongest club in football and we want to get there. "Frankly, we make these decisions with a great deal of care because it's our track record in Boston to give people authority and we've had great success with our manager, who was there for eight years, and our general manager, so we prefer stability."