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This is true and seriously should piss off every LFC supporter, plus also this was what Rafa was on about when he commented on the club lately. Rafa tied up the deal for Raul as well, if Rafa was left in charge he would have repeated what he did before and worked on the spine of the team by getting a new dominant Centre (s) back in. Seriously messed up opportunity.

So he says he cant do better or work harder, so what can he offer to the club to improve the current league postition? Seriously NESV want to get their act together.

Werner says we do expect immediate improvement. Henry adds play & results 'unacceptable'' & we're responsible. That to me sounds like a final written warning to Roy Hodgson.

Next 5 games below, any serious LFC Manager worth his salt would be looking for 15 pts. Considering its Hodgson I can see him picking up 7 to 9 pts from the 15 available. Will that be bad enough for him to get sacked? Doubt it, unless he only gets only 5 from the 15 then nothing would save him. Saturday, 18 December 2010 Liverpool v Fulham, 17:30 Sunday, 26 December 2010 Blackpool v Liverpool, 15:00 Wednesday, 29 December 2010 Liverpool v Wolverhampton, 20:00 Saturday, 1 January 2011 Liverpool v Bolton, 15:00 Wednesday, 5 January 2011 Blackburn v Liverpool, 20:00

Amazing rumour... shows the depth of peoples feelings in wishing that it had some truth to it Even had Martin Jol and Chris Hughton taking over.. NESV could have a tough Q & A tomorrow, will be struggling now to control their message.

Bloody Tevez ! Hodgson must be the luckiest media friendly manager in England at the moment. If Tevez had kept his mouth shut the media would have had to devote time to Hodgsons record at Liverpool and especially his away record.

Whatever about their head been turned or past their sell by date , these 3 players are senior players, leaders in the dressing room and on the pitch. Characteristics Rafa always looked for in his players, for that reason alone losing these players either physically or emotionally as we now seem to have done is a cardinal error on NESV part.

The thing is now that even if NESV acted now its too late for come the start of next season Torres , Reina and Kuyt will no longer be Liverpool players.

Remember when Rafa was contuinally attacked in the media for rotating his team .... Sir Alex Ferguson will change his Manchester United team for an incredible 150th time in a row when they play Valencia in the Champions League on Tuesday

This win will put us on 22 pts after 16 games, 8th in the table. 7 pts behind Man City. A few decent away performances would have had us on probably level points with City

He is very good at covering all angles in his interviews, this week for older heads, probably next week for younger dynamic players , squad too light one month and then another the month squad is over loaded. Can never lose doing this can he? Of course nobody pulls him on his contradictions week in week out. Absolute Fraud.

Mutual respect for mediocrity spawned this fine bromance Dion Fanning in the Independent (Irish) .... Please God let the media start investigating Roys record now... Sunday December 05 2010 We've all had enough pain. We've all had enough misery and dissembling. But the next 24 hours will bring more, although it will be disguised as a heart-warming story of friends re-united. Gerard Houllier returns to Anfield tomorrow and he will be met there by his great friend Roy Hodgson. If you had Roy Hodgson's away record, you too would have many friends in football. Since August 2009, Hodgson has won two league matches away from home, so it is no surprise he is greeted warmly wherever he goes. Hodgson, as he repeatedly reminds people, may be one of the game's most respected figures, but when he walks through the front door of a football club, he is also a walking, talking three points for the home side. All that is left is to choose the wine. They spend a lot of time talking abut wine. Instead of points, he accumulates friends, who tell him how well he's doing in his latest job, the management of the decline of Liverpool. He will be emboldened by the words from his great friend Houllier, who returns to Anfield, despite never really having left. From afar, he guided Liverpool to victory in the Champions League in Istanbul. It was his side, a side containing Djimi Traore, that won the European Cup. At the UEFA conferences where he sees his friends or when he sits down with a journalist, Houllier tells them this and they nod sagely. It is a version of the truth. Signing Djimi Traore was Houllier's achievement. Winning the European Cup with Djimi Traore was Rafael Benitez's. These stories of managerial bonhomie are not complete without mention of the "good bottle of red" that one has decanted for another. The mistrust of Arsene Wenger by many stems from the fact that Wenger, though clearly French, eschews the good bottle of red. There will be more talk of red wine in the build-up to tomorrow's game than during a Keith Floyd show where he is cooking coq au vin with red wine gravy followed by a red wine tapioca pudding. They are both friends with Alex Ferguson too. Ferguson has acquired many friends in football, but he has rarely shown up at a football ground without considering if he could build a lifelong grudge around the presence of some enemy in the vicinity. Hodgson last week described Liverpool's draw in the FA Cup with United as "sad". There are eight members of the team that won 4-1 at Old Trafford still in Liverpool's squad. Hodgson will be able to pick on seven of them and the painful decline of Jamie Carragher means he will not miss the eighth. If Liverpool have disintegrated since that time, Manchester United have got no better. Hodgson's sadness was over the meeting of two big teams in the third round, but there was the underlying sadness as he jokes about putting on his make-up for live TV that, once again, his real record would be scrutinised and exposed. He is just a patsy. Most of those who appointed him are no longer employed at Anfield but yet he must muddle on. Many of his supporters in the media castigate Liverpool fans for abandoning their principles and not showing the patience they have traditionally granted previous managers. This, they will claim, is a reflection, of our impatient times with its demand for instant gratification (my problem with instant gratification is that it takes too long). Yet Liverpool fans were pretty patient with Benitez and that was six months ago. It may not be the times that have changed just the credentials of the incumbent. Hodgson's supporters still point to his record, highlighting in all seriousness his exploits at Fulham. There is no real success. Hodgson has never won a league title outside Scandinavia. His methods, as he put it himself, "have translated from Halmstads to Malmo, to Orebo to Neuchatel Xamax, to the Swiss national team". Liverpool fans are not showing impatience with Hodgson, they are voicing their feeling that he was the wrong appointment for a club that demands more than going a year without an away win and nobody noticing. It could be that those who praised Hodgson so highly weren't really paying attention. It was easy to praise a friendly and welcoming manager while he was at Fulham. It was easy, even if he was going from one end of the season to the next without winning away from home to talk about his exploits. One journalist recently wrote a piece defending Hodgson (guess what? He needs time). Liverpool fans were criticised for chanting Kenny Dalglish's name and the writer wondered if maybe Liverpool fans should get Dalglish just to see how they would react if it was a Dalglish side that lost at home to Northampton, went into the bottom three or lost at Stoke. It was Hodgson who did this but it seems it is always somebody else's problem. Usually, it is Benitez's. Last week's news that Liverpool incurred £9m in agents' fees thanks solely to Benitez was another example. This cost came about "tackling the legacy of the previous regime" as it was widely reported. Hodgson arrived saying Liverpool were over-staffed and then recruited Konchesky, Poulsen and Joe Cole while letting some young talent go and releasing a finally fit Alberto Aquilani on loan. The reality is that Hodgson has discovered that Liverpool is a club apart, uninterested in the soothing words from the media. "Everyone I know in football respects the job I'm doing here and aren't too surprised it hasn't been an easy start," he said last week as he anticipated a meeting with another old friend, Harry Redknapp, before reminding people that Jose Mourinho had said Liverpool will get "worse and worse". Hodgson left White Hart Lane pointless and characteristically fatalistic, even after a good bottle of red. Tomorrow promises more warmth and conviviality. Hodgson and Houllier will talk about their mutual respect and reflect on their great gifts of survival, skipping over their exploits which have earned them such admiration from their many friends in football. A draw would be the most fitting demonstration of this great bromance. dfanning@independent.ie

I dont know.. whole thing stinks...the story of Nero playing his fiddle or flute while Rome burns comes to mind with NESV lack of action.

Where did this myth start that the CEO had to be appointed before they could sack or review Hodgson performance? The Chairman can easily do this.

Very Quiet arent they. Not a mention since about the new stadium plans either....

N.E.S.V = Never Ever Sack Voy

Well said. Personally I would burn an effigy of the fecker in Anfield at the next possible game if I could. But then I would be labeled a deluded Liverpool supporter by the Sports Media Friends of Roy Hodgson Group

Whats the point? NESV are another crowd of bullsh1t artists who are only cuter than the last crew in that they keep their mouths shut. Roy is what Roy is... stop gap appointment of 2 years while the club is re-organised to be like some cheap version of Arsenal.

Bit worried about the trend in that an appointment of a new manager by NESV will be like the messiah coming to Liverpool FC. Chelsea had Ranieri before Maureen , Inter Milan had Mancini before Maureen, and same applies to Barca. Reckon what we need is a good manager who builds a strong foundation in the right club structure / environment. Somebody like the fella currently at Inter.

too late now for this season

I think Houllier knows all about Babel, and wouldnt see him as suitable.

For Young to move to us would make sense for him in getting regular games plus long term under NESV the club would be going in the right direction For Villa we would need to sweeten the deal by offering them a ready made replacement. I can see Houllier looking for Ngog as part of any deal.

----------------------------------------------Reina ------------Carra-----------Soto ------------------Skrtel------------Agger Johnson-----------------Lucas-------------Meireles--------------Maxi -------------------------------Kuyt- - -------------Torres I would go for the above...

Agree... they will stretch us all over the place, Crouch will have a field day against Carra from Bales crosses. Our best hope is that they are below par lately after Champions League matches mid week.

Can see this game following same pattern as at MUFC.... but can see us conceding more than 3.