Coleen will have Rooney followed everywhere from now on. It's the WAG tailing the dog.
Heh heh, he should team up with the guy who got the tattoo with Man City EPL winners 09/10 on his arm
Interesting war of words no ongoing between the two. Liverpool are now starting to fret about Torres if Rooney leaves. Good entertainment.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Liverpool are not fretting, senile old Hodgson just answered a question in the most idiotic way possible when asked of the possibilty of Torres moving to Man U.Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Shouldn't be an issue anyway as Hodgson should be gone in the next few days if rumours are to be believed.
*crosses fingers*
I know those derbies can get fairly testy but.....
Did you ever notice that in every painting of Adam & Eve, they have belly buttons. Think about that...take as long as you want.
Ah, an f365er I see
That's a bit ageist isn't it? He is 6 years younger than Ferguson!! Looking to sack a manger after 10 games is a bit harsh, especially someone with a fairly good track record. He wasn't exactly left a brilliant team by his predecessor and it takes time to mould a team to his own way.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
His own way yielded one away win last year, and the team is not as bad as the stupid red tops make out, anyway he should never have been given the job in the first place and did nothing to deserve it but that's by the by now.
He did steer Fulham from relegation definites to 7th place to European Finalists in little over two years. Yes, that's 7th place, the same position that the untouchable Rafa guided Liverpool to last season.
Oh yawn, did they finish 7th last year, no, they disimproved. Liverpool's win at Bolton was his first away win in just under a year and a half. Martin O'Neill got to the UEFA cup final too, should he have been brought in too? Not on your nelly. He's a mid table manager and belongs nowhere near Liverpool. And since you brought RB into it (again yawn) why did Inter not go after european finalist Hodgson??????
Was listening to John Giles over the weekend saying Liverpool need to get rid of him asap. In fairness he's right. He got the job on the back of getting Fulham to a Cup Final. Says it all really. I got shouted down by the bar stoolers that know the game telling me he'd deal with the media in a nice way and would steady the ship. I can safely say on both counts the man has been a disaster. What game was he watching on Saturday because i'd really like to know. Don't get me started on his famous Bolton win quote.
Lets talk about six baby
Who do you want to replace Roy?
Kenny?
Keegan?
Rafa? (doing a great job at Inter).
I think you've got to give him the January transfer window. Let him bring in Hangeland, Zamora and Murphy & see how you get on. Hodgson was a cheap choice and you get what you pay for.....
"If God had meant football to be played in the air, he'd have put grass in the sky." Brian Clough.
You'll NEVER beat the Irish.......you'll just draw with us instead!!!
If you're tired, go to sleep, save yourself the bother of replying like an idiot
Maybe you're right, he might prove to be a failure at Liverpool, I'm not saying he won't. Of course Fulham's league position disimproved last year. It would have been minor miracle if they maintained a top 7 standard with their resources, not to mention the 19 extra matches they had in Europe, where incidentally, they had some impressive away results. They also managed to pick up a point at Rafa's Anfield, so maybe they weren't quite that much of a pushover on the road, despite their low win count. That away win count seems to be your main stick to beat him with, but I'm sure he won't be too far off emulating Benitez's huge tally of 5 away wins last season!
Because they probably rate Rafa very highly, it's all about opinions. He did an amazing job with Valencia, no doubt about it. 2 Spanish titles and a UEFA Cup was a massive return. Added to that, the Champions League in his first season with Liverpool, and I admit the man is entitled to have a big reputation. Over the full period at Anfield, however, I think he was for the most part extremely poor. Bizarre team selections, crazy substitutions, really awful style of play, rubbish in the transfer market (possible exceptions Reina, Alonso and Torres, fool proof though he was). I wonder are Inter regretting it now? Early days I know but he has already lost their incredible home league record, Mourinho didn't lose a home league game in the two years he was there. He's turned the meanest defence in Europe into a fairly charitable outfit, as Gareth Bale would testify. Anyway, I'll let you get back to sleep.
Maybe Hodgson is rubbish, but why weren't you slating Benitez after similar appalling performances, especially last season when they were all kinds of crap?
I did! Anyway not going over all this old crap again. It's the here and now we are dealing with. I was informed by those that know Roy would be good with the media and steady the ship. If anything he is taking us further backwards than last season. I rest my case.
29 July 2010 – “It’s a massive step up.”
(Describing the challenge facing the squad he took to Macedonia. A squad that included Cavalieri, Soto, Skrtel, Agger, Aquilani, Lucas, Jovanovic and N’Gog.)
* * *
30 July 2010 – “I don’t think I’ve ever said the squad is in need of a major overhaul,” said the boss. “We need to add one or two players to the team.
“It is important we keep the nucleus from last season and a nucleus of players who are maybe just behind the first team.”
Contrast with:
9 September 2010 – “We should be very happy [with summer dealings].” “We were unbelievably overstaffed when I came to the club and, if the truth be known, we still are overstaffed.” [Could mean fringe players here. But his own signings have only added to the deadwood.]
29 October 2010 – “There are a lot of things here that the club has got to get right. We have got a lot more expensive failures on our list than good players that we have brought in for next to nothing.”
and
29 October 2010 – “I do not want to be taking people’s leftovers. We have got those type of players ourselves. If we are going to improve, we need better.”
10 September 2010 – “I preferred to put my weight behind David Ngog and Ryan Babel, who’s never really been given a proper chance at centre-forward at the club.” “We have Fernando Torres, we have good players who can play behind a lone striker.” “I will be using David Ngog and Ryan Babel in certain games to give Fernando Torres a rest and it’s up to them to prove to me that there’s no need to look further than them.” (Saying he didn’t regret not signing a striker in the summer.)
Contrast with:
31 October 2010 – “A club like Liverpool shouldn’t have to rely on non-specialists like Dirk Kuyt or Ryan Babel ‘doing a job’ up front when they are primarily wide players.”
“In training, I can’t have practice games where each team plays a 4-4-2 because I don’t have the front players to do that.”
* * *
25 August 2010 – “I thought for long periods of the game it was fairly even and both teams passed the ball fairly well in the middle of the park. But the difference, as in all games, is goals.” (After Man City 3-0 loss. Simply not an accurate reflection of the game.)
* * *
Describing the Trabzonspor win as “a famous victory”.
“Today was a famous victory because we hadn’t won more than once away in the whole of 2010,”
* * *
16 July 2010 – “He’s a player I know very little about.” (About French international striker, Loïc Rémy.)
* * *
4 October 2010 – “There are 31 games left, but when you are in the relegation zone you are in a relegation battle.” (After Blackpool defeat.)
“Unfortunately, when you give yourself an uphill task with a 0-2 you’ve got to expect it’s going to be very difficult in the second half against a team of Blackpool’s quality.”
Liverpool hadn’t lost a home game to a promoted side since 1999.
* * *
16 September 2010 – “You don’t play in the Europa League to play against poor opponents.”
* * *
22 September 2010 – “They’ll be a formidable challenge – there’s no question about that.” (About Northampton Town. Who were at the time 17th in the 4th tier of English football.)
* * *
23 September 2010 – “Northampton were clearly better than one would have expected from a team playing where they play.” And on 18-year-old Shelvey’s debut…. “He did well but the fact is he came on in extra-time and people were tiring.”
26 September 2010 – “…in many ways it was the performance we wanted.”
“I think over the 90 minutes we were certainly more than worth the point we got.” (After dreadful Sunderland performance. A team we had dispatched 3-0 the previous year.)
* * *
1 October – “So it’s a good point to take back to Liverpool. Four points out of two games. It’s the first time we haven’t won one of these games but to be honest it would have been unfortunate for them if we’d won the game tonight. They would have felt hard done by. For me, a draw was a more than satisfactory result.” (After Utrecht 0-0. They’re not even in the top 100 European clubs by UEFA coefficient.)
* * *
2 October 2010 – “What do you mean do my methods translate? They have translated from Halmsteds to Malmo to Orebo to Neuchatel Xamax to the Swiss national team.”
* * *
17 October 2010, after 2-0 defeat at Everton “This was always going to be a difficult game to win.” (It wasn’t for the previous two Reds’ managers.)
“To get a result here and win the game would have been utopia.”
“I hope that fair-minded people see the game the same way. I think it’s a bit unfortunate that after such a good game of football, everything revolves around the fact that Liverpool didn’t win it.”
“We didn’t score goals and Everton did but I refuse to accept that we were in any way outplayed or any way inferior. I watched the performance and the second half was as good as I saw a Liverpool team play under my management that is for sure.”
* * *
21 October 2010, responding to alleged interest from Manchester United in Torres – “With Torres, I think we will cross that bridge when we come to it,” said Hodgson. “There will always be speculation.
“When a great player like Wayne Rooney is looking to leave his club, Manchester United will be a position to target a lot of players around the world.
“I don’t think Fernando Torres will be the only striker they target and I don’t think that we will be the only club that will be worried their striker can be targeted.
“I am not naive to believe that there won’t be any danger and we will never lose a player like Torres.”
* * *
“I hope we don’t get beaten too heavily” … before the friendly with Al Hilal
“I hope we don’t get beaten 6-0” … before the Man City game.
* * *
Do you think, Torres is more suiteable to playing alone, or with a striking partner?
RH: “I don’t know.”
Last edited by KK77; 15/11/2010 at 1:23 PM.
Lets talk about six baby
Oh right, just not on here is it? I challenge you to find one of your posts slating Benitez? I know you'll just say you couldn't be bothered, but the truth is there are none.
As for the Hodgson quotes, nobody is suggesting he's doing a good job so far so I'm not sure if it was worth the hassle (wherever you copy & pasted it from).
Point A: Hold on, we talking about Hodgson here, I thought you wanted me to cut him some slack.
RB has the same win/loss record at inter as JM did when he took over.
Point B: Thanks, you've aided me immensly in that respect.
The state Benitez left the club has a huge amount to do with the job that Hodgson faces.
Kind of a silly point, Mourinho didn't take over the reigning European champions. Don't worry though, you'll probably still get your customary 'Thanks' from Rafa B.
Any time.
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