Levy to stick with Redknapp

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Mate, to any up and coming manager Liverpool are a dream job. They wouldn't give a fuck about the training ground. Liverpool remain one of the biggest names in world football.

I think if Liverpool had gone to Rodgers and Rodgers only, he'd be their manager today.

I also believe that given the straight choice he might choose us, and that possibly would be because of the type of player/football we have right now and where we are in our development as a team as opposed to Liverpool, but it wouldn't be a certainty.

I agree that we are a damn good fit for him though, and am really disappointed that England didn't choose Redknapp and we could have all got what we wanted (including Redknapp).

But I didn't just say we have a better training complex, did I!

The point is that in terms of youth development, soething that is clearly of major importance to Rodgers and his modus operandi, they are some way behind us, ATM. So, even though they have a big name in World football (though declining unless then start winning titles again, soon), there are a lot of things that make them less attactive - it isn't just because of King Kenny that they finished well off the CL places this season - even if a better manager could have got them closer.

I don't know that it is so clear-cut that he would go to Liverpool if they ahd made him their only choice - like I said, I didn't jsut say that our training complex was better than theirs (theirs is positively stone-age, from what I hear, no matter how good, bad or indifferent ours is), I actually gave a list of reasons in combination that, together, make them not as attactive as the name may suggest. When asked of interest from Chelsea he said "I am trying to build a career, not destroy one" - likewise, with Liverpool he would be taking on a job with no new stadium and neither the plans nor the money for one, primitive training facilities (for a manager who likes to coordinate closely with youth development, a vital ingredient), a youth set-up that has focussed on the antithesis of what he wants (strong, fast, competitive payers, rather than calm, intelligent, technical ball players), and not great first team, impatient and ignorant owners, and a decidedly average first team. I can see why he would have pause for thought before taking that on.

Even if Liverpool announced plans a new stadium and training complex tomorrow, and a change in ethos (that I thought they were showing with Comolli, before they sacked him, whether he was the right man to implement it or not), they would still be light years behind United, Citeh, the Goons, and Chelsea, and really struggling to catch up with us.

This argument about their big name, is trotted out all too easily, and is the primary reason that their fans have the sense of entitlement that they have - but is is over 20 years form they won the title. They have a massive global fan-base from when they domiated Engish and European football, and that has been kept ticking over with the occasional CL final, and a win, and the odd domestic trophy. But if they don;t get themselves back into contention in the next five to ten years, that is gonna become more and more of an irrelevance to little kids growing up in Timbukfeckingtu. These kids don't support Forest because they were great under Cloughie, y'know. Even now, they are turning to the Cheslea's and Citeh's of this World - and those clubs are deliberately targetting them.

So, without the global fan base, what do they have. A stadium that is smaller than United, Citeh and the Goons, will be smaller than ours and Chelsea's, and is even smaller than Newcastle and Sunderland's, a period of dominance that is receding nto the distance fast, and some entitled-feeling fans in one of many large cities in England.

They have no Gawd-given right to win things, jsut because they did in the past.

 

[sloth]

"I wanted to finish in the top four with Tottenham and I think it was a fantastic achievement by the players to finish in the top four as we did and we couldn't do any more.

"We finished above Chelsea, above Liverpool

and getting in them top four positions is getting more and more difficult every year.

"Next year will be even harder, again this year was difficult enough Man City and Man Utd are going to be there every year, Arsenal

have been there every year since the Premier League started, Chelsea are going to be there again next year, Liverpool are going to push as will Newcastle,

you have just got to improve and see if you can be up there amongst them teams."

H. Redknapp

 

[parklane1]

Blah,Blah,Blah.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

That's a correlation rather than evidence of causation. For example, someone might equally well say that the reason those clubs haven't sacked their respective managers is because they've always finished in the top 4.

Absolutely. I did say that I didn't think myself these were reasons to not replace your manager. My point was that things like that would possibly go through Levy's (or any chairman's) mind. Maybe.

And I don't like the undercurrent of feeling that almost any manager will be a success story if you give him long enough. Utd and Le Shite have stuck with their managers for the last 15 years because they've always managed to deliver.

Some managers are sacked unfairly and others haven't got what it takes. That's what I reckon anyway.

I wholeheartedly agree. I think each and every sacking should be judged on it's merits at the time.

I repeat, I would replace Redknapp now, with Rodgers or a couple of others who might be available.

No undercurrent here.