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[Iceman69]

Keegan has shown he has a good ability to regonise quality players with his efforts in the 1st division clubs and at newcastle. 

As a liverpool hero of yesteryear keegan would be a good fit to the club and would also be able to recognise the quality players needed by the club at reasonable  or undevalued prices to get LIVERPOOL FC back up the top where it belongs.

Keegan's skills and abilities were good as a manager but he just didnt have the managerial abilities to get the clubs and national side he managed to the top but he does have a sound ability for recognising quality players and with his long history as an excellent player for Liverpool the club can only benefit from hiring him.

what like fowler, mcmanaman, etc?

one thing about keegan is....He's a QUITTER, as a manager.

Fulham...........WALKED OUT
Newcastle......WALKED OUT!
ENGLAND........Walked Out
Man CIty........QUIT!¬

He always looks sorry for himself in Interviews, and he picked rubbish players at city to purchase, thats why he got the boot.

[cpc4eva]

newbie is appropriate, get a life

keegan? lmao, and as for not winnin a trophy this season, another stupid thing to say, we probably wont win a trophy realistically but thats not a sackable offense this season, hes rebuilding, he hasnt got the players he wants and so on

liverpool not winning a trophy is a sackable offense.....

being booted out of the FA cup to burnley is a sackable offense....

coming seconds to Everton, Man U, Aersenal and now Chelsea is a sackable offense....


you making up excuses is a sackable offense


no doubt keegan is a quitter as a manager - but i never said i want him managing liverpool.  Give him a stress free role as in player developement where he can take the time to nuture and bring up the kids from the lower divisions to become stars for Liverpool - just like he became in his playing years.

"hmmm, when he joined us we were an ageing side who were struggling, when he left us seven years later we were  champions of both europe and england and had been almost unbeatable at home for years. he was our star player and ran his blood to water to chase seemingly lost causes.
its through players like keegans efforts that we can call liverpool a great club."

[LiverpoolMadman]

Why do we need to bring him back as a manager ? I already have RB to lead us.

[cpc4eva]

we dont want him back as manager - we all agree on that 

[azriahmad]

Keegan...if he grows his big curly hair it will make me soooo nostalgic.

What can he bring to us? More attacking flair/style of play? no doubt. Weaker defense? probably. Cups? maybe. Effective results in spite of the more attacking style? I don't think so. Chmpionship of the CL crown? No way, beacuse successful teams in the modern game need a good balance of attack and defense.

Keegan is strangely very good at creating an attacking style but really puzzling that he does not put much emphasis on his teams' defense, which resulted in them failing every time yet he never learns from these experiences.

Unless he can come back in his twenties with that big curly (sorry, can't resist), there is nothing he can do positively for Liverpool.

[Sean]

Younger fans look upon Keegan as being a comic figure but he was the integral part of our success in the '70's.  He gave a man of the match performance in the '74 cup final, was magnificent when we reclaimed the title in '76 (scoring the vital equaliser at molineaux), everyone recalls Faircloughs goal against St. Etienne but it was Keegan's opener that started the ball rolling....and don't forget how Bertie Vogts couldn't keep up with him in the '77 european cup final.

Of course i'm not suggesting that Keegan should be our manager but theres no denying that his presence and enthusiasm could breathe new life into the academy and given his contribution to our success he doesn't deserve to be slagged off all the time on the forum.

[LFC #1]

Younger fans look upon Keegan as being a comic figure but he was the integral part of our success in the '70's.  He gave a man of the match performance in the '74 cup final, was magnificent when we reclaimed the title in '76 (scoring the vital equaliser at molineaux), everyone recalls Faircloughs goal against St. Etienne but it was Keegan's opener that started the ball rolling....and don't forget how Bertie Vogts couldn't keep up with him in the '77 european cup final.

Of course i'm not suggesting that Keegan should be our manager but theres no denying that his presence and enthusiasm could breathe new life into the academy and given his contribution to our success he doesn't deserve to be slagged off all the time on the forum.

I am from the younger fans groups you speak of, but agree wholeheartedly.

Keegan was a fantastic servant to this club as a player, one of our best ever arguably. But you wouldn't know it they way some people speak about him.

Yes they are talking about his managerial career and not his playing career, but i just get the idea that their is a lack of either knowledge or respect for him with some on here.

[RifleRusher]

i think we're fine without him

[stmichael]

Kevin Keegan would love it, love it if he’d kept his mouth shut and, thus, be remembered for his gun-ho managerial style. However, he didn’t. So on the eve of his resignation here is a collection of KK’s Says-Says.

"You get bunches of players like you do bananas...though that is a bad comparison."

"Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America."

"People will say that was typical City, which really annoys me. But that's typical City, I suppose..."

"By the end he [Asprilla] was knackered-o. I think that's the Spanish for it."

"They're the second best team in the world and there's no higher praise than that."

"One of his strengths is not heading."

"He's using his strength and that is his strength, his strength."

"My father was a miner and he worked down a mine."

"If I had a blank piece of paper there'd be five names on it."

"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries..."

"I didn’t see a lot. When Benitez learns a bit more English someone have to tell him to sit down."

"England have the best fans in the world and Scotland's fans are second to none."

"Against France we'll have to be at our best both technically, tactically and spirit-wise."

"You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw."

"We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half."

"I don't think there's anyone bigger or smaller than Maradona."

"He [SWP] is now getting paid what he deserves to be paid. I don't approve of using kids as cheap labour."

"The 33 or 34 year olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful."

"Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is..."

"Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose."

"Gary always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice."

"The tide is very much in our court now."

"The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23."

"You don't get two chances at this level, or at any other level for that matter."

"He can't speak Turkey, but you can tell he's delighted."

"Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders."

"There'll be no siestas in Madrid tonight."

"It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney."

"England can end the millennium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world."

"I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is. But the onus is on us to perform and we must control the bandwagon."

"They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different..."

"In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg."

"Should Al-Fayed get a British passport? 1000 per cent yes."

"The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game..."

"Despite his white boots, he has real pace..."

"That would have been a goal if it wasn't saved."

"Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late 2Os or 3Os."

"The substitute is about to come on - he's a player who was left out of the starting line-up today."

"The ref was vertically 15 yards away."

"Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire."

"Football's always easier when you've got the ball."

"People still have the concept of one big bath, but the way forward hygeine-wise is single baths."

"It's like a toaster, the ref's shirt pocket. Every time there's a tackle, up pops a yellow card."

"I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time."

"I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem..."

"The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this match or lose it."

"I'm not disappointed - just disappointed."

"There's a slight doubt about only one player, and that's Tony Adams, who definitely won't be playing tomorrow."

"I came to Nantes two years ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different."

"We managed to wrong a few rights."

"It's my job not to get beheaded."

"I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again."

"Sometimes there are too many generals and not enough people waving to the generals as they walk past."

"A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off."

"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."

"Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose."

"He'll also be very dangerous from set-pieces. That means he'll be a threat from free-kicks and corners in the final third of the field."

"He’s [Shaun Wright-Phillips] got a heart as big as his size, which isn’t big, but his heart’s bigger than that."

"The problem in our country is that we use hindsight as our judge. When she [Margaret Thatcher] was in power, there were a lot of good things done, but people will always pick out bad things. She was a good lady."

   

[LiverpoolFan00]

Brilliant player but as a manager or coach. Don't think so. He wouldn't bring anything to the club now
Always be a fan of him as a player though

[banana]

This is cr@p sh!t. Keegan has nothing to offer Liverpool. He was a good player in the 70s, that's it. He has no education to show for, he has won no honours as a manager and that make him a no-no way never person. WLFC should be a professional organisation through and through, and that means recruiting the best people. Why should LFC not hire finance professionals to run the financial affairs, marketing professionals to do that bit, Public relations people for PR etc. So since we have a capable coaching staff and a good manager, what should Keegan do? Clean the toilets? If we hire old timers with no education and, probably, little brains to run things we'll end up like notts county. Let's face it footballers can do one thing. Play football. They leave school when they are 15 and spend the next 15 years running after a ball. What's more, the 70s and 80s in england was kick and run for 1 hour a day and beer, cigars and ladies from 9 o'clock till way past midnight. This mentality is still there in the old timers, and that is why the majority of this generation of english managers are so poor. The next generation will have learned from the imported managerial talents like wenger, mourihno and benitez and will, like them, have a scientific approach to their job.

[yckatbjywtbiastkamb]

again i think people are underestimating his quality`s as a manager. when he took over newcastle they were a just a provincial club who had spent years in the lower divisions. when you look around st. james park now its a million miles away (metaphorically, of course) from what it looked like when kevin first went there. he built a really good side out of unknowns from the local leagues (chris waddle, paul gasgoigne) and the likes of peter beardsley who no one had heard of. when he achieved promotion the bigger clubs swooped on all his major players but then keegan simply built a really entertaining side that ran an excellent man u side close for the title when no one else could.
all his clubs play excellent football and bringing clubs out of the lower leagues to the prem isnt a easy feat, just ask the likes of vialli at watford and hoddle etc.
keegan has come closer than any liverpool manager since 1990 to winning the title and he done it without the starting base of a powerfull club. he`s never managed a club with a reasonable chance of winning the prem like arsenal or us even.
i`d never swap benitez for anyone because i think he is the real deal but i do respect keegan.

[cpc4eva]

holy ****** where did u get all the KK say says ?  some of the funniest stuff I've ever read 

[azriahmad]

I have read some of those quotes and they are hilarious.

I don't know where you get all of them from but good for a few good laughs.

I am not from the so-called younger generation of fans, I have supported Liverpool since autumn 1975. KK was a massive player for us and will always be in my memory as a legend but the king of the lot is still Kenny. Also, he can't cut it as a manager, that is a fact.

[lakes10]

Kevin keegan liverpool manager hmm i dont think i like the sound of that, i do think we need a new manager but not him