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It looks like the rumours about Kenny having already resigned or having parted company with the club were started over in the US which then spread to here, which really begs the question who over there was allowing those rumours to surface if no press conference was ever planned at 3.30-400 this afternoon here?

This reminds me of the Souness situation in May 93 when the chairman persuaded the board to retain Souness and one of the board resigned over it. Souness was gone within eight months.

friendlyguy33 » Tue May 15, 2012 8:02 pm wrote:It looks like the rumours about Kenny having already resigned or having parted company with the club were started over in the US which then spread to here, which really begs the question who over there was allowing those rumours to surface if no press conference was ever planned at 3.30-400 this afternoon here?

This reminds me of the Souness situation in May 93 when the chairman persuaded the board to retain Souness and one of the board resigned over it. Souness was gone within eight months.

8 months of further utter sh!te yeah.

If Kenny gets another 8 months and is as poor as Souey was then fair enough.

He deserves a chance though.

Let's hope it was a frank meeting about how things must improve. The pressure will be huge next season

7_Kewell » Tue May 15, 2012 9:31 pm wrote:Let's hope it was a frank meeting about how things must improve. The pressure will be huge next season

i think that's undeniably what happened. kenny is under no illusions that we've underperformed. if he didn't think he could turn it around though he would have walked away imo. he was never going to get sacked after talks this week. people put two and two together because they flew comolli out there recently and fired him.

stmichael » Tue May 15, 2012 8:35 pm wrote:

7_Kewell » Tue May 15, 2012 9:31 pm wrote:Let's hope it was a frank meeting about how things must improve. The pressure will be huge next season

i think that's undeniably what happened. kenny is under no illusions that we've underperformed. if he didn't think he could turn it around though he would have walked away imo. he was never going to get sacked after talks this week. people put two and two together because they flew comolli out there recently and fired him.

I hope you're right but a couple of years ago I didn't think Rafa was leaving initially but the then people in charge had to get the timing right in terms of the club and the ownership issue. Time will tell.

I don't know if its true but Ben Smith a BBC reporter has stated on twitter that Kenny told the owners 'to back me or sack me' and they are to come up with a decision over the next 24 to 48 hours.

friendlyguy33 » Tue May 15, 2012 9:14 pm wrote:I don't know if its true but Ben Smith a BBC reporter has stated on twitter that Kenny told the owners 'to back me or sack me' and they are to come up with a decision over the next 24 to 48 hours.

Bo'llocks
So they wouldnt have made a decision if KK hadnt given them an ultimatum?
Fu*king bullsh'it

i think kenny still has the backing of the core support so i think he`ll survive this crisis, they were chanting his name at the ground in the final home game of the season so it`s not like the hodgson situation where the crowd were chanting another managers name.

They were chanting his name because of who he is, obviously not because what hes done over the past 18 months. Having spent 110million and made the team weaker, and been in charge of our worst league season in half a century, hes the only person that wouldn't get slaughtered by the majority of fans.

Kenny has been worse than Hodgson, much worse, but hes a club legend that is given special dispensation (many would argue deservedly so) that wouldn't be afforded to anyone else.

friendlyguy33 » Tue May 15, 2012 9:14 pm wrote:I don't know if its true but Ben Smith a BBC reporter has stated on twitter that Kenny told the owners 'to back me or sack me' and they are to come up with a decision over the next 24 to 48 hours.

Kenny should have apologized to the owners and offered to step down. They gave him the chance to manage LFC and Kenny should be forever grateful- What's more, no manager in LFC history has been given more support and money, unfortunately Kenny failed. A pathetic "back me or sack me" will only make things worse and make Liverpool a worse team and less united. And Kenny will only isolate himself and damage LFC's chances of future success. It is time for Kenny to put club first.

banana(real one) » Tue May 15, 2012 11:07 pm wrote:

friendlyguy33 » Tue May 15, 2012 9:14 pm wrote:I don't know if its true but Ben Smith a BBC reporter has stated on twitter that Kenny told the owners 'to back me or sack me' and they are to come up with a decision over the next 24 to 48 hours.

Kenny should have apologized to the owners and offered to step down. They gave him the chance to manage LFC and Kenny should be forever grateful- What's more, no manager in LFC history has been given more support and money, unfortunately Kenny failed. A pathetic "back me or sack me" will only make things worse and make Liverpool a worse team and less united. And Kenny will only isolate himself and damage LFC's chances of future success. It is time for Kenny to put club first.

I don't know why people choose to belittle Kenny with words like 'pathetic' when whats been posted carries no factual basis whatsoever...

banana(real one) » Tue May 15, 2012 10:07 pm wrote:

friendlyguy33 » Tue May 15, 2012 9:14 pm wrote:I don't know if its true but Ben Smith a BBC reporter has stated on twitter that Kenny told the owners 'to back me or sack me' and they are to come up with a decision over the next 24 to 48 hours.

Kenny should have apologized to the owners and offered to step down. They gave him the chance to manage LFC and Kenny should be forever grateful- What's more, no manager in LFC history has been given more support and money, unfortunately Kenny failed. A pathetic "back me or sack me" will only make things worse and make Liverpool a worse team and less united. And Kenny will only isolate himself and damage LFC's chances of future success. It is time for Kenny to put club first.

dalglish has always put the club first, thats why he decided to manage us in the aftermath of heysel when no other manager would have touched the job with a bargepole because we were the biggest pariahs in international sport and thats why he stood down in the ealy 90`s when he felt his judgement had been impaired by the stress he was under post hillsborough.
you want to remember those things when throwing the word pathetic around.

Some of our plastic fans are pathetic. If we left it to them to solve our problems it would involve getting rid of the players, getting rid of the manager, target unrealistic targets, hope and pray, and if that fails, rinse and repeat.

D___C » Tue May 15, 2012 11:00 pm wrote:They were chanting his name because of who he is, obviously not because what hes done over the past 18 months. Having spent 110million and made the team weaker, and been in charge of our worst league season in half a century, hes the only person that wouldn't get slaughtered by the majority of fans.

Kenny has been worse than Hodgson, much worse, but hes a club legend that is given special dispensation (many would argue deservedly so) that wouldn't be afforded to anyone else.

Utter ***** !

You really have got to stop speaking on an empty head mate !

Look we hear you D_C.............You don't like, want or believe in Kenny Dalglish.

£110 milion hey ? It was £100 million last week, I hadn't realised inflation had risen so high !  Sold Torres and Babel for half of that so whats your point ?

Worse than Hodgson ? 

Did Hodgson do the double over Everton and Chelsea ?

Did Hodgson ever make a Cup Final let alone 2 in a season ?

Did Hodgson knock Man City out of the Carling Cup ?

Did Hodgson knock United out of the FA Cup ?

Hodgson couldn't outwit Northampton Town !

Did Hodgson play attacking and entertaining football ?

Get a feckin grip of yoursaelf !

Dalglish STAYS despite you Internet numpties inisting on different ! 

saying dalglish was worse than hodgson isn't even worthy of a response but i'll reply anyway because it's just a moronic statement.

under hodgson the performances were the worst i've ever seen in twenty years, souness included. the football under kenny is a million miles better. under hodgson we barely created a chance in most games. the image of him smiling and congratulating moyes after we got stuffed in the derby will live with me forever. not to mention the constant mention of his "good relationship with ferguson". he alienated half the squad. johnson and agger both wanted out. lucas was on the verge of leaving. he brought in konchesky and poulsen and wanted to bring in carlton cole to play upfront. it was frightening how poor we were. oh and he slagged the fans off aswell.

the bloke was everything a liverpool manager shouldn't be.