Was Dalglish the right choice?

James wrote:Everything seemed to go well last season. Liverpool started to play some good football... Then Summer came.


He signed players like Charlie Adam and Henderson along with Carroll who he'd already bought in January who clearly don't fit into the fast pass and move style that was being played last season. He sold Meireles (who played well in the system last season) and has benched the likes of Maxi.

Then there is todays game, 10 men... Overrun by Spurs and refuses to make a change at half time. Spurs continue to steamroll Liverpool, still nothing changed, 9 men... nothing changed. And it looks like they may get beaten Arsenal style.

Add that to the fact he plays Carragher at centre back and Skrtel at right back when it is fair to say they would be alot better the other way round (Carragher has played a fair bit at right back before) and playing 4-4-2 away from home with a central midfielder on the wing.

He just looks 10 years out of date.

Aaron wrote:

James wrote:Everything seemed to go well last season. Liverpool started to play some good football... Then Summer came.


He signed players like Charlie Adam and Henderson along with Carroll who he'd already bought in January who clearly don't fit into the fast pass and move style that was being played last season. He sold Meireles (who played well in the system last season) and has benched the likes of Maxi.

Then there is todays game, 10 men... Overrun by Spurs and refuses to make a change at half time. Spurs continue to steamroll Liverpool, still nothing changed, 9 men... nothing changed. And it looks like they may get beaten Arsenal style.

Add that to the fact he plays Carragher at centre back and Skrtel at right back when it is fair to say they would be alot better the other way round (Carragher has played a fair bit at right back before) and playing 4-4-2 away from home with a central midfielder on the wing.

He just looks 10 years out of date.

A definite yes for me. I really don't think Liverpool at the moment are in the position to attract the best players and I am sure this was the case in the summer with no European football etc. The signings during the summer weren't great but the club are no longer in the top 4 and don't look like getting back in there anytime soon.

Loaning out Aquilani and selling Meireles were both poor pieces of business especially with no solid back-up to come in. Meireles should start ahead of both Adam and Henderson at the moment for me.

As for the Carragher situation, it is well known he refused to play there against Middlesborough a few seasons ago under Rafa. When Skrtel came in at right-back and was picked apart just like today.

There are a lot of new players in the squad and at this moment I don't think the coaching staff and the manager know what the first choice 11 is, especially when they clearly need to get the best out of Suárez. Today the tactics and team selection have both been poor, but people should at least give Dalglish a season before writing him off.

Jay wrote:I wasn't talking about that, I was talking about the fact he'd get ripped apart by Bale, even more than Skrtel did.

Cadbury wrote:Yes, but he shouldn't be here in the first place. Rafa shouldn't have been sacked.

Jay wrote:Skrtel played well against Bolton at right-back, and was solid defensively against Stoke, Kenny probably thought there was no point changing it.

James wrote:

Jay wrote:Skrtel played well against Bolton at right-back, and was solid defensively against Stoke, Kenny probably thought there was no point changing it.

It shows he doesn't think about the opposition then. Who did he play against, against Bolton and Stoke? Petrov and Etherington? On narrow pitches.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Cadbury wrote:Yes, but he shouldn't be here in the first place. Rafa shouldn't have been sacked.

Wouldn't Benitez have been the right choice then? He was out of work when Dalglish took over.

Jay wrote:

James wrote:

It shows he doesn't think about the opposition then. Who did he play against, against Bolton and Stoke? Petrov and Etherington? On narrow pitches.

Of course he thinks about the opposition, don't be fucking stupid.
And the pitch at WHL is narrower than Anfield, so I don't really see your point there.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Was he the right choice as permanent manager then?

Jay wrote:At that time I still think we needed a figure who would re-unite the club, every Liverpool fan loves Kenny, opinions on Rafa were slightly divided, the last thing we needed after weathering the storm of H+G/Roy was for more controversy.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:Initially he was signed on a 5 month contract though, if you think Rafael Benitez should never have been fired, why not let him raise the ship, save you from the relegation that was never really going to happen, and then move him upstairs and bring back Benitez. He'd sure as fuck have taken it, he returned to Merseyside when poor Roy Hodgson was in the shit, it wasn't just Kenneth Dalglish who wanted his job.