[quote author=IanTheRed link=topic=43694.msg1256489#msg1256489 date=1295393644]
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=43694.msg1256457#msg1256457 date=1295392203]
FFS there seem to be more sentimentalists than I could ever give credit for on here.
The thing that really annoys me is that Brum were offering £10m for the useless cunt in the summer.
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Hodgson wanted to play him as a striker, either alongside or as a replacement for Torres. Pity the dithering either old fool did neither.
"I'm not that disappointed not to bring in another striker because I don't think there was a great choice of centre-forwards out there for any of the teams," said Hodgson.
"We didn't see much movement in terms of strikers between the Premier League clubs because I think there are a lot of clubs chasing a very particular type of player. It was only after the sale of Mascherano that it would have been possible for me to have the money available to do a transfer at a high enough level.
"The shortage of time bothered me and I would have been concerned we were jumping into something without researching it fully. Quite frankly I didn't see the players out there that really excited me to spend the amount of money those players cost. I would prefer to put my weight behind David Ngog and Ryan Babel - who has never been given a proper chance at centre-forward - because we have Torres and good players who can play behind a lone striker.
I didn't see the players out there that really excited me to spend the amount of money those players cost. I would prefer to put my weight behind David Ngog and Ryan Babel.
"I will be using these players in some of the games in order to give Fernando the rest he needs and it will be up to them to prove to me there is no need for us to look further than those to players as Fernando Torres' competitors because they are perfectly good enough to do the job.
"They will get their chances and we will see if they take them but I am hoping between now and Christmas we will have ample quality and possibilities to see us through that period."
In hindsight he was a fucking ace manager wasn't he? He knew Masch was leaving about 3 weeks before the window close, but didn't research (a) a replacement or (b) a striker to use the money on. He then moaned about it to the press, bought Poulsen and Konchesky for about £10m combined (obviously the research worked there you melted waxwork faced fuckwit) and gave H&G £7m.
ARRRRGGGHHH, everytime I re-read it I want to cave his head in with a spade! "It was only after the sale of Mascherano that it would have been possible for me to have the money available to do a transfer at a high enough level. The shortage of time bothered me and I would have been concerned we were jumping into something without researching it fully."
FUCK OFF, you only bothered to try and research a replacement....errr striker...once you knew that world class yet mardy cunt Mash and his homesick for Spain (where she had never lived) bint were off? Fucking hell.
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Hodgson was and is an utterly shit manager, but that's a tad harsh,Ian.
As I remember, it was Babel who refused to leave..although Ryan has suggested that it was Rafa who turned it down in the end due to a injury crisis.
As for HOdgson's inanity in buying those 2 pieces of shit; I think he basically thought he had to fix both DM and LB at a combined total of 10 million odd; and he failed gloriously...but considering that's been the Liverpool Standard every year (ie buy shit player at x price because you cant afford y player and then replace him after 2 years with hopefully slightly less shit player and rinse and repeat) Hodgson should have tried to promote from whatever dross he had left.
Because all he did was add more shit players to the wage bill.
As for the money H&G took, well Hodgson was appointed precisely because he was the kind of spineless creature that would have accepted it meekly knowing that the morons in the media would just cluck disapprovingly about how HOdgson had such a big problem and wasnt he so brave in trying to fix it.
