King Kenny

[Insignificance]

We fucked it up an appointed a rookie who spent his time withering the teeth, shagged a secretary and missed out on our values.... We owe the greatest guy in the whole world an apology and you are all welcome to say your words of respect on this thread:

I adore you King Kenny and wish you never left in the first place.!!!

 

[mom]

What's your poison?

 

[C/O]

Kenny... You were great at kicking a ball and running.
Then you were great at managing people who done the same.
They never done it as well as you, though.

X

 

[gkmacca]

It was a shame FSG didn't have the wisdom to bring in Rodgers to work as assistant to Kenny, and Rodgers didn't have the maturity to accept such a role. There are few truly great players who retain real humility, but Dalglish is one of them. He should be made life president of the club, and hopefully Klopp, if he can understand him, will use him as an ally.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Our great ever player but it was the right time for him to step down three years ago.

Just because we got the next manager wrong doesn't change that.

 

[RedStar]

We were right to move him on when we did. Fucking up his successor doesnt change that. Its like saying we shouldnt have sold Torres for £50m cos we wasted out on Carroll and Downing. Last season Rodgers finished 6th and most people felt it was time for him to go. Kenny finished 8th in his last season, there really wasnt anything shocking or unjustified about his sacking.

 

[Insignificance]

We were right to move him on when we did. Fucking up his successor doesnt change that. Its like saying we shouldnt have sold Torres for £50m cos we wasted out on Carroll and Downing. Last season Rodgers finished 6th and most people felt it was time for him to go. Kenny finished 8th in his last season, there really wasnt anything shocking or unjustified about his sacking.

Fuck man. We definately should not sold Torres and spunkthe cash on shit!

 

[mark1975]

We were right to move him on when we did. Fucking up his successor doesnt change that. Its like saying we shouldnt have sold Torres for £50m cos we wasted out on Carroll and Downing. Last season Rodgers finished 6th and most people felt it was time for him to go. Kenny finished 8th in his last season, there really wasnt anything shocking or unjustified about his sacking.

Yeah but it has a means to an end, it means Insig can throw a load more shit Rodgers' way.

 

[RedStar]

Yeah but it has a means to an end, it means Insig can throw a load more shit Rodgers' way.

It seems to me there has always been a small minority of our own fans who never forgave Rodgers for being Kennys replacement. It defies any sort of logic but its been an undercurrent the whole way through his time as Liverpool manager.

 

[mark1975]

It seems to me there has always been a small minority of our own fans who never forgave Rodgers for being Kennys replacement. It defies any sort of logic but its been an undercurrent the whole way through his time as Liverpool manager.

I didn't want Kenny to go. I could see why he did, but I think managers need time, especially when they've shown something. His first 6 months we were great and we got to two finals later on. I could see the league position wasn't good and he looked out of his depth in the final against Chelsea, but he did well in a short spell. Managers need time but they just don't get it these days. Rodgers can have no complaints either, but he arguably could have had longer. We don't deserve owners who allow us to spunk away alot of money in July/August and then sack the guy that did it by the close of September. That's just amateurish and wasteful.

So onwards and upwards with Klopp. He'll get my full support and he'll get my patience and respect, which is more than he'll get from a minority of the posters on here who've been more than vocal for a while about bringing him in.

 

[JurgenKlopp]

Klopp will get plenty of time Mark just like the others did. We all know Rodgers was flawed, he had plenty of time to show what he was about, unfortunately his faults were there to see and he did nothing to try and change it.

I'm sure klopp will unite the club and get the fans on his side quickly. One thing I do hope, Anfield becomes more vocal, get the banners/flags out in full force.

 

[gkmacca]

I bet Klopp won't keep saying, after a few months, a year, two years, three years, 'Don't forget where the club was when I took over - it was tenth in the league'. He'll just get on with the job. That was one of the things that really niggled me about Rodgers - and I'm not trying to have a dig at him here, honestly - he was still talking as if he took over a team that had barely avoided relegation. Mentally I think he'd convinced himself of that. It became the wrong reference point for him, in terms of positivity. Every setback brought the same mantra back again - 'Don't forget...' Hopefully it'll be one of the things from which he'll learn as he goes into his next job. As for Klopp, it's his belief in himself that suggests he won't dwell on what went wrong with the previous regime, he'll concentrate on where he wants to take the club.

 

[Hansern]

Its a shame Kenny changed the direction of how we played and what sort of players we had after the first 6 months. We were very good for that half of the season.
That disatrous summer of Adam, Downing and Coates for 34 mill didnt help obviously. Just 6 months after spending 35 mill on Carroll.

What could have been eh.

Love Kenny though. Should as Macca says be life ambassador.

 

[RedStar]

Ive got no arguments with Klopp coming in, he gets my full support aswell. Hodgson was the only manager I willfully wanted as far away from the club Im just jaded with the whole messiah thing that turns nasty after a season of disappointing results

 

[Richey]

We fucked it up an appointed a rookie who spent his time withering the teeth, shagged a secretary and missed out on our values....

Huh?! Doing those things might make Rodgers a bit of a twerp but he didn't fail to win the league because he whitened his teeth. He didn't buy shit players because he left his wife. Criticise his abilities as a manager, sure. I think most would agree at least in part, but his personal life is his own business isn't it?

We have had great players over the years who have behaved a lot worse off the field than Rodgers did!

 

[jexykrodic]

I can never understand why people feel the need to get personal about someone they don't and will never know.

Private lives should remain divorced from business, especially to third parties whose only and tenuous link to the individual is via an organization they have no part in and which they see only from afar.

People talk about these people as if they know them when they don't. There must be a name for that type of thought process.