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[quote author=Mr_V link=topic=43313.msg1238587#msg1238587 date=1293619934]
All this 'Get Kenny back' irks me, he hasn't managed in the Premiership for over 10 years, what's to say he'll get more out of these players than Roy? He wont... End of... And to bring him back runs the risk of losing his legendary status.
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All this "he hasn't managed in the Premiership for over 10 years" is what irks me. So what if he hasn't? Some folks keep parroting this but never get as far as Word 1 of an explanation why it makes any difference. The man himself doesn't think it rules him out, and that's good enough for me.
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The game has changed and Dalglish's record as a manager since Blackburn is not particularly good.
Dalglish would mitovate you & me... he'd motivate Gerrard & Carragher... Torres & Riena would respect him... but what's he going to do different than Roy... really...
When he last managed... did he deal with international "megstars" & their agents or even fringe rap-star Dutchmen
He made a pigs arse of the Celtic job & fell out with Ginola at Newcastle befire taking them from 2nd to 13th & got sacked from both jobs.
It's like being delighted about re-signing Robbie Fowler and then realising he was absoluitely fucking shite compared to the player he once was.
If the only good from appointing Dalglish as manager is that Roy gets the boot... then we'd be better served putting Sammy Lee in there until the end of the season.
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[size=10pt]Newcastle United[/size]
On 14 January 1997, Dalglish was appointed manager of Newcastle United, on a three and a half year contract, inheriting a squad of players reputed, by previous manager Kevin Keegan, to be the best the club had ever had. From a starting point of fourth place in the Premier League on the exit of Keegan, Dalglish guided the club to a runner-up finish come May and a place in the new format of the following season's UEFA Champions League. However, the 1997–98 campaign only saw the team end up in 13th place. Many have claimed that the players Dalglish signed in the pre-season did not live up to those that he inherited from Keegan, whilst others reflect upon the long term injury of Alan Shearer to be the biggest woe he faced. But for all the domestic woes, 1997–98 brought Dalglish some of his finest moments as manager of Newcastle United, including the famous 3–2 Matchday 1 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona, and the defeat of Sheffield United by one goal to nil at the semi-final stage of the FA Cup. However, Newcastle could only manage a 2-0 loss to Arsenal in the Final. Dalglish was sacked by Freddie Shepherd, who had only hired him twenty months previously, after two draws in the opening two games of the subsequent 1998-1999 season (namely, against Charlton and with one goal apiece in an away fixture to Chelsea, respectively), in favour of former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit.[28]
Dalglish expressed his enforced departure as his only regret of his time on Tyneside, having hitherto rebuilt the reserve side scrapped by predecessor Keegan and signed a number of players, including Nolberto Solano, Gary Speed and Shay Given, who would remain fixtures of the team into the 2000s.
[size=10pt]Celtic[/size]
In June 1999 he was appointed Director of Football at Celtic, with his former Liverpool signing John Barnes appointed as head coach.[29] Barnes was sacked in February 2000 and Dalglish was appointed manager, and he guided them to the Scottish League Cup final where they beat Aberdeen 2–0 at Hampden Park. He left the club shortly after, paving the way for Martin O'Neill to usher in a new period of Celtic dominance in Scottish football.[30]
Dalglish was unhappy with the departure and Celtic's termination of his contract. He had recommended previous manager Barnes to the club and offered himself as a replacement manager should the young Barnes not succeed in the role.[31] In spite of the termination of his contract, Dalglish vowed to stay on as Director of football. After a brief legal battle, Dalgish accepted Celtic's settlement offer of £600,000.[32]