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So who do we want/expect/hope?

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I honestly think it is the process that is dissuading people.

I think potential managers are looking in and seeing that we've just sacked the clubs biggest icon despite him reaching 2 cup finals in one season. Added to the fact our fans have huge expectations, our owners appear to have little patience and the new gaffer has a budget smaller than his rivals its just not an attractive proposition at all.
 
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Sunny, Hmmmm - pack it in please.

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Takes one to know one I guess.
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I think potential managers are looking in and seeing that we've just sacked the clubs biggest icon despite him reaching 2 cup finals in one season. Added to the fact our fans have huge expectations, our owners appear to have little patience and the new gaffer has a budget smaller than his rivals its just not an attractive proposition at all.

No-one knows our budget, but the rest is true enough. But if you want the best, you certainly don't ask them to enter a demeaning competition. If Rodgers isn't prepared to risk his standing with the Swansea support, why the hell would de Boer do so, with a title-winning historic club?
 
I honestly think it is the process that is dissuading people. If LFC targeted De Boer, said, 'you're our only man, we'll back you to the hilt', there would be every chance he'd come. Risk his standing to be interviewed alongside a bunch of people, and risk coming second to the current Wigan manager? Nah, I can see why he'd say thanks, but no thanks.

I think you're probably right there.

According to reports - obviously we don't know how true they are, but it doesn't matter really, they are still out there - we are interviewing loads of people. So that just looks like they have gone for pretty much anyone.

If a manager wants to talk to Liverpool then surely he would have to go to his present employer and ask for permission. That is a risk at the best of times, given that he might not get the job and would then have to go back to his club and the fans and admit that he wanted to leave. Probably a risk worth taking if there are 2 or 3 in the frame. Less so if there are 12 or 13!
 
No-one knows our budget, but the rest is true enough. But if you want the best, you certainly don't ask them to enter a demeaning competition. If Rodgers isn't prepared to risk his standing with the Swansea support, why the hell would de Boer do so, with a title-winning historic club?

can't argue with a word of that.
 
No-one knows our budget, but the rest is true enough. But if you want the best, you certainly don't ask them to enter a demeaning competition. If Rodgers isn't prepared to risk his standing with the Swansea support, why the hell would de Boer do so, with a title-winning historic club?

Well the Manc clubs and Chelsea have bigger wage bills and will probably spend more than us this summer. Arsenal/Tottenham who knows?
De Boer is an Ajax lad so hes also got a real connection with the club and its fanbase.
 
it's not great, if you apply and fail (unless you are already unemployed) it looks like you aren't fully commited to your club.

Agreed, but the process is trying to get the very best or most suitable candidate, if people are worried about their own abilities being questioned or lack the self belief that they are good enough for the job, then fuck'em.
 
Agreed, but the process is trying to get the very best or most suitable candidate, if people are worried about their own abilities being questioned or lack the self belief that they are good enough for the job, then fuck'em.

or managers like de boer and klopp are genuinely not interested.
 
I think there's a lot of conjecture masquerading as evidence on here and other forums though. We don't really know anything that's going on behind the scenes, bar the company line that we "have a strategy and plan in place". To be fair to FSG, this is their first real opportunity to wipe the slate clean and implement their thinking on the club as a whole, something we're quite possibly well in need of.
Bar that twat Whelan spouting off about us contacting Wigan requesting permission to speak with Martinez within minutes, we've little else to go other than internet rumours, SSN exclusives and the usual faces in football media jostling for an ITK badge. FSG have kept their own counsel.

For what it's worth, I reckon we've got 1 or 2 definites in mind, but won't announce anything until our DOF (whichever form that takes) is in place, so as not to immediately undermine the new manager with an appointment over his head. All this "12 candidates" lark is media bollocks. What better for SSN than to be able to constantly headline that "Liverpool turned down by yet another candidate", even though we haven't confirmed that we've approached anybody?
 
They've all knocked us back for interviews, not the job, whereas roma have told the press AVB has said he's unavailable.

It's not a great leap to suggest that these managers all know they're being used to make it look like we haven't already chosen the man & the club are also stalling so we have the GM/DoF roles in place.

The Roma /AVB thing is interesting since they are owned by colleagues of Henry
 
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