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Steve Nicol: Rodgers should be replaced with Klopp

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Jurgen Klopp ‘should be’ Liverpool’s manager next season – Anfield legend Steve Nicol launches scathing attack on Brendan Rodgers

Anfield hero Steve Nicol has dismissed Brendan Rodgers’ claims that there is ‘nobody better’ to manager Liverpool in a scathing attack on the Reds boss.
Nicol made over 340 appearances for the Reds between 1981 and 1994, and was reacting to claims made by the Liverpool boss following their surprise FA Cup semi-final defeat to Aston Villa.
Speaking ahead of their weekend clash with West Brom, Rodgers was asked whether he believed he would still be in charge at Anfield come the start of next season.

"Very much so, yes. I don't think there's anyone better,” said a defiant Rodgers. "That's the reality of how I see it. Three months ago I was a tactical genius, performing to a good level.”
"We lost a couple of games, some important games, and now you're not so good. But that is football, that's what will happen, people will speculate."

Another lacklustre Liverpool display saw them record a goalless draw with the Baggies, and speaking on ESPN, Nicol was quick to dismiss Rodgers’ claims.
“I’d love to know who was calling him a ‘tactical genius’, Brendan,” said Nicol. “When was he a tactical genius? When was he a tactical genius against Ludogorets, against Real Madrid, against Basle… when was he a tactical genius against Aston Villa in the FA Cup? I mean, come on.”

Exits from the FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League and Europa League and their stuttering form in Premier League ensured that Rodgers would become the first Liverpool manager since the 1950’s to fail to win a trophy inside three seasons.

And Nicol, for one, feels that it’s time to make a change in the Liverpool dugout.
“Here’s the bottom line,” he continued. “If there’s nobody better than him available then he stays.

“The problem is, Mr Klopp’s available. He should be there.”

The Borussia Dortmund boss confirmed earlier this month of his plans to step down at the end of the season, sparking speculation of a move to the Premier League.

The 47-year-old German was quickly instated by bookmakers as the favourite to succeed Rodgers at Anfield, along with former Reds boss Rafa Benitez.
 
I should add that he's an endearing thicko, but a thicko nonetheless!


As a man who practically lived on a diet of chips and crisps, he was once briefly alarmed after weighing himself at the end of a season and discovering he'd suddenly put on a huge amount of weight, until he realised he was holding two heavy shopping bags at the time.

Graeme Souness, Kenny Dalglish, Alan Hansen and Nicol were sharing a car to Scotland. Souness was driving and it was snowing. Nicol asked why he hadn't put the wipers on, and Souness told him they weren't working. So Nicol told him to pull over and he'lll wipe the snow off the windscreen. So they pull over and he gets out of the car in just his jeans and t-shirt and they put the wipers on and drive off, leaving him stranded on the motorway.

In 1986, Alan Hansen informed Nicol that Kenny Dalglish was dying of a terminal disease but was keeping it quiet so as to not have an adverse effect on morale at the club. Nicol is said to have spent the next night in tears before the joke was finally revealed after he was ushered into a darkened room where the supposedly stricken Dalglish was "resting".

Nicol was on the receiving end again in January of the next year, when Dalglish 'forgot' to inform him that an FA Cup match against Luton has been called off because of illness at the Kenilworth Road club. Nicol reportedly sat alone in the home dressing room at a darkened Anfield - in full kit, naturally - until shortly before the scheduled kick-off time, waiting for the others to turn up.

Hansen once called Nicol with a fake voice, offering a big boot sponsorship from Puma and got him to meet them at a service station 23 miles away in the middle of nowhere, He waited patiently for about five hours.

On one occasion Nicol was made captain for the day. He led the team onto the pitch but the others stopped, leaving him to run all the way to the penalty area before he realised why the crowd were laughing.

Nicol has size-12 feet. And Billy Mercer, a young goalkeeper, was the same size. The older pros used to give the kids their new boots to wear in. So Nicol gave those boots to Billy, who tried them on and realised the paper was still stuffed in them. He took the paper out, put them back on and told Nicol later on that they’re great. ‘You’re joking?’, said Nicol. ‘They just won’t fit me.’"

When Roy Evans became manager, he told the players they could have a beer or two after a game, but they had to stick to the health plan from the next day on. The day after the next game, Evans came down to the hotel dining room and found Nicol sitting at a table, tucking into his bacon and eggs, with about six glasses of beer around him. Evans went ballistic, saying he'd said that the serious stuff had to start in the morning. Nicol replied innocently, 'But gaffer, these are from the night before'.

Nicol decided to do some DIY but was struggling, so he called up Grobelaar, of all people, for advice. Grobelaar convinced him he had to change the water in his spirit level to make it accurate.



And Nicol himself on these stories:

"All true unfortunately. Although about the weight one, that happened when my wife and I were on a cruise with Alan Hansen and his wife and it happened after a night out, so my marbles weren't all there".
 
gkmacca said:
In 1986, Alan Hansen informed Nicol that Kenny Dalglish was dying of a terminal disease but was keeping it quiet so as to not have an adverse effect on morale at the club. Nicol is said to have spent the next night in tears before the joke was finally revealed after he was ushered into a darkened room where the supposedly stricken Dalglish was "resting".
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Hmmm....
 
My all time hero.

And I reckon if he had a "thicko" competition with Jason McAteer, he would come out a comparative genius
 
Lives in the Boston area, used to manage the NER for years, and took them to the MLS final a few times... so close. He was highly thought of for years, but maye have stayed too long in the end. See him on ESPN all the time. Looks like me Uncle Dermo with his glasses and thick crop of hair.
 
McAteer did, allegedly, once opt to have his pizza cut into four slices rather than eight, as he "wasn't that hungry".
 
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