Luke Young Going to Liverpool

[dave.woodhall]

Vicious circle.

[Villa'Zawg]

Perhaps he just isn't willing to fight for his place in a better than average team.

[hawkeye]

I'm not denying that, Dave, I merely meant that I don't feel Liverpool are enough of a better bet than us for further honours for Luke to be happy on their bench. Man Utd, fine, but Liverpool? Not right now.

I wish, but I always get the feeling that even in a bad year Liverpool can put in enough good results in the right games to win something.

agree and hodgson is no idiot, i woulld be much more confident about our future if we had him as our manager

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Speaking with regards to the future of Liverpool and Hodgson, I think they’ve chosen a safe pair of hands to keep the seat warm for two or three seasons until they get taken over.

Which gives us a limited window of opportunity, before you’ve got four clubs in the top four, with more money than the last lot.

[TheSandman]

I'm not denying that, Dave, I merely meant that I don't feel Liverpool are enough of a better bet than us for further honours for Luke to be happy on their bench. Man Utd, fine, but Liverpool? Not right now.

I wish, but I always get the feeling that even in a bad year Liverpool can put in enough good results in the right games to win something.

agree and hodgson is no idiot, i woulld be much more confident about our future if we had him as our manager

I remember a while back I was discussing this with a fellow poster and we were thinking what it would be like on here if we went out and signed a thirty odd year old Danny Murphy and spent £12million on Andy Johnson.

He's still a damn good manager though but he's still (slightly like MoN) merely a safe pair of hands rather than an outright genius.

My dad met him once when he was manager of Bristol City.

[dave.woodhall]

He was linked with us in 2002 when Gregory left. If we'd had him then there woud have been outrage. Now he's the most popular and one of the most respected managers in the country.

[hawkeye]

He was linked with us in 2002 when Gregory left. If we'd had him then there woud have been outrage. Now he's the most popular and one of the most respected managers in the country.

he looked out of his depth at Bburn but it was a difficult act to follow, you cant buy experience

[dave.woodhall]

He was linked with us in 2002 when Gregory left. If we'd had him then there woud have been outrage. Now he's the most popular and one of the most respected managers in the country.

he looked out of his depth at Bburn but it was a difficult act to follow, you cant buy experience

Blackburn also had off the field problems at the time, although he did get them sixth.

[Eigentor]

I know very few will agree with me on this, but Liverpool's managers since Evans have generally been very good and knowledgable. Their downfall has been that they have not been able to manage expectations. Hodgson is probably smart enough to realize this.

The difference between O'Neill and Hodgson is not very big, but Hodgson seems to have more technical expertise, ie is better to organize a team defensively and making them consistently difficult to break down.

[peter w]

I know very few will agree with me on this, but Liverpool's managers since Evans have generally been very good and knowledgable. Their downfall has been that they have not been able to manage expectations. Hodgson is probably smart enough to realize this.

The difference between O'Neill and Hodgson is not very big, but Hodgson seems to have more technical expertise, ie is better to organize a team defensively and making them consistently difficult to break down.

He's a horses for courses type man. He is lucky that it will be very difficult to repeat last seasons poor showing whatever he does and will probably have more success, however limited, than his talents probably deserve.

[Villafirst]

Looks like the deal has collapsed. Can't believe we want to sell him. Once again 4 years on we haven't got the correct cover at full-back, Shorey will leave soon. Wish I hadn't bothered with a seasion ticket - can't stand another season with Cuellar at right back - the amount of times he gives the ball away is crazy.

[Concrete John]

agree and hodgson is no idiot, i woulld be much more confident about our future if we had him as our manager

Yet one of his last acts and Fulham manager was to try and sign Sidwell, a player who most would use as an example of MON's inability.  And one of his first as Liverpool boss was to go after Petrov, who again the manager gets flack for not dropping.

The grass isn't always greener......

[Concrete John]

The difference between O'Neill and Hodgson is not very big, but Hodgson seems to have more technical expertise, ie is better to organize a team defensively and making them consistently difficult to break down.

I can't see how you can say that given our defensive record last year?

[Risso]

The difference between O'Neill and Hodgson is not very big, but Hodgson seems to have more technical expertise, ie is better to organize a team defensively and making them consistently difficult to break down.

I can't see how you can say that given our defensive record last year?

Fulham's entire defence probably cost less than Curtis Davies or Stephen Warnock.

[Concrete John]

Wouldn't doubt Hodgson's ability to spot a bargain in the transfer market, put the point was about organizing a defence, which even you must admit MON got right last year?