Gerard Houllier

[Toronto Villa]

The former Liverpool boss has been told he will only be able to spend money he generates in January.
At present, Werder Bremen and Leicester City are fighting over a £2.5million move for Curtis Davies but that is the only deal on the table.
Houllier was given the go-ahead to sign France Under 19 midfielder Guida Fofana from Le Havre for £800,000 and take Jamaica international Omar Cummings on trial, but the nature of Tuesday's defeat has placed the manager under the spotlight.

daily mail

If that were true, then they may as well sack him now rather than leave him in an unsupported limbo.

It'd be so reckless, I can't believe it is true.

I don't believe a word of it. When you listen to Paul Faulkner's interview he states quite eloquently how the club understands the magnitude of the task and how they have always backed the manager. The fact that the media fails to ever get actual reliable soundbytes out of the upper echelons of the club leads them to come to whatever conclusion they wish. It wil be a different one tomorrow, and next week. If GH spends money, then he'll have to sell to buy to generate further spending. If he only brings in a few players and loans it will be because the board have put the clamps on and don't trust him anymore. Whatever happens it will be spun into something new by someone else looking to catch our attention.

[tarzansbrother]

Ok Is Young up grabs? 18 months left on deal wont sign a new deal and spurs up his arse  offering him champions league. You tell me if we will spend £5m plus on a new player.

[PaulWinch again]

We have to support him in January, if he's the manager back him. At least give him the chance. The players are a disgrace, and need to sort themselves out.

I don't believe a single word of that post but if it were true, I'd sack the manager tomorrow and have no concerns at all about the team if you put a decent manager in charge.

I'm sorry, what do you mean don't believe? I believe we have to support Houllier as he is the manager who has been hired and a large number of the players have shown a shocking lack of desire.

[dave.woodhall]

Ok Is Young up grabs? 18 months left on deal wont sign a new deal and spurs up his arse  offering him champions league. You tell me if we will spend £5m plus on a new player.

I don't know about Young. I'm pretty sure we will spend £5 million, or more, if the opportunity arises. But I don't know for certain so I wouldn't say so.

[pauliewalnuts]

Ok Is Young up grabs? 18 months left on deal wont sign a new deal and spurs up his arse  offering him champions league. You tell me if we will spend £5m plus on a new player.

And how does any of that make Young "up for grabs".

Don't get me wrong, if we sold him in January, I would lose all faith in the board, but I don't see how you arrive at that conclusion.

[dl9]

Aaaaargh........

Now the 'Back GH' brigade are up to 36%!

For every 10 guys on here there are 3 of them plus .6 of the fourth (a pair of legs and up to the belly button) who want to see him continue.

Yep, I know not to have any expectations for when we play Chelski  - let's face it, we can't ship as many as the last time we were there............OR CAN WE??? (cue Twilight Zone music).

Someone wake me from this nightmare and reassure me that Randy's sacked him s'il vous plait.........

[Shrek]

That article is rubbish, completely contradicts what our CE has said. Such lazy journalism.

[Eigentor]

What could Houllier have done better?

At the start, Houllier's plan was to change things gradually in order to give the players time to adapt. It seems as if this plan has gone out of the window. Now GH is quoted as saying "adapt or die". Dunne, Ireland and Beye have obviously pissed him off for some reason, and he now seems determined to force them out of the club. The players don't seem to understand what GH wants them to do.

I may be completely off the mark, but I have the impression that GH has lost patience with his gradual approach and tried to do too much too soon. The result is that some players are unhappy with him, and the rest is confused.

[Irish villain]

You know things are really bad when you are gutted that Wolves get three points at Anfield. Usually I love seeing 'pool lose but not now....

[tarzansbrother]

Wham want £15m plus for the journeyman Piquionne. You really think we will spend £5m plus if opportunity arises? We need a manager for the last half of the season and we got popeye with a heart problem. I like the bloke but he just aint got it and the players/fans/papers can smell it big time.

[old man villa fan]

Ok Is Young up grabs? 18 months left on deal wont sign a new deal and spurs up his arse  offering him champions league. You tell me if we will spend £5m plus on a new player.

If the right player is available and one for the future rather than with a limited 'use by date', we will spend more than £5m on a player.  What RL will not do now is spend large sums on 'quick fix' players a la MON's buys in the summer of 2009 (with the exception of Delph).

[ozzjim]

If Spurs offered something silly like Keane, Bentley, Woodgate on loan till May and 10 million I would take it Paulie I have to say. And then go and buy N'Zogbia with the cash. But the board I think will back Houllier quite well, and if France U19 captain is an example of the pedigree he is after then so they should. He is a very good manager, as Hodgson is, but he needs time to sort it out, which if he is given I still think long term we will be better off. I would say though, I think he misses Phil Thomson and Patrice Bergues terribly by the look of it, and the club could do a lot worse than make them big offers to come onto the coaching team ASAP.

[achilles]

I keep on saying it but we have enough good players at the club to easily get us into mid-table security. We don't necessarily need to sign anyone!

What we do need is for the players to start playing for one another and putting in the effort, passion and commitment required to get us out of this mess!

At this moment in time the manager has proved that he cannot motivate the current players and has actually alienated a few of the more senior players. So for me he is grasping at straws if he really thinks that the January transfer market will make any real difference.

[Irish villain]

I keep on saying it but we have enough good players at the club to easily get us into mid-table security. We don't necessarily need to sign anyone!

What we do need is for the players to start playing for one another and putting in the effort, passion and commitment required to get us out of this mess!

At this moment in time the manager has proved that he cannot motivate the current players and has actually alienated a few of the more senior players. So for me he is grasping at straws if he really thinks that the January transfer market will make any real difference.

Will the players ever want to play for Ged though? As you say, can we take a gamble on backing him any longer? he can't replace the entire team in January and then try to mould them into something decent for the duration of the season. We don't have the luxury as we need 20+ points from somewhere.

[eastie]

 would hope GED has all the milner cash plus anymore from sales- if not what chance do we have , if the money is not given to him then it will show us why o neill left- the board said they will back him with money and he needs to be given at least £15m from milners sale to spend- anything less would be a travesty!