Out of the frying pan ? Fat waiter to replace Le Gaffeur !

[TheSandman]

The People is reporting that Houllier may return to his old job at the French Football Federation in the Summer with us looking at Hughes, Benitez, Alardyce and Kevin Mac to replace him.

The article was badly written and filled with spelling errors (including Houllier or should I say Hoillers name) so I am not going to bother copying it out.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Is there an unwritten law that we can only employ a Manager who is out of work?

[VillaAlways]

The People is reporting that Houllier may return to his old job at the French Football Federation in the Summer

**Praying emoticon **

[WikiVilla]

Lightning doesn't strike twice

[Bad English]

The French people have all taken time off bombing Libya to deny these allegations. They are very happy with the current DTN, thank you very much.

[oodman]

HOULLIER OUT

[The Left Side]

Please no no no to Benitez, if we are after an out of work manager let's go for Jol.

[WikiVilla]

Please no no no to Benitez, if we are after an out of work manager let's go for Jol.

For his accent alone he'd be worth employing

[kipeye]

I hope Benitez never sets foot in our ground.

[Eigentor]

I think he is a world class manager and better than Houllier. First and foremostly he is a better tactician and better at getting the best out of what he has got (that, as well as luck, is the reason he won the CL with Liverpool).

I'm not sure he would be right for us, though. His Liverpool connections, seemingly bizarre tactics and cold, analytical approach would probably lead many fans to view him as another Houllier.

His transfer record is mixed. He bought some shite, but he also signed Torres, Reina, Mascherano and Alonso who all have been or could have been sold on at a massive profit.

[Bad English]

I am a bit fed up with lazy French and Spanish stereotyping laced with barely-concealed xenophobia.

So, in the interests of fair play, can we have a German manager instead?

[WikiVilla]

The Duke of Edinburgh ?

[dave.woodhall]

When exactly did we become so good we can reject a Champions League-winning manager out of hand?

[DB]

The Duke of Edinburgh ?

The Duke is from Greek stock.

[Concrete John]

When exactly did we become so good we can reject a Champions League-winning manager out of hand?

I think he's been trading off that for a while now and it's coverign up the fact he's a decent, but not great, manager.  He had the Liverpool job during the period of the enshrined 'top 4' so had regular CL football and a decided financial advantage over 16 other sides in the division, yet the side he produced seemed to get worse as he went on and was only kept in there by Garrard, who he inherited.

Just get the feeling he'd come with an air of "I'm doing you a favour by taking the job" and it simply wouldn't work.  A spanish O'Leary.