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Which of these three, had the hardest job when they first became manager.
I say Roy Evans, as Souness had turned us into a laughing stock and left Evans not much to work with (first team wise).
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Benitez, because he inherited Houlliers 'players'! And because he won the champions league with people like biscan, kewell, traore and smicer it just shows what an immense talent Benitez is.
Evans's job was probably the easiest of the bunch - he could hardly do worse than Souness
Houllier's job was also not tough. He'd already spent a while at the club as "joint manager" so he had settled and already knew the players. Plus a certain Gerrard was coming throuhg who virtually carried the club on his won for a long time.
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Update:
Houllier's job was probably the easiest of the three. He'd already spent a while at the club as "joint manager" so he had settled and already knew the players. Plus a certain Gerrard (and Michael Owen) was coming through who virtually carried the club on his won for a long time. Houllier benefitted from the co-efficient/rule change where teams finishing 3rd or 4th could qualify for the CL. If that ruling had been in place whilst Roy Evans was in charge he'd have qualified for the CL every year.
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In terms of hard job, then yeah I'd say Evans. We had an awful squad from Sounness, punctuated with a couple of talented youngsters. I laugh when people talk about Benitez leaving us a bad squad, when we had Torres, Mascherano, Gerrard and Reina (players who would get in almost any side in the world, alongside several less talented but still strong players like Agger, Skrtel, Lucas, Johnson etc. and quality youngsters like Kelly, Sterling, Suso...
The quality of player I remember from the Sounness days, was Thorben Piechnik.
But in terms of how successful a job each did, Benitez would be top, Houllier second, and Evans third. Hard to argue with that. Just to flip it a bit though, in terms of enjoyment watching the teams play every week, I'd rank them Evans>Benitez>Houllier. There can be no denying that Evans' teams played excellent attacking football (the less said about the defence the better!)
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I think Souness had the hardest as he had to reduce an ageing team who were all on long contracts and mega bucks, we also had pressure on us to win the league back then which we no longer have. I think Roy Hodgson has the second hardest job with being left a poor team which was seventh, Hicks and Gillette at war, players like Torres and Mascherano sulking and going on strike before he got his feet under the table, the least money any Liverpool manager has been given to spend and nearly all supporters against him before he arrived, it was an impossible job doomed to failure, what a contrast to the situation Dalglish found himself in when he walked in and he still made a balls up of it with every concievable thing given to him to help him succeed...
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then don't reply you t**t
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Was that really necessary ?
That job interview was going so well until I realized I was fukked up on acid in the middle of a cornfield naked and talking to a scarecrow.
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apologies but this forum has too many smart a$$es who instead of leaving a thread that they have read and do not like choose to reply with rubbish
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I think Souness had the hardest as he had to reduce an ageing team who were all on long contracts and mega bucks, we also had pressure on us to win the league back then which we no longer have. I think Roy Hodgson has the second hardest job with being left a poor team which was seventh, Hicks and Gillette at war, players like Torres and Mascherano sulking and going on strike before he got his feet under the table, the least money any Liverpool manager has been given to spend and nearly all supporters against him before he arrived, it was an impossible job doomed to failure, what a contrast to the situation Dalglish found himself in when he walked in and he still made a balls up of it with every concievable thing given to him to help him succeed... It was between Evans Houllier and Benitez, not Hodgson. But I agree, Hodgson did have a tough job. The rest of your post, is, as usual, uninformed nonsense. +1 loyal SEASON TICKET holder...
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Question: Which of there 3 Mannagers had the hardest job
EVANS HOULLIER BENITEZ
Northlivrpool reply discusses Hodgson and surprise surprise he has a swipe at the current manager.
Boring , predictable, attention hogging , irrelevant and tiring.
Oh and has he lost his season ticket
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