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That's BS and you know it. You HAVE criticised every manager that has been mentioned as an alternative with no basis for your argument other than scurrilous gossip. You don't make your decision based on their achievements or what they would bring to the table - but if you're really stuck for a response you just come back and say 'the fans would turn on him after 6 months'! It is all very childish and comes across as you being extremely bitter because kenny is on the ropes. The club is supposed to come first, not an individual.

I was thinking if we dod win the FA that would be the ideal time for Kenny to resign. He would go out on a high and we will remember him as a man who dids his best for the club at a difficult time and handed over the reigns. He also went out with two cups and a wembley defeat of Everton. Its perfect.

The alternative next season does not bear thinking of if he stays in relation to his reputation with the fans and the memory.

To be fair that's a good point

He could go having brought success to the club and a new manager could come in on the club having built some success

Couldn't agree more. Liverpool Football Club is not a 'cup side' which is why his brief was to move us up the table and back into the champions league. It's nice to get a few extra cups and I'm sure that kenny would retire happy knowing that he won them, but they don't represent what we are about and haven't kickstarted us as many predicted. Nothing is more important than challenging for/winning the league title.

Spot on. The football this season (for the majority of games at least) has actually been pretty damm good. Lots and lots of quality chances missed, posts hit, incredible goal keeping performances. Honestly, IF he wins 2 cups and continues majority of games such good football and dominating games (I know he hasn't always done that), I would have given him another 6 months to see if he could just tweak it to turn those performances into points.

However, there is not a manager alive (or dead) that deserves to keep his job after spending 70 odd million pounds (net spend is irrelevant here, I'm not talking about investment, I'm not talking about where we were last year compared to now, I'm talking about how much money he had to spend), on players that were OBVIOUSLY wrong when a desperate club had a chance to rebuild quickly. The one 'bad signing' I will let go is downing, because whilst I still mantain he was obviously not of the necessary and required quality, you would have thought he could fit into most systems and scored 7 odd goals a few assists and contributed a damm sight more than he has.
The rest though (and still downing to a certain extent), were stupid stupid signings that wouldn't have fit in with the system we played then, nor the system we play now, nor any system we've played this season. They were ridiculous choices by someone who clearly no longer knows how to set up a team nor find players for it (if his signings are anything to go by). He deserves to go based on just his transfers, the poor league form just compounds that.
This isn't hind sight btw, and I'm not patting myself on the back cause I would much rather have been proven wrong, but myself and most of the footballing world seemed to say exactly the same thing as those players were being bought.

I don't want to overanalyse things but is there anywhere we can find out stats on key passes? By that I mean a pass that provided a goalscoring opportunity. The reason I ask is that Downing 'might' have been unlucky - just because his passes/crosses didn't result in an assist, that may not be his fault. It would be harsh to judge his lack of assists on someone elses poor finishing.

I'd like to see us beat Chelsea in the final convincingly and then for Kenny to step aside on a high note, for either Mourinho, Villas Boas or Rafa (for a second bite of the cherry, I'd get behind him even though I have doubt)

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