There is not better figure for PR than Dalglish. He is the club's biggest personality. This is why FSG need him on side. They don't care for him at all but they can wheel him out like the Pope when needed to win the fans over.
Liverpool declined under Souness because he tried too hard and too fast. The old guard weren't replaced while Dalglish which is why we started to lose a bit of specialness in the run up to his exit. His hasty decision to resign as he did set us back years in my opinion and I hold him more responsible for our decline than Souness because of this.
However he is a club legend and he cares about the club and the fans. Few do.
That's a fairly balanced post Dunc, However I consider it harsh, if not in fact wrong, to hold Dalglish more responsible for our decline than Souness. Dalglish brought in good players during his time, did Souness? Dalglish left his successor a title winning team, and arguably one of the best in our history, did Souness? You say the old guard werent replaced leading to a loss of a bit of specialness, in the run up to Dalglish's exit, and that's why you hold him more responsible than Souness, but you don't take into account the extraordinary circumstances of the time, nor the fact that few managers would have made changes to an extraordinary team on it's way to winning the title...again! Did Fergie get rid of his long serving players in his last couple of title winning seasons? No he didn't. If Moyes does a Souness on them, will you say that you hold Fergie more responsible than Moyes?
An experienced manager coming in after Dalglish left, would have made incremental changes, not a wholesale hatchet job, could you for example, imagine Fergie doing what Souness did?
No Dunc, the blame for our team's demise, if we're still in the business of aportioning it, can',t be laid at Dalglish's door, regardless of Stanley Park's and Faz's mistaken opinions. The record shows the blame rests with Souness, in the main, for his misguided activities, and to a fair extent, the Board of directors, for their inactivity in the aftermath of his appointment, and long after he was gone.
