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lets be honest we couldn't get even monk out of swansea atm. And he wouldn't last a day cause our fans would murder him.. Xabi would be acceptable, and he would be class..world renowned -players would wanna play for him...loves passing players , we would finally have a functional midfield no more can and lucases . Be just so awesome, I tbh I think this is our only way out of the mess we are in. Get xabi in..player manager ,dude's IQ is off the scale and he is sexy.

Former Red Stewart Downing believes Kenny Dalglish deserved more time at Liverpool: “I played for a very good manager in Kenny Dalglish, he was very good to me. I’ll never forget what he did to get me to that club. “When I was speaking to Kenny, I was thinking 'this is mad, £20m for me to go there', but it put a lot of pressure on Kenny because he spent big that summer. I went to Aston Villa and said to them 'this is Kenny Dalglish and Liverpool football club, you have to let me go' and they were okay about it. “I just didn’t think we got time to gel. “It was strange to see him sacked, they spent a lot of money on players. It’s not going to happen overnight but they sacked him after one year. “He’s like God at Liverpool, we could be losing but they would be singing his name. That’s how it was at Liverpool, normally the manager would get the flack but he would get his name sang and the players would get the flack! “He was very good to play for, you could always speak to him and his door was always open. He was just a nice man in general. I was very proud that he signed me to play for Liverpool
I don't think he got a fair crack of the whip..... and now we seem to have the opposite.. were now flogging a dead horse.

Why would Downing, who would've got a massive amount of money from signing for us and a massive wage from us, all thanks to Kenny, have a bad word to say about him?

Yeah I said it was ridiculous at the time, 1 bloody year is nothing oh and he happened to win a trophy in that year too. FSG don't have a clue, why are they sticking with BR who has wasted more money and has us playing much worse. Stuck with Kenny & Clark and we would have been much better off.

Agree. A lot of fans called it a Mickey mouse cup, but Rodgers is still dying for his first trophy and lots of fans want a cup now.

Kenny was never the right man and I personally don't think we'd be better off, but we'll never know.

Yes we'll never know, but what is better for you, finishing 6th or 8th but with a cup? Also, that was in his first season and Rogers was 7th in his 1st season

Has anyone considered neither are top managers in the modern game might that be possibility ?

It's potato potato for me. It's not like it was the FA cup or a European cup of some kind. Yes we beat some good teams to win it but it's hardly the best one to win. And finishing 7th or 8th is no difference. Finishing in the top 4 is what counts in this day and age to get into the ECL.

Dalglish managed a cup when he did so badly in getting the team to play football or do anything at all in the league. He stockpiled high valued British players we struggled to get rid of. He had his glory days. Including a League Cup, I'm afraid, doesn't equate.