Dalglish wouldn’t be the panacea that some on here reckon he would be. The first time round he merely picked up a good squad and moved with it. Some of his later signings were not very good at all. Dalglish didn’t have to rebuild the team as he would have to in this case. He joined Blackburn and won the league but the football they played was hardly inspiring and I thought the side that Evans built but couldn’t quite ‘man-manage’ to success was more enterprising and would have been more to the taste of those posters looking for attacking football.
Frankly, I think we’re wandering into difficult territory if we hand the job to Dalglish. If he’s a man of genuine integrity (and I do think he is) he wouldn’t have taken the ‘supportive role’ that he did when he took on the youth job – unless he genuinely rated Benitez, which most of us would find peculiar, given what’s been happening this season. If Benitez is not the right man – and I would not argue that he is – then those closely associated with him, as supporters and junior managers etc are unlikely to offer altre salvation. I hope they find someone outside of the club to take it forward.
IMHO Yes to Hiddink, Hodgson, no to MON, Hughes, Houllier (please no) Reikard, Klinsmann (excuse spellings)
As to the Torres story, I noticed also, that there seemed to be a lot of support from Torres, for Benitez so I don’t see why he should be more likely to stay – unless, that is, he’s had a hand in picking the successor, which hardly bodes well for a disciplined dressing room.
I tend to agree with the posters that suggest that we can only move forward when the ownership is sorted out and fear that whoever takes the reigns, we’ll be struggling to compete with the six clubs above us – that all have better squads at the moment.
