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I won't lie I have said before he signed that Roy hodgson wasn't my ideal choice but seemed to be the sensible choice.
I remebered when he signed how impressed i was with the way he conducted the press conference, with dignity and pride.

Dignity and Pride two words the great Bill Shankly made sure ever Liverpool player that ever played under him had ever time they pulled on the famous red shirt.

So we now have Roy, not the in your face and straight to the point type of guy that Shankly was, but then again the media then wasn't as ruthless as it is these days.
So how does Roy do it, by giving nothing away not even a clue.
Sky reporter "The bookies have stopped taking bet's on Joe Cole coming to Liverpool"
Roy "Well i wouldn't know I am not a betting man, so don't understand how betting goes"
Sky reporter "Have you spoke to Joe Cole"
Roy "No I know he is a good player and looking for a club, I briefly spoke to him a while back. but when it is regarding transfer and negotiations it is christan Purslow you need to speak to i am here to coach".

Seriously if he played poker he will clean up, he didn't pause, repeat himself, stutter nothing.
Not even 24 hours later on the LFc offical website "Cole signs for Liverpool in a four year deal".
No-one knew it was coming, liverpool fans hoped but still had doubts, not even Sky or Dunk knew:)

A victory of a huge level for Liverpool and for Roy, yes Purslow did most of the negotiating and deserve credit for his part but Roy hasn't had a chat he had talked with Joe, he would of had to sell his views and ideas on what he see's where the club is going.
but mainly for the way the news broker, no-one knew no one. Finally somehting done "In house, behind closed doors and no one knowing scooby".
But also making Joe the offer then tell him that he had 48 hours to take it or leave, not to be held for ransom. Joe knows more than we do, he knows where the club is going, he wouldn't of signed if it was about money he would of chose West ham and be hailed as a God or Spurs and be arry's love puppet, but he chose us much to everyone's shock.

Now Roy is by no means a Bill Shankly clone, but since he has been here he has always showed that he understands the great man's physolophy.

So thanks roy for doing business the right way............. This is the Liverpool Way

rafa was too hard to please , i remember stevie saying that whatever he did rafa was always looking to the next game and very rarely gave praise and he said all he wants from rafa is a 'well done' and he could'nt even get that

i'm sure that he annoyed most of the players and he was always a miserable so and so

contrast that to roy , completely different, roy will help the lads no end and he's the sort to put his arm round them as well

i can only see good things with roy i really can , he's pulled off a massive transfer coup getting coley


finally good news for liverpool for once

one things for sure we won't be finishing 7th next season

I think we are going over board with this at the moment. Remember that even though we seem to be going in a good direction, a sense of new owners is still needed.

I mean, Tom Hicks declared bankruptcy, and another one of his teams, the Texas Rangers, is up for auction by the bank this very instant.

The owners are selfish. They work with the theory:
"If I don't get anything, no one gets anything. If I go down to the ground, everyone goes down to the ground."
And by "everyone" I mean Liverpool football club.

There are still players who are playing half hearten, ones who wish to leave. Then, there are ones who are here only for the money, not the tradition, history, club or the people of Liverpool.

Think about all of this twice before we get happy.

Fair enough - but you have to say Roy has played a blinder here and has been nothing but class in the old Liverpool way since he arrived...

I think we may surprise a few this season - 2 or 3 more signings like this and we can be very happy going into the season...

Welcome Joey Cole!!

How happy does Roy look.

So Cole really was in switzerland after all

Told you lot last night:)

You can not say we are going over board on this signing, Massive absolutely a brilliant first class signing. Everybody was in for him, the scum, spurs, and the goners. Not to mention the chavs done an awful lot to try and keep him there.

After our two (Stevie and Torres) he was the next biggest signing out there, So if the two lads stay we will have done some great bussiness

it was all over the papers, do you want some kind of medal for reading the papers then informing us?

Yes please with a big shiny symbol of atlas on it so I look big and strong.

I actually got the info from Click twitter page saying their reporter had seen Cole in Switzerland. The rest of the media started spilling an hour or so later. Check my post then times my hard rocking amigo.