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Roy Hodgson has total confidence that he can guide Liverpool up the Barclays Premier League table over the coming months.

The boss - voted Manager of the Year by his peers at the League Managers' Association in May - was asked by journalists following our 2-1 defeat to Blackpool whether he had any doubts over his ability to turn things around at Anfield.

He replied: "I don't think you go from being as feted as I was in May to suddenly losing any abilities I have three months later. It's a question that's going to get asked but it shouldn't really be asked by people who've been in football for a long time, because they know that in football you have good moments and bad moments.

"At the end of May I was having fantastic moments and at the end of September I'm having bad moments, but I don't think that after 35 years of coaching I've suddenly lost the abilities that have served me so well."

Meanwhile, Hodgson is not ruling out dipping into the transfer market in January if he feels signings are necessary to improve our league position.

He explained: "We've got to trust in the players because until January we can't do anything about that.

"We changed formation two or three times (against Blackpool), there were several attempts to change things around. We had Dirk Kuyt playing as a front player, then we moved him wide and moved Joe Cole in. We moved Meireles into the centre and brought on another wide player.

"We did what we could with the players we have available at the moment, but we are a little bit short of out-and-out front players at the moment, and of course we lost one of the most important ones near the start of the game."

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/roy-why-i-can-turn-it-around

Wrong man, wrong place and take Sammy with you.

I have absolutely zero confidence in his ability to turn it around. He doesn't sound like he has a clue at all. He's basically saying "We have to trust in the players because we can't replace them right now" - way to build up their confidence Roy!

And it's utter balls that we did what we could with the players we have available against Blackpool. Those players are capable of a hell of a lot more. If Roy picked a half-sane formation for them to play in to start off with instead of having to change it around 'two or three times' until it gets to something vaguely resembling sanity we might even see it.

Of course, if we apply his own logic, we don't have to trust in the manager because we can replace him right now!

i agree to a certain extent. yes, his tactis and team selections has been very questionable so far and he deserves criticism for that. but as you said these players are capable of a lot more and in my opinion they're just as guilty as roy.

hmmmm. sounds awfully like "i guarantee a top 4 finish" to me.

He is a reputable coach, i feel he aint right for US:)

That's a popular opinion, but it's one I disagree with personally.

Firstly, it's the manager's job to get the best out of his players. The buck stops there.

Secondly, it looks to me like the players are doing what Roy is telling them to, or at least trying to. He hasn't been standing on the sidelines yelling at them to do things differently has he? I really think this lackluster play we're seeing is more a reflection of the tactics and general approach than it is the players. That's not to say the players couldn't be putting in more effort (and we saw some pretty lackluster performances last season as well of course), but see the next point.

Thirdly, Roy is by the looks of it one of the worst motivational managers of all time. Seriously. Before the Northampton game he was telling the players he thought they might not be good enough and if they didn't perform they'd be out the club. Today he's basically saying the players aren't good enough and he's only trusting them until January because he can't do anything about it until then! What kind of idiotic management is that?

If you were a player, and your manager continually told you that you're basically not good enough and showed zero confidence or belief in you, if he seemed to have no idea what he was doing, and if he was making you and your teammates play out of position in awkward and uninspiring formations, would you find that:

a) Hugely inspiring. You'd die for such a man.
b) Totally demotivating.

I'm not saying I don't think the players shouldn't be getting past that and putting the effort in regardless - they are playing for LFC at the end of the day after all - but I can see all too easily why they might be finding it difficult to motivate themselves to play for Roy. The man's a chump.

you make some valid points and i agree with most of what you're saying but i just think it's frustrating to see how people open up 10 new threads all saying roy should f*** off yet almost nobody is criticising the players. we have a captain who's jogging around looking like he doesn't care anymore etc.

i know the manager is the one with the main responsibility and you don't fire players but they carry much of the blame too if you ask me.

Hodgson is a total an utter joke. He put Blackburn bottom of the league and with all this so called 35 years of experience hasn't won a dame thing of note. Why did we just bring in someone with "experience" rather than someone who actually has a clue about the modern game?!
He doesn't need time. He doesn't have it and the longer he stays the worse we will be.
Hodgson Out!