Author Topic: Adieu Dalglish (Read 31410 times)

Barefoot Doctor · « **Reply #40 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:13:12 PM »

Was thrilled to meet Kenny a week after he returned to the club as caretaker manager. Think he's done a good job, with some missteps along the way - but it's been a thrill to see him in the dugout again. Best of luck, hope it's not long before he's back at Anfield.

Red Scouse · « **Reply #41 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:13:54 PM »

Quote from: The Jackal on May 16, 2012, 05:39:21 PM

Spot on. A part of the club has died today. A part we'll never, ever get back.. We aren't Liverpool Football Club anymore. Not sure what we are, but we're not the LFC that I knew and loved. Devastated..

Absolutely agree. Kenny was our link to the past, his sacking makes me feel completely detached from that tradition, its gone forever now. We are just a business to these owners.

Many, many thanks Kenny for everything you have done, such a dignified man, love you lots. YNWA

Chalky Boots · « **Reply #42 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:14:48 PM »

Spot on Hinesy.

Only three times in 20 years has this football club made my feel empty,numb and in tears.

One was Bobs death.

The other two?
Kennys resignation
And now today.

A year ago I felt like a little kid at Christmas with his return, I felt it was 16 years too bloody late, but once more Liverpool felt like Liverpool. My smile on reflected by his beaming grin. The king was home.

And now, by a bunch of distant cowboys I now feel empty, numb.

For me the Liverpool Way has just exhaled it's final breath.

And all because a couple of posers over Boston couldn't heed there own words about patience.

Thank you Kenny, you didn't have to but you did, crying shame we couldnt see that smile for a few more years.

John C · « **Reply #43 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:15:16 PM »

Great post hinsey.
This was completely the wrong decision for numerous reasons, it makes me wonder what sort of tension there may have been between Kenny & the owners - why the fuck couldn't they allow him a transfer window to settle it all.

Unless their ambitions are as big as they articulated when they first arrived. Are they only going to attract a man with fantastic pedigree and European experience who can get us to make that "leap".

Their own reputation is on the line with us fans now, they need to demonstrate strategic leadership with ambition to match the size of the fucking gap in Stanley Park where a stadium is supposed to have been erected.

John C · « **Reply #44 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:16:16 PM »

Has everyone heard Kenny's statement, pure fucking class.

Thanks Kenny, we love you.

hollger · « **Reply #45 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:17:47 PM »

I never thought I'd see the day he'd come back to us (as manager), and to have it ended like this is just disgraceful.

I've no more words for this, I can only say "thank you" to Kenny for everything.

stevie_legend_g · « **Reply #46 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:26:13 PM »

Thanks Kenny for all the great times you have given us. You will always be King Kenny. YNWA.

Has Steve Clarke definitely gone as well?

Lady_Brandybuck · « **Reply #47 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:31:30 PM »

Gutted is an understatement considering how I feel right now.

Fuck football for now...

the red symphony · « **Reply #48 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:31:32 PM »

The new manager, whoever that may be, may come from God's (no that one) own ballbags. He many win the quadruple with us. But the club that I fell in love with died today.

Thanks Kenny, for being there, at our greatest hour of need. Managers come and go. Once a King, always a king. Thanks for the past sixteen months, loved your celebration which our generation had only seen on video. A part of Liverpool FC died today. Football is shit.

Lofty Ambitions · « **Reply #49 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:32:35 PM »

Oh. My. God.

I subscribe to everything hinesy wrote in the opening post.

Speechless.

Cruiser · « **Reply #50 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:33:16 PM »

I'm not saying goodbye. Kenny is part of the club's DNA and will continue be a part of this club in some form, I'm sure of it.

steveeastend · « **Reply #51 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:38:23 PM »

Good luck Kenny and all the best, you deserve it!!

Your vision of football was very special as your legend status which will go on forever!!

HiroProtagonist · « **Reply #52 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:39:55 PM »

I'm fucking gutted about this. Haven't felt this bad since Rafa was sacked.

Thanks Kenny for all your hard work, you made mistakes but you deserved a chance.

Cochise · « **Reply #53 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:42:01 PM »

Goodbye Kenny, you are this club. I posted yesterday that I wasn't sure that Kenny was the right man to take this club forward, that he was more a safe pair of hands to steady the ship but I'm still gutted to see him go.

degsy45 · « **Reply #54 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:42:12 PM »

The legend lives on - Facht , KING KENNY

Bjinxi · « **Reply #55 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:46:17 PM »

Thanks Kenny for everything.
Sad to see him go like this !

YNWA

IndianRed · « **Reply #56 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:48:02 PM »

Goodbye Kenny, ultimately you were one of the last remaining of Paisley's and Shankly's proteges, who truly cared about Liverpool and got caught up in the midst of soulless corporate PR-driven soundbites. Thanks for everything you've given us. We're truly not worthy as a club to have a genuinely great human being like you lead us out to the sounds of YNWA every week. I shall miss your sharp sense of humor as you cut down Vinnie O'Connor and his Sky cronies to size. I shall miss seeing the pictures of you with a smile on your face as you rolled back the years while training with the lads. And most of all, I shall miss seeing Liverpool's greatest fan jumping up and down the touchline with unbridled joy whenever we score.

Thanks for everything Kenny. Long live the King. YNWA

Xabi_14_Alonso · « **Reply #57 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:48:56 PM »

heartbreaking. FSG should have given him one more season, i cant believe it, one step forward and two steps back. I really thought our club was different, that we respect and reward commitment and loyalty. But i guess it is all about the results. He should have gotten one more season but he didn't and that makes me sad.

vicgill · « **Reply #58 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:51:37 PM »

Quote from: hinesy on May 16, 2012, 05:30:36 PM

For I find it hard to say goodbye.

For all the Kenny thread was full of his time is up and he should go, (where are you naysayers rejoicing now eh?) when the actual deed is done, 4,000 miles away near some baseball stadium in a country that doesn't even like football, never mind understand it, my heart sinks yet again.

FSG have now sacked everyone but the tea lady and she's been charged with a 3 year progression to making tea so fucking weak it makes milk look like David Dickinson's brow.

Once again Liverpool fans are smacked in the face for daring to believe that there was no concerns in substituting one set of American owners for another. John Henry appears to talk the talk. But with no stadium, DoF (if we need one) Chief Exec, no director of communications and so on, they look more like a business with no concept of direction whatsoever and certainly one of little understanding of LFC.

Perhaps, perhaps they have some great vision of bringing in an entire team to construct LFC in their own likeness. But when they care more for a game of big rounders than they do for Cup Finals and big matches, I wonder.

The thing is this: its not actually whether or not Kenny was the right man for the job, its the fact that it was Kenny Dalglish. I cannot think of a man more imbued with 'Liverpool-ness' than he. By sacking him in such a way, (fly him over, talk, fly him back, stay quiet then release the news on the day the England Squad are announced in a mealy mouthed pr exercise of shit) they are saying de facto to old arses and long time fans, this is the new world and the club you understood no longer exists.

Sure no-one has died, sure maybe there was an arguement for bringing in a new manager. But we no longer look like Liverpool Football Club, we look like Aston Villa, or fucking Newcastle without the higher table placing. A club that doesn't know how to do things the right way. A club that reacts not proacts. A club that, right now, has no vision, no statement of plan, no staff and little popularity among the fans.

In some ways I thought it dangerous and short termist to bring Kenny back. Bringing in Steve Clarke made me believe Kenny and the club did understand what was needed. But I suspect the owners also brought Kenny back as a popularity gaining trick. Well that's back fired on you big fucking time.

You mess with LFC fans at your peril. Its not his leaving but the manner of it that galls, saddens and despairs me. Small minded, fearful and modern day management style. Poor. Fucking. Show.

brilliant mate, just fucking brilliant, thank you

fizzyp · « **Reply #59 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:52:08 PM »

Shanks and paisley will be turning in there graves!

I felt for a few years that football changed and for the worse. Until today I felt Liverpool had just manged to keeps identity it's gone.

It will only ever return with fan ownership but gods knows how that will ever happen.

paKopite · « **Reply #60 on:** May 16, 2012, 06:58:13 PM »

YNWA King Kenny

thom · « **Reply #61 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:00:35 PM »

So sad to see him leave.

Thank you for everything.

SeanPenn · « **Reply #62 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:01:41 PM »

Thank you for everything King Kenny.

You are class personified. Through and through.

Red Ol · « **Reply #63 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:04:02 PM »

"Where once we saw the King Kenny play...."

Thank you Kenny. YNWA and you're still the best I've ever seen in a red shirt.

thekitkatshuffler · « **Reply #64 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:05:20 PM »

I'm not sure which scenario I find more soul destroying. The fact that a club legend could be sacked by a group of suits in Boston after only one full season in the job and with a trophy in his (substantial) arse pocket. Or that more people than I'm comfortable with, both on here and in real life, think it was the right thing to do. That shit makes my head spin and wonder if my sentimental concepts of loyalty and continuity and patience are foolish and outdated. $:-\$

I don't think they are and I don't think Kenny deserves what has happened today. I genuinely fear for the club we are on the road to becoming, because it's a road filled with roundabouts spinning endlessly into mediocrity with no clear direction in mind. Scary times.

YNWA Kenny.

Grunf · « **Reply #65 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:10:41 PM »

We were lucky to have him in the first place, now I wonder if we ever deserved him.

jillc · « **Reply #66 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:14:27 PM »

I just can't believe the way they ended this, he gets summoned over to the US like a naughty school kid, with his bloody school report. Then we get the unending media crap, where he gets pulled apart by people who arn't fit to lace his boots, and the owners leave him hanging on a piece of wire, as people tear him apart. I'm sorry but that is bullshit, and a disgrace. In a way I'm pleased for Kenny that he is out of this, as he does not deserve the crap that has been thrown at him.

But right now I seriously fear for the future of the club, I don't trust the owners to make the right decision. They don't even seem that interested in us half the time. The ground is still up in the air, with no sign of ending in any certainty. Right now they have serious concerns to address, but do they even have a plan?

Great opening post Hinesy, totally sums up what I am feeling.

Best of luck Kenny, you will always have our respect, because you are one of us.

neil4ad · « **Reply #67 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:25:24 PM »

I am devastated. Kenny not only embodies what LFC is, but I also think that he was the right man for the job. He needed more time....

CHOPPER · « **Reply #68 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:27:36 PM »

Quote from: John C on May 16, 2012, 06:24:41 PM

Dalglish said he is proud to have served such a great Club.
"It has been an honour and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as Manager. I greatly appreciate the work that Steve, Kevin, the players and all of the staff put in during my time and feel proud that we delivered the Club's first trophy in six years winning the Carling Cup and came close to a second trophy in the FA Cup Final. Of course I am disappointed with results in the league, but I would not have swapped the Carling Cup win for anything as I know how much it meant to our fans and the Club to be back winning trophies.
"Whilst I am obviously disappointed to be leaving the football club, I can say that the matter has been handled by the owners and all concerned in an honourable, respectful and dignified way and reflects on the quality of the people involved and their continued desire to move the football club forward in the same way as when they arrived here.
"I would like to thank all of the staff at the Club for their effort and loyalty. I said when first approached about coming back as Manager that I would always be of help if I can at any time and that offer remains the same.
"Finally, I want to put on record my heartfelt gratitude to Liverpool's fans, who have always given me and the Club their unwavering support. Without them neither the Club nor I would have achieved anything."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9270433/Liverpool-sack-Kenny-Dalglish-statement-in-full.html

Cheers John.

Dignity and humility to the very last.

These yanks better show up in the summer and nothing other than a top 4 spending position will do. If they don't achieve that then we need to revue their position and plan for the future. Sound familiar?

Jonny5 · « **Reply #69 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:34:39 PM »

sad sad day, how dare they treat kenny like this, two cup finals and you get the sack, fucking disgrace.

12Kings · « **Reply #70 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:40:29 PM »

Kenny is a legend if it was any other manager you would have all been calling for time months ago. I respect kenny and he will always be a legend, but that was a very very bad season. The implications on the club will be massive in terms of partnerships and new revenue for 2 more seasons now.

And what's happening at corporate level with heads rolling, shows if anything, how serious these people are in trying to make this club a success again, I respect them for that, things need changing there IMO, for lots of reasons.

ramses · « **Reply #71 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:44:55 PM »

Dalglish will always be Liverpool greatest ever legend !

Kashinoda · « **Reply #72 on:** May 16, 2012, 07:56:46 PM »

I'm fucking devastated, sat here in shock and tears in my eyes.

What a fucking state our club is in, if anyone thinks this will push the club forward then you're as clueless as can be. Haven't anything more to add then anyone else already has and I understand the sentiments of many when they say 'I've had enough, I'm off', it's very much how I feel right now.

The only man who could steady this ship is Rafa, and I'm telling you now there's no way he's getting a job here.

Fuck this, today we became just another club, fact.

djschembri · « **Reply #73 on:** May 16, 2012, 08:00:09 PM »

Kenny deserved to be respected in a better manner than the club has shown him today.

YNWA Kenny.

mactifosi · « **Reply #74 on:** May 16, 2012, 08:16:09 PM »

Thanks Kenny for all your efforts, some great memories and some great football at times.
You brought us a taste of what Liverpool used to be all about.

Long live the King.

SangPutride · « **Reply #75 on:** May 16, 2012, 08:21:08 PM »

Just came home, that's my evening ruined. Just a sad, sad day. Not only for Liverpool Football Club, but also for football itself. Imho this was a very small minded act by FSG.

Farewell King Kenny, you'll always remain a legend.

SenorGarcia · « **Reply #76 on:** May 16, 2012, 08:22:01 PM »

Quote from: Kashinoda on May 16, 2012, 07:56:46 PM

I'm fucking devastated, sat here in shock and tears in my eyes.

What a fucking state our club is in, if anyone thinks this will push the club forward then you're as clueless as can be. Haven't anything more to add then anyone else already has and I understand the sentiments of many when they say 'I've had enough, I'm off', it's very much how I feel right now.

The only man who could steady this ship is Rafa, and I'm telling you now there's no way he's getting a job here.

Fuck this, today we became just another club, fact.

Pretty much sums it up for me.
Absolutely gutted.

Arguably the lowest point in our recent history.
Just left truly speechless from this whole affair we're in.
Can't honestly believe we've SACKED KENNY DALGLISH.

I remember the quote from last year "They say no man is bigger than the club, but Kenny Dalglish is as close as it gets." And it just makes me heartbroken to see this happen.

gazza1976 · « **Reply #77 on:** May 16, 2012, 08:22:57 PM »

gutted distraught something big has to happen to repair this YNWA the legend the man the fan KING KENNY

kopitenkw · « **Reply #78 on:** May 16, 2012, 08:31:39 PM »

Kenny Dalglish, world class player, world class manager, world class man!! He was my boyhood hero and i still love the guy to bits. Thank you Kenny for everything you have done for Liverpool Football Club. YNWA.

Aleeed# · « **Reply #79 on:** May 16, 2012, 08:48:07 PM »

I'm struggling to find the words, so I'll keep it simple. I fucking love Kenny Dalglish.

I'd take a trophy and two cup finals over yer top four every season, especially with that man in charge. It meant so much more.

Winning things is where its at. Gutted.