There's another thread about The Liverpool Way on here, and for me one of the things that certainly is not the Liverpool Way is kicking a previous manager when he's down to make yourself look good. Both Houllier and Hodgson were guilty of doing that. When Rafa took over Ged he made no mention of some of the dross he'd been left in fact saying he was happy with the squad. He just quietly went about building the team, while trying to offload Diouf, Diao, Medjani and Cheyrou. He spoke about his scouts at Valencia saying if he'd bought Cisse then he'd have won La Liga back to back. Hodgson used a squad consisting of Reina, Cavalieri, Agger, Skrtel, Carragher, Krygiakos Johnson, Insua, Lucas, Gerrard, Mascherano, Aquilani, Babel, Maxi, Ngog, Kuyt and Torres as a stick to beat Rafa with, firstly in a how do you finish 7th with Torres and Gerrard (same stick Ged used to beat Rafa with) then in complete contradiction claiming when things were going bad that "no other manager could expect to do any better with this squad". Yet when Kenny came in he claimed it was the best squad he'd inherited since he last took over Liverpool. That's a squad consisting of Jones, Wilson, Konchesky, Poulsen and Cole.
There's the difference between the four managers (2 have class, 2 lack it).
