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Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
So are people solely blaming kenny for Liverpool's failures and letting comolli off the hook cos he signed a few decent players at spurs?
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
the players that HE brought in weren't performing. There seems to be a culture in football where it's always the managers fault and everyone else gets off scot free
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
I won't argue he made some good signings, but the facts remain that he and Ramos left a huge mess at the club which redknapp had to clean up.
tynesidespur
Terry Yorath
Where is Harry Perkins? Chief Comolli defender!!
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
What was comolli doing at the club then?
monkeybarry
Jack Jull
correct me if im wrong - but i think he is a good long term planner and getting mid range players that have to potential to step up
Kaboul, Benny and Bale ll took three years to really get going - and if they came into the club now, would need two years of Prem loans to be "ready"
Berba and Modric were being looked at by lots of clubs, but no one was willing to take the plunge.
Well, some of his players performed very well under Arry so it wouldn't be completely wrong to assume - it was indeed down to the manager
Shifting gears
The Moonlit Knight
Banned
Berba and Bale were tracked by the club pre-Comolli. Kaballsup and Clotto are hardly shining examples of good jobs....
Fair play on Modders though!
Shame he failed to identify the need of a defensive midfielder in his entire time at the club....
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indianspur
Guest
Comolli was sacked by Levy because it was Comolli who insisted on hiring Ramos, and because once Levy decided to sack Ramos and put the call out to Redknapp to see if he's be interested, Redknapp said he wanted to work alone, not with Comolli, not with any DoF
signings wise whilst at Spurs, Comolli contributed to some big hits, and some big misses......much like most managers without DoFs. Redknapp himself has been very much hit and miss, but at least he takes the praise of the flak on any signing. There is no-one else to blame
signings wise whilst at Spurs, Comolli contributed to some big hits, and some big misses......much like most managers without DoFs. Redknapp himself has been very much hit and miss, but at least he takes the praise of the flak on any signing. There is no-one else to blame
Lost Mango
Allan Nielsen
Dalglish said: ""Everyone who has come into the club since Damien has been here was of my choice. Once I made the choice who I wanted, Damien went away and did a fantastic job of bringing them in"
At least KKK has the decency to claim the big signings that have failed to fire as his buys.
Not really Comolli's fault if Daglish asked for Henderson, Downing & Carroll.
At least KKK has the decency to claim the big signings that have failed to fire as his buys.
Not really Comolli's fault if Daglish asked for Henderson, Downing & Carroll.
He concluded the Berba and Bale deals though - some credit
As to the nicknames - don't quit you day-job :mrgreen:
Rossi22
Pedro Mendes
Infraction worthy [-X
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indianspur
Guest
The Comolli Carling Cup Curse, Part 2
WookieD
Didier Zokora
And to be fair to Comolli, they never exactly seemed like his targets. KKK is a power freak, I can't imagine Comolli would be able to bring anyone in that Kenny didn't want.
It makes me chuckle a bit actually. When Kenny was first being mooted for position, any Liverpool leaning journo or newscaster you cared to listen to was bleating on about Kenny not being past it, a great man manager and MOST IMPORTANTLY... How Kenny Dalgleish had his finger on the pulse of ALL European football and could tell you all about the pros and cons of the majority of youth coming up through most European clubs...
...So he ends up with Carroll for ?ú35m and Downing and Henderson for ?ú20m a pop, cracking scouting that!
Arnesen as DoF:
04/05 9th
Comolli as DOF:
05/06 5th
06/07 5th
07/08 11th
Redknapp:
08/09 8th
09/10 4th
10/11 5th
The only thing that clearly had an effect was the appointment of Ramos, though at the time many were of the opinion that Jol weren't able to take us any further.
It's my opinion that the work put in by Arnesen and Comolli on the youth setup and our transfer strategy is the reason we're doing as well as we are. We spent several seasons acquiring players both for right now and the future. A lot of players have moved on for various reasons (not good enough, tapped up by United etc.). We have kept that strategy somewhat with Levy in charge of transfers, but not spent as much because we spent a lot in past seasons to get ourselves to where we are.
monkeybarry
Jack Jull
you can hardly call them poor signing - both have gone on to be regulars in a team competing for the CL places and are now established internationals
they are not exactly michael ricketts