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U 2 sound like u having pillow talk u f*ckin faggits.

Johnson

Cole

Agger

Skrtel

Babel

Jovanovic

Aurellio

Insua

do i need to go on? suck out. name me 5 players who have improved at pool.... i'll wait.

Torres

Alonso

Arbeloa

Reina

Mascherano

Should i go on?

Don't be daft. You can have Arbeloa, Torres was already dutty before he went Liverpool infact he was better at Athletico than he is now just he scores more goals now. Torres was at his peak about 2 years ago. Alonso same as Torres would of been sick anywhere and he used u lot as a stepping stone. U can have masch and reina same as the other spanish boys he hasn't improved at pool coz he was dutty already.

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U 2 sound like u having pillow talk u f*ckin faggits.

Johnson

Cole

Agger

Skrtel

Babel

Jovanovic

Aurellio

Insua

do i need to go on? suck out. name me 5 players who have improved at pool.... i'll wait.

Torres

Alonso

Arbeloa

Reina

Mascherano

Should i go on?

Don't be daft. You can have Arbeloa, Torres was already dutty before he went Liverpool infact he was better at Athletico than he is now just he scores more goals now. Torres was at his peak about 2 years ago. Alonso same as Torres would of been sick anywhere and he used u lot as a stepping stone. U can have masch and reina same as the other spanish boys he hasn't improved at pool coz he was dutty already.

Lol ite then.

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Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson could be replaced by Ralf Rangnick, the former manager of Hoffenheim

Liverpool’s fans may know who they want to replace Roy Hodgson, but the club’s owners are evidently less certain.

Kenny Dalglish seems the obvious choice to return to the post he last occupied 19 years ago, given the vociferous backing from the Kop he has already received. Ralf Rangnick, the little-known former manager of German side Hoffenheim, is a little more left field.

It would be easy to characterise the 52 year-old as a continental nobody, to mock his previous engagements at the likes of Ulm and Reutlingen in his homeland and his brief playing stint at Sussex County League side Southwick FC as evidence of how inappropriate his CV is for the task of taking over English football’s most decorated club.

Yet his work at Hoffenheim qualifies him perfectly. After comparatively unsuccessful spells at Stuttgart and Schalke, Rangnick, nicknamed ‘The Professor’ by a German football establishment suspicious of his modernity, took the tiny village club — admittedly bankrolled by the billionaire Dieter Hopp — from the German third division to the cusp of Europe.

His Hoffenheim side played thrilling, rapid football — an offensive 4-3-3 with two wingers, Demba Ba and Chinedu Obasi, employed purely offensively — which took Germany by storm and by surprise; he sought out bargains, like striker Vedad Ibisevic; and he invested heavily in youth, preferring to sign players between the ages of 17 and 24. He is fluent in English, having studied in Sussex in his youth.

On Saturday, he left Hoffenheim, together with his assistant, ostensibly over the sale of defender Gustavo Luiz to Bayern Munich.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8237744/Liverpool-manager-Roy-Hodgson-could-be-replaced-by-Ralf-Rangnick-the-former-manager-of-Hoffenheim.html

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OWEN COYLE

Coyle has rapidly emerged as the brightest young British manager (mind, it's a long list that has in the past included such names as Brian Little, Peter Taylor, Bryan Robson, Peter Reid, George Burley and Phil Brown), producing stylish football that took Burnley to a surprise promotion to the Premier League, and then adding some sparkle to Bolton's traditional rugged virtues. His work at the Reebok shows a pragmatic streak: at Burnley he would switch between 4-4-2 and 4-3-3, but at Bolton, 4-4-2 has predominated as he has used the strength of the two muscular forwards, Kevin Davies and Johann Elmander. That suggests a flexibility, a willingness to take his basic beliefs and fit them to the players available rather than simply imposing a philosophy and his cogency in post-match media dealings suggests somebody with a clear, uncomplicated vision of the game.

KENNY DALGLISH

Second comings are rarely a good idea, as Kevin Keegan found on his return to Newcastle. Nor is it a good idea to return to football after a long break. The greatest managers sustain themselves by evolution, much of it almost unconscious, the accumulation of minor tweaks made on a day-to-day level eventually making a major difference. Dalglish has been involved in football to the extent of doing some scouting and acting as an ambassador for Liverpool, but without hands-on experience it's very easy to get left behind. At Liverpool, Blackburn and Newcastle, he was a classic 4-4-2 man, usually playing one wide midfielder tucked in and the other as a more orthodox winger. But that was a long time ago.

DIDIER DESCHAMPS

If it hadn't been for Jose Mourinho, Deschamps might already be regarded as one of the managerial greats. His achievement in taking Monaco to the Champions League final in 2004 was stunning, but there he lost to Mourinho's Porto. The victor went on to lead Chelsea to glory; the loser fell out with the Monaco hierarchy and spent a year unemployed. He resigned after leading Juventus to promotion from Serie B, but has restored his upward trajectory by leading Marseille to the French title and claims to have been approached by Liverpool in the summer. He prefers a 4-3-3, but is flexible and in the Champions League this season has shown an admirable willingness to take specific action to counter the opposition: away to Spartak, for instance, he shifted to a 4-2-3-1 so Mathieu Valbuena could occupy the deep-lying playmaker Ibson, and was rewarded with a 3-0 win.

JURGEN KLOPP

The 43 year old's antics on the touchline might suggest he is primarily a motivational coach, but his work at Mainz, whom he established in the Bundesliga playing "concept football" -- that is, football based on high-tempo collective movement relentlessly practiced on the training-field -- suggests a thinker, and nobody who saw his work as a television pundit between 2005 and 2008 could doubt his tactical expertise. He insists his players perform exercises designed to improve coordination and awareness, but essentially his beliefs are typical of the new breed of German coach: rooted in four at the back, high pace and pressing. Leading Dortmund to the top of the Bundesliga shows his ability to work at a major club, but the doubt must be whether principles that seem revolutionary in Germany would be so in England.

RALF RANGNICK

In Germany, Rangnick was a tactical rebel. He saw the future in 1984 playing in a friendly for the amateur side Victoria Backnang against Valeriy Lobanovskyi's Dynamo Kyiv, and became convinced that the principles of the Colonel could have a devastating impact on the staid German game. "I was convinced they had one more player on the pitch," he said to reporters. "This was a whole new way of football." He obsessively watched tapes of Arrigo Sacchi's AC Milan, and spent a family holiday studying Zdenek Zeman at Foggia. Appointed coach of tiny Ulm, he imposed a flat back four, zonal marking and a hard-pressing game and took them into the Bundesliga, a remarkable feat. His record at Stuttgart, Hannover and Schalke 04 was mixed (although he would finish second in the Bundesliga with Schalke in 2004-05), but Rangnick was then the leader of Hoffenheim's remarkable rise. The 52 year old deserves another chance at a major club, and his principles are not dissimilar to those of Benitez, but there are two major doubts: firstly, English opposition is far more familiar with pressing than German sides; and secondly, his success has been in inspiring small sides with no history of success, not in reinspiring a fallen giant.

FRANK RIJKAARD

At Barcelona, Rijkaard played a classic Dutch-style 4-3-3, following the template laid down in the early seventies, but it took him time to turn the club around, and he was almost sacked after a defeat to Real Madrid in December 2003, five months after being appointed. When he finally left in 2008 he had won two league titles and a Champions League. That success, though, has not been replicated elsewhere: his Dutch national team suffered a collective loss of nerve against Italy in the Euro 2000 semifinal; he was relegated as Sparta Rotterdam manager and he left Galatasaray, where he tried to switch to 4-2-3-1, after four defeats in the first eight games of the Turkish league season and an early exit from the Europa League. It may be that his easygoing attacking philosophy is a fit at Barcelona and few other places.

STAALE SOLBAKKEN

Solbakken is perhaps the hardest of the candidates to assess. He has worked wonders with FC Copenhagen, where he was appointed in 2005 a year after being named Norwegian Coach of the Year for leading Hamarkameratene to promotion. In five seasons in Denmark he has lifted four league titles, and taken FCK into the last 16 of the Champions League. His record is impressive, even if there are doubts about how he would cope outside of Scandinavia. There is little complex about his tactical approach: in only three of 258 Danish league matches has he attempted anything other than 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1.

ANDRE VILLAS-BOAS

As a young coach enjoying success with Porto, the comparison between the 33-year-old Villas Boas and Mourinho is inevitable. Both wrote scouting reports for Bobby Robson and Villas Boas worked with Mourinho for seven years, at Porto and then at Chelsea and Internazionale. He left in October 2009 and reinvigorated an Academica side that looked doomed, before getting his big chance with Porto last summer. Like Mourinho, he prefers a 4-3-3, but his approach -- so far at least - has been far more attacking than his mentor's. He is stylish and ambitious and his record so far is remarkable, both with a minnow and a giant, but a lack of experience may count against him, particularly as the Portuguese league is very different, both in style and depth of quality, to the Premier League.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/jonathan_wilson/01/04/prospective.liverpoolcoaches/index.html#ixzz1A5atqIyU

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