Long Live The King !

Today, officially, King Kenny was confirmed as Liverpool FC team manager on a three year contract. This is clearly no great surprise to anyone given the turnaround in the club’s fortunes since the king and his trusty Lieutenant Steve Clarke took over on a caretaker basis. LFC has gone from around a 32% win ratio under Hodgson to nearly 68%. This is phenomenal. It would be a fool who disregarded the impact of selling Torres & Babel and purchasing Suarez and Carroll, but there is no doubt that since Daglish took over, the players appear free from their shackles and are playing without fear. Previously, the team looked to Torres and Gerrard to save games and carry the team, now the team now has many options from different areas of the pitch. I can harp on about the goals from midfield that have been prevalent, the quantity of players now hitting the box, the form of the youth players getting their chances, but to some extent, I want to keep my feet on the ground.


It’s far easier to go from the bottom half of the table to European places than it is from European qualification places to the top. Given the depression surrounding Anfield under the previous manager, it was always going to go one way under the King. Naturally, the extent in the turnaround is astonishing and at least we know that next season we will be at least competing for champions league qualification again, and hopefully beyond. To get to where we want to be again, is going to take a much bigger and harder jump. I’m not going to shout out bold statements but I think we all know we are heading the right direction. The way Daglish has handled the press conferences, and the pre and post match interviews illustrates a calm, relaxed and astute manager who knows how to handle pressure. Handling pressure will be the key that he will need to impart onto the team next season. But if there is one man who can transmit that to Liverpool players, then it’s clearly King Kenny.

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