Hansen - Kenny will be distraught

I agree with everything here, especially the part about the new manager needing to get CL football and comparing us to Chelsea....

"Kenny will be shocked and distraught because he loved Liverpool Football Club and their supporters. Just walking through the door at Anfield gave him an extra spring in his step and he will feel fragile today about not being able to do that again as manager.

"And as his friend I know how much he put into the job. Even when he went back to work at the academy before becoming the manager again he put his heart and soul into it. I'd ring him for a chat on a Sunday and he would be down there. He just loved being at Liverpool.

"He was so enthusiastic about working with those kids and what he could pass on to them and how he could improve them and nobody could have worked harder when he was manager because he loved Liverpool so much."

"The American owners have set the bar high by sacking him because they are saying only the Champions League matters. This is increasingly true but you have to remember where Liverpool were when he came back. If you went into Anfield in January 2011 it was the worst it had been in 30 years - the club was on its knees, so you were not going to get straight back into the Champions League."

"No-one would suggest all of Kenny's signings have been rip roaring successes, but I still think Jordan Henderson will develop into a very fine player and Roy Hodgson saw fit to include Andy Carroll and Stewart Downing in his Euro 2012 squad.

"I believe Kenny should still have been the manager at the start of next season and I also think that Liverpool supporters were pretty optimistic that things would improve under him next season."

"The next manager will be the fourth in two years for Liverpool. You are getting into the realms of Chelsea with all the chopping and changing so it is a very big decision for them and they need to do it quickly."