30 year wait

comment by The Mane Man - PL CHAMPIONS (U19731)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Houiller was the first manager we had to change things up like the nutrition, way of training and banning drinking.

He made some mistakes in buying the wrong players which costed him at the end.
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I thought they said in the documentary the first person to try change the lifestyle was Souness?

The players hated it and then the drinking/jolly boys outings recommenced once Evans became manager.

Then Houllier got rid of it altogether. Feel a bit sorry for Souness and Houllier in that regard. Somebody had to do it as football was changing.

I remember me complaining about the style of play at the time on the old BBC 606. It was dreadful football to be honest but we got some good results and trophies.

It was 11 players playing deep and hitting the long ball to Owen to run in space.

Houllier doesn't appear on too many Liverpool flags but I do think the club owes him a great deal.

He was the one that restored us to winning ways and had 2 great campaigns in 01 and 02.

I was delighted to hear that he was at the final in 05 and in the dressing room with some of the players.

I think in hisast season we went on a run of 11 games without a win or something. We were too defensive and played on the counter attack.

Like we seen recently with maureen at United, that gets you only so far, but once teams sus you out, the results turn and combined with turgid football it was only going to end in one way.

I've quite a lot of time for the work Houllier did with us. If you look at the players he brought into the club it was an impressive group: Hyypia, Henchoz, Hamann, Babbel, Riise. All very good but all very defensive.

If you look to the other end of the pitch then the signings and their success was much more patchy - Heskey, Cisse, Barmby, Baros, Litmanen, Kewell, Diouf.

If you take into consideration he also helped bring Carragher through, I think it's fair to say that Houllier shaped our defence for close to a decade and I'm not sure he quite gets the credit due. But once the foundation was there, he never found a way build on that platform and develop a more varied attack, he just defaulted to utilising the most potent weapon we had at that point - Owen. It ultimately cost us and him.

The Diouf signing over Anelka is the one that baffles the most. Who knows how that would've impacted the clubs fortunes.

comment by Metro.⚽️ (U6770)
posted 2 hours, 43 minutes ago
The Diouf signing over Anelka is the one that baffles the most. Who knows how that would've impacted the clubs fortunes.
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Yep - I remember being shocked at the time about us not taking Anelka on. It since transpired that Houllier didn't like his personality. If only he had loaned Diouf for six months instead and had a look at his, he'd have thought Anelka a saint.

comment by Metro.⚽️ (U6770)
posted 5 hours, 7 minutes ago
The Diouf signing over Anelka is the one that baffles the most. Who knows how that would've impacted the clubs fortunes.
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The Anelka documentary on Netflix suggests that his brothers were pimping him around other clubs because he wasn’t signed up and Hollier didn’t like that so got rid.

The fans know how much we should appreciate Houllier

When he came back to Anfield with Villa, we gave him a great reception “Gerards heart beat” was on the banner.

He was loving it - got roasted by the villa press/fans for it but there’s no doubt Ged is a red.

rafa won the Big one and had a god at Everton and utd and people loved him for it but if I were to compare the two men looking back.

rafa was a better tactician but he was really a straight jacket.

I bet gerrard would love to be 25 now playing for klopp not either of these two.

it be as hard if not harder tactically but its a whole other level of game