Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 11/12 (End of March 2012 onwards)

G.K. · 17-05-2012 08:13PM

I've chatted to Chang before, great guy.

And if Txiki is in too, that's another great move.

opr · 17-05-2012 08:14PM

FSG I take it all back you ****ing legends!

Opr

Jesus Wept · 17-05-2012 08:14PM

What do people know of Txiki Begiristain? What did he do as DOF at Barca?

mike65 · 17-05-2012 08:14PM

Imagine if we lived in a dial up internet.....

missingtime · 17-05-2012 08:14PM

I wonder are they trying to get Martinez to work as something like an assistant manager alongside, for arguments sake, rafa or even avb.

Avb is actually 4 years younger than martinez....hmmm

mayordenis · 17-05-2012 08:15PM

opr wrote: »

FSG I take it all back you ****ing legends!

Opr

Opr I would love to see a graph of your emotions, you are all over the place.

Jesus Wept · 17-05-2012 08:15PM

mike65 wrote: »

Imagine if we lived in a dial up internet.....

I thought you do?

CL7 · 17-05-2012 08:15PM

whatawaster wrote: »

If Txiki is our new DOF and he wants Martinez or Rogers who whoever, then we should listen to him.

Yeah I'm ok with that. As long as some that knows what they're doing is calling the shots I'm happy.

Dr Galen · 17-05-2012 08:16PM

Andy Carroll wrote: »

What do people know of Txiki Begiristain? What did he do as DOF at Barca?

Pretty much everything. Had help of course but huge part of today's success

Jesus Wept · 17-05-2012 08:16PM

I can't see Martinez wanting to be an assistant manager at this stage in his career, doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's not as if we are the top team in the league with an already successful manager ready to hand over the reins soon.

opr wrote: »

FSG I take it all back you ****ing legends!

Opr

This is good then? What will this Taxi dude be doing?

tibor · 17-05-2012 08:17PM

Paul Tomkins now saying that the policy of buying Premiership proven talent last summer was down to Comolli and Kenny only got to choose off his shortlist.

Spread over a few tweets.
http://twitter.com/#!/paul_tomkins

djPSB · 17-05-2012 08:17PM

So how many Stewart Downing's can we buy with Kenny's compensation??

opr · 17-05-2012 08:17PM

mayordenis wrote: »

Opr I would love to see a graph of your emotions, you are all over the place.

If FSG have gotten Txiki on board then I am completely safe in the knowledge we're in great hands.

Opr

Tusky · 17-05-2012 08:17PM

flanzer wrote: »

Happy days. The revolution begins. Good news and shows we're aiming high

w00t! Great news. Never doubted FSG!

Jesus Wept · 17-05-2012 08:18PM

Well my prediction that things would move very quickly is proving accurate.

whatawaster · 17-05-2012 08:18PM

Andy Carroll wrote: »

This is good then? What will this Taxi dude be doing?

Buying players. Sacking managers. Overseeing things. This and that.

kingshankly · 17-05-2012 08:20PM

djPSB wrote: »

Liam Tomkins ‏@liam_tomkins
Kenny Dalglish is supposed to have refused compensation after being sacked, telling FSG to put the money towards transfers.

Strange this he took Celtic to court over compensation
And I believe kenny is a tight git

mayordenis · 17-05-2012 08:20PM

Andy Carroll wrote: »

Well my prediction that things would move very quickly is proving accurate.

You soothsayer, you.

Thrill · 17-05-2012 08:20PM

Joseph Musker ‏@Musker_LFC
Former Barcelona Technical Director Txiki Begiristain has been named as the new Director of Football at Liverpool. #LFC

Who's this Musker guy?

I'm not seeing this being reported by a single journo yet.

barone · 17-05-2012 08:20PM

is it for defo the dof ? confirmed anywhere?

Blatter · 17-05-2012 08:20PM

missingtime wrote: »

I wonder are they trying to get Martinez to work as something like an assistant manager alongside, for arguments sake, rafa or even avb.

Avb is actually 4 years younger than martinez....hmmm

No, the Wigan job is bigger than the Liverpool assistant manager job. If Martinez goes to Liverpool it'll be as the manager.

I doubt Rafa would work with a DOF and I reckon Begiristain would chose Martinez ahead of the likes of Lambert and Rodgers because of his nationality and style. He'd probably fancy working with a fellow Spaniard and I'm sure he's been consulted as to who he'd like to see as manager, and Martinez has been approached.

opr · 17-05-2012 08:21PM

Andy Carroll wrote: »

This is good then? What will this Taxi dude be doing?

The man knows his football. He was instrumental in the reshaping of Barcelona. He features in a really great BBC documentary which follows them in that first year he was appointed. It's on youtube I think.

I posted these earlier which will give you some idea the extent to which he was involved with decision making at Barca. Proper football man who knows the game.

If this news is true then it's stellar work from FSG!

Opr

DDC1990 · 17-05-2012 08:21PM

Fúck me.

Its been a weird few days!

Hope they drive forward and get a good manger to complament Txiki(sp?)

I must say I had very little knowledge of him up to now, but i've read great things about him today, which is good.

The more and more that comes out about Kenny, the more a Ledgend he seems.
He appears to have dealt with the sacking quite gracefully, and still loves the club it seems.

Still disappointed he's gone, but hopeful that we get a fitting replacement.

donfers · 17-05-2012 08:21PM

Andy Carroll wrote: »

What do people know of Txiki Begiristain? What did he do as DOF at Barca?

paid a shedload plus Etoo for Ibrahamovich when Etoo was already the better player

paid a shedload for a ukranian centre half that hardly played a game

he'll fit right in:D

(he did some good stuff too)

missingtime · 17-05-2012 08:22PM

Andy Carroll wrote: »

I can't see Martinez wanting to be an assistant manager at this stage in his career, doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's not as if we are the top team in the league with an already successful manager ready to hand over the reins soon.

What I'm thinking is they are trying to build a kind of Barcelona system or even Porto. Or even old Liverpool for that matter.

A system of successive managers.

mike65 · 17-05-2012 08:22PM

First 30 million quid signing cock up and it'll be Taxi for Txiki headlines.

Strongbow10 · 17-05-2012 08:23PM

txiki begiristain- DOF

Rodolfo Borrell- Manager/Coach

whatawaster · 17-05-2012 08:23PM

opr wrote: »

The man knows his football. He was instrumental in the reshaping of Barcelona. He features in a really great BBC documentary which follows them in that first year he was appointed. It's on youtube I think.

Opr

Let's all settle down and watch this for the next hour

djPSB · 17-05-2012 08:23PM

Wouldn't be totally off the wall for Guardiola to be interested now.

opr · 17-05-2012 08:24PM

duncan jenkins ‏@duncanjenkinsFC
okay my source has not got back to me. the person i was told is the new D.O.F of #lfc is txixi berigistain. only other possibility is L.V.G

Opr

Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 11/12 (End of March 2012 onwards)

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