Ayre staying with Reds
Managing director pays tribute to departed boss

Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre has paid tribute to Kenny Dalglish whilst rubbishing claims that he had also left the club.

The Merseyside giants confirmed the departure of Dalglish on Wednesday, sacking the Anfield legend after their worst league campaign in over half a century.

Ayre, speaking to Sky Sports News, confirmed that Dalglish was still held in the highest regard by the club.

"Obviously it was a difficult decision, he is a great legend of this football club who has brought a lot, even in this last 18 months," said Ayre.

"But we feel it is the right decision and something we have to move forward with, but lots of praise and admiration for the great man.

"We have a big long-term plan for this club, and we have always talked about moving forward and progress on and off the pitch, we have created a lot of foundation to build the business on and increase revenue and other things.

"But next, the most important thing is football and results were perhaps not where we wanted them to be and that drives the decision."

Quizzed about whether Dalglish could again move to a role 'upstairs' at Anfield, he refused to be drawn.

Moving forward

"Today is about moving forward and the future is for discussion in the future," he said.

He was also quick to deny rumours suggesting that he was also on his way out of Anfield

"Absolutely not, no question of that from my point of view, and no induction of that from anyone upstairs," he said.

"The football club is now in a much healthier shape than it was last January off the pitch.

"The owners have removed the debt and everything is now being put in place to compete commercially and financially with our main rivals.

"The only missing piece of the jigsaw - the most important piece of the jigsaw - is football and success in the Premier League.

"The club has a clear long-term strategy in place to get to where we want to be - on and off the pitch - and that is why changes have been made on both the football and business sides of the club.

"Whilst Kenny is disappointed to have left, he's a man of great dignity and the respect we have for him will never change."

barcelona are looking to sign suarez

hopefully they can bring a manager in within 48hours so that we could compete in the transfer market

thats what im talking about earlier, they should have someone in mind before they decided to sack kenny, but it seems that they go no one in mind..so its gonna be a rush..

i guess AVB are the favourites here, what do u guys think about AVB? is he the right choice? he have plenty of talents in chelsea but he cannot deliver so i really not sure whether he can deliver in liverpool

i definitely preffer AVB over martinez, but 1 thing for sure is FSG need to fork out alot of money for transfer in order for AVB to bring the player he wanted, or else by end of next season we might be looking for a new manager again

But seriously what happen if woy win euro 2012 lol??

I read regardless of what ayre say SC has left the club n they say it's from a very reliable source

die liao la..this has been confirm

if the have start to approach him so its up to martinez whether he wanna accept or not, but chances of him being named as liverpool manager will be woy the 2nd

i guess we just have to offload players then

but u cant deny martinez is fav to land the job since there's no news regarding the rest

btw liverpool signed Conor Quigley on scholarship terms

This post has been edited by Burningsunz: May 18 2012, 02:29 AM

kenny aint just a legend..kenny is liverpool

but to be honest even though i dun really like KD when he is our manager but i do believe that if they brings in better coaches we could do wonders

yea..30mil can only get u average player unless u wanna splash 30mil on a player

sos??

seriously who are they ?

cant seems to find any news about that

jen chang from a journalist to DOC? wow lol..but in the link he is sitting beside benitez..must be during one of his interview..or mayb benitez like him so he might be getting the job and requested FSG to sign jen chang? i think i think too much lol

i think he is american if im not wrong..


Former Liverpool star Gary McAllister has told talkSPORT that he doubts if Roberto Martinez would be able to attract the players the club need to get back into the top four.

The Spaniard has managed Wigan for the last three seasons and despite battling at the lower end of the Premier League he has guided the club to safety in each of them.
Their recent form has been excellent and before the end of the 2011/12 campaign the Latics beat Man United, Arsenal, Newcastle and the Reds, adding to his rising stock.
And now Liverpool have been given permission to speak to the talented 38-year-old as they look to replace outgoing Kenny Dalglish.
McAllister, though, feels he may not have the ability to bring in the type of player the club needs to get themselves back into the Champions League.
“Roberto Martinez is up and coming, there is no doubt about that,” he told Kick Off. “The major thing that Martinez has got in his favour is the style of play, he’s very forward thinking, he’s quite inventive and I think that’s a plus.
“There is also the problem of whether he can attract the type of player that Liverpool need to get into the Champions League.
“I think it’s more in today’s game. I think in the past Liverpool was Liverpool but now I think that top players are attracted by top managers, managers that have been and done the distance.
“I’m a fan of Martinez, don’t get me wrong, but he’s battling away at the wrong end of the league for his entire Premier League career.”

i think gary has his point..and i kinda agree with him

This post has been edited by Burningsunz: May 18 2012, 04:26 AM