Liverpool's Season of High Drama Continues

The run-up to any major competition can be tiresome.

Players, staff and fans alike patiently wait for the arrival of the World Cup, but are forced to make do with players in suits standing on the steps of planes in the mean time, whilst all things domestic are seemingly put on hold.

Thank goodness for Liverpool then, as even when you think they’ve enjoyed enough drama for one season they decide to squeeze in a little bit more and push Rafa Benitez out the door with six million quid in his pocket.

It was no secret that the Spaniard was under pressure at Anfield and was possibly eyeing a move out of there, but the fact he was essentially removed with the aid of a big bag of swag is a surprise, especially when the club is already £351.4million in the hole according to the BBC.

It remains to be seen whether or not it will prove to be a shrewd move on behalf of the Liverpool owners to give Rafa the chop, but at present it’s difficult to see past the latest i o u that adds to the ever increasing debt at Anfield.

In the wake of recent criticism from former owner, David Moores, both of the Chuckle brother owners have kept quiet about their contribution to Liverpool’s increasingly dire situation.

This silence has done nothing for their reputation in my eyes, as because of the mess they have so rapidly found themselves in, I’m left with an image of them vainly attempting to manoeuvre a table out of a door to the sound of “to me” “to you” whilst the building around them burns.

Thankfully Kenny Dalglish has decided to take time out from filming adverts and obscuring Turnip Taylor and El Tel’s view of the TV, to find a new manager.

Tabloid speculation has it that Kenny himself is line for the job, along with Villa’s Martin O’Neill and Fulham’s Roy Hodgson.

Kenny would understandably be embraced wholeheartedly by the Kop, as he was the last manager to bring the league title to Anfield, plus I heard he could play a bit back in the day and Hodgson and O’Neill would surely shine given the opportunity at a big English club.

However, considering the sticky situation that Liverpool are in, why would any top class manager want to go there?

If this opportunity arose as recently as a few seasons ago, before the reign of the Chuckles, I probably wouldn’t even be writing this article, as the position would have been hungrily filled.

Liverpool are a club with an enormous reputation, a bulging trophy room and supporters that are the envy of every club in the Premier League and they’ve have had a huge influence on the shape of English football over the past 30/40/50 years, but times change.

No longer are Liverpool seen as the pinnacle of many mangers career and that’s largely down to the Chuckle brothers.

Any potential candidates will have to look long and hard at their current position and decide if the stability they have in their current job is more favourable than the increasingly unstable situation at Anfield.

Fans still expect success at Liverpool, despite their dire financial situation and whichever brave man does decide to take the job will have a mountain to climb that has been placed there by the clubs owners.

Posted By Dan Mobbs - Friday June 4, 2010.
Tags: Liverpool, Aston Villa