26 Feb 2018 14:56:20
Bit of fun
who is your favourite liverpool Boss of all time and your fave manager of all time who never managed liverpool?
I will say Rafa and Ottmar Hitzfeld
rafa for obvious reasons and Hitzfeld because in my eyes this man was just pure class, from the players he bought to the way his teams played to the way he conducted himself just a legend for me
Honorable mentions to King Kenny and Roy evans as well.

1.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 15:10:06
Bob Paisley, Rafa Benitez and Klopp.

{Ed001's Note - Paisley and Cruyff.}

2.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 15:16:25
I'm 24 so only saw his 2nd spell, but it still has to be Dalglish. Every time we scored i loved seeing him smile. Even as a relative youngling, i can't help but admire him as a man for what he has done for Liverpool FC.

Never to manage Liverpool? I would probably Carlo Ancelotti. I think he's a great manager and a lovely bloke. I think he'd have been a great manager for us.

{Ed001's Note - god no, he would have been awful. For starters he is a head coach, not a manager. He has been handed some of the greatest teams of all time and then just left them to their own devices. They won despite him rather than because of him when they won trophies. Bayern players were having to go to the local park for their own training sessions as a team because he did so little work with them! Has to be the world's most overrated head coach of all time.}

3.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 15:19:19
Has to be Sir Bob Paisley and Bobby Robson.

{Ed001's Note - Robson is a great shout! Wonderful man and excellent manager. I was thinking Heynckes has to be in with a shout too, made Bayern the best team in Europe, only for Pep to come in and make them worse. Then steps back in after Ancelotti left a mess and turns them back into a machine crushing the rest of the Bundesliga.}

4.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 15:30:18
Sorry I misread the post, I thought I read just Liverpool managers so I'd have to agree with Ed1 on that, Paisley and Cruyff.

5.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 16:07:28
Paisley is the easy nailed on choice there.

I like Guardiola I have to say but he does get it easy with the team choices he has had.

Other noted Capello, Happel, Trappatoni, Stein.

6.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 16:16:05
Had no idea about that last Bayern bit 😲 can i reassess and vote again? 😂

Avram Grant or Tony Pulis?

7.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 16:47:46
I always wondered how well Joachim Loew would have done in the Prem. It seemed that Guardiola took his team and disassembled it at Bayern.

8.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 16:47:57
Rafa Benitez as the favorite Liverpool boss.

I'm more of a Bayern Munich fan than a Liverpool fan really. First team I saw and fell in love with.
I think Henyckes built the best Bayern team I ever saw, but the Bayern team that won the champions league in 2001 is my favorite ever.
Difficult to choose between Ottmar Hitzfeld and Juup Henyckes, but I think I'll go with Henyckes.

9.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 17:27:14
Paisley was the greatest. Best never to manage us? At his peak, Brian Clough. Maybe Lippi.

{Ed025's Note - no mention of allardyce there?.. :)

10.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 17:51:39
Paisley without a doubt, now im going to get roundly booed but alex ferguson reminds me of paisley, ruthless and would have made us winners. 😆.

11.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 17:53:18
Paisley and Jock Stein for me . Stein took Dunfermline to a European semi final then Celtic to 2 EC finals winning one and Scotland to 2 World cups . Unfashionable but his teams played with style despite limited resources.

12.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 18:01:05
No manager has influenced the modern game of football more than Johann Cruyff. Barcelona today (and Ajax Amsterdam in the past) are clear testament to this. If he had managed us, I'm confident we'd still be sitting on our "perch" despite all the whiskey noses and others, around.

13.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 19:38:08
JESUS! No one mentions Bill shankly! If not for him we would be playing Rochdale in the F. A. Vase. He is without a doubt my favourite manager.

Houllier has not been mentioned either. He built a brilliant team with not much cash. Players like westervefld, henchoz and camara. Not amazing individuals but were brilliant in Houllier reds. Also won the treble.

"WHO LET THE REDS OUT? HOU HOULLIER"

{Ed025's Note - im afraid paisley towers well above all of them SS, shanks second but houllier well down the list mate..

14.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 19:59:37
SS- I take it your trolling? For a start the FA Vase is a non-league trophy and Rochdale are in league 1.
Houllier also had plenty of cash, Westerveld was the most expensive keeper in British history when he signed, and he was average at best and quickly replaced. Camara was definitely an individual, just not a very good one for the most part.
I do agree with Henchoz, he formed a great partnership with big Sammy.

15.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 20:44:20
No I'm not trolling cobra. I'm not saying Houllier was the best but I'm saying he should have a shout. I didn't read the original post right, so I mentioned two managers that were lfc men.

I was just trying to make a point about lfc and how bill shankly changed us from an ordinary 2nd division team into European champions. If Bill hadn't done that there would be no paisley or benitez. I no nothing of Rochdale I admit and I thought the vase was for lower leagues not non league. Are you sure you're right about that? And are you sure about westerveld being the most expensive keeper in England at the time too? Not trying to argue dude. I thought he was bought for peanuts. My point was Houllier bought a whole squad for less than City paid for Kyle walker.

Also, I thought westerveld was OK. Other signings included Murphy, cisse, heggem. He also introduced stevie Gerrard.

I know paisley was more successful but shankly changed our club dramatically. I thought it was strange that no one mentioned him.

My other manager would be Alex ferguson. Don't get me wrong, thinking with my head and not my heart.

16.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 20:59:26
Shankly and Arrigo Sacchi.

Shankly transformed the club but I also loved his ethos of “we’re all in it together”.
Sacchi was a master tactician 👍.

17.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 21:19:47
Supersalah Westerveld was pretty bad, really good with the ball at his feet but blimey he could make a mistake. Was at the Chelsea game when he punched the ball backwards into the net!

18.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 21:31:31
Jack charlton for Ireland 😜 Took one of the most talented squads ever assembled and forbade them from playing football. Despite this they fluked to the quarter finals of the World Cup. Could have won it. I put down our performance to the Liverpool lads and the reason our club has such a strong fan base over here. On a serious note, shankley is the greatest, paisley just behind he inherited a wonderful squad but made it his own. My fav Liverpool manager was the king in his first rule. Great times.

19.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 21:42:47
SS-The FA Vase is non league and Westerveld was the highest priced keeper in England when we bought him.
The time Houllier was manager a 7/ 8m player was the equivalent to a 50m player so that comparison is flawed really.
I didn’t mind Houiller but I always thought he was lacking in the transfer market and the players you’re listing back that up, he was more a quantity over quality I thought although he found some gems for relatively cheap but had a couple of big money shockers with Cisse and Diouf.
Garry Mac, Hyppia, Henchoz, Finnan, Riise, Hamman, Babbel where all good signings but he bought a lot of dross too. After the 2002 World Cup we signed Cheyrou, Diouf and Diao, this was after coming second in the league and not being a million miles behind Arsenal the season before, had Houllier bought in the right men that summer we could have won the league that year I think.

20.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 21:42:49
Was going to say Sacchi too Ron.

So I'm going to go with a very very unpopular choice in Alex Ferguson - simply for the number of times he changed around a whole squad yet stayed successful.

I know he had his many, many faults, trust me, I'm very much aware, but his success is pretty much unmatched in the modern game and to not acknowledge it would be just plain jealousy and rather silly in my eyes, as hard as it is for me to do (I'm entitled to my opinion) .

His teams were rarely boring either while winning so many trophies and he always backed his own players publicly unlike certain managers of today, not naming names. MOURINHO. oh excuse me, must be my allergies.

Kenny is my favourite manager for us, he is everything good about the game in my eyes, an absolute living legend of the club.
A lot of the younger fans don't know what he did around the time of the tragedy in Sheffield, read up on it.

When he's no longer with us, some of the things he did and said will go down as pure legendary stuff in our history - I think he was on his way to building a decent squad on his second coming in all honesty too - they just had no luck that season (we hit the post more times than I can ever remember in any one season, something like 20 plus times), but could understand the decision to change to a younger man - in some ways I see Klopp as the more modern version of Kenny, great characters and fine managers who represent the club well 99% of the time - we're lucky to have had both I feel.

21.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 21:43:01
Shankly, paisley outside of Liverpool Ferguson. Eds1 brilliant assessment of Ancelotti
If really gets my goat when I hear people talk him up. Eds 25 sorry fat Sam just missed out, btw do you think Everton will stick with him now that Pardew may become available.

{Ed025's Note - we will probably make them joint managers ace..

22.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 21:51:50
Stoneage- Low never managed Bayern.

23.) 26 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 22:10:59
Well well you're right. Thanks for that.
Wonder how I got that idea?!

24.) 27 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 22:38:21
Great thread.
Shankly and Rinus Michels for me.

25.) 27 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 23:10:22
Fair play cobra. Westerveld has a decent record because he had Hypia and henchoz on front of him. We struggled for a decent keeper after grobbolar, James was an Improvement on Westerveld but too much calamity. Reina is the best keeper we have had in the modern era. We would have won the league if we had kept our champions league winning team. Those dodgy owners f'ed us up.

Sorry if I sounded argumentative dude. Interesting about Westerveld being do expensive. How much was he?

26.) 27 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 23:17:00
Westerveld bought in for 4 mil.

Other players signed by Houllier include.

Smicer, 3.7mil
Heskey
Barnby
Biscan
Litmanen (class player)
Baros
Dudek (leg end! ) wobbly leg end
Anelka
Finnan
Kewell.

27.) 27 Feb 2018
26 Feb 2018 23:17:44
Sir Kenny Dalglish and I don’t care I’m giving him the knighthood it’s a disgrace he doesn’t have one already and probably gona get stick for this but before he joined united I had so much respect for Mourinho and I wanted him to join us.

28.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 01:23:56
I'm not sure about Westerveld being the most expensive keeper ever at the time. What about that aussie keeper mark brosnon? Wasn't he like 18mil or 10mil. I remember a big thing about it. That was before Houllier times. I remember going to Q. P. R. Villa at loftus road. (my aunties house backed onto Loftus Road. She is a Dr married go an aussie Dr, live in a massive house in Devon now) we all went to the game and the rangers fans were singing "you shag kangaroos, said you shag kangaroos" was well funny, mu uncle Mark (the aussie) was laughing.

Actually it could have been later.

29.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 07:24:12
I'd go for Rafa and Bielsa.

Bielsa just because his teams play such an attacking, exciting brand of football that it is pure entertainment to watch.

I chose Rafa as the earliest I can remember watching Liverpool regularly was the end of the Roy Evans era so, from that time up to now, Rafa has been the manager who I felt had a connection with the fans, who always wanted the best for the club and who genuinely tried to make us great. I actually drove to Istanbul in 2005 and got to witness that incredible game - for that alone Rafa take it for me. I am loving the way Klopp has got the team playing though, if it continues I'll be a very happy fan.

30.) 27 Feb 2018
27 Feb 2018 08:43:32
Evans and Sacchi.