Sunday, 4 July 2010

Woy of the Pool

Good appointment by Liverpool.  Very smart.
Woy Hodgson is a nice bloke, intelligent, eloquent, multi-lingual, and an achiever. Despite his poor spell at Blackburn, he's achieved everywhere he's gone.  He turned Fulham from relegation fodder to the league position that Liverpool finished this season just gone.  Then a Europa Cup final playing the opposite of the sort of football Rafa Benitez played in the Champions League.
But he's got a big challenge on.  He's just lost one of the few decent players - Benayoun to Chelsea on a Free - and he's only got a report £15m to spend.
Not wishing to come over all Football Manager, but Woy has some simple choices to make:

  1. Sell Gerrard, Mascherano and Torres - that'll net £100m, probably.
  2. Ship out Benitez' duds - Kuyt (who is astonishingly having a good world cup, so might go in group 1), Lucas, Arveloa, N'Gog, etc (to the power of a million).
  3. Spend whatever you get left over on decent players.
Easy.
I hate Liverpool, but I wish Woy luck there.

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