Kenny Dalglish isn’t a very good manager. He’s never been a very good manager. When he started as manager of Liverpool he had the best side in England, most likely the best side in Europe (can’t be measured as, due to Liverpool, the English sides were banned). He didn’t build that side, he didn’t sign those players, or get them playing at that level, he inherited the side. He won trophies with them and then, when he saw that a rebuild was required, he quit instead of taking on the task. He then went to Blackburn, where he had more money to spend than anyone else, he bought the best players he could, and won again. Then, when the money dried up, he quit. His time at Newcastle and Celtic was undoubtedly a failure. He quit both, and then sat in football management exile for a decade or so.
His management style isn’t one where he concentrates on tactics, it’s a watered down Ferguson style, the “us versus them” method, but without Ferguson’s ability to actually master the art. I hate Alex Ferguson, intensely; however he’s a top class manager, which is without doubt. King Kenny is not. His purchases have been overpriced in the main, and his insistence on “buying English” smacks of a man trying to build what he inherited at Liverpool, and bought at Blackburn, a British squad fighting for one another. His ideas are 20 years out of date, you need to trawl the World for your talent these days, and fight isn’t enough to win anything. The scousers will never turn on “the King”, which for the rest of us is great, as he’ll never be good enough for the job they want him to do.
