Sammy Lee leaves Liverpool

cerbeus

Sammy Lee has left the Liverpool backroom coaching team to take up a position with the English FA.

Sammy Lee Leaves Liverpool

uberwolf

sorry to hear that. And surprised, cos he has fluent spanish afaik, which would have been a considerable asset

mike65

You'd have thought it wise for Benitiez to have an old
hand in the backroom who he could talk fluently with (assuming he could understand Scouse Spanish that is!).

Mike.

jesus_thats_gre

shame...

eyerer

he wanted to be beni's assistant but they didn't give it to him

irishgeo

Originally posted by eyerer
he wanted to be beni's assistant but they didn't give it to him

never heard that.

cerbeus

I thought the rumour was he was to be made assitant same way Thompson was there to guide Houllier.

_blank_

This might be a good thing for Liverpool.

I think the demise of Liverpool since the late 80's has a lot to do with the sticking to the traditional values they hold so dear.

They have always retained a so called "boot-room boy" or two on the backroom staff.

Since Dalglish left, the managers have been:

a) Souness - a throw back to the "good old days"
b) Evans - Same
c) Houllier/Evans - They should have let Houllier have sole control at the time ( you may not agree now, but at the time they should have let Evans go and gave Houllier the job outright.)
d) Houllier, with Phil Thompson as assistant - Another throw back to the "good old days".

In my opinion Liverpool as a club are guilty of living on past glories, as they keep on retaining a link to those days.

Maybe Benitez realises this, and the need to start again from absolute scratch.

leeroybrown

Liverpool seem to be doing this the right thing. They're letting Benitez set things up the way he wants. I think the clearout is the right thing to do as they need to instill a new mentallity and style of play. If they sit back and give him the time and financial backing like they always do then hopefully (for 'pool supporters sake) they'll start playing some good football.

Guy:Incognito

Id rather not see liverpool becoming a "european" club though. After all it is right smack bang in the middle of england. Im not a big fan of kicking out all the english staff and haveing one full of foreigners.