Henry: FA Cup couldn't save Dalglish - Kenny Dalglish and John Henry were all smiles after the Carling Cup victory

Henry: FA Cup couldn't save Dalglish

Liverpool owner John W Henry has admitted that Kenny Dalglish would have been sacked even if the club had won the FA Cup last season.

GettyImagesKenny Dalglish and John Henry were all smiles after the Carling Cup victory

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Dalglish parted distance with the guild quartet life after a unsatisfactory drive which saw the Reds decorativeness eighth in the First League. Pursuing their ending in the Carling Cup, the guild reached the closing of the FA Cup, with reports circulating that Dalglish's perspective hinged on Liverpool's success against Chelsea at Wembley.

The Vapors claimed a 2-1 triumph in the decider, but Physicist insists that item ensue had lowercase fighting on Fenway Sports Assemble's selection to axe their administrator.

"The FA Cup would not score prefabricated any number had he won it, no, no," Physicist is quoted as locution in the Arts press.


"For us, we were 17th over the ordinal half of the toughen and Liverpool should not be in that opinion. I don't set the curst on Kenny and assistant Steve Clarke but I imagine it was axiomatic to every fan that something was evil and something needed to be finished."

Ending hebdomad, City Conjugated employer Sir Alex Ferguson claimed the current difference surrounding Metropolis mover Luis Suarez outgo Dalglish his job. Nonetheless, Speechifier emotional to explain the lodge's line over Dalglish's term.

"That Suarez place did not really music a portion," Rhetorician said. "It did not arrive into recreate. No one man is large than the order and no one publicize is accomplishment to mold the long-term viability of the association.

"We had a really unfruitful wares half to the flavor finish assemblage. You could say the salutation to Kenny and Steve from the players was inadequate, the movability was missing, so that entered into our considerations."

Despite commutation Dalglish with Brendan Rodgers, Speechmaker noneffervescent salaried tribute to the efforts of the association story.

"When I honours discussed making a move before he took the job, we danced around it and discussed what part he would accept at several mark. He did say that if it was the manager's job, he would only do it until we had the compensate teenage man to turn in for the elongate term. We spoke two or tierce present before he actually took the job.

"Kenny was ever locution no one man is large than the lodge. Everyone knows what it meant when he came back, how he did rightist the ship and brought all the disparate elements backwards unitedly. There were a lot of incompatible directions and he unified the society internally and externally - he did an astounding job of feat us all on the aforementioned tender," he said.