What if Kenny never left?

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I’m probably not the only LFC fan who has thought that since that day in 1991. But now looking back on it, with the added advantage of seeing him manage now after being out of the game for ten years. Makes me wonder, how good could have the club been if he had just taken the rest of that season off? Would Man U have ever had made the 90’s theirs?

I know it’s all conjecture right now, or is it? He took charge of two teams in the EPL after he left, and did very well. Blackburn and Newcastle wish to have half of everything Liverpool have right now. Heck they’d take Roy over some of their past. He took Blackburn to a title, took Newcastle to second, and beat Barca with Newcastle. IF he had stayed with Liverpool could he have done the same?

I can’t reiterate the point too much, he took a club with no history, and a fly by night owner (to a point) with lots of money to the title. He has said that the one player he wanted to bring in but was screwed out of getting was Roy Keane. You think if he was still at Liverpool, had Keane been taken away from him by Fergie? With what Liverpool had, and the modest success Fergie would have had, Kenny would have snagged him. Now I don’t know if Keane would have worked in Liverpool with Stan Collymore, or any of the players because of his personality. Would have Zidane have come to Liverpool?

Would have Eric Canatona or Alan Shearer come to Anfield? Well since Kenny was able to pry Shearer off of Southampton for Blackburn, and given the money that was in the game at the time, Kenny could have had him at Liverpool. Then of course we would have had that annoying goal celebration.

I fully expect, or think more importantly that Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler would have left eventually, but not as fast. John Barnes, and Ian Rush would have seen their careers out at the club because of Kenny.

Ok, so we get all of that, what type of silverware haul would we have had? Would we have been look at 30 Titles, 9 Europe Cups, and more 15 FA cups? Probably not that much.

Blackburn would have still happened, Jack Walker would have just found someone else at the time. He may have not gotten Shearer, but there were strikers out there who would have filled the bill. This is hard for me to say, Man U would have probably won two titles.

So where does that leave Kenny and LFC in the nineties?

I say he’d have taken the winning leagues into 94 (consecutively). Then probably would have won 99, and 2000, then retiring. So I say another five titles.

Would have won Istanbul, and the Cups that were won in the 90’s anyway.

But add one other European Cup, and three more FA’s.

That’s my view

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  2. Yup King Kenny to stay but i think NESV are giving him something like a challenge till the end of the season..they want to see if the club can go forward and if he could be like what Guardiola does at Barca..Kenny can inspire our players and unite us as one..he has already brought hope and confidence back to us and i pray that he stays for some more seasons in the future..Comolli working on the transfers,Kenny working on the team and NESV working on all of Liverpool’s problems,like expendance of Anfield,transfer money in summer is like music to my ears and i cant wait for the summer to come,cauz i think it’s gonna be huge for us..YNWA

  6. One thing is for certain, there’s no way we’d still be stuck on 18 titles. Inconcievable that Kenny would have gone 20 years without winning one. It’s all hypothetical however, if me aunt had balls she’d be me uncle as my mother would say. He’s back and destiny had it that it had to work out the way it did. Watch out fergie, there’s a Liverbird looking for its perch back.

  7. Jack Walker..’a fly by night owner’??? WTF?? Your lack of understanding and knowledge of general football matters is an embarrassment to all LFC supporters!!

  8. Utter rubbish. “IF” is a very big word. We may win a couple more EPL titles. Then again, no point looking back.

  10. Well, if Liverpool had won the semifinale against Crystal Palace in 1990, a game they lost 4-3 against a team they had beaten 9-0 in the league earlier that season, they would have gone on to play the scum in the final. A game they probably would have won. And then there would have been no Fergie because scum would have sacked him. And then maybe he would have taken over Liverpool when KK retired in 1991. The thing is that we will never know what could have happened because things happened the way they did.

    And another thing, did you know Liverpool tried really hard to convince Kevin Keegan to come back to Liverpool after his spell at Hamburg? If they had succeeded, what would then have happened to Rushie? He was on the brink of leaving us in 1980.

    Things happen, and there is no point in speculating in what if… Let us look forward now, because the good times surely are back :)!

  12. Fine. We may have won more (probably) and got shearer, dessilly, keane and so on. But, I love what we are today. I don’t care if man u gets 19, as long as we are contenders to win next year. I want more, but not line chelsea or city doea it. If i then can’t have more, so be it. Kenny left for a reason, I am glad we have him now……

  13. Absolutely hilarious stuff. I genuinely feel frightened when I see fellow reds spouting such deluded nonsense such as this – surely 99% don’t think this way?

    Also tragically bad writing, my 15 year old brother could come up with something better than this absolute garbage.

  21. “He took charge of two teams in the EPL after he left, and did very well. Blackburn and Newcastle wish to have half of everything Liverpool have right now. Heck they’d take Roy over some of their past. He took Blackburn to a title, took Newcastle to second, and beat Barca with Newcastle.”

    Bugger me, that’s some rewriting of history going on right there.

    Dalglish was an unmitigated disaster at St James’ Park. The team you claim he he “took to second” was Keegan’s, not his. In the summer when he was able to reshape the squad he took us backwards dramatically. Only Souness has done more damage in such a short space of time. There is no defence for selling players like Les Ferdinand and David Ginola only to replace them with two pensioners in Ian Rush and John Barnes.

    The win over Barca, while very enjoyable, was a complete fluke. It was the one and only time we looked like a footballing side under Kenny and had more to do with Tino and Gillespie both putting the performances of their lives on the same night than any tactical masterclass from KD.

    I’m not alone either. Speak to any Newcastle fan, any at all and they’ll echo these sentiments. Dalglish set Newcastle back several years.

  22. Utter tosh, and they say Geordies are delluded! Dalglish took Newcastle backwards dramatically when he got rid of Keegans ways and installed his own into the club, he took us from 2nd in the league to fighting relegation for the next 4 years. Such a great manager that imposter you call the King. King Keegan is the true King.

  23. Hi lads, I’m a Toon fan, think Daglish will do great for Liverpool in the future. Right man at the right club with the right backing. Could go far.

    Just to chip in about Daglish’s record at Newcastle. I’m a Toon fan. I don’t think he did all that great.
    Made a couple of great signings, Given and Solano (Thomasson could have been good) and he got us to an FA Cup Final (but played Allesandro Pistone at right back and we got hammered). The Barca game was amazing so fair play to him. He was also unlucky with Shearer getting a career threatening injury. However he came in towards the end of the season and took over Keegan’s team, finishing in 2nd (Keegan’s previous finishes were 2nd, 6th, 3rd, Div 1 champions) but he then demolished that team, selling off Beardsley, Clark, Ginola and Asprilla and Ferdinand, replacing them with Barnes and Ian Rush, an old pals act and we sunk to 13th. Not a great success.

    Overall Shepperd shouldn’t have sacked him when he did (late august again) especially with some of the crap we’ve had since then like Souness and Allardyce and Kinnear (with the exception of Bobby Robson) but not a fantastic record for Kenny.

    I’m sure he’ll be great at Liverpool now and that you’ll be heading in the right direction again, unlike us, especially with Carroll, the next Alan Shearer, at your club now. We’re all still devastated about that.

    Good luck for the rest of the season.

  25. “I know it’s all conjecture right now, or is it? ”

    Yes, it definitely is conjecture… OR IS IT?

    Yes, it is.

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