The former Liverpool FC captain Jamie Redknapp has urged the club to appoint Kenny Dalglish as Rafa Benitez’s successor, suggesting he, like all Kop fans, has been hurt by the club’s malaise this season.
Liverpool FC are currently in the process of finding a new manager following their decision to end Rafa Benitez’s contract, and although Dalglish is currently leading the search alongside Christian Purslow, Redknapp believes the aforementioned Anfield legend has all the necessary credentials to reignite Liverpool’s flagging fortunes.
Dalglish was the man responsible for bringing Redknapp to Liverpool, but the former midfielder suggests sentiment does not come in to, because he simply believes the Kop hero is the ideal candidate for the Liverpool job recently vacated by Rafa Benitez.
The Liverpool hero told the Daily Mail: “Kenny Dalglish is the right man at the right time for Liverpool. He has the quality that money cannot buy: respect. They should be crying out for his leadership now to replace Rafa Benitez, who had to go.”
“I spent some time with Dalglish last week for the UNICEF game at Old Trafford and saw every day the passion and desire — and the knowledge — Kenny still has for football.”
“If the argument against his appointment is that he has been out of the game too long, you wouldn’t know it speaking to him — line-ups, formations, players. He’s been observing and building his knowledge. He’s ready to return to football.”
“I still see Liverpool as my club. I was captain and spent more than a decade playing for the club, after Kenny signed me at the age of 17 from Bournemouth.”
“I remember my first day up there, wondering how I would cope away from my mum and dad. He invited me to stay at his house, where his lovely wife, Marina, cooked chicken and pasta and we spoke about football. Then he told me I had to go to bed.”
“It was quite early and I was a bit surprised, but you don’t argue with the great Kenny Dalglish. So off I went.”
“I did as I was told, only to find out the next morning over breakfast that I was in the squad to face Wimbledon. I didn’t know until then, he didn’t tell me, but it was his way of keeping me calm.
“The day he left the club — about a month later — despite the thousands of people he needed to speak to and explain why, he called me and told me that I shouldn’t worry and that Liverpool was my club. I cried my eyes out.”
“Even last week, Kenny still had that aura about him. He is Liverpool’s Special One.”
“Liverpool supporters also hold him close to their heart forever.”
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