{"id":144356,"date":"2025-09-09T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144356\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:27:09","slug":"wayne-rooney-says-manager-liverpool-sacked-is-genuinely-very-underrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144356\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney says manager Liverpool sacked is genuinely very underrated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It seems a long time ago now, but Liverpool\u2019s managerial situation wasn\u2019t always as settled as it is right now.<\/p>\n

Indeed, in between the departure of Rafa Benitez and the hiring of Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool<\/a> couldn\u2019t quite get it right in the dugout.<\/p>\n

Brendan Rodgers almost took Liverpool to the title, but Rodgers was criticised at times<\/a>, and while Kenny Dalglish was a club legend, his tactics were somewhat outdated.<\/p>\n

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Arne Slot has done incredibly<\/a> since coming in, but that very much wasn\u2019t the norm at Anfield in the 2010s.<\/p>\n

However, perhaps the worst of the lot was Roy Hodgson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hodgson struggled at Liverpool, it has to be said, but he wasn\u2019t a bad manager overall.<\/p>\n

Indeed, speaking on his podcast, Wayne Rooney<\/a> has spoken highly of Hodgson, claiming that he was a top manager who doesn\u2019t actually get the credit he deserves.<\/p>\n

\"RoyPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesWayne Rooney backs Roy Hodgson<\/p>\n

Rooney spoke about the former Liverpool manager after working with him with England.<\/p>\n

Rooney says that he actually used to love Hodgson as a coach, noting that he doesn\u2019t get the accolades he perhaps deserves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved Roy, some of the conversations we used to have were hilarious. Obviously, he\u2019s a very clever man and a very good man, yet. We used to get off the team bus when we travel abroad and the team would get on the bus and as captain, me and Roy would go to the press conference in the car and I\u2019d get it for like an hour, nonstop,\u201d Rooney said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn English and French and I\u2019m just like, Oh, please, Roy. You\u2019re tired. You\u2019ve just flown to whatever country.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I learned a lot from him. I think he\u2019s a very, very good man. Good manager and I think he doesn\u2019t get the credit if you take England away from him for all the other jobs he\u2019s done, obviously over in France and Sweden and obviously in England.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I learned a lot from him, Roy. And obviously I enjoyed playing under him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roy Hodgson\u2019s career achievements analysed<\/p>\n

As Rooney says Hodgson is a very underrated manager.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, he probably is best remembered for his poor stint at Liverpool, but, overall, he did have an incredible effect on world football, particularly in Scandinavia.<\/p>\n

TeamAchievementAnalysisHalmstads BK (1976 & 1979)Swedish championsTurned a relegation-threatened team into unexpected league winners in 1976 and repeated the feat in 1979, one of Swedish football\u2019s greatest upsets.Malm\u00f6 FF (1985\u201389)Five consecutive league titlesEnded an eight-year drought at the club and dominated Swedish football.Switzerland (early 1990s)World Cup qualificationBrought Switzerland to their first World Cup since the 1960s.Copenhagen ( 2000\u201301)Danish Superliga & Super CupDelivered their first league title in eight years.Inter Milan (1996\u201397)UEFA Cup runner-upTook Inter Milan to UEFA Cup final.Fulham (2007\u201310)Europa League Final; LMA Manager of the YearRescued Fulham from relegation, led them to 7th place, and masterminded a Europa League run. Won LMA Manager of the Year in 2010.Career HonorsCBE, Lifetime Achievement & Merit AwardsGiven a CBE, received a Lifetime Achievement Award, and the PFA Merit Award for long-term contributions to football.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t an English manager in modern history with a CV this impressive other than Sir Bobby Robson, and while Hodgson never quite became a Premier League winning gaffer, he\u2019s had massive success in numerous different countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems a long time ago now, but Liverpool\u2019s managerial situation wasn\u2019t always as settled as it is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[3339,3450,89679,403,99,76973],"class_list":["post-144356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-english-premier-league","tag-liverpool","tag-roy-hodgson","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-wayne-rooney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}