Dalglish out Maradona in !
New Liverpool owner John Henry has today announced that Kenny Dalglish has left Liverpool sitting 12th in the league and Diego Maradona has arrived here at Anfield. Maradona has only previously had one management job and that was to bring the World Cup back to Argentina, At the World Cup finals in June 2010, Argentina started by winning 1–0 against Nigeria, and then defeated South Korea by 4–1, with a hat-trick from Gonzalo Higuain. In the final match of the group stage Argentina won 2–0 against Greece to win their the group and advance to a second round meeting with Mexico. After defeating Mexico 3–1, Argentina was in turn routed by Germany, 4–0 in the quarter finals to go out of the competition. Argentina was ranked 5th in the tournament. After the defeat to Germany Maradona admitted that he was considering his future as Argentina coach, "I may leave tomorrow," he said. On 15 July 2010, the Argentine Football Association said that he would be offered a new 4 year deal that would keep him in charge through to the summer of 2014 when Brazil stages the World Cup, however on 27 July the AFA announced that its board had unanimously decided not to renew his contract. Afterwards on 29 July 2010, Maradona claimed that AFA president Julio Grondona and director of national teams Carlos Bilardo had "lied to" and "betrayed" and effectively sacked him from the role. Saying "they wanted me to continue, but seven of my staff should not go on, if he told me that, it meant he did not want me to keep working. This is what Dalglish had to say;
' I am very upset about leaving Liverpool but i have not done good enough here ans the fans deserve better. I don't think i was ready in the first place and i feel a better manager should take charge and try to get this wonderful club into the Europa League. I hope to return to Anfield one day as manager or coach but for now i am going to relax at home'
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Maradona announces ambitions
New Liverpool boss Diego Maradona has today announced his ambitions for liverpool
' I definitely want to get into Europe , anything less than that is not good enough. I have looked at the squad and they have some pretty amazing talents like Gerrard, Suarez and Carroll. I will be signing a few new players in case you was wondering and I am looking forward to my new challenge here at Anfield. '
So Maradona will settle for no less that 7th place and has set his eyes on a few players he would love to bring in to Anfield.
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