Roy Wants New Liverpool Owners Soon

Roy Hodgson has confessed that
there is a lot of uncertainty
around Liverpool and the club
urgently need a new owner to
invest in the team before they
can challenge for major honours
again.
Liverpool have so far been
unable to find anyone with the
credibility to take the club and
the team forward, but Hodgson
has finally spoken out about the
problems of Anfield returning to
the glory days.
"The stature, traditions and
abilities of Liverpool to attract
players certainly make it an
achievable task, even though we
are in strange times at the
moment; the club is up for sale
and nobody knows what
direction it will take if and when
new owners are found,'' he told
'Manager' the official magazine
of the League Managers
Association.
Asked if he can attain trophies
with the club again, he said: "It's
not quite as easy to answer that
question as it would have been a
few years ago when the
situation was far more stable
and the money to buy news
players was available.
"We hope the situation will
change when the club is
eventually sold and owners who
are prepared to invest in the club
come in. When that situation
arises I'm pretty sure it won't be
difficult for us to start achieving
things again, but at the moment
the task is really to hang on to
the players we've got and make
certain we don't have a situation
where we have got a total
rebuild process."
However, Hodgson refuses to
concede the title, despite the
problems he faces. "I don't think
there's any such thing as false
optimism,'' he said. ''There is
pragmatism and you should
never try to dampen people's
enthusiasm and optimism.
"Furthermore, every season you
see teams not expected to win
titles winning them; it doesn't
always go to the favourite in any
country. So you should never play
down the Liverpool fans
incredible desire and passion to
keep on winning trophies - and
the Premier League in particular -
and keep their noses in front of
Manchester United."