Roy Hodgson claims that he was told he “coached” too much during his horrendous spell in charge of Liverpool.
The veteran boss was named as Rafa Benitez ’s replacement in 2010 but lasted just six months
Hodgson has since revealed that Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher was clear on what he got wrong during his spell at Anfield.
Hodgson:
'I think probably the most pertinent thing, and I wasn’t really aware of it at the time, but Jamie Carragher said: ‘You know what your big mistake was?’ I said: ‘No, go on. Tell me,’ ‘We’ve been coached,’ he said.
“‘We’ve had [Rafael] Benitez for two and a half years and it’s been pretty rigid – the coaching, the messages.’
“Jamie [Carragher] liked that. It wasn’t a criticism in any way, but he said: ‘You’d come in and you’d done the same thing.’ He said: ‘You’d have been better off adopting a different approach.”
Hodgson continued
“They [the Liverpool players] probably wanted more freedom, more training sessions whereby they weren’t required to constantly focus and take on board information,”
“Maybe, they wanted a few sessions where there was more play and the coaching would have been more subtle. I think if I were to think back to the type of coaching sessions we did there, I wouldn’t do that again.
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