Steve Clarke joins Liverpool

[LDN Blue 7,903]

There's a rumour Steve Clarke will join Dalglish at the Liverpool helm

[Sparkie 27]

Confirmed - Steve Clarke new first team coach at Liverpool. http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/steve-clarke-joins-liverpool

You know something's wrong when you think, wow, that's their best signing in a long time.

[Ollie 4,400]

Fuck sake. Steve Clarke wearing a liverpool badge on his jacket, i thought him and Franco at WHU was bad but fuck.

[Fulham Broadway 16,966]

I like to think along with Martin Broughton , agent Clarke has gone there to oversee their (more) rapid decline

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Legend he will always be - Steve Clarke.

Like Ollie said, seeing him wear the Scumpool badge will not be a pretty sight

[Kostas 1,468]

He's undecover

[Laylabelle 9,402]

Ah Stevie dont turn their season around! Been nice to see him back with us after Ray randomly got the flick but was never gana happen

[BlueLion. 21,491]

A Chelsea legend has today joined Liverpool as assistant to Kenny Dalglish.

Liverpool have appointed former Chelsea and West Ham assistant Steve Clarke as their first-team coach.

Clarke, 47, represents Liverpool's first major change since new manager Kenny Dalglish took over from former boss Roy Hodgson on Saturday.

Dalglish said: "Steve is a great addition to our team and I'm delighted we've been able to bring him in. "I am looking forward to working with Steve alongside [assistant manager] Sammy Lee and our other staff."

The Scot, who was at Liverpool's Melwood training ground on Monday, played over 500 senior games for St Mirren and Chelsea, and was also assistant manager at Newcastle United.

He left West Ham by mutual consent in June 2010 after Gianfranco Zola was sacked as manager the previous month. But it was during his time at Chelsea where he achieved most of his success.

Alongside former boss Jose Mourinho between 2004 and 2007, Clarke was part of a coaching team which helped the Blues win two Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two Carling Cups over three seasons.

With Dalglish, 59, out of top-level football management since he left Celtic in 2000, Clarke's appointment will be seen as a shrewd move. After his period of success at Stamford Bridge, Clarke joined West Ham in September 2008 to link up with former Chelsea team-mate Zola at Upton Park but the team struggled last season, finishing one place above the relegation zone.

He will now aim to help arrest Liverpool's recent decline with the club 12th in the Premier League following Sunday's 1-0 FA Cup defeat by Manchester United.

Mike Kelly, who Hodgson brought with him from Fulham as coach in the summer, was not involved with the team at Old Trafford and his departure from Liverpool will be confirmed in due course.

Former defender Clarke joined Chelsea as a player in 1987 and helped the club win the FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup before retiring in September 1998. He then went on to become Ruud Gullit's assistant at Newcastle and had a brief spell as caretaker manager at the Tyneside club after the Dutchman's exit in August 1999 before working under Sir Bobby Robson at St James' Park.

Clarke returned to Chelsea as a youth-team coach and has assisted Mourinho, as well as former managers Avram Grant and Luiz Felipe Scolari.

Liverpool have little time to recover from Sunday's cup loss. They travel to Blackpool on Wednesday in the league before they host Everton in the Merseyside derby on Sunday.

http://news.bbc.co.u...ool/9353787.stm

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If Liverpool do turn their "slump" around - It will be down to Clarke's intelligence of the modern game.

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Was just about to post this.

I feel sick.

[TrueChelseaBlue 105]

Erm, i all of a sudden feel really ill..

[Madmax 9,219]

They have - Steve Clarke.

We have - Emenalo.

[True_Blue 469]

I died after this post

[zolayes 14,489]

thank God they havent got Zola...lot of time for steve ..but not at fucking scumpool

[Steve 10,227]

WOW was not expecting that.....

[zolayes 14,489]

WOW was not expecting that.....

mentioned on talk sport yesterday

[Peace. 4,352]

Doesn't matter - We have the saviour :

[Badboy 1,526]

I felt horrible when i heard of this, the thing is the club did not exactly show him any loyalty when they appointed Avram Grant instead of him so why shall we expect it from him ?