Source: Team_Talk
Kenny key to keeping stars - Beardsley
Peter Beardsley is confident Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres will stay at Liverpool if Kenny Dalglish is re-appointed as manager.[LNB] The two players' futures with the Merseyside outfit are uncertain after a hugely disappointing 2009/10 season at Anfield and boss Rafael Benitez's departure by mutual consent earlier this month.[LNB]Dalglish - who is widely regarded as Liverpool's greatest ever player and enjoyed a successful spell in charge from 1985 to 1991 - is believed to be interested in succeeding Benitez, and Beardsley feels the Scot's return to the helm would be enough to persuade Gerrard and Torres to stay.[LNB]"I'm not saying he would be a massive success straight away because there are a lot of problems at Liverpool," Beardsley said.[LNB]"They are not Kenny's problems but they need to be resolved - the Steven Gerrard issue, the Fernando Torres issue - and I think you would have more chance of keeping those players if you had a hero like Kenny in charge of the team.[LNB]"You look at Torres and he probably came to Liverpool on the strength of watching Dalglish as a player, and Gerrard grew up watching that team.[LNB]"So I would think you'd have no problem keeping both of them if Kenny Dalglish was your manager."[LNB]Fulham boss Roy Hodgson is another name being strongly linked with the post, but Beardsley - who played for Liverpool between 1987 and 1991 - has no doubts that Dalglish is the man for the job.[LNB]"Roy Hodgson is obviously a great manager and has proved that with Fulham and all over the world, but I wouldn't look further than Kenny," said Beardsley.[LNB]"I played for four years under Kenny and won the league twice and the FA Cup. He gave me his number seven shirt and to wear it for Liverpool was special.[LNB]"We were not able to play in Europe in those days, so what he did in my time at the club, and winning the double before I even arrived, was sensational.[LNB]"I can't speak for the people of Liverpool but I know the fans would love him and when I look at him, his football knowledge and his football mentality, he loves the game.[LNB]"What he means to Liverpool is sensational and I would have no qualms about giving him the job."
