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Liverpool Ex Coach Who is None As Best Coach Announced Dead Today By BBC

Ex-Liverpool coach sacked after 12 games as flight from Newcastle explained
Your morning Liverpool headlines for Monday, February 19 as a former Reds coach gets his marching orders and a 33-minute flight back from Newcastle is explained

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Ex-Liverpool coach sacked after 12 games in charge of Championship club

Former Liverpool Academy coach Neil Critchley has been relieved of his duties at Queens Park Rangers, just two months after being appointed by the Championship club.

Identified in December as a replacement for fellow ex-Liverpool employee Michael Beale, who left the second tier side for Rangers, Critchley won his first game in charge against Preston but has failed to secure a second victory in the 11 matches that have since followed.

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QPR sat in the play-off places after Critchley’s one and only win as head coach but are now closer to the relegation zone than the top six, highlighting the drastic drop-off in performance levels. Such is the severity of this decline, the 44-year-old has now been sacked. His assistants Iain Brunskill and Mike Garrity, who have also previously served in roles at Liverpool, have also departed.

Critchley’s previous role within football came at Aston Villa, leaving his post as Blackpool boss last June to form part of Steven Gerrard’s backroom staff. His stay at the West Midlands club was short-lived, however, lasting only until October when Villa parted company with Gerrard.

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Liverpool ‘unhappy’ with Premier League as 33-minute flight after Newcastle explained

Liverpool have reportedly cited the quick turnaround between Premier League and Champions League fixtures as their explanation for flying back from Newcastle on Saturday.

The Reds made the 33-minute flight back from the North East just hours after recording their second Premier League victory of 2023 as first half goals from Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo helped down Eddie Howe’s side and strengthen their prospects of finishing in the top-four.

However, the club has drawn criticism for choosing to make the 145-mile journey back to Merseyside via aircraft with the Premier League recently dedicating one of its game weeks to Green Football Weekend in a bid to raise awareness around climate issues.

But according to the Mirror, Anfield officials have cited the tight fixture schedule as the reasoning behind their decision, as Jurgen Klopp’s side host Real Madrid at Anfield on Tuesday in a repeat of the 2022 Champions League final.

The report claims that Liverpool “does factor in environmental concerns when making travel decisions, with distance and cost the other main considerations” and part of the decision-making process was down to Klopp wanting his players to be in the best possible shape for the mouthwatering clash against the Spanish champions.

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VIDEO: Sadio Mane loses it! Al-Nassr star somehow escapes red card after grabbing Saeed Juma’s throat – despite strong protests from Al Ain boss Hernan Crespo – as Cristiano Ronaldo’s side exit AFC Champions League at quarter-final stage
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The former Liverpool star was only shown a yellow card after angrily grabbing Al-Ain defender Saeed Juma’s throat in a heated moment during the AFC Champions League quarter-final second-leg clash between Al-Nassr and the Abu Dhabi-based club. Al Ain manager and legendary Argentine footballer Hernan Crespo strongly protested for a red from the touchline, but Mane was allowed to stay on the pitch.

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Bobby Clark’s dad Lee is a Newcastle legend and wants his son to play for the Magpies (Image: Getty)
Liverpool could one day lose starlet Bobby Clark to Newcastle after dad Lee revealed it his ‘ultimate dream’ to see his son play for the Magpies. Lee Clark is an iconic figure on Tyneside and has revealed that he wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.

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Clark Snr made 265 appearances for the fondly-remembered Newcastle team of the 1990s. He is one of a number of former professionals whose kids have made a mark at Anfield this season.

Teenage midfielder Clark made his debut last season and has now played 13 times for Liverpool’s senior team. Highly-rated by Jurgen Klopp, the academy graduate scored his first professional goal in the Reds’ 6-1 Europa League triumph over Sparta Prague on Thursday night.

Liverpool have high hopes for Clark even once Klopp departs at the end of the season. The next manager will inherit a team full of potential, with the 19-year-old one of the most promising stars.

However, the Merseysiders will need to deter any interest from Newcastle as dad Lee has opened up on his ‘ultimate dream’ to see his son play for the Magpies. Clark has backed Bobby to ‘do an Alan Shearer’ by joining his boyhood club later in his career.

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Lee Clark wants Liverpool starlet son Bobby to play for Newcastle (Image: Getty)

“My ultimate wish would absolutely be to see Bobby playing for Newcastle,” Clark told No Tippy Tappy Football. “I don’t know how many father and son combinations have both appeared for the club.

“I was lucky enough to play for them 265 times and, who knows, he might have to do an Alan Shearer and come back! That would be my dream.”

Lee also opened up on the moment Bobby called him in January to reveal that Klopp was departing. It was a bitter blow to the youngster, who has the German tactician to thank for his rise into the first-team at Liverpool.

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“On the Wednesday evening after beating Fulham, Bobby and the lads were feeling sky high because they had helped the team reach the Carabao Cup final,” Clark continued.

“But the next morning, Jurgen called a team meeting to announce that he was leaving. That is a great example of the ups and downs of football.

“Bobby texted me and said, ‘Dad, I need to speak to you’ – I thought something bad had happened to him personally. He told me that Jurgen was leaving and I was gutted, so just imagine how the players felt. Now it seems to have galvanised the group even more. They want to make it a memorable season for the boss when he leaves.”

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Liverpool’s quadruple hunt continued on Thursday evening after securing an 11-2 Europa League Round of 16 win at the expense of Sparta Prague.

Jurgen Klopp’s side found themselves four goals to the good inside the first quarter of an hour played at Anfield and will now take on Atalanta in the quarter-finals of the competition.

Attempting to keep hopes of claiming another trophy alive, the Reds will take on Manchester United on Sunday afternoon for the chance to advance to the semi-finals.

Looking ahead to this while discussing Thursday’s European success, four Liverpool supporters have shared their views as part of a weekly ECHO fan column.

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It feels like we’re well and truly in dreamland as Liverpool supporters at the moment. To have cruised through into the Europa League quarter finals at Anfield against Sparta Prague and be so handily placed at the top of the league is more than we could have ever asked for at the start of the season. Of course, one more hurdle lies ahead before we can all relax for a weekend as the international break returns.

But for now, all roads lead to Old Trafford on Sunday. I’m going into this one completely optimistic and I believe it’s a no-brainer for Jurgen to go full strength for it. With 9000 Liverpool supporters in the away end, how good would it be to pile on the misery for the red side of Manchester and keep our own feel-good factor intact? These are the days: there’s not many more left under Klopp so saviour every last second of it.

Andrew Cullen (Widnes, @brothersred5) – Endo continues to go under the radar

What a magnificent performance it was last Sunday against Manchester City. What a febrile, frenetic atmosphere.

When an opposition player drops to the canvas, usually the aim is to stifle momentum. When City adopted this ruse on Sunday, much to their surprise, it did not halt momentum, it intensified it, as the Anfield decibels reached the outer regions of Manchester.

Pep Guardiola’s side were caught between a whirlpool created by the Anfield atmosphere and the sharp, cutting rocks of the Liverpool midfield.

Wataru Endo knocked Kevin De Bruyne off his balance during the midfield battle, so much so that the City talisman was hauled off, kicking and screaming. The surest sign you may think that Liverpool had obliterated the Sky Blues’ midfield.

While receiving some plaudits this year, Endo has not been given the same acclaim as Dominik Szoboszlai and Alexis Mac Allister, yet the Japan international has been instrumental in Klopp’s 2.0 team. Signed as a backup, he now resides at the front of the Liverpool charge.

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Guardiola was accurate to describe the Anfield attack as like a tsunami. After another impressive display at home against Sparta Prague, the Great Wave of Liverpool is gaining momentum.

David Shams (Beijing, @ShamsWriter) – Let’s keep up our cup success

Another week down and Liverpool, in spite of the footballing gods, remains in all four competitions. After beating Sparta Prague 11-2 over two legs, we now face a Europa League quarter-final showdown with Atalanta. Another two matches on the calendar, another two to show this season isn’t a fluke. Whatever rebuild Jurgen Klopp had planned for this season, the results simply aren’t an anomaly. That, in fact, this Liverpool he hands over to his successor will remain a force in the coming decade.

But in the short-term, a challenge lies ahead: a visit to the crumbling heap of despair that is Old Trafford. Our kids, of course, will rise to the occasion again, just as they have in every othe