Houllier held many roles in his career, most prominent of which being his time at Liverpool, which included a treble in 2001. Something went wrong, please try again later. “At every level of Liverpool, I was a centre-midfielder, and I felt I was always appreciated by all my coaches. Evans also managed Liverpool from 1994-1998. You were expected to keep your discipline and your width, and when it was of those games when it didn’t come to me, all of a sudden there’s a substitution and it’s, ‘Thomo’s not been in the game, because the game’s not been on the right-hand side’, so you’re always the first to be disposed of, and that always frustrated me, and I used to take that personally. Confusion reigned supreme as players did not know who to approach, team selection was not mutual and in the end Evans would walk away in November 1998 as it was “an impossible situation” to navigate. He said when you come through the ranks it is easier for the manager to say, ‘we’ll put him on the right-hand side, we’ll put him on the left-hand side, we don’t mind putting him out of position’. Liverpool were renowned for their attacking football and ability to entertain but with little to show for it in the form of silverware and sustained title challenges, the club appointed Gerard Houllier as joint-manager alongside Evans for the 1998/99 season. – Debating Leeds 1-1 Liverpool, Reds fail to ‘earn it on the pitch’ – 5 talking points from Leeds 1-1 Liverpool. Roy Evans has paid tribute to his former Liverpool co-manager Gerard Houllier following the news of his death on Monday. Now if you’d have said to Steve Heighway, who knew me inside out, whether I should play on the right-hand side of midfield, he would have said, ‘no way’. He also handed debuts to a talented crop of local lads who had risen through the academy ranks. But it was an impossible situation for us. Many regarded Gerard Houllier’s appointment as a demotion for Evans, as if it indicated that he wasn’t up to running things on his own. Roy Evans (born 4 October 1948) is a former English footballer who played for Liverpool from 1965-1974. Roy Evans was too nice to be a football manager . He, along with Gerard Houllier, are the only two managers to joint manage Liverpool in its history. But time offers one a period of reflection, one which has led Evans to recognise that he should “have been stronger at the very start.”. An England schoolboy international, Evans was a defender who was a long way down the pecking order at Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s—he also spent the summer of 1973 in the North American Soccer League with the Philadelphia Atoms. Between 1976 and 1982, Houllier was head coach of the fifth-division club Nœux-les-Mines. ROY EVANS last night delivered his verdict on the first 12 months of Gerard Houllier's Anfield reign. The vast majority of Thompson’s 56 appearances for Liverpool came under Houllier and he recalls fond memories of the 7-1 demolition of Southampton at Anfield in January 1999 when he and fellow academy graduates Robbie Fowler (3), Dominic Matteo (1), Jamie Carragher (1) and Michael Owen (1) all got on the scoresheet. He was a gentleman and a great footballing person; I enjoyed his company many times. There could only be one winner in this partnership and it wasn’t going to be Roy Evans. But after determining that he “deserved” it and “had been at the club long enough and I knew what I was doing”, he was given the keys to the kingdom. “I understood the position, but I didn’t like it, I felt like I had to wait for the game to come to me. When you are a young lad and graduating, we are the first to be sacrificed, because we accept it a little bit more, because the pride we feel to play for Liverpool. “The players are not stupid,” he added. The results had been poor. Thompson took the ‘very tough decision’ to leave Liverpool for Coventry with the aim of getting back to playing at the top end of the Premier League, which he later achieved with Blackburn Rovers. They told you how it was. Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier remains in a "stable" condition after emergency heart surgery - as former boss Roy Evans tipped Kenny Dalglish as a potential Anfield stop gap. We didn’t have any qualifications. Profile by Chris Wood, January 2005 “It was a weird situation and it was a situation that all the lads knew wasn’t going to work – even though none of us had to say it,” said Thompson. The pair were in joint charge of Liverpool … Roy Evans and Gerard Houllier were doomed from the off, placed in an “impossible situation” and the former now recognises he should have … ... initially as co-manager with Roy Evans … When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Evans inherited a Liverpool side who were mid-table in the Premier League and out of contention for any major honours. That is where it fell down. On the difficulty of trying to work as joint managers he added: “It was more or less impossible, you have got two people trying to do one job. When Graeme Souness left Anfield in January 1994, Evans was offered the top job and like Paisley and Fagan before him, he was reluctant to take it. This equates to a net spend of £27,650,000, or roughly £2,000,000 spent on each player. I wasn’t sacked or anything like that. It … Someone has to have the final say. “It was the same with Ronnie Moran. It had started that summer after Evans had been … Alex Livesey/Getty Images Exactly 15 years ago this week, Gerard Houllier took sole charge of Liverpool after Roy Evans ended his 33-year spell … Roy Evans had had enough. With Jürgen Klopp. There is a photograph of Roy Evans and Gerard Houllier, from the day in July 1998 that Liverpool’s joint managers were presented to the press, that, in … “The game was bringing in ideas from Europe at the time so the idea was probably decent enough but I should have been stronger. Gerard Houllier with Roy Evans on joining Liverpool in 1998 Credit: PA Under Graeme Souness and Roy Evans, the club promised success but struggled to … It was not easy at all. A look at the story of Liverpool's quest to return to the top of English football by winning the Premier League. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Houllier's former co-manager Roy Evans said: "The passing of Gerard Houllier is a real sad day for all Liverpool fans. “We knew it was softening the blow for Roy to be shown the door, even though Roy had been so unlucky – he was millimetres away from being a very successful Liverpool manager. I would pick one team and Gerard would pick another. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Houllier’s former co-manager Roy Evans said: “The passing of Gerard Houllier is a real sad day for all Liverpool fans. Roy Evans and Gerard Houllier were doomed from the off, placed in an “impossible situation” and the former now recognises he should have been “strong” from the very start. “When you have people of that quality, you cannot help but learn from them,” he added. “But I could have offered more if he gave me the opportunity to play inside – and that was the frustrating thing for me. But that tearful day in November 1998, when Evans announced he was ending his 35-year association with the club he served with distinction as player, coach and then manager, would not have come as a big surprise to those inside the dressing room. He then moved to Lens in 1982, coaching them to promotion to the top division and qualification for the UEFA Cup, before moving to Paris Saint-Germain in 1985, where PSG won the French title the following year. “You want to take the game by the scruff of the neck, but you can look a bit undisciplined if you go looking for the ball (from that position), you can leave your team exposed, and it looks unprofessional as well. Liverpool manager Bill Shankly saw something different in Evans, suggesting that he try a career as a coach. “I heard Carra say something about this, and it struck a chord with me. “He understood the Liverpool humour and he has a clear idea not just of how he wants to play but how the Liverpool fans want the team to play too.”, About Advertising Contact Search Privacy, Enter your e-mail address below to receive a, Liverpool fans deplore FSG’s “embarrassing” and “pathetic” statement, CONFIRMED: Liverpool withdraw from Super League, Official partner calls time on Liverpool sponsorship due to Super League plan, “We don’t want it to happen” – Liverpool FC players statement on Super League, Man City, Chelsea to withdraw from Super League – more to follow, Reds ‘reconsider’ Super League stance & CB plans latest – Liverpool FC Roundup, Deep Liverpool bond and ethics clash with football’s morality at question, The good, the bad and why bother? Former Liverpool midfielder David Thompson spoke to the ECHO for a special Blood Red podcast. “When you start talking about team selection and one of you wants to pick this player and the other wants to pick another player then it causes problems. Five months after the Reds appointed Gerard Houllier as joint manager to work alongside Roy Evans, the short-lived partnership was broken up. Former Liverpool midfielder David Thompson on Gerard Houllier's arrival at Anfield and his reasons for leaving after playing for the Frenchman. He loved the club and had the respect of the players but could you see him giving the hairdryer ? Even if they had said they were sacking me that would have been better than what they did,” Evans explained. “That is life at the end of the day. A year to the day since the collapse of Liverpool's ill-fated management double act, Evans has saluted Houllier's achievement in rebuilding a side which now stands fifth in the Premiership and within reach of European qualification. The ones who thought they had been left out because of Gerard would side with me. And as for present day, Evans, like everyone associated with Liverpool Football Club, was enamoured by Jurgen Klopp and his instantaneous understanding of the fans, the club and the city. Five months after the Reds appointed Gerard Houllier as joint manager to work alongside Roy Evans, the short-lived partnership was broken up. — ROY EVANS (@Roy_Evo) December 14, 2020 Very sad news about Gerard Houllier. In 1988, Houllier was appointed technical director and assistant to the France national team, under manager But according to one of the members of the squad at the time, the writing had been on the wall long before that. “The great thing about Jurgen is that for some reason he got it straight away,” he continued. He’s best remembered at Anfield for almost splitting himself in half after sliding full-pelt into a post. From youth player to the first team, reserve manager to first-team manager, Evans was an ever-present at Liverpool for 35 years. Thompson then went on to talk about his relationship with the Frenchman, why he made the choice to leave the club he first signed for as a nine-year-old boy, and why in hindsight he may have come to a different decision. 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