if you go by win percentage then statisticaly Ronnie Moran, when he was caretaker manager for a few month's between Souness and Evans, is the worst LFC manager of recent times !
Personally think its souness, has everyone here forgotten the f***in interview he did with the S*n
that alone is enough to make him the worst. i remember being particularly disgusted when be bought julian dicks, dicks by name dicks by nature !. He tried to impose his authauroity too quickly moving players on when they were at their peak, Beardsley, Mcmahon, houghton and even steve staunton and replacing them with sh*te. fair play to him he gave macca, growler and redknapp their chance but his reign consisted of too many really low points and very shallow highs. the FA cup win apart,it was a forgettable time really.
Evans was better his team played sparkling and exiting football but were defensivley fragile, remember calamity was souness signing after all, despite only winning the league cup his team brought us some spectacular and truly memorable matches. how can we forget the two 4-3s against newcastle, the recovery from 3 down against manure among others. none of us will forget the FA cup surrender against manure or those wanky white suits. but generally i have happy memories of evans time in charge.
As for houllier its very clever of us to slate him now with hindsight but in 2001 people thought he was the messiah, shanks reborn etc after winning an english record of 5 trophies in a calendar year. we were all made up after that amazing u£fa cup final against alaves, or when we gained a little revenge on arsenal for robbing us of the league by robbing them of the FA cup. he had improved our league position year on year, he advised on the re-building of melwood and the academy, though that would have happend regardles of who was manager. he also modernised the training, fitness and diet of the team, carra and stevie g are the players and profesionals they are today because of him. sami hyypia and didi hamman are LFC legends. lets be honest he brought pride back to us and brought the name Liverpool football club into the european spoghtligt again. we had some very good times. and after the man nearly died for us and football he lost his way, his purpose and importantly his sound judgement. how many of us would bounce back into the job after such a life changing event ?. i was at the roma champions league match with the "allez" mosaic,i remember the immense pride i felt at the support and devotion we showed to our manager, its what makes us unique as fans. .
yes he was a defensive coach and yes he bought a striker that went a whole season without scoring; theres a very good reason why el hadj diouf is the only former red thats booed constantly at anfield.....hes a world class tw*t and a nobend. good scouting would have found this out, diouf at the time seemed an exiting but impulsive buy, who knew eh ? having said that houllier did buy my all time anfield "cult" hero Jari Litmanen, a magic player as well as Kewell. it was when he sold Fowler and hardly played Litmanen that the tide turned for me with houllier but even so i was sad to see him sacked.