Alex Miller leaves Anfield/Sammy Lee arrives

[Guest Jinky7]

Alex Miller has left Anfield to take up a position in Japanese football.

[Guest Prongsy]

Sack Rafa.

[Ethan]

Oh dear - another blow.

 

Good luck Alex

[muleskinner]

Guardian reported a club was interested, has he actually gone?

[johngibo YPC]

You sure??

Where you heard that?

Latest seems to be that they would like him

 

TOKYO (Reuters) - Liverpool first-team coach Alex Miller could soon become the new manager of Japanese J-League club JEF United Chiba.

 

"We have drawn up a list and are hoping to make an announcement either tomorrow or the next day," JEF United's Kentaro Shiga told Reuters on Thursday.

 

"Miller is one of our candidates. We have a match this weekend so we want to name the new manager as soon as possible. We should have more details in the next day or two."

 

Japanese media reported that the struggling J-League side, who sacked Croatian Josip Kuze in midweek, have offered Miller a salary of 500,000 pounds a year.

 

Chiba are currently rooted firmly to the bottom of the J-League first division without a win in 11 matches this season.

 

The Tokyo Bayside club have lost several top players in recent seasons, Japan internationals Naotake Hanyu and Satoru Yamagishi joining the exodus before the start of the 2008 campaign.

 

Miller, 58, managed Scottish clubs Hibernian and Aberdeen before joining Liverpool's backroom staff in 1999 as chief scout under then manager Gerard Houllier.

 

The Scot was promoted to first-team coach after Spaniard Rafael Benitez's arrival as manager of the English Premier League side in 2004.

[Guest Jinky7]

Was told by a close friend of Alex Miller who received a phone call from a member of the Miller family.

[Guest Rafa's Receding Hairline]

Just what we needed.

 

Rafa's right hand man leave this season, and Rafa's replacement leave soon after him.

 

Yet another blow.

[Benitez]

hopefully he's more successful than others that have left recently. They seem to get sacked or quickly leave the clubs they leave Liverpool for!

Edited May 8, 2008 by Benitez

[gkmacca]

Get Sammy Lee in sharpish!

[Cunny]

  gkmacca said:

Get Sammy Lee in sharpish!

 

 

I heard Rafa is lining up a dream coaching team of Kaizer and Rashid to replace Miller.

[owenthomas]

  gkmacca said:

Get Sammy Lee in sharpish!

ok.. we will...........................................................................................................................

[Benitez]

  Cunny said:

I heard Rafa is lining up a dream coaching team of Kaizer and Rashid to replace Miller.

 

 

Kaizer has such a huge ego that'd he'd actually believe himself to be capable of the job

[Falconhoof]

Its thrown our planning for the Spurs game into turmoil.

 

Has the dressing room been rocked by this news ?

[AE]

Has he left partly because his "replacement" has already been sorted?

[owenthomas]

  AE said:

Has he left partly because his "replacement" has already been sorted?

i understand that is the case mate..

[Hassony]

  owenthomas said:

i understand that is the case mate..

 

Jimmy Case is his replacement?

[Boca]

  owenthomas said:

i understand that is the case mate..

 

 

...and...

[owenthomas]

"...and..." what???

[Dee]

Thommo - you heard it here first

[Bootle Buck]

  Hassony said:

Jimmy Case is his replacement?

 

 

No, his brother..................Justin

[Boca]

  owenthomas said:

"...and..." what???

 

I thought you were inplying that you knew who this replacement is.

[johngibo YPC]

  Boca said:

I thought you were inplying that you knew who this replacement is.

 

he did in his previous post you thick c*nt

[muleskinner]

Who is it?

[Falconhoof]

  muleskinner said:

Who is it?

 

Its Alex Miller, he's resigning his position as Rafa's assistant.

[Raj]

Dave Usher said that Sammy Lee has been at Melwood the past two days.