Holloway doubts instant Liverpool revival

Blackpool manager Ian Holloway has questioned whether new Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish will be able to change his players’ attitudes.

Liverpool fans chanted for Dalglish during their shock 2-1 defeat to Holloway’s Blackpool earlier in the season and calls for the Anfield legend to replace Roy Hodgson grew steadily as the Anfield club’s plight deepened.

Hodgson was eventually sacked and replaced by Dalglish ahead of Liverpool’s FA Cup tie with Manchester United on Sunday, which they lost 1-0.

Dalglish takes charge of his first English Premier League match back in management when Liverpool travel to Bloomfield Road on Wednesday and the 59-year-old Scot has a fight on his hands to drag Liverpool away from the relegation zone.

“Is Kenny going to change the squad that quickly?” Holloway said.

“Will he be able to change the players’ attitudes?”

“I hope for his sake he can but I feel it is pretty sad as Roy is a lovely man and he did not get a decent amount of time to turn it round.”

“To be a football manager you need time to get your ethos across but if it isn’t instant coffee these days, you are dead.”

“It is all about patience and I feel sorry for Roy. The Liverpool fans have got the man they chanted for and we shall see what he can do.”

Blackpool have no new injury worries ahead of the match, but long-term absentees Marlon Harewood and Matthew Gilks remain unavailable while David Carney is on Asian Cup duty with Australia.

Their chances of signing Bradley Wright-Phillips, meanwhile, appear remote after Plymouth dismissed Blackpool’s 50,000-pound bid as ‘derisory’.