Kenny's Dalglish - Don't Look Back

It's never a good idea to try and go back and recreate the good times, but I fear that this is what Kenny Dalglish is trying to do at Liverpool.
Any real football fan (even Toffees) will readily acknowledge what a great player he was and would have loved to have seen him playing for their sides in his pomp, but I have reservations about his ability as a manager.
The Anfield side he led to glory was the same side put together by Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan, but once he started tinkering with it and bringing in his own players (David Speedie, et al) it started going wrong for him and - dare I say - Liverpool.
Ronnie Moore was left to try and pick up the pieces and the rot well and truly set in under Graeme Souness who had to totally re-build, but probably wasn't given the time needed (whether he could have done it anyway is cause for another debate).
After bailing out on Liverpool he then surprised everyone by taking on the Blackburn job and leading them into the top flight and then wining it with a side that included Alan Shearer who was probably at his peak (and uninjured) at that time. For me this was his greatest managerial achievement. True he had Jack Walker's money to back him when very few other clubs had the same financial clout, but he still had to assemble the right team from nothing and did so. How many managers have we seen get it wrong since then - despite having a sack full of cash?
At Newcastle he took the side to second in the table with a team put together by Kevin Keegan and then during the following summer he started dismantling it and the Toon haven't reached those dizzy heights again since.
At Celtic he was appointed Director of Football with John Barnes as his head coach. Barnes lasted about seven months as the club slowly fell apart. True, Kenny stepped into the gaffer's job and won the Cup for them that season, but frankly with only one real rival team to worry about, it's hardly something that's going to stand out on your CV.
I don't wish Liverpool or Kenny any ill, but just feel that they have taken a backward - and risky - step.
Then again, a win against Everton at the weekend and things may just start looking up for the club and the feelgood factor might take them forward. They need it though because the squad they have look like a bottom half of the table outfit to me once you take Stevie Gerrard out of the equation ... and he's not playing for the next three games.