What is Sammy Lee's role in all this?

On a slightly different note, can anyone tell me what value Sammy Lee brings to the club?

Sammy has worked under Gerard Houllier, Sven Goran Eriksson, Sam Allardyce, Rafa Benitez and now Roy Hodgson – managers with very different ideas on how the game should be played and whose very different playing styles were imprinted on their teams apparently irrespective of Sammy’s presence. By contrast Alex Ferguson has been able to remain at or around the top of the English game by regularly changing his coaching assistants to import the latest ideas in the European game – clearly they played differently when Brian Kidd was number 2 than when Carlos Quieroz was there, for example. Shouldn’t a coach have some imput into the playing style? At the very least shouldn’t Sammy be telling Hodgson that the way we are currently playing is (a) crap to watch, (b) ineffective unless the aim is to lose, (c) completely unacceptable to Liverpool fans and (d) the principle reason we are in the relegation zone and out of the Carling Cup at the first attempt. He may be saying that for all we know but if the message isn’t getting through, he can’t be very assertive.

Sammy’s CV shows he was in the coaching set-ups in the awful final years of Houllier’s tenure, the much criticised tenure of Sven, the season that led to Sam Allardyce's departure from Bolton, the hugely disappointing final season of Benitez’s reign and now the disaster-in-progress that is Hodgson era. That’s without mentioning his ill-fated stint as Bolton’s manager. I fail to see how he is qualified for this job.

Don't get me wrong, I certainly don’t blame Sammy for the state we're in; I blame Hodgson for the rotten performances and the Americans for the wider mess. However, I would like to think that Sammy was at least pointing out the serious and obvious errors in Hodgson’s approach rather than idly watching this mess unfold. Otherwise, why is he there?