You've lost Gerrard, Suarez and Sterling in the past three season, there's clearly something a miss with the bloke.
===========================
Proper straw clutching going on here as well. Gerrard is 35 mate. Suarez went to Barcelona and Sterling is on huge money, went for huge money and was running his contract down. He now plays with Aguero, De Bruyne and Silva.
dont understand the hate for BR.
As a Utd fan i think he has been let down by the club and its failure to keep hold of their best players.
He's gone from Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling to Ings, an injury prone Sturridge and Benteke.
from what ive read and heard he doesnt have full control on which players are signed, so that alone is a problem, because hes not even managing his own team.
Liverpool should be around the 5th place mark come the end of the season, and thats where i think theyll end up.
yes he talks some bollox at times ( like the OP ) but he can only work with what he has.
people say " hes spent so many million", but so have the teams above him, so its not like hes had an advantage like some are making out.
At 45 years of age, managing such a big club, and getting them closer to the title than anyone else has in over 25 years, i wouldnt say he was doing that bad a job
comment by Robbing_Hoody - Part of FSG's black flag operation (U6374)
posted 3 minutes ago
Who was the last world class player to be brought to the PL?
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Ozil, Hazard(ish at the time), Di Maria, Sanchez, De Bruyne, Sweinstieger, Costa (ish) , Fabregas, Matic.
Where did they all go? Not Liverpool.
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Guess we have different opinions of World Class, obviously very subjective.
Hazard being a perfect example of nurturing a world class player though. That's what clubs should be looking to be doing, hopefully we have found the next one in Hazard.
Coutinho and Sturridge have been your best signings in some time, yet were good prices and not considered in such a bracket. Even Suarez went up a few gears after 12 months at the club.
comment by Fergies A Jolly Good Fellow (U17074)
posted 6 minutes ago
“That is sad. I am the same man who nearly won us the league but better. If you give me the tools, I will do the work.”
Is Rodgers seriously inferring that he hasn't been backed sufficiently in the transfer market?
He's the biggest tool.
******
Read the article. This statement was to lay emphasis on this one
“I have shown in the early stages of my management that – without being arrogant – with a talented group of players I can compete at the top end of the league.''
This sounds fair enough to me. I think he is asking for time, not inferring a lack of backing. Whether he should get the time is another topic but it's gotten to a point where people are hanging onto every interview and nitpicking the juicy parts to heap onto the bandwagon. It's getting ridiculous IMO.
comment by Mamba - Killing ain't fair but somebody gotta do it(U1282) (U13041)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fergies A Jolly Good Fellow (U17074)
posted 6 minutes ago
“That is sad. I am the same man who nearly won us the league but better. If you give me the tools, I will do the work.”
Is Rodgers seriously inferring that he hasn't been backed sufficiently in the transfer market?
He's the biggest tool.
******
Read the article. This statement was to lay emphasis on this one
“I have shown in the early stages of my management that – without being arrogant – with a talented group of players I can compete at the top end of the league.''
This sounds fair enough to me. I think he is asking for time, not inferring a lack of backing. Whether he should get the time is another topic but it's gotten to a point where people are hanging onto every interview and nitpicking the juicy parts to heap onto the bandwagon. It's getting ridiculous IMO.
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we are talking manc logic here
Coutinho and Sturridge have been your best signings in some time, yet were good prices and not considered in such a bracket. Even Suarez went up a few gears after 12 months at the club.
======================
Indeed. So Coutinho, Stuuridge, Sterling and Suarez have all played their best football under Rodgers.
Convince yourselves all you like scousers. I do like the ability to defend yours to the end, but he does not sound like a manager ready to won up to his faults, and that is always the first and greatest flaw of any leader.
If the logic is that he does not have enough players to put away Norwich and 2nd division opposition and a poor Villa all at home, then you are willing to believe anything.
Furthermore, for the forseeable future, your team is not going to be able to keep hold of your best players. Fact of life considering your ownerships spending power and current reputation in world football. If he cannot succeed in this situation, then he is going to be in the same position he is right now for a very long time and is not good enough. You will still need a manager who can bring in players and upgrade them.
He needs to face reality and adjust to it stop harking back to glory days when he had a possible ballon d'or player in his ranks.
One more thing. Most great managers, its all about their system. That way the dropoff when a great player leaves is less damaging that it seems to be at liverpool.
comment by we are liverpool fc (U13373)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Mamba - Killing ain't fair but somebody gotta do it(U1282) (U13041)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fergies A Jolly Good Fellow (U17074)
posted 6 minutes ago
“That is sad. I am the same man who nearly won us the league but better. If you give me the tools, I will do the work.”
Is Rodgers seriously inferring that he hasn't been backed sufficiently in the transfer market?
He's the biggest tool.
******
Read the article. This statement was to lay emphasis on this one
“I have shown in the early stages of my management that – without being arrogant – with a talented group of players I can compete at the top end of the league.''
This sounds fair enough to me. I think he is asking for time, not inferring a lack of backing. Whether he should get the time is another topic but it's gotten to a point where people are hanging onto every interview and nitpicking the juicy parts to heap onto the bandwagon. It's getting ridiculous IMO.
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we are talking manc logic here
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To be honest, I was only after a little Monday morning banter. I already said to Robbing that I think Rodgers is a pretty decent manager, but for me, his eye for talent lets him down more than he manages to get it right.
He did well to get a crack of managing a big club, but I really don't see him as the right man to bring the glory days back.
The 5 teams LFC have beaten in the league since March 17 are currently 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th in the league and 12th in the Championship.
Its embarrassing.
from what ive read and heard he doesnt have full control on which players are signed, so that alone is a problem, because hes not even managing his own team.
When Rodgers became Liverpool manager he already knew there would be a transfer committee in place,it was one of the reasons other managers turned down Liverpool at the time.So as far as that goes he took the job knowing this would be the case
Yeah the only problem is transfers.. not that he uses plays in wrong positions, favours players who dont deserve to be starting etc, we dont sign players if he doesnt agree & most clubs around europe have a committee of sorts, dont know why people pretend we are the only ones who use it
It's not like us reds don't hear the rubbish BR talks, we all know what to expect him to say in post match interviews.
Yeah he talks a load of waffle, he seems to be big into the whole Tony Robbins self help blah blah blah.
It's annoying at times but really not that big a deal, I know I don't really listen to his press conferences anymore cause I know he will talk some rubbish.
But overall he's a decent young manager, managing a big club in his early 40s, he's made loads of mistakes and will make more as he progresses.
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 8 minutes ago
Convince yourselves all you like scousers. I do like the ability to defend yours to the end, but he does not sound like a manager ready to won up to his faults
******
Yet another bandwagon. This has not been the topic of this thread so I fail to see where you are coming from or who you are addressing with this comment.
comment by Adam 'The Interview' Lallana (U20650)
posted 6 minutes ago
The 5 teams LFC have beaten in the league since March 17 are currently 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th in the league and 12th in the Championship.
Its embarrassing.
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since march 7 games we have played,you sound like rodgers
comment by Adam 'The Interview' Lallana (U20650)
posted 30 seconds ago
Yeah the only problem is transfers.. not that he uses plays in wrong positions, favours players who dont deserve to be starting etc, we dont sign players if he doesnt agree & most clubs around europe have a committee of sorts, dont know why people pretend we are the only ones who use it
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is a very good point, interesting that phil neville says that "from what i have read and heard" there is a transfer committee....interesting in that there has been a lot spoken and written about this at liverpool, yet at which other club has a transfer committee repeatedly been put forward as an excuse for a struggling manager? yet everyone in world football has heard the brendan doesn't have full control excuse.
and yet look at the 2 players where there is zero doubt that rodgers signed them - borini and allen, both of whom he had managed before - and they were complete flops.
and the liverpool manager who had managed both coutinho and sturridge before? rafa benitez...
comment by Don Draper's dandruff (U20155)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Adam 'The Interview' Lallana (U20650)
posted 30 seconds ago
Yeah the only problem is transfers.. not that he uses plays in wrong positions, favours players who dont deserve to be starting etc, we dont sign players if he doesnt agree & most clubs around europe have a committee of sorts, dont know why people pretend we are the only ones who use it
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is a very good point, interesting that phil neville says that "from what i have read and heard" there is a transfer committee....interesting in that there has been a lot spoken and written about this at liverpool, yet at which other club has a transfer committee repeatedly been put forward as an excuse for a struggling manager? yet everyone in world football has heard the brendan doesn't have full control excuse.
and yet look at the 2 players where there is zero doubt that rodgers signed them - borini and allen, both of whom he had managed before - and they were complete flops.
and the liverpool manager who had managed both coutinho and sturridge before? rafa benitez...
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He wanted lallana and lovren badly aswell
Let's see where we finish shall we. Why people think we should finish above fifth I don't know. Same people who think we bang on about the past!
No-one gave a sh!t about what he said at Swansea did they.
Keep talking about LFC please.
"If you give me the tools, I will do the work."
And my do Liverpool have alot of tools.
comment by phil neville has three left feet-je suis charlie (U13806)
posted 1 minute ago
from what ive read and heard he doesnt have full control on which players are signed, so that alone is a problem, because hes not even managing his own team.
When Rodgers became Liverpool manager he already knew there would be a transfer committee in place,it was one of the reasons other managers turned down Liverpool at the time.So as far as that goes he took the job knowing this would be the case
******
To be fair, Rodgers was first choice and the only candidate to be made a formal offer.
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 49 seconds ago
It's not like us reds don't hear the rubbish BR talks, we all know what to expect him to say in post match interviews.
Yeah he talks a load of waffle, he seems to be big into the whole Tony Robbins self help blah blah blah.
It's annoying at times but really not that big a deal, I know I don't really listen to his press conferences anymore cause I know he will talk some rubbish.
But overall he's a decent young manager, managing a big club in his early 40s, he's made loads of mistakes and will make more as he progresses.
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LVG is worse,he talks total codswallop bit rich of mancs to slate our man
comment by Dink Dunk, Donk, Denk and Dank and also now regrettably DOINK!!!! (U11713)
posted 38 minutes ago
dont understand the hate for BR.
As a Utd fan i think he has been let down by the club and its failure to keep hold of their best players.
He's gone from Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling to Ings, an injury prone Sturridge and Benteke.
from what ive read and heard he doesnt have full control on which players are signed, so that alone is a problem, because hes not even managing his own team.
Liverpool should be around the 5th place mark come the end of the season, and thats where i think theyll end up.
yes he talks some bollox at times ( like the OP) but he can only work with what he has.
people say " hes spent so many million", but so have the teams above him, so its not like hes had an advantage like some are making out.
At 45 years of age, managing such a big club, and getting them closer to the title than anyone else has in over 25 years, i wouldnt say he was doing that bad a job
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That's a fair comment.
Only bit I disagree with is about his spending. Yes, some teams above him have spent. But he's spent more than Arsenal & Spurs have in that time. He's been backed, spent a fortune but the biggest problem is that he's not been buying players, in general, the improve the squad.
For example - Arsenal bought Sanchez & Cech, we bought Martial, Schweinsteiger, etc. Just overall, the teams above have bought better quality players. Liverpool bought Ings and Benteke for a combined £40m+. It's insane.
Some of that can be blamed on the transfer comitee, but he surely has to take some of the responsibility. I'm not having it that he has no say at all in who they buy.
comment by Robbing_Hoody - Part of FSG's black flag operation (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
Let's see where we finish shall we. Why people think we should finish above fifth I don't know. Same people who think we bang on about the past!
No-one gave a sh!t about what he said at Swansea did they.
Keep talking about LFC please.
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You could very easily argue that you should finish above arsenal, or at the very least compete strongly with them, given that their wages are a little bigger than yours, but your transfer spending has been bigger (and consistently too, £50m more over the last 3 years, and that is a net figure, and in fact ever since the PL began).
And speaking only for myself I would love liverpool to get less media coverage, but we can't get away from it - rodgers under pressure, rodgers lifts pressure, rodgers blames media etc etc - so I would suggest the obsession is a media one, not an opposition fans' one.
No but buying from a position of strength is exactly that - a position of strength.
Once the players available have gone to Cheslea, Arsenal, Utd and City that he wants what's next? The next rung down and these are good international footballers that clubs don't want to let go.
Why people cannot, or choose I suspect to not, see this I don't know.
Do people honestly think that Brendan Rodgers, football coach, would not only not want Costa, Fabregas, Hazard and Sanchez for £100m?
Do they think he, as a football coach, draw up contracts and conducts multi million pound sales?
People are stupid.
And speaking only for myself I would love liverpool to get less media coverage, but we can't get away from it - rodgers under pressure, rodgers lifts pressure, rodgers blames media etc etc - so I would suggest the obsession is a media one, not an opposition fans' one.
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You make it sound like clockwork orange with your eyes held open.
Buy a proper paper and stop taking in Murdochs guff.
You can do it!
No-one gave a sh!t about what he said at Swansea did they.
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so true hoody,i wonder why,obession maybe
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posted on 28/9/15
You've lost Gerrard, Suarez and Sterling in the past three season, there's clearly something a miss with the bloke.
===========================
Proper straw clutching going on here as well. Gerrard is 35 mate. Suarez went to Barcelona and Sterling is on huge money, went for huge money and was running his contract down. He now plays with Aguero, De Bruyne and Silva.
posted on 28/9/15
dont understand the hate for BR.
As a Utd fan i think he has been let down by the club and its failure to keep hold of their best players.
He's gone from Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling to Ings, an injury prone Sturridge and Benteke.
from what ive read and heard he doesnt have full control on which players are signed, so that alone is a problem, because hes not even managing his own team.
Liverpool should be around the 5th place mark come the end of the season, and thats where i think theyll end up.
yes he talks some bollox at times ( like the OP ) but he can only work with what he has.
people say " hes spent so many million", but so have the teams above him, so its not like hes had an advantage like some are making out.
At 45 years of age, managing such a big club, and getting them closer to the title than anyone else has in over 25 years, i wouldnt say he was doing that bad a job
posted on 28/9/15
comment by Robbing_Hoody - Part of FSG's black flag operation (U6374)
posted 3 minutes ago
Who was the last world class player to be brought to the PL?
=====================
Ozil, Hazard(ish at the time), Di Maria, Sanchez, De Bruyne, Sweinstieger, Costa (ish) , Fabregas, Matic.
Where did they all go? Not Liverpool.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Guess we have different opinions of World Class, obviously very subjective.
Hazard being a perfect example of nurturing a world class player though. That's what clubs should be looking to be doing, hopefully we have found the next one in Hazard.
Coutinho and Sturridge have been your best signings in some time, yet were good prices and not considered in such a bracket. Even Suarez went up a few gears after 12 months at the club.
posted on 28/9/15
comment by Fergies A Jolly Good Fellow (U17074)
posted 6 minutes ago
“That is sad. I am the same man who nearly won us the league but better. If you give me the tools, I will do the work.”
Is Rodgers seriously inferring that he hasn't been backed sufficiently in the transfer market?
He's the biggest tool.
******
Read the article. This statement was to lay emphasis on this one
“I have shown in the early stages of my management that – without being arrogant – with a talented group of players I can compete at the top end of the league.''
This sounds fair enough to me. I think he is asking for time, not inferring a lack of backing. Whether he should get the time is another topic but it's gotten to a point where people are hanging onto every interview and nitpicking the juicy parts to heap onto the bandwagon. It's getting ridiculous IMO.
posted on 28/9/15
comment by Mamba - Killing ain't fair but somebody gotta do it(U1282) (U13041)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fergies A Jolly Good Fellow (U17074)
posted 6 minutes ago
“That is sad. I am the same man who nearly won us the league but better. If you give me the tools, I will do the work.”
Is Rodgers seriously inferring that he hasn't been backed sufficiently in the transfer market?
He's the biggest tool.
******
Read the article. This statement was to lay emphasis on this one
“I have shown in the early stages of my management that – without being arrogant – with a talented group of players I can compete at the top end of the league.''
This sounds fair enough to me. I think he is asking for time, not inferring a lack of backing. Whether he should get the time is another topic but it's gotten to a point where people are hanging onto every interview and nitpicking the juicy parts to heap onto the bandwagon. It's getting ridiculous IMO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
we are talking manc logic here
posted on 28/9/15
Coutinho and Sturridge have been your best signings in some time, yet were good prices and not considered in such a bracket. Even Suarez went up a few gears after 12 months at the club.
======================
Indeed. So Coutinho, Stuuridge, Sterling and Suarez have all played their best football under Rodgers.
posted on 28/9/15
Convince yourselves all you like scousers. I do like the ability to defend yours to the end, but he does not sound like a manager ready to won up to his faults, and that is always the first and greatest flaw of any leader.
If the logic is that he does not have enough players to put away Norwich and 2nd division opposition and a poor Villa all at home, then you are willing to believe anything.
Furthermore, for the forseeable future, your team is not going to be able to keep hold of your best players. Fact of life considering your ownerships spending power and current reputation in world football. If he cannot succeed in this situation, then he is going to be in the same position he is right now for a very long time and is not good enough. You will still need a manager who can bring in players and upgrade them.
He needs to face reality and adjust to it stop harking back to glory days when he had a possible ballon d'or player in his ranks.
One more thing. Most great managers, its all about their system. That way the dropoff when a great player leaves is less damaging that it seems to be at liverpool.
posted on 28/9/15
comment by we are liverpool fc (U13373)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Mamba - Killing ain't fair but somebody gotta do it(U1282) (U13041)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fergies A Jolly Good Fellow (U17074)
posted 6 minutes ago
“That is sad. I am the same man who nearly won us the league but better. If you give me the tools, I will do the work.”
Is Rodgers seriously inferring that he hasn't been backed sufficiently in the transfer market?
He's the biggest tool.
******
Read the article. This statement was to lay emphasis on this one
“I have shown in the early stages of my management that – without being arrogant – with a talented group of players I can compete at the top end of the league.''
This sounds fair enough to me. I think he is asking for time, not inferring a lack of backing. Whether he should get the time is another topic but it's gotten to a point where people are hanging onto every interview and nitpicking the juicy parts to heap onto the bandwagon. It's getting ridiculous IMO.
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we are talking manc logic here
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To be honest, I was only after a little Monday morning banter. I already said to Robbing that I think Rodgers is a pretty decent manager, but for me, his eye for talent lets him down more than he manages to get it right.
He did well to get a crack of managing a big club, but I really don't see him as the right man to bring the glory days back.
posted on 28/9/15
The 5 teams LFC have beaten in the league since March 17 are currently 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th in the league and 12th in the Championship.
Its embarrassing.
posted on 28/9/15
from what ive read and heard he doesnt have full control on which players are signed, so that alone is a problem, because hes not even managing his own team.
When Rodgers became Liverpool manager he already knew there would be a transfer committee in place,it was one of the reasons other managers turned down Liverpool at the time.So as far as that goes he took the job knowing this would be the case
posted on 28/9/15
Yeah the only problem is transfers.. not that he uses plays in wrong positions, favours players who dont deserve to be starting etc, we dont sign players if he doesnt agree & most clubs around europe have a committee of sorts, dont know why people pretend we are the only ones who use it
posted on 28/9/15
It's not like us reds don't hear the rubbish BR talks, we all know what to expect him to say in post match interviews.
Yeah he talks a load of waffle, he seems to be big into the whole Tony Robbins self help blah blah blah.
It's annoying at times but really not that big a deal, I know I don't really listen to his press conferences anymore cause I know he will talk some rubbish.
But overall he's a decent young manager, managing a big club in his early 40s, he's made loads of mistakes and will make more as he progresses.
posted on 28/9/15
comment by Redastomatoes- Feels very Moyesian...cleverson forever!If he is good enough he is ready! (U12026)
posted 8 minutes ago
Convince yourselves all you like scousers. I do like the ability to defend yours to the end, but he does not sound like a manager ready to won up to his faults
******
Yet another bandwagon. This has not been the topic of this thread so I fail to see where you are coming from or who you are addressing with this comment.
posted on 28/9/15
comment by Adam 'The Interview' Lallana (U20650)
posted 6 minutes ago
The 5 teams LFC have beaten in the league since March 17 are currently 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th in the league and 12th in the Championship.
Its embarrassing.
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since march 7 games we have played,you sound like rodgers
posted on 28/9/15
comment by Adam 'The Interview' Lallana (U20650)
posted 30 seconds ago
Yeah the only problem is transfers.. not that he uses plays in wrong positions, favours players who dont deserve to be starting etc, we dont sign players if he doesnt agree & most clubs around europe have a committee of sorts, dont know why people pretend we are the only ones who use it
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is a very good point, interesting that phil neville says that "from what i have read and heard" there is a transfer committee....interesting in that there has been a lot spoken and written about this at liverpool, yet at which other club has a transfer committee repeatedly been put forward as an excuse for a struggling manager? yet everyone in world football has heard the brendan doesn't have full control excuse.
and yet look at the 2 players where there is zero doubt that rodgers signed them - borini and allen, both of whom he had managed before - and they were complete flops.
and the liverpool manager who had managed both coutinho and sturridge before? rafa benitez...
posted on 28/9/15
comment by Don Draper's dandruff (U20155)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Adam 'The Interview' Lallana (U20650)
posted 30 seconds ago
Yeah the only problem is transfers.. not that he uses plays in wrong positions, favours players who dont deserve to be starting etc, we dont sign players if he doesnt agree & most clubs around europe have a committee of sorts, dont know why people pretend we are the only ones who use it
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is a very good point, interesting that phil neville says that "from what i have read and heard" there is a transfer committee....interesting in that there has been a lot spoken and written about this at liverpool, yet at which other club has a transfer committee repeatedly been put forward as an excuse for a struggling manager? yet everyone in world football has heard the brendan doesn't have full control excuse.
and yet look at the 2 players where there is zero doubt that rodgers signed them - borini and allen, both of whom he had managed before - and they were complete flops.
and the liverpool manager who had managed both coutinho and sturridge before? rafa benitez...
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He wanted lallana and lovren badly aswell
posted on 28/9/15
Let's see where we finish shall we. Why people think we should finish above fifth I don't know. Same people who think we bang on about the past!
No-one gave a sh!t about what he said at Swansea did they.
Keep talking about LFC please.
posted on 28/9/15
"If you give me the tools, I will do the work."
And my do Liverpool have alot of tools.
posted on 28/9/15
comment by phil neville has three left feet-je suis charlie (U13806)
posted 1 minute ago
from what ive read and heard he doesnt have full control on which players are signed, so that alone is a problem, because hes not even managing his own team.
When Rodgers became Liverpool manager he already knew there would be a transfer committee in place,it was one of the reasons other managers turned down Liverpool at the time.So as far as that goes he took the job knowing this would be the case
******
To be fair, Rodgers was first choice and the only candidate to be made a formal offer.
posted on 28/9/15
comment by kneerash-23 Cara Gold (U6876)
posted 49 seconds ago
It's not like us reds don't hear the rubbish BR talks, we all know what to expect him to say in post match interviews.
Yeah he talks a load of waffle, he seems to be big into the whole Tony Robbins self help blah blah blah.
It's annoying at times but really not that big a deal, I know I don't really listen to his press conferences anymore cause I know he will talk some rubbish.
But overall he's a decent young manager, managing a big club in his early 40s, he's made loads of mistakes and will make more as he progresses.
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LVG is worse,he talks total codswallop bit rich of mancs to slate our man
posted on 28/9/15
comment by Dink Dunk, Donk, Denk and Dank and also now regrettably DOINK!!!! (U11713)
posted 38 minutes ago
dont understand the hate for BR.
As a Utd fan i think he has been let down by the club and its failure to keep hold of their best players.
He's gone from Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling to Ings, an injury prone Sturridge and Benteke.
from what ive read and heard he doesnt have full control on which players are signed, so that alone is a problem, because hes not even managing his own team.
Liverpool should be around the 5th place mark come the end of the season, and thats where i think theyll end up.
yes he talks some bollox at times ( like the OP) but he can only work with what he has.
people say " hes spent so many million", but so have the teams above him, so its not like hes had an advantage like some are making out.
At 45 years of age, managing such a big club, and getting them closer to the title than anyone else has in over 25 years, i wouldnt say he was doing that bad a job
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That's a fair comment.
Only bit I disagree with is about his spending. Yes, some teams above him have spent. But he's spent more than Arsenal & Spurs have in that time. He's been backed, spent a fortune but the biggest problem is that he's not been buying players, in general, the improve the squad.
For example - Arsenal bought Sanchez & Cech, we bought Martial, Schweinsteiger, etc. Just overall, the teams above have bought better quality players. Liverpool bought Ings and Benteke for a combined £40m+. It's insane.
Some of that can be blamed on the transfer comitee, but he surely has to take some of the responsibility. I'm not having it that he has no say at all in who they buy.
posted on 28/9/15
comment by Robbing_Hoody - Part of FSG's black flag operation (U6374)
posted 1 minute ago
Let's see where we finish shall we. Why people think we should finish above fifth I don't know. Same people who think we bang on about the past!
No-one gave a sh!t about what he said at Swansea did they.
Keep talking about LFC please.
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You could very easily argue that you should finish above arsenal, or at the very least compete strongly with them, given that their wages are a little bigger than yours, but your transfer spending has been bigger (and consistently too, £50m more over the last 3 years, and that is a net figure, and in fact ever since the PL began).
And speaking only for myself I would love liverpool to get less media coverage, but we can't get away from it - rodgers under pressure, rodgers lifts pressure, rodgers blames media etc etc - so I would suggest the obsession is a media one, not an opposition fans' one.
posted on 28/9/15
No but buying from a position of strength is exactly that - a position of strength.
Once the players available have gone to Cheslea, Arsenal, Utd and City that he wants what's next? The next rung down and these are good international footballers that clubs don't want to let go.
Why people cannot, or choose I suspect to not, see this I don't know.
Do people honestly think that Brendan Rodgers, football coach, would not only not want Costa, Fabregas, Hazard and Sanchez for £100m?
Do they think he, as a football coach, draw up contracts and conducts multi million pound sales?
People are stupid.
posted on 28/9/15
And speaking only for myself I would love liverpool to get less media coverage, but we can't get away from it - rodgers under pressure, rodgers lifts pressure, rodgers blames media etc etc - so I would suggest the obsession is a media one, not an opposition fans' one.
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You make it sound like clockwork orange with your eyes held open.
Buy a proper paper and stop taking in Murdochs guff.
You can do it!
posted on 28/9/15
No-one gave a sh!t about what he said at Swansea did they.
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so true hoody,i wonder why,obession maybe
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