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Brentan Rodgers
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He's a shocking man manager. Absolutely shocking. Just remember when he completely hung Balotelli out to dry. Now, if one person deserves that it's got to be Balotelli, but even so that was a managerial horror show. Or how about this recent gem about Lovren: http://www.theguardian.com/football...ejan-lovren-brendan-rodgers-kolo-toure-fa-cup
What a vote of confidence.
We should start a thread for his best quotes:
"If you spend more than £100 million, you expect to be challenging for the league."
"Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe."
"We are seeing now the player we all know Liverpool had – which is one of the best full-backs in the world.” - Glen Johnson
"When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them."
Liverpool 0-1 Aston Villa – 75% possession
Liverpool 2-2 Middlesbrough (won 14-13 on pens) – 72%
Liverpool 0-0 Hull – 66%
Newcastle 1-0 Liverpool – 65%
Crystal Palace 3-1 Liverpool – 64%
“We play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper.”
“I think what he’ll find is the competition in this league will be different to any other league that he’s worked in” - Van Gaal
"If you spend more than £100 million, you expect to be challenging for the league."
"Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe."
"We are seeing now the player we all know Liverpool had – which is one of the best full-backs in the world.” - Glen Johnson
"When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them."
Liverpool 0-1 Aston Villa – 75% possession
Liverpool 2-2 Middlesbrough (won 14-13 on pens) – 72%
Liverpool 0-0 Hull – 66%
Newcastle 1-0 Liverpool – 65%
Crystal Palace 3-1 Liverpool – 64%
“We play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper.”
“I think what he’ll find is the competition in this league will be different to any other league that he’s worked in” - Van Gaal
@Cal? That second last one is brilliant. He's absolutely nuts.
Well, praise him for recognizing what he was doing wasn't working and fixing it. Other than that he's a tosser
Some more:
“You train dogs, I like to educate players.”
“My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence.”
”I use a quote with the players,“Per aspera ad astra”, which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’.”
What a man.
“You train dogs, I like to educate players.”
“My biggest mentor is myself because I’ve had to study, so that’s been my biggest influence.”
”I use a quote with the players,“Per aspera ad astra”, which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’.”
What a man.
This is likely part of why he can't organise a defence.
That quote is particularly amusing when you think how bad Mignolet is with the ball at his feet.
That one really doesn't make any sense, I don't know where to begin, as if other managers are just born with an ability to manage?
Also that he junked a keeper that was a far better ball player, and keeper in general.
Very good manager but been poor in the transfer market except for Sturridge and Coutinho.
When the team sheets were announced, my friends and I were debating if only Sterling would get into the Arsenal starting XI or if you'd include Coutinho. Ultimately we sided with Cazorla for his consistency. It's hard to win when the other team would make up 10 of the 11 players in a combined XI.
When the team sheets were announced, my friends and I were debating if only Sterling would get into the Arsenal starting XI or if you'd include Coutinho. Ultimately we sided with Cazorla for his consistency. It's hard to win when the other team would make up 10 of the 11 players in a combined XI.
Yeah, that's just not true.
Who has had the biggest influence on your coaching career Brendan? Me
Are there any managers in the game that you think you can learn from? Me
He's truly something else.
I use a quote with the players,“Per aspera ad astra”, which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’.” Wow
I think I need to find this 'Being Liverpool' documentary...must be quite good if he's coming out with stuff like that.No?
-----------Giroud---------
Sanchez----Ozil---Sterling
----Cazorla----Coquelin---
Monreal-------------Bellerin
---Koscielny-Mertesacker---
-----------Ospina----------
seems right to me. Sanchez, Ozil, Giroud, Monreal and Koscielny are all no-brainers (Sturridge would replace the latter, though it's closer than many think, but he was on the bench half-crocked).
There's a case for Henderson or more likely Ramsey replacing Cazorla as the 8 based on defensive work. In terms of talent and productivity, the Liverpool man is clearly third.
Coquelin is having a good season as a DM. Definitely prefer him to Lucas or to Henderson shoved deeper. Can has all the physical tools for the job but that would be a risky choice.
Can is playing well most games at RCB, but I don't think I trust him at RB yet really. Bellerin is better going forward and similarly prone to a mistake. Maybe this would come down to opposition, I'll concede.
Mertesacker isn't perfect, but he's better than Skrtel and the other Liverpool CB options are worse.
Ospina is a reliable B+ goalkeeper, which puts him ahead of Mignolet, who at his best is better but at his worst is far worse.
@NoPace Apart from Sakho or Skrtel instead of Metersacker that team looks pretty spot on. Giroud and Sturridge could be debatable but Giroud has like 6 goals in his last 6 league games and Sturridge looks out of form.
More quotes:
“I think there’s three players who will let us down this year — the cause, the fight, everything – and I have written them down already in these three envelopes. Make sure you are not in one of the envelopes.”
“I started coaching for one reason and that was to make a difference for people, not just as footballers but as human beings.”
“I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.”
“It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes.”
“I think there’s three players who will let us down this year — the cause, the fight, everything – and I have written them down already in these three envelopes. Make sure you are not in one of the envelopes.”
“I started coaching for one reason and that was to make a difference for people, not just as footballers but as human beings.”
“I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.”
“It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes.”
The first one is very funny IMO. If you have already written their names down, how can they make sure that they are not in them you absolute weapon, only you can make sure of it by removing their names as you wrote them in the first place.
You could make a case for Mignolet as much as Ospina. He's had a bad spell this year which all of you remember fondly but he's a very good goalkeeper if his confidence is up. You'll probably disagree but Sakho is a better CB than both Koscielny and Mertesacker in my opinion (gets picked over Koscielny for France most of the times as well if I remember correctly). Santi Cazorla isn't a CM, I'd prefer a Henderson-Ramsey midfield over Ramsey-Coquelin or Ramsey-Cazorla in the formation you're using. Ozil is a better player than Coutinho but the latter has been better this season so it wouldn't be a ridiculous claim to have him over Ozil, at least I know I would for his passing, vision and creativity, although I have to admit Ozil has been doing very well lately. And if fit (yes, I know that's a big if), Sturridge over Giroud all day. I'm not saying they would all get into a combined eleven but to say only Sterling would get into Arsenal's team is over the top for me.
As for the Rodgers quotes: I won't disagree they're (very) daft, but it's not like you have a modest man or a saint at the helm yourselves. It's only because of the language barrier that he's not been too arrogant this season. You should've heard some of his press conferences when he coached the NT, it was like he thought he'd invented the universe and only his approach of football was right. That's not a problem if you have the results to back you but he's been getting an incredible amount of stick in the Dutch press in the beginning of the season.
As for the Rodgers quotes: I won't disagree they're (very) daft, but it's not like you have a modest man or a saint at the helm yourselves. It's only because of the language barrier that he's not been too arrogant this season. You should've heard some of his press conferences when he coached the NT, it was like he thought he'd invented the universe and only his approach of football was right. That's not a problem if you have the results to back you but he's been getting an incredible amount of stick in the Dutch press in the beginning of the season.
Didn't I read somewhere that it was a SAF trick? Although I imagine with Fergie, it went something like: "after this training session I'm going to write three names and put them in these three envelopes which we'll open at the end of the season. Make sure you're not one of them." (While knowing full well these envelopes would actually be empty.) That might make a little sense. Brentan's version is how a really thick person would try to reproduce it. He probably actually wrote three names!
Flanagans rejected a new contract as well 
I agree that most managers comes up with some ridiculous quotes, Sir Alex on Jones for example, but Rodgers comes across as taking himself far too seriously.
Flanagans rejected a new contract as well
FFS, at this rate Liverpool won't have 11 players next year.
I'm not really a Mertesacker guy in general but he's definitely better than Sakho and though Skrtel has played fairly well this year, he's just less reliable than the massive, slow German.
Sturridge vs Giroud is a decent argument due to Giroud being unselfish and Sturridge (a lovely passer when he wants to be) being incredibly selfish, but I'd probably still prefer Sturridge, since I think he's a 2 in 3 type and Giroud is a 1 in 2.
The Scouse Jesus with bleached teeth and spray tan.
The Fergie quotes that were a bit stupid where the one he slated Benitez for disrespecting Sam Allardyce with some hand gestures and one about Arsene Wenger one time. But boy, did he have some crackers.
Flanaghan hasn't played in a year?
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He must come out with dumb things on the training ground.
Can you imagine?"A cone is but a cone only if you want it to be a cone. let your imagination turn it into something else"
Well that was a poor attempt but I was trying to be funny
This is one of the things I've tried to point out but it constantly gets ignored. He spent £120 million on new players, yet he either didn't seem to have a clue how they were going to fit into the tactics he wanted to use post-Suarez, or have any tactics in mind at all. It took until mid-December for him to find a tactic that worked with his players, and at the time they were sat in 10th, just 3 points above a relegation threatened Everton, who had a game in hand.
The Balotelli thing is another example of this. People keep harping on about how he never wanted him, but they'd have been very light up top without him. Everyone knows Sturridge is injury prone, yet Rodgers was content with going into the season with just Sturridge and Lambert as forward options (they were trying to ship Borini by all accounts). This, when they wouldn't shut up about the need for strength in depth. Sturridge ended up picking up another injury before the end of the window, which basically forced their hand. Sturridge has only started 7 PL games this season, and they've ended up shoving Sterling and Coutinho up front as a result of there being no other options. I'm amazed that £20 million Markovic, a currently average but possibly promising winger, is seen as a good buy, when they desperately needed a quality forward to at least fill in for when Sturridge wasn't playing, if not play alongside him.
Didn't he also say something like working with Suarez had made him a better human being?
Yeah, but that was because he realised chewing on the neighbours was frowned upon before the media got hold of it.
Be great to sneak into one of those f**king Sermons on the Mount that pass for his press conferences and challenge him to respond to and justify each and every one of his bullshit statements.
He's a horrible little c**t. Just like the snide teacher's pet at school, he sucks up to the big name managers and throws those he sees as beneath him under the bus.
He's a horrible little c**t. Just like the snide teacher's pet at school, he sucks up to the big name managers and throws those he sees as beneath him under the bus.
Didn't I read somewhere that it was a SAF trick? Although I imagine with Fergie, it went something like: "after this training session I'm going to write three names and put them in these three envelopes which we'll open at the end of the season. Make sure you're not one of them." (While knowing full well these envelopes would actually be empty.) That might make a little sense. Brentan's version is how a really thick person would try to reproduce it. He probably actually wrote three names!
He arsed it.
It should be, "I've wrote three names down of players who I believe will let success go to their heads(etc), and put them in this (single)envelope." The idea being that none of the players know if they're among the 3, so all work hard to prove themselves(and SAF wrong).
Can you, maybe, chill out there? There's no need for any of that.
I'm still on the fence with regards Rodgers' management. I don't like him though.
I reckon he did have names in those envelopes but one of them was Gerrard's and he couldn't exactly reveal to his captain and landlord that he thought he was going to bollocks it up when he did just that.
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