Brentan Rodgers
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The picture with that article
Did you see the one on the BBC Football page? It actually made me laugh.
He looks kinda aroused and kinda worried that someones just walked in on him taking a massive dump.
He looks kinda aroused and kinda worried that someones just walked in on him taking a massive dump.
Well, that's them out of the top 4 for another season.
KRAP campaign just keeps giving.
Personally I'd have fired him just for the sheer cheek of his 'making a point' team selections alone.
Must be depressing as a Liverpool supporter to see the clubs you're trying to compete with and aspire to be are after elite, world class players to add to squads that are already miles and miles better than your own whilst your club is after the likes of an aging squad player in Milner and an average striker who didn't even score much for a relegated side.
As long as we start playing people in their right positions next year, I'll consider that a reasonable step forward. I'm sick of midfielders playing as strikers/defenders.
His decision to play Can at RB confused me. He was clearly not comfortable there at all.
As if that was ever in doubt. I think we'll be seeing the same Top 4 for a couple seasons, at a minimum.
(Edit: same teams in the top 4, not necessarily same order
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Fair point. A good season for them would be moving up a spot and finishing above Spurs in 5th.
Don't really get the ridicule. He's a good manager who simply had a poor season. His work with Liverpool last season was a tremendous achievement, and his Swansea work was very good as well. Might be a bit of a caricature sometimes, but he's good at his job.
It wasn't even a poor season. 5th or 6th is par for the course for Liverpool.
Did you see the one on the BBC Football page? It actually made me laugh.
He looks kinda aroused and kinda worried that someones just walked in on him taking a massive dump.
Sorry, i really don't get why people think/thought klopp would be interested in the Liverpool job?
Isn't it quite an obvious statement that it would be quite a step down for him to go to Liverpool? He's been in charge of the second best team in Germany for years, and for 2 of those they were actually the best team in Germany and one of top 3 in world.
Liverpool are England's 6th team. Possibly 5th at a push (though i see spurs getting into Champs League before liverpool).
Hell, even arsenal would be a sideways move for him (although a good one for both sides).
Where has the Liverpool connection come from? ?
Isn't it quite an obvious statement that it would be quite a step down for him to go to Liverpool? He's been in charge of the second best team in Germany for years, and for 2 of those they were actually the best team in Germany and one of top 3 in world.
Liverpool are England's 6th team. Possibly 5th at a push (though i see spurs getting into Champs League before liverpool).
Hell, even arsenal would be a sideways move for him (although a good one for both sides).
Where has the Liverpool connection come from? ?
This.
Did you see the one on the BBC Football page? It actually made me laugh.
He looks kinda aroused and kinda worried that someones just walked in on him taking a massive dump.
Nothing beats that though.
It has to be a poor season. The final games against Stoke, Palace and Hull were terrible and they also dropped points to West Brom. Easily could have gotten top 4 if they had some more fight in them
Our final games against Hull, Palace and West Brom weren't exactly great.
We limped into fourth place when we could and should have been pushing for second place.
We limped into fourth place when we could and should have been pushing for second place.
You could say United would have won the League if it weren't for dropping stupid points in games against Swansea x2, Leicester, Burnley, Villa, West Brom & Hull. The fact is that teams will drop points throughout the season to these teams and usually where a team finishes is reflective of their performances.
You look at their squad and 62 points is about where they are right now. They have 2 quality player's in Sterling/Coutinho & a few decent players in Henderson, Skrtel, Sakho, Lallana. Ignoring Sturridge as he's a perma-crock, the rest are nowhere near the required standard to be competing. They literally need half a first team of quality player's (goalkeeper, right back, central defender, striker, central midfielder) to walk straight into their starting XI to have a chance.
Yeah but you would think a decent manager would be able to motivate his team after they keep getting humiliated. Players don't look like they cared that much at the end
Teams go through bad patches all the time. Our bad patch was the first 5 games of the season where Van Gaal couldn't motivate us for toffee. Arsenal had a bad patch early in the season where they dropped points against So'ton, Spurs, Chelsea & Hull, then a couple of weeks later to Swansea & Stoke. City had a bad patch after Christmas where they dropped points to Everton, Arsenal, Chelsea & Hull, then a few weeks later against Liverpool and Burnley.
I wouldn't read to much into their bad form at the end of the season, it was a poor patch like any other team has. Do you remember under Dalglish where they were the best team in the League for 4 months and all their fans were salivating at the premise that they'd carry the form over to the following season? Not long later he got the sack. Teams just go through good and bad patches that balance each other out, if you discount their shocking end to the season, you also have to discount their unbeaten run where they thought they were destined for 2nd, 3rd or 4th.
@finneh i kinda thought he must have lost the dressing room at the end. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, especially if he is staying on
You look at the way Aston Villa played in the cup final. How on earth did Liverpool lose to them?
I think it's great news Rodgers is staying. It sounds like he's already lost most of their fans, and it certainly looked like he'd lost the players in the last couple of games. Always very difficult to come back from that.
I think it's great news Rodgers is staying. It sounds like he's already lost most of their fans, and it certainly looked like he'd lost the players in the last couple of games. Always very difficult to come back from that.
That is just the pool fans excuse for the players being utterly shite. He played lots of them out of position (sterling at wingback against us for instance, jesus christ), but they really are not very good, rather than 'not playing for him', I think his inept setups simply exposed just haw bad some of those players actually are, and how fragile the confidence is (and had been since we wiped the floor with them at anfield).
He isnt good, but he isnt the only problem, the players are not up to much either for the most part.
Amazing to think how far his stock has fallen over the last 12 months.
Personally i've never rated him as a top manager and think like Moyes he says things he has no idea how to impliment
Personally i've never rated him as a top manager and think like Moyes he says things he has no idea how to impliment
A little surprised he's managed to cling on to his job. The pressure will be on him straight away going into next season. Imagine if they lose 3 or 4 of the opening games.
I said in the Rafa thread that Rodgers might be gone in December if things go really pair shaped.
Am I the only one who can't stand that smug grin of his?
Blind absolutely buckling him was one of my highlights of the season.
Also, remember Leverkusen playing him at LB? Valencia absolutely bummed him for 90 minutes.
It's the timing i suppose, with no other top job available. But i agree that liverpool after dortmund would have been a step down for him, i think he fancies himself at a top CL club that could challenge for everything, he'll land the bayern job in a year i think.
Speaking as a Liverpool supporter, I don't give a toss what other clubs are doing and I think our squad is capable of much more than it showed last season. But I am dismayed Rodgers is staying.
From the failures last summer to the plain stupid selections during the final months of the season to the piss poor performances, it seems clear to me that he completely lost the plot and I have no reason to believe he'll find it again or that the owners have a clue. Thankfully, I'm planning on traveling for much of the summer so I won't have to read all the endless witless transfer shite.
Oh come on, my posts aren't that bad.
I particularly like the ones where you say things like "Business should be done behind closed doors" and then you rattle on for seventeen hours about contract negotiations. That was you, right?
Nope, wasn't me, chief. I rarely write anything in-depth about football, since I'm clueless; I was only promoted because the mods got Nectar points.
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