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RedRover said:
I disagree - they might have underestimated them on the basis that they had only one top class player and a collection of others who actually, as it turned out, were pretty good. The big clubs, early on at least would have expected to be able to get decent results. That has nothing to do with the manager, who's clearly very good - its just that fact that man for man it didnt look like their sqaud was comparable - until that is a number of their players turned it on and really excelled.

Liverpool will have to maintain the performances, deal with the expectation (as well as more games) and deal with teams who will come to Anfield and "park the bus" hopeing they can take a point.
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That's not disagreeing. Re-read what you quoted.

Liverpool may have been under-estimated on the basis of their squad, not because their manager is a walking parody of himself. Obviously, in the season ahead they won't be under-estimated by anyone, for any reason.
 
Phurry said:
That's the only trouble with this thread, I have half the posters on ignore :lol:
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Pogue obviously doesn't have me on ignore. I wish he did, him and Kraftwerker.

@Thisistheone, do you know why he has that picture on his wall? Google it, unless you're happy with your own created impression of him. Which most are.

So the underestimation continues. Lets be discussing his fat arse and balding head this time next summer when he's finished top 4 again shall we? :p
 
Brenda on new signings:
"When they tell you Liverpool want to sign you, I think like any player, you are going to be absolutely amazed and you don't think of anything else than going straight there."

really as Alexi Sanchez, Mo Saleh, Kyriakos Papadopulos, Ryan Bertrand and others will testify
 
Dumbstar said:
Pogue obviously doesn't have me on ignore. I wish he did, him and Kraftwerker.

@Thisistheone, do you know why he has that picture on his wall? Google it, unless you're happy with your own created impression of him. Which most are.

So the underestimation continues. Lets be discussing his fat arse and balding head this time next summer when he's finished top 4 again shall we? :p
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Don't be daft, the man's done well to shift the timber. We'll give him that for sure.
 
Minimalist said:
Don't be daft, the man's done well to shift the timber. We'll give him that for sure.
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Again, not basing your impressions of him on fact. Google a recent pic on him in Rio. Stop underestimating him and his ability to pile on the pounds. ;)
 
Dumbstar said:
Pogue obviously doesn't have me on ignore. I wish he did, him and Kraftwerker.

@Thisistheone, do you know why he has that picture on his wall? Google it, unless you're happy with your own created impression of him. Which most are.

So the underestimation continues. Lets be discussing his fat arse and balding head this time next summer when he's finished top 4 again shall we? :p
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Because some charity gave him it? So fecking what? It's still ludicrously pretentious to stuck it up in your living room.
 
TheMuffer said:
Brenda on new signings:
"When they tell you Liverpool want to sign you, I think like any player, you are going to be absolutely amazed and you don't think of anything else than going straight there."

really as Alexi Sanchez, Mo Saleh, Kyriakos Papadopulos, Ryan Bertrand and others will testify
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Eh? That's actually a quote from Javier Manquillo doing one of those cringey 'first interviews' after signing.
 
Dumbstar said:
Pogue obviously doesn't have me on ignore. I wish he did, him and Kraftwerker.

@Thisistheone, do you know why he has that picture on his wall? Google it, unless you're happy with your own created impression of him. Which most are.

So the underestimation continues. Lets be discussing his fat arse and balding head this time next summer when he's finished top 4 again shall we? :p
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Only Liverpool fans could find a way to defend the self portrait and make it sound like it's not Brendan's fault.
 
TheMuffer said:
Brenda on new signings:
"When they tell you Liverpool want to sign you, I think like any player, you are going to be absolutely amazed and you don't think of anything else than going straight there."

really as Alexi Sanchez, Mo Saleh, Kyriakos Papadopulos, Ryan Bertrand and others will testify
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It was Manquillo but anyway you could add that Armenian lad to that list... and Benzema if you believe the recent comments.
 
Mali_Zeus said:
Wait. He has a picture of himself in his living room..?:lol::lol::lol:

He probably spends an hour or so every morning in front of the mirror saying sthing like -
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the prettiest of them all?
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If u wanna laugh more than at watching your favorite sitcom check out Being Liverpool
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Speaking of douche-bags...

I've absolutely no idea why people on redcafe thinking Rodgers is a gobshite makes anyone at Liverpool's job any easier.

Nor do I have the faintest clue what "your" (Liverpool fans) job actually is (I'm aware that mentioning jobs and Liverpool fans in the same sentence is an oxymoron) and where this whole under-estimation stuff helps you out.

Basically, a typical Dumbstar post. Obtuse, pointless and confusing. Trolling without the minimal intellectual capacity required to be a troll.
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:lol:

Go easy on Dumbo. Poor lad is still recovering from the shock that Suarez left and didn't go for a world record fee.
 
Infra-red said:
Brenton or Brent?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/quiz/2013/apr/02/brendan-rodgers-david-brent-quotes-quiz
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This footnote was added on 3 April 2013. This quiz is part of a series comparing well-known figures within and without the footballing world. This installment is similar to a quiz which appeared on the Huffington Post website in February.
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You just know a load of angry Liverpool fans bitched and moaned until the Guardian told it them it's just a joke.
 
nahealai said:
Final score in that match?

Sunderland 2-0 Swansea

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...sea-0-Wes-Brown-tells-Craig-Gardner-to-dig-in

Rodgers is such a fecking dick.
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“It is great for the public here at Sunderland to see us,” said manager Brendan Rodgers. “They must have been wondering what this team everyone is talking about are all about and now they have seen. We were wonderful.

“Our intention is always to pass teams to a standstill, but give credit to Sunderland, they defended ever so well when other teams might have wilted.

:lol::lol::lol:

Jesus Christ you would have thought Real Madrid just visited Sunderland and thrashed them 10-0.
 
The Man Himself said:
You think? They consider FSW a God, a manager who took them from 2nd to 7th. They will blame everyone except FSW for it. All a Liverpool manager need to do is stroke the delusion which exists among Liverpool supporters and then it doesn't matter what he does.
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:wenger:
SteveJ said:
His comments are really a thinly-disguised plea for time/patience from FSG should Liverpool do badly this coming season (in comparison to last term).
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He'll be given time.
TheMuffer said:
Brenda on new signings:
"When they tell you Liverpool want to sign you, I think like any player, you are going to be absolutely amazed and you don't think of anything else than going straight there."

really as Alexi Sanchez, Mo Saleh, Kyriakos Papadopulos, Ryan Bertrand and others will testify
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It was Manquillo. And the latter two don't prove your point at all.


The picture of him was given to him by a Welsh charity that he had done some work for.
 
Prick always sounds like he's got half a mouth full of food when he's talking.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
He's just such a fecking douchebag*. I have a deep distrust of anyone who uses self-help books to find their way in life. The way he regurgitates his favourite passages in an attempt to sound profound really grips my shit. He takes himself so unbelievably seriously. It's cringeworthy.

None of this has any bearing on his ability as a manager, of course. It's a little strange that the players he manages don't sometimes wonder about the emperor's new clothes but PL footballers aren't the brightest bunch so they probably all think his pretentious wibbling is " just dead clever lah" He obviously knows his shit when it comes to getting a football team playing good football, which is all that matters really.





*I've made a unilateral decision that this is now an acceptable insult for Europeans to use
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Seriously, read that interview in The Blizzard if you haven't already. It's beyond cringeworthy. He keeps busting out the Spanish, completely unprompted by the journalist. Here's a bit:

"One of the most striking aspects of your work at Swansea was the adoption of a possession-based type of football that many people thought was unsuited to British players — and with a playing staff that was overwhelmingly British...How did you achieve that?

¡Muy fácil! All players, whether they’re Spanish, French, English, Welsh, want to play football."
 
Here's another one:

"Could a Swansea ever step to the next level and play in Europe?

No sé. Football is such a short-term thing. It’s not by accident that the teams with the big money are there every year. Manchester City and Chelsea came to where they are now because they have money. A coach is not a magician."
 
And one last one:

What type of player do you look for? What is the first thing you look at when you evaluate a potential recruit?

Technique. I like to know that they can play football. Then, intelligence and, at this level, personality, the capacity to play at the highest level, but they also need to have the capacity to have the ball for nearly 75% of the game. Some players would rather not have the ball than have it. I need players who want to have the ball.



... and have the humility to accept constant drilling on the training pitch?

Big ego, ¡hasta luego! It’s a question of DNA, of a certain culture of football.
 
He is just a grade A twat.

You get them in all walks of life, the moderately successful salesperson you don't want to talk to at the regionals because he will tell you how you are doing it wrong despite you having his trousers down in the sales league.

A new boss who has come from a completely different background telling you how to suck eggs via self help catchphrases and not by any actual constructive feedback.

Can you imagine him at a sales/operations meeting? He would be blue sky think outside the box while saluting his idea up the flag pole as he puts your idea on the back burner before taking it offline till the fecking cows came home.
 
jem said:
... and have the humility to accept constant drilling on the training pitch?

Big ego, ¡hasta luego! It’s a question of DNA, of a certain culture of football.
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"Big ego, hasta luego!" :lol: That's fantastic
 
jem said:
... and have the humility to accept constant drilling on the training pitch?

Big ego, ¡hasta luego! It’s a question of DNA, of a certain culture of football.
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:lol:

This reminds me of Ricky Gervais in Extra's when he invites the reporter around his house for an interview and pretends he has an assistant and Speilberg is on the phone to him.
 
He could get away with these soundbites last season while they were doing well, it's a clean slate now though, he has to prove that he can do it without one of the best in the World.
 
jem said:
And one last one:

What type of player do you look for? What is the first thing you look at when you evaluate a potential recruit?

Technique. I like to know that they can play football. Then, intelligence and, at this level, personality, the capacity to play at the highest level, but they also need to have the capacity to have the ball for nearly 75% of the game. Some players would rather not have the ball than have it. I need players who want to have the ball.



... and have the humility to accept constant drilling on the training pitch?

Big ego, ¡hasta luego! It’s a question of DNA, of a certain culture of football.
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Yeah I was reading that article the other day. It was actually interesting enough reading but he had to go and ruin it with all the cringe again :(
 
nahealai said:
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Rodgers is such a tit.
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This thread is always good entertainment, not sure if it's a credit to Rodgers that he's close to reaching 100 pages on a mainly United fans forum.

The 1st page is hilarious looking back, the first post is basically the complete opposite to the rest of the thread since he joined Liverpool.

"I like Rodgers, seems a clever guy when I've seen him interviewed, talks a lot of sense, and seems to have some good ideas on how the game should be played."
 
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