Brendan Rodgers

Is Brendan Rodgers a fraud and should Liverpool dispense of him?

  • Yes he's a fraud and should go

  • No he's not a fraud and should stay

  • Yes he's a fraud but they should stick with him

  • No he's not a fraud but sack him off anyway


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To be honest merseyboyred i like Liverpool and i hope they finish in the top 4, but shhhhh don't tell anybody;)
 

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I'd expect that team to finish in the top 4 minimum, and for argument's sake I've not used Messi/Ronaldo.

Guzan, Hutton, Amavi and Grealish ~~ are not "World Class" players
~~.they may have made an U21s or a Veteran's X1
~~ BUT they ain't World Class...some of your other picks might make a few token MotM appearances in the Prem.
REALLY?...were you serious ~~~ where are the World class players ??
Joshin' kiddo

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Rodgers seems intent of making an arse out of himself as he goes down. The delusion, arrogance, and disrespect to his current players is pitiful. http://www.espnfc.us/liverpool/stor...oss-brendan-rodgers-with-talent-i-can-compete

"I think I have shown in the early stages of my management -- without being arrogant -- that with a talented group of players I can compete at the top end of the league. I know how to manage top players. If you give me the tools, I'll do the work."

*looks at his transfer record* :bang:
 

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Rodgers - "Give me the best player in the league, also the third best player in the whole wide world, and I'll still not win you the league but I'll come damn close!"

I think that's a direct quote, by the way.
 
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Does anybody think Klopp would consider the Newcastle job if offered? Great club that has the resources to move up a few levels.

Too subtle fella :2thumb:

They employed Jokin Ear ~~~ who in the right minds would risk their reputation, out there, just for money???
~~ or a new brolley ? Hmmm
 

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I don't like Liverpool but even I'm fed up with this carry-on now. He's accomplished almost nothing tangible as a manager but he responds to criticism like his record is unimpeachable, and that it's genuinely outrageous that anyone could question his decisions. Every time they string a few results together he's full of the brilliant tactical changes he's cooked up, but as soon as bad results start coming in he's indignant at the notion that anyone other than him could possibly understand what The Group is trying to achieve (even though he was boring anyone who'd listen five minutes ago). There's an amazing line in that Jonathan Wilson article recently about Rodgers briefing journalists about why he switched to 3-4-3, precipitating an upturn in form last season, which I think hits the nail on the head:
It was as though Rodgers was already imagining a key scene in the biopic he assumes they will inevitably make of his life.

He came in with a philosophy and principles, and he's abandoned them with the same alacrity his best players have been abandoning him (and don't expect Coutinho to stick around to find out where Rodgers' project is going). His player loyalty seems selective and irrational, sticking with a handful of players going through dismal runs of form, but binning off anyone else after five minutes. His handling of young players is absolutely abysmal - look at Jordon Ibe, supposedly Sterling's natural successor, running into blind alleys at wingback, and Lazar Markovic, who arrived as a talented 20-year-old and departed as a shellshocked 21-year-old. The less said about his transfer record, the better, but he's at least not 100% responsible for those failings (although he always maintains he makes the final call).

Most damningly of all, Liverpool don't seem to have any kind of gameplan on the pitch. They look totally directionless. I didn't expect them to recreate the Suarez-Sturridge-Sterling dynamic, but to not have a style of play? The stars aligned during 2013-14 for him, and he does deserve credit for his part in that, because he was certainly a fantastic man manager during that run-in. He helped to create that surge of belief that the team were going to do something extraordinary. But - METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING - he fell over with Gerrard, and has never managed to pick himself back up.

IMVHO.
 

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not to mention he's spent a quarter of a billion pounds on players
 

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I'm wondering how many times the words "group", "character", "work" and "blobfish" appeared in the 180 page dossier he presented to the Liverpool before getting the job.
 

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Why Rodgers has to go.

It started out quite fine, a young manager who had ideas and was willing to listen and adapt to the owners.
That last part was the main fault, a manager should never do that, sure a manager should be able to adapt to material he has, but never ever adapt to the owners.

Hiring Rodgers was always a bit of a gamble, we knew it, the players did and so did the owners.

In the beginning it started out fine, he was a young manager with fresh ideas and it was all fine.

He did help to manage to develop Suarez from the rough diamond he was and Suarez started to win us games with his brilliance no matter what tactic Rodgers used, everything was rosey.
When Suarez was banned after his first mental shit we started to lose, he came back and we started to win again, the same happened during his second ban.

Looking back at Suarez spell here it's very clear, Rodgers helped developed him into a world class player and then it was, he can score from everything, we're done.
From there we should have bought top players to help him, but no, our owners was like "shit, he is god" and thought he could win us the league alone, and it would be enough to keep him.
It wasn't, not even close. When you got a player like Suarez, you build a team around him, you talk to him, you convince him to stay, you buy players at his level to compete.

FSG did the complete opposite of that, they thought "We got this World Class Player" and that is enough, we can buy cheap players and they will become good next to him.

It doesn't work like that in football (real football, not hand-egg) and they kinda started to get then we didn't win the league and then lost him to Barcelona.

FSG are slowly starting to wake up from their dream that just buying a EPL club, hiring a young manager and only let him him young promising stars would work.

To be a top club in EPL and football in general you need a top class manager, you need to spend money on top class players, buy promising stars is fine, if you can teach the right and develop them.
 

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Smat either has something personal against Rodgers or is a closet Liverpool fan. Liverpool do better than Arsenal in Europe yet he writes an essay slating Rodgers instead of Wenger. Didn't see many Arsenal fans after the game either.

Having said that I agree with your comments, it has just been said about 100 times since last season :D
 

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My source says Brendan Rodgers is gone by next week. Maybe there is GOD!
 

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I don't need to write an essay, all I need to say is...

In what department has Rodgers done well post-Suarez?
 

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So its either Klopp, Ancelotti or De Boer. Hopefully De Boer is the last option.
 

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Na Alex McLeish would be my choice.
 

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