New manager thread

[Neil Young]

duncan jenkins@duncanjenkinsFC

@Mari_Elton_ superp babe cant wait. your totally fit as. my #bird likes women aswell so we might look at your pict together.

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Great news. Hyped for this guy.

Tika taka please Rodgers! Patience please fans and owners!

p.s. Great work by FSG. The media were chasing their tails on this.

[Macedonian_Red]

Above anything he should be given time

More time than they were willing to give Kenny

I dont want them swapping manager in 12 months if it hasnt met with their expectations

The only way we should look at binning Rodgers is if he has us flirting with relegation ala Roy

Sorry mate, but the precedent has already been set ...

It was revenue streams which ultimately proved Dalglish’s undoing. Despite winning the Carling Cup and reaching the FA Cup final, the Reds’ failure to finish in the top four in the Premier League meant the club missed out on a potential windfall of around £40million from Champions League qualification.

“It was a very simple decision based on results and did we believe that was going to change,” Ayre said. “To be 37 points off the winner, 17 points off fourth, 14 losses…..

“Winning the FA Cup wouldn’t have made any difference – it was never about an individual result. It was always about taking a review of the season in full.

“The Carling Cup and The FA Cup don’t generate the revenue and the success that is needed to keep investing. If you want to be successful, you have got to keep investing. People don’t want to hear that football is a business. They want to see us put lots of money into the football team and win lots of trophies and games.

“But you have got to have both. You have got to have continued progress in the league. If you don’t do well in the league and you don’t get into the Champions League, you are writing cheques from your own pocket, aren’t you? That is not a sustainable way going forward.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2012/05/18/liverpool-fc-sacking-kenny-dalglish-weas-right-move-to-let-owners-realise-vision-for-club-says-ian-ayre-100252-30994586/2/

According to our Managing Director, every season without the Champions League money is a failure ... The rules have been set, and should be applied to anyone ... I am willing to fully back up Rodgers as our boss next season, but if he fails to deliver a CL qualifications, he should be gone ...

[Lecter]

SSN expecting statement from Swansea

[Lecter]

Had we had better finishers in the squad we'd have come higher up. People can argue against that all they like, but sometimes the stats are right.

[Fivex]

... If he fails to qualify for the Champions League next season, he should be sacked ...

Are you for real?

Muppet.

[BootRoom]

11.45am, Shooting Midfielders and forwards stay behind for a shooting session

Let's hope this ends up as Suarez shooting Downing.

[DannyMan2006]

My main concern is if we have more pretty football without the finish. We did play some good football with Kenny as well last season but we couldn't finish it off with goals.

I'm also waiting to see what other appointments we make, for me this is a package deal and whether or not I consider Rodgers to be a good appointment depends on the other appointments that go with this one.

Good luck Rodgers, I hope you can earn a place with the other Liverpool greats

If Kenny had spent wisely I suspect he'd still be in a job. bad signings cost people their job. I wonder if he lost his job because they wanted to take his power away and Kenny wouldn't have it.

Had we had better finishers in the squad we'd have come higher up. People can argue against that all they like, but sometimes the stats are right.

[danperkins]

Any word on LVG yet?

[yamiedo]

I've watched quite a lot of interviews with Rodgers and he has a presence about him. He immediately commands respect almost effortlessly. He appears poised, calm and knows what he wants. He calls his players his friends and he never shies away from taking the blame for the tactics and always credits the players where credit is due. He seems perfect for us. Time will tell though I suppose...

[Lecter]

There won't be any anti-Rodgers campaign ... He will be judged according to his results ... He should be given respectable transfer funds this summer, and if he manages to get us into the Champions League next season, he will be loved and adored by every LFC supporter, including myself ... If he fails to qualify for the Champions League next season, he should be sacked ...

Above anything he should be given time

More time than they were willing to give Kenny

I dont want them swapping manager in 12 months if it hasnt met with their expectations

The only way we should look at binning Rodgers is if he has us flirting with relegation ala Roy

[DannyMan2006]

Swansea play patient football like Barcelona. Pressing wise, they were high tempo, but passing, it's patient stuff and if you're not keen on the Barcelona/Bilbao model of play, then you're ****ed.

I'm intrigued to see how the ability to attract better calibre of players will improve our tempo with the ball. Swansea are the pass and probe kind of team. Unless the team is confident in passing quickly, they won't. It'll be a learning curve for him and the team.

I'm looking forward to intelligent and controlled football. One of my criticisms last year. In theory, Henderson, Lucas and Suarez should be in their element with him, possibly Downing. We shall see.

He likes players who can get up and down the pitch as well. Not sure Charlie Adam will be a lynchpin in our side........Or Carra for that matter.

His wide players have to have a shed load of pace, or be very creative. I guess someone like Maxi could be saved if he wishes, Kuyt I'm not sure. He plays 433 very well with the Dutch side and aint half got an engine on him. But he's neither fast, nor skillfull.

Players who I think will Thrive under the system:

Reina, Johnson, Enrique, Agger, Lucas, Henderson, Suarez.

Of the rest of the players, I think the jurys out on whether it will greatly suit them or not. Carroll is my biggest concern down to his expense. He needs to improve his technique if he's to work in the Rodgers system. Gerrard I think will excel in any team, so I have no fears over him. Skrtel is a rock at the back and decent enough on the ball to do well. Downing I don't know. It could suit him really well like the 433 at Villa.

[QUOTE=Macedonian_Red;2322093]There won't be any anti-Rodgers campaign ... He will be judged according to his results ... He should be given respectable transfer funds this summer, and if he manages to get us into the Champions League next season, he will be loved and adored by every LFC supporter, including myself ... If he fails to qualify for the Champions League next season, he should be sacked ...[/QUOTE]

go support Chelski please

[Macedonian_Red]

I'll give it less than that before you hear whining from some corner of Anfield

I imagine the anti-Rodgers campaign is already recruiting members

There won't be any anti-Rodgers campaign ... He will be judged according to his results ... He should be given respectable transfer funds this summer, and if he manages to get us into the Champions League next season, he will be loved and adored by every LFC supporter, including myself ... If he fails to qualify for the Champions League next season, he should be sacked ...

FFS lets give Buck a chance, I was the first to be banned for calling Hodgson a deluded ****, but this is different, we have a young manager with the right philosophies about how the game should be played, fluent in Spanish and a scholar of tika taka football with total fooball being played, even the keeper and that will suit Pepe.

Everyone has to start somewhere, he ****ed up at Reading, my guess is the personnel there didnt gel with tika taka and probably came to love FLIF (the bodge's farkin' launch it football).

All this talk about not being able to attract great players, tosh ... We are LFC and there are not that many A list teams to choose from, sure Chelski, Man City, Ole toilet etc plus all the Champions League foreign teams but if LVG comes in as well then all the ducks will be lined up.

So in short we have an anglo saxon lover of tika taka who studies the Dutch way of the 70's, Brazillian football, and attends the National Spanish team training, potentially LVG and the ex Barcelona set up for the acadamies and reserves.

Whats not to be excited about FFS, especially Macedonian chappie who is as negative as a Hicks and Gillett relative.