Brendan Rodgers

[fidget]

in my defence I did once pay a midget prostitute £10 to go up on me.

[Fierce]

[Tee]

[Buzzo]

in my defence I did once pay a midget prostitute £10 to go up on me.

[BobTheCharmer]

in my defence I did once pay a midget prostitute £10 to go up on me.

[Shaggy]

fidget's on fire

[MrMichael]

It is entirely fair because hes not shy in giving himself the credit.

That makes no sense, would you argue say, that Ronaldo is **** because he thinks so much of himself? If Rodgers does claim some credit for last season that's because he deserves it (as he deserves a measure of criticism for this one). All the best managers are slightly egotistical, they have to be in a job where you also get the direct blame every time a load of other people make natural human errors.

As it happens I don't personally think Rodgers is all that bad for it and speaks more reasonably and honestly than most.

Klopp wont come to us because we run our football club like accountants

This is for the FSG thread really and not aimed at you personally, but I'm getting a bit narked with this sort of view being expressed a lot at the moment. Could one person please explain to me how having had new owners come in to a club in absolute financial chaos and wages on dreadful players taking up an unsustainable amount of our turnover, and in the context of FPP spend a significant net amount more on transfer fees than the club ever has before while increasing revenue, reducing % turnover on wages, starting the stadium expansion and balancing the books at the same time, has been a bad thing in any way at all?

And just in case anyone had managed to wash this image from their consciousness...

In 4 seasons we have paid ~£330m in transfer fees. Financially we haven't got a billionaire but we have the next best thing, sound financial management that is prepared to spend everything it can generate. The problem is how that has been spent, absolutely that, but if not being one of maybe 5 or 6 clubs in the world who can spend without consequence is the deciding factor for any potential manager I don't think I want them anyway.

and Rodgers wont be saked because hes our best option.

And that I do agree with. Right now I honestly believe continuity, giving people a chance to learn from their mistakes and fully utilise what could be a successful level of resources & talent, rather than complete upheaval again, is the best thing for the club.

[Fosterbloke]

fidget's on fire

One reason not to go with midget prostitutes...

[Fosterbloke]

I guess you can look at this both ways. Our unbeaten run is where Rodgers' level really is but we're hampered by a lack of striking talent, a 20 year old that thinks he's Ronaldo, our best ever player in the twighlight of his Liverpool career and a mentally weak £20m defender.

Part of me really does believe in Rodgers but I'm tired of looking like a tit with unwavering support and then wanting him out.

Perhaps we should just treat football teams like bands. No rivalry, just there to entertain us.

[Roboklopp]

One reason not to go with midget prostitutes...

[Slinky Skills]

fidget's on fire

Midget more like!

[fred_plasticine]

we'll probably end up finishing 5th (unless we **** it up completely) without any trophy. it might be a good thing, though.
our recruitment strategy and scouting system seems to be our main problem. unless we change that, we'll fall short. a summer like last mustn't be repeated and here's hoping that we've learned our lesson. we're also-rans, a former giant and the sooner we get off our high horse and learn to live with what we are the better. no point hunting the likes of sanchez and other big name players. unearth talent. that's the dortmund lesson we should learn. rodgers will be fine. behind his management new-speak media persona there's a hugely talented manager who's determined to become one of the best. imo at least.

[fidget]

I was going to follow up with a joke about two midgets getting a pint but I set the bar too high.

[Phoenix07]

Brendan Rodgers has been given the green light to make a summer transfer splash after being assured by Liverpool’s owners his future is secure.

The Reds have already made preliminary contact with Dutch star Memphis Depay, and the manager will also be allowed to pursue a top class midfielder and at least one striker, as Rodgers attempts to steer a subtle change in transfer policy.

Despite increasing speculation linking Jurgen Klopp with a summer switch to Anfield, the American owners have reiterated their support for their manager by making it known his position is under no immediate threat despite Sunday’s Wembley woes.

John Henry and Tom Werner will illustrate their commitment to Rodgers, and a belief in his long term vision, by allowing him to conduct the clear-out long-planned for the summer, and identify the new talent required to strengthen a squad that has desperately struggled in recent weeks.

Rodgers wants a slight change in the recruitment policy which has placed a strong emphasis on young players with potential, by bringing more established stars better placed to go straight into the first team.

Depay – despite being only 21 – fits that bill with his international experience, after scoring two goals at last summer’s World Cup finals. Liverpool have been given permission to talk to the player by his club PSV, who told the Reds the starting price will be between £15-£18m.

The winger has also been given permission to speak to Paris St Germain, but despite reports to the contrary there has been no such approach from Manchester United, with the Old Trafford club instead merely asking to be kept informed of the situation.

United boss Louis van Gaal worked with Depay at the World Cup, but he already has too many players in that position, and unless either Juan Mata or Angel Di Maria leaves in the summer, he will concentrate his sights on a different position.

Rodgers is keen to bring him to Anfield, and he also wants an established central midfielder to replace Steven Gerrard, with Sporting Lisbon’s experienced international William Carvalho on his radar.

The Reds will also be forced to move into the transfer market for a full back on both flanks, a goalkeeper and at least one more striker, and even though they are monitoring free transfer targets like City’s James Milner, young England star Danny Ings and Brazil keeper Neto, they will need to significantly add to a basic summer transfer kitty of around £30m to back Rodgers.

That means a vigorous approach to a summer clear out that has been planned all season, with the likes of Glen Johnson, Kolo Toure and Brad Jones out of contract and almost certain to join Gerrard at the exit at the end of the season.

In fact, the Reds would be keen to move on all seven subs who appeared at Wembley against Villa at the end of the campaign, with Rodgers likely to listen to any offers for Mario Balotelli, Fabio Borini and Rickie Lambert. He will also allow loan star Javier Manquillo to return to Atletico Madrid, and would desperately love to offload injury prone Jose Enrique.

The Reds of course, are realistic enough to know they won’t be able to force out virtually an entire team of dead wood squad players because many are on big money contracts, but if they can offload five or six, it would be welcome business, especially if that means raising funds from the likes of Balotelli and Borini.

Such an ideal scenario would mean the manager needing to bring in another five or six – or perhaps even more – new faces in the summer, even though he insisted last year’s frenetic transfer activity was a strict one off.

What Rodgers will refuse to do is to allow some of his most important players like Raheem Sterling, Philippe Coutinho, Martin Skrtel and Jordan Henderson to leave, even if he would desperately love a bigger war chest to sign the top players he covets.

Instead, Liverpool will demonstrate this week they are ready to fight hard to keep their stars, when they announce an agreement with Henderson over a new five year contract, that will see him smash through the £100,000 a week barrier.

Talks have been ongoing for months, but an accord has been reached and the deal looks certain to be announced before the end of the week, with the Reds board hopeful Skrtel and Sterling will follow by also signing new contracts by the summer.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...r-psvs-5556030

[Phoenix07]

Brendan Rodgers retains the backing of Liverpool’s owners, despite the club’s disappointing FA Cup semi-final defeat to Aston Villa.

As things stand, Fenway Sports Group have no plans to change manager, considering the 42-year-old to be central to their long-term strategy at Anfield.

The Americans plan to conduct a thorough review into this season, once the campaign has finished, but unless there is a significant change of heart in Boston during the next month, Rodgers will be given the chance to continue as Reds boss.

Sunday’s Wembley loss to Villa has re-opened the debate surrounding Rodgers’ future, with the Ulsterman preparing to complete his third season on Merseyside without silverware. Not since Phil Taylor, back in the 1950s, has a Liverpool manager begun his reign with three trophyless campaigns.

Qualification for the Champions League, the club’s main target at the start of the season, looks unlikely at present, and would represent a significant failure if it was not achieved, though Liverpool still have an outside chance of overhauling fourth-placed Manchester City, with six league games remaining.

FSG parted company with Rodgers’ predecessor Kenny Dalglish in the summer of 2012, following a disappointing league campaign in which the Reds finished eighth, 17 points adrift of the top four despite a League Cup success.

There is an appreciation, however, that the circumstances surrounding this season are somewhat different, and that Rodgers has been working within the framework provided by the club, in terms of finances, wage structure and a commitment to both buying and using younger players.

Still, missing out on next season’s Champions League would be viewed as a major blow by FSG, who believed the £116m spending spree sanctioned last summer would deliver qualification, despite the sale of Luis Suarez.

Financially, Liverpool would also miss out on a significant windfall of around £40m, with the new TV rights deal to come into operation as of next season. That would have repercussions in terms of the money the club will spend on transfers this summer.

Rodgers himself admitted earlier this season that his job would be on the line unless results, and just as importantly performances, improved quickly.

Liverpool sank as low as 12th in the Premier League after a defeat at Crystal Palace in November, but have lost just six of their 33 games in all competitions since, and can move to within four points of the top four if they win their game in hand at Hull next week.

Before that, they travel to West Bromwich Albion on Saturday, with Rodgers insisting his side have “an obligation” to keep fighting, despite the disappointment of Wembley.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport...erpool-9085331