Brendan Rodgers

[EwarWoo]

Strikers win you games but defenders win you titles. No more was that true than last season.

Are we collecting meaningless cliche's?

It's a funny old game of two halves until a top top striker pulls out a goal from the top drawer old son.

[Fosterbloke]

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[spanky]

I think whatever happens to Rodgers, FSG are bringing in a DoF to oversee the club. Just my hunch.

[-V-]

Rewind to this season where we've played the worst turgid ****e football in a long time with no discernible pattern or style under the same manager & after wasting £100m

Brendan has been awful this season - cant live off the past

Maybe but he still managed to get us to two semi-finals. And atleast he has showed previously that he can get us near to a title so who's to say he can't bring us back again next season. This season wasn't just about a few overpriced signings, its obvious the squad was hungover from the pain of missing out last season. Plus losing both our best strikers didn't help.

The grass isn't always greener. We could end up with another Roy Hodgson. Atleast Brendan has showed he can do it

[Le Chef]

Maybe he needs a shake up of the backroom staff - Too many yes men, little experience between them etc, etc. Things may have gone a bit stale

In my view there is a good manager in there somewhere, but one that could probably do with some guidance from time to time.

[The s man]

hyypia as defensive coach would be a great addition to the club I think !
Mike marsh offers what
Lfc coaching - back room team could be better - more experienced do we not think ?

[Muddled]

As much as I loved Hyypia as a player, he's pretty much failed at every managerial role so far. It would suggest he was a better player than a coach and we should be looking elsewhere.

[Shaggy]

Matt Hughes @MattHughesTimes
Ominous for Brendan Rodgers, with @TonyBarretTimes reporting he must convince FSG of willingness to persevere with last year's signings.

Matt Hughes @MattHughesTimes
Rodgers wants more experienced Prem Lge players, FSG determined to persist with model that failed this season. Square that circle...

[Shaggy]

http://www.lfc.pl/files/pdf/2015_05_20_times.pdf

Tony Barrett
Published 1 minute ago

Brendan Rodgers will have to prove he is the right man to take Liverpool forward in an endof-season review with Fenway Sports Group (FSG).

The club’s American owner will look to re-establish common ground with the manager after a season that has fallen short of expectations.

Although FSG has no intention of dispensing with Rodgers’s services, the outcome of the meeting will be pivotal in determining how the club goes about addressing the failings that have resulted in such a disappointing campaign.

The main aim of the summit, which will see Mike Gordon, FSG’s most influential figure at Anfield, hold face-to-face talks with Rodgers, will be to learn from the mistakes that caused Liverpool to fail to win a trophy for a third successive season and miss out on Champions League qualification.

High on the agenda will be the need to address the disconnect between transfer strategy and team selection, with FSG hoping Rodgers is ready to convince them of his willingness to persevere with several signings who have yet to make the desired impact.

Rodgers’s lack of faith in a number of the players Liverpool signed last summer has become increasingly obvious in recent months with Lazar Markovic, Rickie Lambert, Mario Balotelli, Javier Manquillo, Alberto Moreno and Dejan Lovren all struggling to establish themselves to an extent.

While there is an acceptance that some of last summer’s acquisitions, Balotelli and Lambert in particular, left Rodgers short of the kind of options he needs, there is also a feeling within Liverpool’s hierarchy that such failings do not justify a season of underachievement after investing about £110 million in players.

This year, Tom Werner, the Liverpool chairman, said that it was “important” to maintain Liverpool’s mid-season momentum and achieve a top-four finish, admitting it would be a “disappointment” if those objectives were not reached. In the event, neither target has been reached with Liverpool winning only twice, against Newcastle United and Queens Park
Rangers, in their past eight league games.

End-of-season reviews are standard practice for Liverpool under FSG’s ownership and although it is routine for the manager’s performance to be scrutinised, Rodgers will go into his latest assessment in the knowledge that Liverpool have fallen short of the place in the top four that was viewed as the minimum acceptable requirement at the start of this season.

Although there is no sense that Rodgers will, in effect, be auditioning again for a position he already occupies, FSG is looking to him to show them that it remains on the same page going forward and to justify its belief that he is the right manager to implement the model it remains confident can allow Liverpool to become consistently competitive at home and abroad.

In keeping with that aim, Liverpool remain determined to keep Raheem Sterling regardless of the winger’s growing desire to leave, with Manchester City understood to be preparing an offer that would make him one of their highest-paid players.

That position will be reaffirmed when Sterling’s agent, Aidy Ward, holds talks with Rodgers and Ian Ayre, Liverpool’s chief executive, on Friday. At the meeting, which is taking place at Ward’s request, he is expected to inform Liverpool of his client’s wish to secure a transfer this summer but the Merseysiders will not sanction any departure.

Liverpool remain hopeful that they will be able to convince the England forward to commit his future to them regardless of his agitation to move, although that position does seem optimistic given the indications emerging from Sterling’s camp suggesting he wishes to leave at the earliest possible opportunity.

[dww]

The thing is that it wasn't necessarily (just) the FSG part of the model that failed was it? Balotelli, Lallana and Lovren all had PL experience and only Lallana came out of the season with any credit.

I think the balance of experience and youth in last summers signings was fine. The issues lay elsewhere.

For me this seems like the media looking for a story (albeit we are giving them fertile ground to ferret around in).

All of the stories seem to suggest that Rodgers has contingent support from FSG. Which seems fair. I fully expect him to survive and some coaching/committee changes to be announced.

[Muddled]

I'm sure that will be used as a stick to beat Rodgers with ('he wanted Lovren, Lambert, Mignolet, etc), but it sounds like Rodgers is keen to add experience, whilst FSG are adamant they want to stick with statistics. They both have elements that are failing and whilst this model can't be of a surprise to Rodgers, it does seem to me that FSG are stubborn.

Who's advising FSG? Is David Dein still in their ear?

[Alex]

I dont care if FSG invested £500m in new players. If they are the wrong ones, we arnt going to do ****.

Its not the amount that was invested thats the problem. Its where the money went.

[dww]

I'm sure that will be used as a stick to beat Rodgers with ('he wanted Lovren, Lambert, Mignolet, etc), but it sounds like Rodgers is keen to add experience, whilst FSG are adamant they want to stick with statistics.

This model can't be of a surprise to Rodgers though?

One of the problems is that (quite rightly) we don't actually know the details of the FSG policy or the committee's process. People say it's statistical but what does that mean; Which statistics? How are they analysed?; What weight are they given? How important is age?

It's clear that the idea that FSG have shown no flexibility is completely bollocks. In order to set up a rigid opposition as is done in the tweet quoted by Shaggy you have to ignore an awful lot of evidence.

Clearly changes have to be made in our recruitment and integration of players. However, a discussion of the issues and potential solutions doesn't seem to be conducted on the terms outlined there.

[Shaggy]

Whatever happened to judging each player on his merits? I hate all this "let's go for Prem proven" or whatever black and white avenue they seem to want to pursue. Just get the best players we can get, how difficult can it be?

[Vermilion]

Whatever happened to judging each player on his merits? I hate all this "let's go for Prem proven" or whatever black and white avenue they seem to want to pursue. Just get the best players we can get, how difficult can it be?