Brendan Rodgers

[Gazzla]

Ings, Milner, Benteke and Rodgers..... Happy summer everyone!

What a cocktail of ****

[-V-]

New Contract for Kolo......wtf

[The_weatherman]

They have to sack him, are there more than three posters here who'll back Rodgers?

[TheElephantMan]

I don't want to suggest that FSG are a joke, they rescued us when we needed them. I think they've served their purpose.

[cream]

FSG are the problem here, not Rodgers.

[TheElephantMan]

FSG are the problem here, not Rodgers.

I sort of agree. I blame them for appointing Rodgers. I don't like Brendan Rodgers, but I don't blame him for being Liverpool manager. Given the opportunity who would turn it down? So yes - FSG are the problem.

[Nicey]

Its bad enough we change our managers every 3 years now people want to change owers every 3 years .... ffs

[rodo]

FSG are the problem here, not Rodgers.

FSG and Rodgers are the problem

[RichC]

Rodgers might even talk himself out of the role come this review. And even then, if FSG do have a complete overhaul of this transfer committee and introduce a Director of Football, Rodgers may stand aside on his own accord.

[chadrtc]

They have to sack him, are there more than three posters here who'll back Rodgers?

If he's our manager next season I will back him, It would be pretty disappointing if that didn't apply to most of our support.

[The s man]

F s g - what in the hell would you not meet any sooner then June ! We are still inside the month of May!! They do drag it out, can I remind f s g that a certain summer window is praticly open , what shower of piss they are, liverpools admistration is so bad it's worrying ?
We need action - vprigressive gorward drive and put all we have into the team, others wise what's the point of owning a distressed asset ?

[Lecter]

FSG are the problem here, not Rodgers.

They really aren't

[Muddled]

F s g - what in the hell would you not meet any sooner then June ! We are still inside the month of May!! They do drag it out, can I remind f s g that a certain summer window is praticly open , what shower of piss they are, liverpools admistration is so bad it's worrying ?
We need action - vprigressive gorward drive and put all we have into the team, others wise what's the point of owning a distressed asset ?

The season ended less than 48 hours ago with a Bank Holiday thrown in for good measure. You complain of 'dragging it out' like June is more than six days away, yet you say that the summer window is practically open which is 36 days away.

The s man, meet time. Time, meet the s man - charmed, I'm sure.

[Lecter]

I have no problem with FSG taking a root and branch review of everything

My one worry is that Rodgers in some way escapes any kind of culpability in the whole ****fest that has happened over the last season

I think above all else Rodgers has to be one of the major players who has the finger pointed at and who must shoulder the vast majority of the blame

I keep seeing that he has been hamstrung by the transfer committee and he wants control over the whole thing now. **** no, this is the man who paid £12 million for Borini and £15 million on Allen. He supposedly didnt rate the committees choice of centrehalf (Sakho) and encouraged them to go after Lovren as a replacement. Its an open secret he wanted Ashley Williams and now he wants Benteke who to me is a similar type of player to Lambert (all be it younger) who he wanted and has hardly ****ing played

So I cant say I am enamoured with the prospect of Brendan not only staying but being put in charge of transfers

Thats before we get to the tactics, this constant switching back to his preferred system which never works and which we throw out after 5 months of the season has gone. The slow possession based game that goes ****ing nowhere, doesnt create much and leaves us wide open to the counter and the total lack of men in the team that allows us to be constantly bullied. Then we have the playing players out of position (Can / Markovic) and just playing with no strikers

So if Rodgers does stay next season is going to be a tough watch, and the thing for me is that hes lost the vast majority of the support and that normally means you get very little leeway. The moment he makes a mistake next year the calls for him to go will be deafening

[Helios Creed]

Brendan Rodgers backed by FSG to walk through Liverpool storm

• Manager under fire following 6-1 defeat at Stoke City
• Owners willing to continue with Rodgers despite lack of success

Jamie Jackson

Brendan Rodgers’ job as Liverpool manager is not under threat, with the club having no plans to review his position despite their dismal end to the season that featured only one victory in the last seven matches.

On Sunday Rodgers oversaw a humiliating 6-1 defeat at Stoke City, Liverpool’s worst result since 1963. Yet despite that, and a growing clamour from supporters to see the Northern Irishman replaced, Fenway Sports Group, the owner, is not assessing whether he should continue as manager for next season.

There will, however, be a review of Liverpool’s disappointing campaign. This will be led by Mike Gordon, the FSG president who is a member of the club board, plus Rodgers and Ian Ayre, the chief executive.

While communication goes on between Rodgers and FSG, based in Boston, there is no immediate rush to hold the review and it appears unlikely to be this week.

In the aftermath of the Stoke defeat Rodgers apologised to fans and appeared to throw his future into doubt by saying: “I’ve always said if the owners want me to go, I go. It’s as simple as that. I still feel I’ve got a lot to offer here. A lot has happened this year that has made the job difficult and we’ve kept fighting right to the very end but I totally understand that [question].”

When the review is held an explanation will be required for some of the more damning statistics returned by Rodgers’ team this year.

The defeat by Stoke meant the team finished in sixth place, compared with last season’s second, and the 62 points won were 22 fewer than in 2013-14.

There have been 52 league goals compared with the 101 Liverpool managed 12 months ago and the 12 league defeats were twice as many as in the previous campaign. Against the clubs that finished in the top four – Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United – Liverpool scored only one victory, over City, and managed a total of five points from the 24 available.

Rodgers also spent £115m last summer following the sale of Luis Suárez to Barcelona for £75m. Adam Lallana, Emre Can, Dejan Lovren, Mario Balotelli, Lazar Markovic, Alberto Moreno, Rickie Lambert and Divock Origi were signed. There is a case to be made that all, apart from Can, have been a failure.

However, there is an acceptance that, having lost Suárez, who has been an integral part of Barça’s La Liga-winning success and their progress to next month’s Champions League final, Rodgers was bound to struggle to replace such a talent.

The manager has also been without Daniel Sturridge, his main remaining striker, for most of the season due to the 25-year-old suffering injuries and the hip problem that ended his campaign will also rule him out of the start of next term.

In addition the controversy regarding Raheem Sterling’s public efforts to leave the club have been a distraction for Rodgers and his players, as has the farewell to Steven Gerrard that began when he announced in early January he would leave the club.

Yet despite these mitigating factors Rodgers understands the dismay from fans and, more importantly, FSG, and knows that he must recruit well this summer as he will be under scrutiny when next season starts.

Rodgers hopes to add City’s James Milner and Burnley’s impressive striker Danny Ings with Origi also arriving from Lille, having been loaned back to the French club last season after joining Liverpool last summer.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/25/liverpool-brendan-rodgers-fsg-owners-anfield-future-stoke-pressure?CMP=share_btn_tw

I'm not sure how the journo knows this with such certainty, unless the club are basically leaking unofficial releases to the press, but if true, to me this suggests that the club have accepted that someone other than Rodgers dropped a bollock last summer and that he faced an impossible task that no manager could have dealt with this season as a result, so deserves another chance.