Brendan Rodgers

[Shaggy]

Front page of the Bild tomorrow.

"Liverpool meets with Klopp's representatives. Looking for agreement."

That's totally fake unfortunately

[TheElephantMan]

That's totally fake unfortunately

Looks like it. Doesn't mean that it won't happen though.

[Saul Goodman]

Ah ****, really?

[~LFCHistory~]

Ah ****, really?

Where did you get it ?

[TheElephantMan]

Del

[Saul Goodman]

Where did you get it ?

Another forum. I think the source was someone on twitter. In fairness it seems to have done the rounds as it has been retracted as fake by a load of accounts on twitter. Sorry I should have checked the source a little more. I just thought it was a larger version of the story that he would be interested in the Liverpool job which it seems they did print, just not the full front page headline stuff.

[BigChief]

This thread and the posters crack me up.

Rodgers will be gone. The Brendog is dead, long live the German Brendog.

See you all here next May when we want this unacceptable German out of our club and hire Rafa, who's just recently been sacked by Real for coming 4th in La Liga.

[Tee]

This thread and the posters crack me up.

Rodgers will be gone. The Brendog is dead, long live the German Brendog.

See you all here next May when we want this unacceptable German out of our club and hire Rafa, who's just recently been sacked by Real for coming 4th in La Liga.

Spending £100m and finishing 6th is unacceptable no matter who it is. Even worse when we have nothing to show for that money on the field. Like I have said before, it's about accountability and someone has to be held accountable for near criminal waste of money. Get over your BR love in and smell the salt, it's about the future of Liverpool FC and under a proven coach like Klopp we stand a better chance of moving back in the right direction.

[dww]

At the minute I can't tell whether I really want Brendan to stay (it's not like I'm without reservation) or it is a reaction to the unpleasant level and tone of the criticism of him.

I suspect I would really need to hear what he and FSG had planned. The recent contract rounds have been interesting. Surely it wouldn't make sense to offer Kolo a contract at this point if you were going to change manager?

[vonk]

Rodgers has lost the fans, there's no doubt about that.

All the fans? Are you sure about that? Because most of my LFC supporting mates want him given one more season based on last season. I would accept that a majority want him gone, but those most vocal on websites in the last month are not all the fans.

[vonk]

i dont think Klopp actually signed any of them. Maybe Subotic who he had at Mainz but that is about it. As far as i know, Dortmund actually have a transfer committee....

As would a club like Atletico Madrid......so Simeone wouldnt be the answer either....

For me, add to Brendans back room staff and we could have another go with Brendan at the helm. I know that is going to make a lot of people sick at the thought of it but I dont think any club gets places by chopping their manager too frequently. We don't have endless pockets to throw shedloads of money at the squad so if Brendan says to FSG that he thinks he can get improvement out of the likes of Moreno, Wisdom, Ibe, Emre Can and Markovic and Origi.....then they might be best sticking with him for another 6 months or so at least. Hopefully some of those players will be better for having had a year of premier league football....

The semi-obsession with Klopp for me is questionable. In reality, Brendan Rodgers could get that group of Dortmund players playing awesome football so it is hard to just simply say that he is the man to get. Also, people will point to the fact that he got dortmund to a CL final as well. Yes they were great in their semi final v Madrid but for me, that was a purple patch of 6 months that they went through. Similar to LFC last year. We would have fancied ourselves against anyone this time 14 months ago.

I think the only reason that Brendan get the chop is if he walks in to the review meeting with FSG and asks for all of last seasons signings to be replaced. Then he is effectively signing his own P45 because they will struggle to back him to the hilt again. If as rumour suggests and Lallana, Lovren and Lambert are BR signings and Moreno, Emre Can and Markovic are committee signings, then BR will lose credibility if he tries to say that his ones were okay but the committee ones weren't, and by the way can I now have an Ashley Williams please. That would be enough to get him the chop there and then....

If he does go in though and holds his hands up, say that Balotelli and Lovren have been a cluster****, but that he can improve the rest of them, then he might get a stay of execution. Especially if he sells them the fact that we don't need that many additions because we will have reduced games. If BR sells them the idea of signing Milner and Ings on frees / tribunals and 2 or 3 players on the Sterling cash, then FSG might think that it allows them to keep their powder dry this summer and keep the funds for the next manager if BR has a crappie 6 months and needs to get the bullet this xmas.

I think a suggestion of bringing in a character like Phil Thompson into his backroom staff wouldn't be a bad one either to be honest. It would freshen things up and be another sounding board for BR to bounce things off. Also, he knows how to set up a defense and is liverpool through and through so it might make sense all round. Another poster pointed out how Ferguson used to freshen up his coaching staff every couple of years and it is a really good point.

The one thing I just can't work out the rationale of is this though - who the fock has said it is a good idea to give Kolo another year. After giving away Agger for 3m last summer, to give this clown another years contract is just painful to see. We can almost start to laugh about it now but if you watch the Crouch goal against us the other day, jaysus what was Kolo the Clown doing??? He left the cross get in so easily but if you watch the replay of the idiot putting his hands up after the goal went it - as if to say "what the ****??!" - well the center back should have walked across and knocked him out.....

agree with this. Especially the bit about Toure . A lot are looking at Klopp's success but his success seems to be based on his teams running more than the other team. I fear that would mean a complete squad overhaul and another ****ing three year plan. I'm sick of the instability of the last 25 years and even though this season was a cluster**** for many reasons, I'm siding to giving him one more season with a decent strikeforce.

[vonk]

This thread and the posters crack me up.

Rodgers will be gone. The Brendog is dead, long live the German Brendog.

See you all here next May when we want this unacceptable German out of our club and hire Rafa, who's just recently been sacked by Real for coming 4th in La Liga.

[Maxiedge]

I think our failure this season is still being understated. Watching the Europa League last night and we should have been there instead of Dnipro. Would have also been a backdoor to the CL. Instead we get knocked out by a second rate Turkish side It's ****ing shocking really.

The Stoke game was the first time the manager apologised for a performance but he should have apologised after the Stoke game, Villa game, Man home game and pretty much every CL game. The apologies and the acknowledgements should have come much earlier in the season and not the last game.

Do I still want him gone? In a perverse way, I'd like to see if he can turn it around next season. It's probably more interesting than getting in a new manager, bar Klopp, I would say.

[Darkon]

At the minute I can't tell whether I really want Brendan to stay (it's not like I'm without reservation) or it is a reaction to the unpleasant level and tone of the criticism of him.

I suspect I would really need to hear what he and FSG had planned. The recent contract rounds have been interesting. Surely it wouldn't make sense to offer Kolo a contract at this point if you were going to change manager?

Like anyone had any choice after the dance/song rutine the entire squad did for him!

[kev776]

Some European journos saying BILD Sport are always spot on re BVB stuff. Hopefully this is Jurgen's first move

No disrespect like, Bren

Bild!!!, the German equivalent of the S**, I wouldn't wipe my arse on the rag. Over here football pundits etc have no idea. Some are convinced he is waiting for Bayern, some say us, some even say Citeh.

They are as bad as our press for making **** up if nothing is happening.