Brendan Rodgers

[TheElephantMan]

Our football club will always have my support, but I can't suddenly change my view of Rodgers just because he's still here. I won't be supporting the manager, I'll see each game as one less that he'll be in charge. He's lost the fans and unless he finds another SaS sharpish he'll be ****ed next season.

[kingfunk]

Brendan Rodgers

Worse things have happened. It's all a bit over the top this Rodgers crap.
I kind of agree with that post from RAWK last week, this season was always going to be a disaster. A few key signings, don't have to be superstars, and we can be very good again next season. Last year you were all on a massive wank fest and now because we lost suarez it's all Rodgers fault...
If your capable of looking at a wide picture, retrograde and anterograde it's probably the right decision not to sack him.
Grass is always greener and all that.... Roll on next season.

[EwarWoo]

With Klopp and Ancelotti taking time off if they are the right people personally I reckon it works out perfect.

See how the season goes, if it's like last we can try and get them in mid season, if its like the one before we stick with Rodgers.

I think Rodgers deserves a little more time but certainly have my doubts so it's a strategy I see as a win win.

[Shaggy]

Shaggy made a fake YouTube video of Lovren looking like Paolo Maldini, and sent it to the club. Apparently Rodgers signed him on the strength of this.

He got dog's abuse here for about six months. He was sin-binned for a week too, as far as I can remember.

I assume that's the 'trouble' he's referring to.

[TheElephantMan]

A few key signings, don't have to be superstars, and we can be very good again next season.

That's a problem though, because we're not just a few key signings from being very good again. Coutinho and Sturridge (if he ever gets fit) aside then the rest of the squad are fairly average at best. Henderson and Can are the best of the rest, but the first team needs an overhaul - three years into the project!

[kingfunk]

Look on the bright side, they can't get any worse but seriously, average players improve around good players. This summer is key, imo we must concentrate on quality. Milner will be a good addition, Ings looks like Ronaldinho around Lambert. Id sell Markovic, Balloteli (Orgy! coming in) and Lovren or Sakho. With 50m for sterling on top of those sales buy a top RB CB CF and Bilateral Winger. Sorted!

[TheElephantMan]

Look on the bright side, they can't get any worse but seriously, average players improve around good players. This summer is key, imo we must concentrate on quality. Milner will be a good addition, Ings looks like Ronaldinho around Lambert. Id sell Markovic, Balloteli (Orgy! coming in) and Lovren or Sakho. With 50m for sterling on top of those sales buy a top RB CB CF and Bilateral Winger. Sorted!

I'm normally a positive person, but I really wish I shared your optimism.

[Fosterbloke]

Two and half ****ing months of waiting...

We need an opening game like we did against Stoke at the beginning of out title charge season. Mig saved a penalty and we looked like a proper family of players.

If we can foster that and show some guts, we could be onto something.

[BrooklynRed]

This process has been extremely cynical. Complete theater. And that's very disappointing.

[Nicey]

The problem with Brendan though is that he'll have a run of 5 wins and thinks he's above criticism again.

Would love him to make us winners, mind you I'd like anyone to make us winners, I'd even be happy if Fat Sam took over and had us lifting something ffs.

What do you base this on ? the way he smiles

[Nicey]

This squad is 2 or 3 solid players away from seriously challenging for the top 3, I think if you want Champions League football you have to aim for the title and and if you miss you land in the CL spots, if you aim for 4th you end up in 6th or 7th everytime. I guarantee there will be more movement in the top 4 teams over the next 10 years. The margin for error is so small now and there will be teams in 5th wating for one of the big clubs to **** up

[marcus50bucks]

Brendan Rodgers' job safe for now but Liverpool owners plan for improvement

Ian Herbert CHIEF SPORTS WRITER Tuesday 02 June 2015

The Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, has been given the responsibility to restore the club’s fortunes next season after agreeing a substantial new plan which the owners are satisfied can re-establish Champions League status.

Rodgers went into his meeting with chairman Tom Werner and Fenway Sports Group president Michael Gordon secure in the knowledge that the volume of public discussion surrounding his future did not equate to his job being on the line. But there was an agreement in the two-hour meeting that the outcome of the 2014-15 campaign had not been good enough and Rodgers has signed up to plans which have been laid for an improvement. The discussions on the subject of first team football were said to have been “productive”.

Quite how radical those plans are remains unclear. It is also unclear whether the transfer committee which has sanctioned expensive signings will remain its current form. It is possible that the club’s head of recruitment, Dave Fallows, and Michael Edwards, the director of performance analysis, may carry the can for last season.

Their statistically driven approach to recruitment has been a key factor in a transfer market strategy which saw the club spend £110m last summer on players who have not materially improved the squad. Gordon, managing director Ian Ayre and Rodgers also make up the committee.

Possible changes to the way Liverpool go about the new season may also include the recruitment of an experienced individual to work alongside Rodgers. It could be argued that those in his own management team are acolytes and that he could be challenged more.

The pressure will certainly be on Rodgers like never before when the new campaign begins, as he finds himself required to take the club back into the top four.

The progress Liverpool have made in securing the services of James Milner have pointed to the security of the manager’s position. Milner, whose signing is likely to be announced after his Manchester City contact expires on 30 June, has been attracted on substantially lower wages than the £165,000 he was being offered at City. Though the central midfield role available after Steven Gerrard’s departure is attractive, he is likely to have wanted assurances about Rodgers’ continued presence at the club before entering into detailed contract discussions.

The signing of Burnley’s Danny Ings is now imminent. Liverpool will also try to sign Aston Villa’s Christian Benteke and Southampton’s Nathaniel Clyne.

As well as the post-season review, Werner is also examining redevelopment work at Anfield and at the academy.

http://www.independe...t-10293201.html

[Fan65]

So we started last season with immense optimism, Finishing second wasn't so bad, it could have easily been better but we're back and next year we'll be up there challenging. OK Suarez is going but one player doesn't make a team and we have the money to improve.

Then reality hits

A very moderate season, No show in Europe, Not challenging the top teams, Couldn't be bothered in the FA Semi , Said goodbye to our talisman by losing, and finally lying down and letting Stoke walk all over us to a record defeat

And now the news the architect is staying

My optimism has turned to despair.

[Norbs]

Shaggy made a fake YouTube video of Lovren looking like Paolo Maldini, and sent it to the club. Apparently Rodgers signed him on the strength of this.

He got dog's abuse here for about six months. He was sin-binned for a week too, as far as I can remember.

I assume that's the 'trouble' he's referring to.

Is that true?

[dww]

This squad is 2 or 3 solid players away from seriously challenging for the top 3, I think if you want Champions League football you have to aim for the title and and if you miss you land in the CL spots, if you aim for 4th you end up in 6th or 7th everytime. I guarantee there will be more movement in the top 4 teams over the next 10 years. The margin for error is so small now and there will be teams in 5th wating for one of the big clubs to **** up

There is something in that. Although we have been bitten in the past by gambles we have made to compete at the top but which had high risk - Aquilani and Ballotelli being the more obvious examples - which haven't come off.

I think the real thing is that we have to go into the season with plans for all types of challenge and ways to score in every game. Both our strategies that worked last season relied on one or two players being fit and on form. When Sturridge or one of first choice back 3 were out we essentially collapsed. We need a plan which is less brittle. I think the confidence that comes from that will help us overcome some of the big game jitters we appear to suffer.