Brendan Rodgers

[Buzzo]

I just popped into here for some reason. Tedious isn't even the word for it.

It reminds of when Hodgson was in charge, and I wasn't comfortable with it then either. And it reminds when players get called a cunt or whatever, because they had a bad game or two.

OK, most people have pretty much come to the end of the line with Rodgers, but a little respect whilst he's still an employee might not go amiss.

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[The_weatherman]

I thiknk the point is that with 3 fit strikers he had to play Sterling up fron tas none of them where trusted.

I don't think it's fair to say he signed Balotelli. It's seems to be widely believed he wad told it was him or nobody.

Rodgers has gone on record saying he has the final say on transfers, IIRC it was sometime during our good run. Anyway, that's his public stance so he should be judged on that.

[baitman]

I just popped into here for some reason. Tedious isn't even the word for it.

It reminds of when Hodgson was in charge, and I wasn't comfortable with it then either. And it reminds when players get called a cunt or whatever, because they had a bad game or two.

OK, most people have pretty much come to the end of the line with Rodgers, but a little respect whilst he's still an employee might not go amiss.

he is trying to deflect the blame and appease the fans with sound bites. he is trying to take us for idiots...
he is pissing on us. pissing on us all, and just laughing about it.

[Tee]

He is fighting for his job. Good luck with that

[captainfog]

since beginning of last season, so that is 45 matches, we have picked up 4 points after going a goal behind (worst in the league). We have also dropped 14 points from winning positions (only Hull, Swansea and Everton have dropped more)

Go away, Rodgers.

[RedSince1964]

since beginning of last season, so that is 45 matches, we have picked up 4 points after going a goal behind (worst in the league). We have also dropped 14 points from winning positions (only Hull, Swansea and Everton have dropped more)

Go away, Rodgers.

If things don't improve by January I think he will be gone. In my opinion Rogers is only keeping the Managers seat warm for Klopp

[Fredo]

since beginning of last season, so that is 45 matches, we have picked up 4 points after going a goal behind (worst in the league). We have also dropped 14 points from winning positions (only Hull, Swansea and Everton have dropped more)

Go away, Rodgers.

If you look at it from a different context, we're 5 points off the top of the table. Context is key!

[McDermotX]

Bit of Brendan, Gerrard and Sturridge

On Saturday, Liverpool beat Aston Villa thanks to two brilliant goals by Daniel Sturridge.
‘It is not rocket science,” Brendan Rodgers said. “The last time we scored three goals was when [Sturridge] started against Tottenham. If you want to compete at the top you need quality.”
If you didn’t know better, you might have thought that the Liverpool manager was saying: the last time Liverpool scored three goals was also the last time Sturridge started a game.

In fact, Sturridge had played 12 games for Liverpool since that match against Tottenham, starting nine times. The link between his presence in the starting line-up and Liverpool scoring a lot of goals is not really as clear-cut as Rodgers’s “rocket science” comment suggests.
He is right, though, that Sturridge is a quality player. His Premier League goals-per-game ratio for Liverpool is 0.65, better than Fernando Torres (0.64 goals per game) and Luis Suarez (0.63).

Of course, the metric on which Sturridge has always struggled is the crucial games-per-season ratio. A top player will be expected to play 50 club games in a season. Only once, in 2011-12, has Sturridge managed as many as 40.
Even in his last, dismal season at Chelsea, Torres still played more than 40 times. As for Suarez, the legend of his durability is further burnished in Steven Gerrard’s new autobiography. Gerrard says he only saw Suarez visit the Liverpool treatment room on two occasions, and one of those was just to get a bag of ice.

All in the mind
Gerrard is not one of those players who pretends injuries are all in the mind. His new book includes perhaps the most graphic account of a football injury yet committed to paper, as Gerrard’s doctors puzzle over a mysterious yet crippling complaint that is eventually traced to a rogue sac of pus deep in his pelvis. Then his ankle becomes infected, and the reader winces as a surgeon slices open the inflamed joint. The pus, Gerrard informs us forensically, took eight minutes to drain.

So some injuries can stop you in your tracks. But Gerrard also repeatedly makes the point that ignoring almost constant low-level pain is part of the footballer’s life. If you don’t find a way to deal with that, you will seldom make it out on to the field.
Gerrard writes of the match against Manchester United at the beginning of the 2013-14 season: “I was always desperate to play against them, even if there had been more defeats than victories. It seemed different for Daniel Sturridge.”
Sturridge, it turns out, had been dubious about whether he was fit , and Gerrard spent the pre-match walk begging him to play through the pain. In the event, Sturridge scored in a 1-0 victory that laid the foundation for a successful season.

Everybody can understand the implications of the fact that Sturridge required some heavy-duty moral arm-twisting to persuade him to play against United. Probably not even Sturridge would argue with the conclusion that he seems more talented than dependable. But it’s also significant that the man doing the arm-twisting was a team-mate, and not the manager.
Reading Gerrard’s book you are struck by how activist his role as Liverpool captain had become by the end of his time there. He wasn’t just the Sturridge-whisperer. At least by his own account, he was the chief broker of the truce between Suarez and Rodgers that kept the striker at Liverpool for one more season before he joined Barcelona. Gerrard appears to have been the instigator of his own switch from an attacking to a defensive midfield role midway through the 2013-14 season.

Transfer targets
Gerrard would also, at Rodgers’s request, get in touch with transfer targets such as Toni Kroos, Loic Remy and Willian to ask them to sign for Liverpool. Apparently Rodgers seemed to think the message would be more persuasive coming from Gerrard than from him.
All of which leaves you wondering who Rodgers relies on to do these things now that Gerrard has gone.
The advantage of letting Gerrard leave, along with all his experience and baggage and tortured institutional memory, was presumably the opportunity to construct an entirely new team, unencumbered by any awkward sense of responsibility or deference to the aged captain.

But what sort of team is it going to be? Will the new Liverpool play possession or counter-attack? Do they prefer three at the back, or four? Do they play one striker, or two? Is it three midfielders, or four, or maybe even five? Rodgers has dallied with all of these ideas without ever looking wedded to one.

Gerrard wasn’t the only high-profile figure with a new book out last week. Alex Ferguson published a frequently-tedious compendium of his collected insights under the title Leading.
Ferguson writes: “A crucial ingredient of motivation is consistency. As a leader, you can’t run from one side of the ship to the other. People need to feel that you have unshakeable confidence in a particular approach. If you can’t show this, you’ll lose the team very quickly.”
The manager who waved goodbye to Gerrard finally has the blank slate he must have wanted all along. The question is whether he has any idea what he wants to put there

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/english-soccer/ken-early-brendan-rodgers-rocket-science-and-friction-1.2369086

[DannyMan2006]

Problem is we have spent a shed load of money & basically our season rests totally on someone who has thus far been injury prone. I think only City & Chelsea can claim to have as good a striker as Sturridge in this league so even without him we really should be doing better.

Danny should be the difference between a challenge for 4th and a challenge for the title. Instead he's the difference between 8th - 4th.

Problem with Brendan is we have looked so lost for so long because we stopped pressing from the front. The performance against Villa coincided also with Ings starting alongside Studge.

Two mobile strikers, one in Danny Ings replicating the work rate of Suarez. I don't know why Rodgers didn't buy similar players last summer. Because I think with mobile players who are willing to work hard Rodgers can still produce effective results.

The issue is Rodgers has done himself no favours by signing Benteke. Sturridge doesn't show the high work rate required to make up for Benteke not being as mobile. Ings & Benteke would work, but Sturridge would always start over Benteke.

[red g]

If you look at it from a different context, we're 5 points off the top of the table. Context is key!

So we would be 38 points off top when the season ends if current form continued......context is key!!

[ntto]

if Brendan stumbles on a combination that works in sturridge and ings then he's going to get absolute pelters for Benteke and Firmino sitting on the bench

[The_weatherman]

if Brendan stumbles on a combination that works in sturridge and ings then he's going to get absolute pelters for Benteke and Firmino sitting on the bench

Deservedly so IMO. That'll be 60 million of our spending sat on the bench. If it were to happen.

[Harv]

Don't worry he'll play Firmino at wingback and Benteke as a CB.

[captainfog]

If you look at it from a different context, we're 5 points off the top of the table. Context is key!

This post is reeks of desperation and straw clutching.

The sooner LFC stop excusing mediocrity the sooner we can start winning things again.

[Fredo]

This post is reeks of desperation and straw clutching.

The sooner LFC stop excusing mediocrity the sooner we can start winning things again.

Did you expect us to be top of the league by this stage? If you expected us to challenge for 4th, we're 2 points off that mark.