Brendan Rodgers

[little dave hedgehog]

how many years before 2004 was rafa sacked from a lower league team?

[Kenneth]

What's the point of being worried? It may work out well, it may not, but there's f'all we can do about it now. We'll bring in a few players, see a new style of play and start the season with the same number of points as everyone else. For me, that's quite exciting.

Come on, what's the worst that can happen?

[Frenchie]

What's the point of being worried? It may work out well, it may not, but there's f'all we can do about it now. We'll bring in a few players, see a new style of play and start the season with the same number of points as everyone else. For me, that's quite exciting.

Come on, what's the worst that can happen?

Bodgson winning Euro 12 and coming back on the selection committee

[Fosterbloke]

I don't see why everyone is suddenly showing tons of optimism towards Brendo. It's just not right for this place. All seems a bit confusing.

Im only slightly confident about him as our manager. Think he comes across as a bit moody but you know nobody is perfect.

Im excited about his footballing philosophy but it doesn't change the fact that we are a huge step up for him, and only a few years ago he was sacked from Reading. And I'm still not going to lie and say he was top of the list of people I wanted. I actually wanted Martinez more than him.

For now lets just see the players he signs and how we perform in pre-season. Could take a while for our players to adjust to his system so we may find ourselves with a frustrating start to the season. Just hope this place doesn't go back to negativity central because we can't win a game.

I'm well aware that this post contradicts that .

No-one else a bit worried though?

Most entrepreneurs were bosses of failed businesses. It shows they tried something and it didn't work out but and people learn from that. How would you know the signs of failure if you've never experienced them?

I'm not remotely worried as long as all supporters understand that we won't be top 4 contenders from day 1 and that this is a long term project.

His first signing will tell us a lot about where this team is heading.

[little dave hedgehog]

here is a resume of rafa's pre'valencia career. we know how he did from there.

Early coaching

The first attempts by Benítez at senior management away from the Real Madrid fold were less than successful. He was appointed manager of Real Valladolid for the 1995–96 season but was sacked after only two wins in 23 games with the club bottom of the Primera División. During the 1996–97 season, Benítez took charge at Osasuna in the Segunda División but after only 9 games and one win he was sacked. He did, however, meet the fitness instructor Pako Ayestarán at the club, and went on to form a partnership with him at several clubs for the next decade. In 1997, he joined another Segunda División side, Extremadura and this time led them to promotion, finishing second in the table behind Deportivo Alavés, after winning 23 out of 42 games. Extremadura only survived one season in Primera División, however, and were relegated in 1999 after finishing seventeenth and losing a play-off to Villarreal.

keeping swansea in the prem is better than rafa ever did at a similar point in his career

[Fosterbloke]

here is a resume of rafa's pre'valencia career. we know how he did from there.



keeping swansea in the prem is better than rafa ever did at a similar point in his career

I pointed to Benitez' record too but got told that's not he same

[little dave hedgehog]

even eerier when you consider just before that point, one coached the youth at chelsea, and the other at real.

[little dave hedgehog]

“When you come to a club like this one the shirt weighs much heavier than any other shirt. The weight of expectation is phenomenal,” he said.

“My job next year is to try and lift some of that weight off the shirt. I’ll take the pressure. The players can just go and concentrate on performing and if you do that you’ll get the result eight or nine times out of 10 because of your talent. I want to use the incredible support to make coming to Anfield the longest 90 minutes of an opponent’s life.

“That’s the idea. I want to see this great attacking football with creativity and imagination, with relentless pressing of the ball.

[darkstar]

Dave, are you going to the Spurs match in Baltimore?

[breffniboy]

“When you come to a club like this one the shirt weighs much heavier than any other shirt. The weight of expectation is phenomenal,” he said.

“My job next year is to try and lift some of that weight off the shirt. I’ll take the pressure. The players can just go and concentrate on performing and if you do that you’ll get the result eight or nine times out of 10 because of your talent. I want to use the incredible support to make coming to Anfield the longest 90 minutes of an opponent’s life.

“That’s the idea. I want to see this great attacking football with creativity and imagination, with relentless pressing of the ball."

[badpiggy]

Just fackin launch it!

[Icon]

Rodgers on Talksport soon...

[colin85]

How soon? 5mins? 30mins 1hr?

[red g]

Rodgers on Talksport soon...

cheers for heads up

[Chazza]

Chosen one makes all the right noises to win over Kop
Tony Barrett
Published at 12:01AM, June 2 2012



“You can’t come to Liverpool Football Club and play a direct game of football, lumping-it style.”

With that one line, Brendan Rodgers met the first and most basic requirement of any Liverpool manager: to be true to the principles of a club who pride themselves on pass-and-move football.

When Bill Shankly outlined the philosophy that would set the club on the path to greatness, he also established a blueprint for his successors. “Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass,” he said. “It is terribly simple.”

Those who subscribed to those beliefs have tended to flourish, or at the very least enjoy the patience of the fans at Anfield. Anyone who has chosen to follow different values has floundered.

Rodgers has no such worries on that front. His way is the Liverpool way and vice versa. “This is a club that is historic for the identity, style and DNA of its football,” he said, acknowledging that the lessons learnt can lay the framework for an exciting future. “It is an absolute pleasure to be here. I genuinely think that Liverpool is the heartland of football and of football folklore.”

Had Rodgers been handed a checklist beforehand detailing the right things to say to achieve that objective, it is hard to imagine how he could have been more persuasive. There were even a couple of “Shanklyisms” thrown in for good measure.

“I want to use the incredible support to make coming to Anfield the longest 90 minutes of an opponent’s life,” the 39-year-old said. “I want to see this great attacking football with creativity and imagination, with relentless pressing of the ball.”

Should Rodgers be true to his beliefs, as he was at Swansea City, Liverpool could well have found a manager who, like so many of his predecessors, is able to produce a team capable of playing in the manner that the anthem at Anfield demands, even if winning the championship in May remains a distant dream.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/clubs/liverpool/article3434266.ece