Brendan Rodgers

[BrooklynRed]

Will Gerrard be in the CAM, ala Ramirez's role in AVB's 4-3-3 at Chelsea? Would love to see that for him...

[yamiedo]

I've started the beer early, Mondays I'm fine , what I mean for all the idiots who never got what I meant
I don't think Brendon Rodgers Swansea wasn't his finished football philosophy and he was only doing what he could with the players he had there whereas he could take us to the next level, he said in one of his earlier interviews that he would suit the tactics to the players he had and I think alot of were thinking he had to start from scratch with us but I don't think he will, we have better players than Swansea and the better players will take to Brendon Rodgers ways

I get what your saying and its probably partly true. Danny Graham I don't think would have been used as often if it wasn't for limited resources at Swansea. We have the kind of resources Brendan needs to form his true vision of how he wants a team to play (whatever that may be).

[doogle]

I get what your saying and its probably partly true. Danny Graham I don't think would have been used as often if it wasn't for limited resources at Swansea. We have the kind of resources Brendan needs to form his true vision of how he wants a team to play (whatever that may be).

yea I'm not alone in my madness, I honestly don't think we saw the (true vision ) of Brendon Rodgers at Swansea, we're in for better

[red g]

Just picked up a Daily Mail and read this.....worth a read

This is Brendan Rodgers! Liverpool boss reveals the roots of footballing ideology

From Carroll to Suarez to Borini, Brendan Rodgers has started making big decisions as he attempts to turn around Liverpool. Sportsmail’s Michael Walker recalls a conversation with Rodgers in which the manager revealed the roots of his exciting footballing ideology

Sporting his red Liverpool training top, hammer in hand, Brendan Rodgers was pictured beneath the remounted ‘This Is Anfield’ sign on Monday. It was clear that his work has begun. Already there have been decisions on Luis Suarez and Fabio Borini, and possibly one on Andy Carroll too.

Next Monday Liverpool fly to Boston and will be based at Harvard University; Rodgers has recalled a friend who went to Harvard who informed him of the message of ‘ruthless simplicity’ that was drummed into students.

Rodgers, 39, absorbs such messages. Sitting with him when he was manager at Reading, he described himself as a ‘sponge’. In football and in life, he comes across as a man keen to learn and just as keen to impart knowledge in a streamlined manner.

This has been the case as a coach at Chelsea and boss of Watford, Reading and Swansea City, but it has not always had the same result. It was December 2009 when Rodgers made his sponge remark.

The interview was based around Reading’s forthcoming FA Cup tie against Liverpool. He spoke of having ‘a lot of admiration for Rafael Benitez. It’s the pressure that comes at that level. You cannot feel that pressure unless you’ve done it’. Rodgers was sacked by Reading before that match. The interview was set aside. But, in Steve Coppell’s old office, Rodgers had produced dossiers of thoughts on the game and talked about his earliest days.

Rodgers grew up in the small Irish village of Carnlough on the north coast, the eldest of five brothers. Last month he returned to his old school, St Patrick’s College in Ballymena, but going home is likely to have been bittersweet: Rodgers has lost his mother, Christina, and father, Malachy, in the past 15 months.

‘Carnlough’s a small village on the Antrim coast,’ he began that day at Reading. ‘I had a wonderful upbringing there. The community is really one, regardless of what political issues there were in Ireland at the time. It was mixed and strong.’

Nigel Worthington, the former Northern Ireland and Norwich manager, is Rodgers’s cousin. Both started their playing careers at local Irish League club Ballymena United.

‘I just wanted to follow my dream and to come to England was every Irish boy’s dream,’ Rodgers said. ‘So I left the shores at 16. I didn’t like it at the time, but I was told that if I was going to be a success then I’d never return to live. Nigel’s mother and my granny were sisters. So I grew up with him ahead of me.

‘He obviously had a real good career in England but, other than that, there was no football in the family — we didn’t even play it at school, we played Gaelic. I started late, didn’t play until I was 13.'

At school Rodgers played basketball and, as he said, Gaelic games — hurling and Gaelic football. ‘Soccer’ was seen as un-Irish. ‘But then I joined a club, Star United, and played in the same team as (former Manchester City, West Ham and Northern Ireland midfielder) Michael Hughes,’ he said. ‘I was a technical player, left-sided.

'I got into the schoolboy international team. I was a typical Irish boy, went to about 400 clubs when I came over — went to Manchester United. I went there a number of times in 1985 and 1986.’
Liverpool were one club Rodgers did not go to. He went to Reading.
‘I fell in love with Reading, my family felt secure with Ian Branfoot, who was the Reading manager at the time. When I was 20 I had a year of injuries — groin, hernia, bad knee, blah, blah, blah.
'By that time I’d gathered what my level was going to be. I knew I was not going to be what I hoped to be. I had a choice: continue playing and be a journeyman or be a coach, a youth coach.
‘I wanted to be one of the world’s best young footballers; now I wanted to be one of the world’s best young coaches. I knew the game, I could communicate, I was technically gifted, so I could demonstrate. I enrolled on my first course at 20. I was younger than everyone.
‘Some coaches would tell me that I should still be playing but I knew that, day to day, I couldn’t last physically. And I knew from my very first night on the course that this is what I wanted to do.
'I got a job at Reading’s academy. I am very much a learner, a sponge, but there were questions because I was so young.

‘I’d be sat in a room talking about football development and Liam Brady would be there, Steve Heighway, legends of the game who’d been in youth football for years.

'Then there’s me in my early 20s. But I felt comfortable — not arrogant, I knew my place — but I’m a football man. In my own mind I always knew I was good, I wasn’t being arrogant. And setting out at 20, I knew I had time.’
Rodgers was to spend the next decade coaching at Reading.
‘What you have to remember is that many go into coaching but then find they can’t do it because they can’t talk, can’t present and don’t maybe see it as well.
‘I had great support at Reading but I suppose the biggest pat on the back was when I got my move to Chelsea. My first goal when I started was to make a difference, whether in football or to young people. That is still my No 1 goal.’
He referred more than once to the binders in the room.

‘I presented that to the board,’ he said. ‘My methodology. This was my vision, to be sustainable playing attractive football with the greatest number of young players.
‘You can have two groups of players of equal talent and one coach can ask the players to smash the balls into the channels, the other can ask them to play football. I want my teams to be creative and disciplined.’
Coincidence means Rodgers’s first league game as Liverpool boss will take him to West Bromwich, now managed by Steve Clarke, who was Kenny Dalglish’s assistant at Anfield last season. But Rodgers and Clarke also know each other from Stamford Bridge.
As Rodgers explained on this day, Clarke influenced his career.
‘At Reading we played a pre-season friendly at Chelsea and we played quite well, the style Chelsea were seeking. A recommendation came from Steve Clarke, he’d been the youth coach. My youth teams played a 4-4-2 diamond or a 4-3-3.’
Jose Mourinho called Rodgers, then 31. He would work first with Chelsea’s youth team, then the reserves. By 35 he was in his first managerial job, at Watford.
Four years on he has relocated the original ‘This Is Anfield’ sign and had it restored. It is not a gimmick.
Liverpool fans will be reassured that at Reading that day Rodgers finished by saying: ‘I hear of managers coming in and ripping down pictures of the past — you have to respect the past.
‘I was the same at Watford. You must defend the culture, don’t just think you’re wearing the jersey, it’s much more than that.
‘Some managers couldn’t give a damn about that, they worry only about the present. But you must think about the future and have respect for the past. I think the top managers have that anyway. They aren’t frightened by the past.
‘Alex Ferguson respects the history of Manchester United. Mourinho created new history at Chelsea. Football nowadays is about the now but I’m trying to develop.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz20abeqaMD

[Bender]

looks like Robbie Fowler

[Phoenix07]

Fowler and Rush are the club ambassadors.

[Muddled]

[Vermilion]

Boss.

[Muddled]

[Muddled]

Linkage: American LFC Tour 2012

[Vermilion]

Thought it looked familiar.

[Bender]

oh that is tacky and horrible

[little dave hedgehog]

seems as though brenny and the reds gave a presser in boston last night, but i can't seem to find any record of it apart from still photos. anyone know if he said anything interesting?

[souliv]

seems as though brenny and the reds gave a presser in boston last night, but i can't seem to find any record of it apart from still photos. anyone know if he said anything interesting?

He said he was happy to be in US , looking forward to playing here and hopefully we get lots of new fans from the games

The interview is on the Official site

[CJ]

seems as though brenny and the reds gave a presser in boston last night, but i can't seem to find any record of it apart from still photos. anyone know if he said anything interesting?

can you not create a flick book and then lip read?

#happytohelp