Brendan Rodgers

[danperkins]

Del

[Shaggy]

Rafa talk is pointless, that ship has well and truly sailed and he looks almost damaged goods now. Not making a very good case to get the back at any point.

[Rich]

I'd still have him

[JohnDoe]

This is the first time in his tenure that he doesn't seem to be learning or correcting his errors. We seem to have gone backwards tactically.

[Muddled]

I'm not quite sure that's the case. We've struggled with injuries this season and whilst that's not an excuse after the amount of coin we spent this summer, it is having an impact. We built our team around Suarez; Rodgers has been unable to decide who to build this year's team because it's constantly chopping and changing.

[danperkins]

I dont think anyone, ever, has thought that.

Maybe Christian Poulsen did

[JohnDoe]

I'm not quite sure that's the case. We've struggled with injuries this season and whilst that's not an excuse after the amount of coin we spent this summer, it is having an impact. We built our team around Suarez; Rodgers has been unable to decide who to build this year's team because it's constantly chopping and changing.

He's changed the system back to 4-3-3 and isolated Balotelli up front instead of keeping the diamond and pairing him with Sterling. I think that's a major oversight on his part and has nothing to do with injuries.

[The_weatherman]

This is the first time in his tenure that he doesn't seem to be learning or correcting his errors. We seem to have gone backwards tactically.

He's changed the system back to 4-3-3 and isolated Balotelli up front instead of keeping the diamond and pairing him with Sterling. I think that's a major oversight on his part and has nothing to do with injuries.

I agree, if something went wrong last season he usually managed to address it, maybe he's dealing with too many problems, maybe he is overestimating himself.

[Daniel 7]

Rafa talk is pointless, that ship has well and truly sailed and he looks almost damaged goods now. Not making a very good case to get the back at any point.

Absolutely. Looks like the Napoli support are getting at him and there's been a bit of a bicker between him and the owners (again).

I was reading that he was trotting out the investment of other teams argument again - I was under the impression he had STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPTALKINGABOUTRAFA

[Muddled]

He's changed the system back to 4-3-3 and isolated Balotelli up front instead of keeping the diamond and pairing him with Sterling. I think that's a major oversight on his part and has nothing to do with injuries.

He's isolated Balotelli because Sturridge is injured.

Sterling isn't a striker and never will be. He's tried to accommodate Balotelli's laziness by having runners either side and protect against the counter by having two midfielders holding. He's tweaking things to work with Balotelli's strengths *and* weaknesses - his hand is being forced.

[Norbs]

Liverpool v Barcelona 2001
Valencia v Liverpool 2002
Liverpool v Valencia 2002
Basel v Liverpool ?
Liverpool v Fiorentina 2009

And probably many others that I can't think of right now. Funnily enough, none of those were against the reigning European Champions. A team with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of talent in excellent form.

This is Rodgers' first experience of Champions League football.

Spot. On

[MrMichael]

Spot. On

I was at that Valencia home game, they outclassed us just as much as Real did last night, possibly more impressively given their resources at the time.

[BigChief]

Liverpool v Barcelona 2001
Valencia v Liverpool 2002
Liverpool v Valencia 2002
Basel v Liverpool ?
Liverpool v Fiorentina 2009

And probably many others that I can't think of right now. Funnily enough, none of those were against the reigning European Champions. A team with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of talent in excellent form.

This is Rodgers' first experience of Champions League football.

And the players' first experience.

[meffin]

I was at that Valencia home game, they outclassed us just as much as Real did last night, possibly more impressively given their resources at the time.

Who was their manager?

[Roboklopp]

Ha.