Brendan Rodgers

[Shaggy]

It irrelevant for me though as regardless about the relative merits of our summer signings we shouldn't be getting turned over by West Ham, Palace, Newcastle while only just fluking a result at QPR. Even Boro almost took a pretty strong team down. We make the worst teams in the league look like world beaters and he's being out thought by Fat Sam and Warnock. As **** as our summer signings were there is absolutely no way they are as bad as their current showings.

****e at the minute. His heads up his arse

Yep. The transfer strategy is almost a separate issue - the team should be doing better but we look one of the worst in the league. Villa rocked up to Anfield and gave us a good going over before they lost something like their next 5 or 6 on the spin without scoring a ****ing goal. Palace hadn't won since September or something, and they spanked us. Can't see where the next win is coming from.

[Lecter]

It's all well and good trying to "sign Suarez when he was at Groningen", as it were, but I think we've tried to be way too clever too often. There's no shame in making, or at least trying to make, obvious signings....at least some established quality. All about a blend and a balance isn't it, and of that summer spree we didn't sign one ready made top level player who could make a difference, with the arguable exception of Lallana, who most would agree is a fine player but was way overpriced.

The whole trying to be clever thing also applies to Brendan

I think he is trying to be too clever this season

What was it Shanks said "football is a simple game that is often complicated by fools"

[G]

The thing about trying to be clever is that it works only when we are actually clever at it. Our transfer record over the last few years (starting in Rafa's final years) is so horrendous that I am surprised why we are even trying to be clever.

It goes back way further than that, back to 1990!

[ChrisDR1968]

I well remember being very pleased when Graeme Souness was announced as our new manager then. He'd been successful at Rangers and was one of the best players to ever wear a red shirt.

Amazing to think the club still hasn't recovered from his wrecking of the team he inherited during the 1991/1992 season... 23 years ago and counting

[Vermilion]

On Klopp, and the other teams that would be after him, him coming to us could well be about the timing being right, and the position those respective suitors are in, many of the teams that would rival us for his sig, especially in the Prem have settled managers now, and likely will still have at the end of the season.

Biggest rival imo would be City.

[Red_Polo]

Johan Cruyff anyone?

Yes, once, in the schoolyard by the benches. Proceeded to slot it straight between the jumpers to get the breaktime match winner too, I was a legend until lunch when Jamie Smith scored a hatrick and we lost 7-3.

[RichC]

[Tee]

Yes, once, in the schoolyard by the benches. Proceeded to slot it straight between the jumpers to get the breaktime match winner too, I was a legend until lunch when Jamie Smith scored a hatrick and we lost 7-3.

[Cormack74]

I well remember being very pleased when Graeme Souness was announced as our new manager then. He'd been successful at Rangers and was one of the best players to ever wear a red shirt.

Amazing to think the club still hasn't recovered from his wrecking of the team he inherited during the 1991/1992 season... 23 years ago and counting

Ha ha I remember confidence coursing through my veins at the prospect of the mighty Souey taking charge.

[marcus50bucks]

Brendan Rodgers' job at Liverpool FC is safe despite Reds' poor recent form

Nov 24, 2014 17:15 By Neil Jones

Owners remain 100% behind manager, and have no intention of sacking him

Brendan Rodgers' job at Liverpool FC is not at risk despite the Reds’ poor start to the season.

The ECHO understands that there is absolutely no desire on the part of Fenway Sports Group, the club’s American owners, to review the manager’s position any time soon.

FSG still see Rodgers as the man to lead the club forwards, in both the short and the long term. And suggestions that his side’s recent dismal run of form could lead to his sacking are well wide of the mark.

Rodgers himself had suggested after Sunday’s 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace that his job would be on the line if results don’t improve.

“I’m not arrogant enough to think I will be in a job through anything,” he told his post-match press conference at Selhurst Park.

“Any manager will tell you that you have to win games and you have to get results.”

Liverpool’s current run of form has been dire. The loss at Palace was their fourth in succession, and leaves them 12th in the Premier League table, 18 points behind leaders Chelsea, and five adrift of fourth-placed Manchester United.

It is their worst start to a league campaign since the 1992/93 season, with Rodgers’ tactics, as well as the club’s recruitment strategy, attracting criticism from both fans and pundits. Jamie Carragher, stated on Sunday that Liverpool were “mentally and physically weak” and lacked leadership on the field.

Nonetheless, FSG’s firm stance is that Rodgers’ future is not even up for discussion. They gave the Ulsterman a new long-term contract in the summer, a reward for the club’s excellent second-placed finish last season, and they remain 100% committed to their man.

Rodgers was LMA Manager of the Year last season after guiding the club to within a whisker of their first league title in 24 years, and he retains the full backing of principal owner John W Henry and chairman Tom Werner, who share his long-term vision for the club.

There is understanding from FSG that the nine new signings sanctioned in the summer would require time to settle, and sympathy for the fact that Rodgers has been denied the services of main striker Daniel Sturridge since August because of injuryThey also appreciate that responsibility for the summer transfers does not lie solely with Rodgers, but collectively, with the club’s ‘transfer committee’.

In the short term, however, Liverpool fly out to Bulgaria on Tuesday afternoon ahead of their Champions League clash with Ludogorets Razgrad on Wednesday.

The Reds need a win in Sofia to boost their chances of reaching the last 16, but a defeat, combined with a draw for Basel against Real Madrid, would mean elimination.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/brendan-rodgers-job-liverpool-fc-8167504#rlabs=2

[BigChief]

I'm happy to see these 'vote of confidence' articles now appearing. Rodgers is no fool, he'll know the writing's being written on the wall below the painting of himself.

[ChrisDR1968]

If Liverpool continue to lose FSG won't have much option but to sack him so these articles stating their continued support don't mean a lot.

In any case they have to make these noises while at the same time sounding out potential replacements.

[brightred]

Carra for manager???

[Fivex]

Wouldn't even want to contemplate it

[Yozza]

Carra for manager???

**** no.