Brendan Rodgers

[Nick77]

It's not Rodgers fault that the players didn't pull finger imo...

[Fredo]

No chance. Allen is an average player, Lucas is class but in a 3 man setup it's not playing to his strengths, and downing is shocking. He needs to forget tika taka with that lot.

From the glimpses that I've seen today I think he's a good player. Technically very good player, with a nice range of passing. I'd trust him more to hit a 40 yarder and find his man that Steven Gerrard at this point in time.

[yamiedo]

No chance. Allen is an average player, Lucas is class but in a 3 man setup it's not playing to his strengths, and downing is shocking. He needs to forget tika taka with that lot.

Allen will prove you wrong. Really silly saying things like that when you have seen him play for us once.

[Suarez]

Allen will prove you wrong. Really silly saying things like that when you have seen him play for us once.

I've seen him play more than once FFS. It's all opinions, I think he's not much more than an average player, he has to prove himself at this level. Someone even called him boss in the match thread....

[JohnDoe]

Even if Joe Allen ends up to be decent, it still doesn't justify signing him. We had plenty of good central midfielders in the squad. I'm not buying it that Adam or Henderson are so inferior.

[BootRoom]

Allen didn't look too different to Spearing on today's showing. Granted he hasn't done much training with the team, but he should be in good shape after the Olympics. When it was 11 vs. 11 we weren't exactly overpowering and stifling them in the middle of the park; West Brom were superior in pressing and denying space. The flanks and the forward line I think were a bigger priority than CM.

[yamiedo]

I've seen him play more than once FFS. It's all opinions, I think he's not much more than an average player, he has to prove himself at this level. Someone even called him boss in the match thread....

That's why I said seen him play for us once. I thought he was probably one of our only players who did well today. Personally I think he is just what we needed.

[tsb]

Honeymoon is over. Will take time to imprint his vision. Unfortunately I feel this will be a regular occurrence until we manage to get some quality on the pitch.

[Leyton388]

Come across this on TLW. What are your thoughts? Can't say i agree with alot of it but i think we can all sense the frustration in the post

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Missing targets on the field and now off - Ayre and Rodgers are a laughing stock


we missed out on sigurdsson

FSG talked up this whole new revolutionary management structure - and then caved, so it's Rodgers and Ayre

Rodgers - who seems to be focusing on the miniscule pool of players who have worked with him before

and Ayre who has no experience in transfer negotiations and boy is it showing

ok so the sigurdsson miss is one thing, we didn't want to offer wages to compete with spurs (if we rate the lad why not?)

I can understand one eff-up

but now all the talk over the last week was tello and sahin on loan, tello and sahin, tello and sahin, liverpool hopeful of securing both deals.....

and what happend - we more than likely miss both, so that is three big misses in one window for us, an amazing record considering we were so sure we were going to bag all three

on top of all that we have failed to offload guys like cole, adam and carroll, on top of that we have had to pay many of the players we have offloaded to guy and received a sum total of 1 million in transfer fees for 5 players

the world of football have us marked down as a laughing-stock when it comes to the transfer-market and for another transfer window we have proven them right

our latest tactic seems to be to hang Dempsey out to dry in the hope of getting a few million off the fee if we even do go for him

so it looks like it will be borini, allen, assaidi, dempsey and de vries

look at those five names again, be honest with yourself, that is nowhere near good enough to make up the gap on the top four

oh and question marks still surround Agger


the Sahin transfer was a monumental moment in the ayre/rodgers/fsg axis and they failed and because they failed the club will suffer

as long as fail to secure players like Sahin we will get nowhere, the players purchased are not good enough, I am tired of excuses - these guys aren't doing a good enough job for the club and a 3 million Moroccan winger from a midtable Dutch club ain't going to paper over the massive cracks

[Reece]

My thoughts are that whoever wrote it is an idiot. And is probably about 13.

Apologies if it was you Leyton

[Leyton388]

My thoughts are that whoever wrote it is an idiot.

Apologies if it was you Leyton

No mate i only post on here and was just having a look on other forums and TLW seems to have more OTT posts than any other one.

[Reece]

Haha t'was a joke mate - I knew it wasn't you.

But it is a load of bollocks.

We're a laughing stock because a player wants to go to a team in the Champions League over one that isn't (assuming Sahin goes to Arsenal)?

We're a laughing stock because a player would prefer to stay at one of the best teams in the world rather than come to us (Tello)?

We're a laughing stock because we wouldn't pay more wages than we believed a player was worth (Sigurdsson)?

The author plays too much Football Manager.

[Leyton388]

Haha t'was a joke mate - I knew it wasn't you.

But it is a load of bollocks.

We're a laughing stock because a player wants to go to a team in the Champions League over one that isn't (assuming Sahin goes to Arsenal)?

We're a laughing stock because a player would prefer to stay at one of the best teams in the world rather than come to us (Tello)?

We're a laughing stock because we wouldn't pay more wages than we believed a player was worth (Sigurdsson)?

The author plays too much Football Manager.

You forgot the purple kit as well mate



****ing hell some people need to get a grip.

[Suarez]

Its all pretty spot on really, 5 players out, £1m in, 3 players we've been chasing and none signed up, and he's bang on the money with the players we've brought in, nowhere near good enough to bridge the gap

[Leyton388]

I'll never judge how it will go based on 1 game and it was horrible today but IMO the biggest problem is we have no one high up at the club who is a football executive. Ian Ayre is not experienced enough and should be kept on to deal with the sponsorship deals but we should have someone who knows football handling the transfer deals.