Brendan Rodgers

[kev776]

Schneiderlin & Berahino/Bony would be nice. Hopefully the scouts actually do their job properly. I'd be getting rid of Allen too... can't stand him.

These are the first ****ers I would look at, no wonder City ignored them

[Bender]

He won't get sacked during this season. No chance. However, if he fails to get top four that's another he should be worried.

If he continues in the current way he will be sacked before the end of the season. Looks totally out of his depth

To be honest next few weeks will determine his future as manager,loose to arsenal and utd .....defeat in either or both cup competitions against lower league teams[more pressure] and he will be out simple as,flip side we try and play our attacking game and make progress in the league and cup,alothough the latter seems unlikely

[tanner]

The nature of Gerrard's performances echoes all thats wrong with us at the moment. The occasional couple of minutes of brilliance injected into 90 minutes of mediocrity and anonymity.

If he's not able to lead by example for 90 minutes as he used to, then just who else is? We don't actually have anyone at the moment who you'd consider world class and at the top of their game. Not even close, and those who have reached their potential are miles off being considered great players.

We lack a quality leader for sure, but the biggest problem for me is that Brendan replaced Suarez with a bunch of players who were probably looking up at the players already in the squad. In my mind he needed to introduce at least 2 players who have the experience and quality for others to look up to. As it happens, the level of players we've introduced probably look up to Sterling, and that's bananas.

[~LFCHistory~]

If FSG decide that the rot has set in and Brendan isn't turning this around they won't hesitate in sacking him. Why would they hesitate ??
The longer a failing manager stays in the job the more long team damage they'll do so it's best to be decisive and end the misery. They did it with Hodgson and they did it with Dalglish who even though he won a Cup FSG rightly recognised that he was too old and out of touch to take the team forward.

[kingfunk]

I think the fact that CL qualification last season was a year ahead of schedule will buy him time. However he will be 100% expected to qualify again this season. The next four weeks will be the most important of his career.

[Bender]

25 players signed at a cost of £212million,out of those 25 only Sturridge has been a success,really do not give him any more funds to waste.

[tanner]

25 players signed at a cost of £212million,out of those 25 only Sturridge has been a success,really do not give him any more funds to waste.

Rumours are that he didn't even want Sturridge (mind you I was in that group too).

[Bender]

Rumours are that he didn't even want Sturridge (mind you I was in that group too).

yeah heard them rumours

[Sarb]

Teams like West Ham, Newcastle spend fractions of what we do. Newcastle sell their best player every season. So why do so many people blame our current problems on transfers and signings? Some of these teams barely have a squad

[SK]

Firstly I'd like to dissagree with the Bascombe article...i don't think this years transfers have all been a disasteer, they just have not been used right and enough.
Most of them will come good as they are young and have massive potencial.


Secondly regarding some saying our lack of pressing is down to Suarez not being there, it's not, well it's not just that.

Under Rodgers, we do not play the offside trap anymore, which is understandable becasue of his inabillity to coach any sort of cohesion into our back line, therefore they have to be positioned closer to our goal, which in case means our midfield and attack have to move further back aswell, giving the opposing team more space in their half.

Now this was mended last season because Sturridge, Suarez and Sterling had in them the pace to scare the **** out of any teams defence and midfield and not allow them to create attacks from the back, some of those problems will be solved with Sturridge coming back, but getting a defensive coach who'd sort our defensive shape would be a long term solution to that problem.

[~LFCHistory~]

Teams like West Ham, Newcastle spend fractions of what we do. Newcastle sell their best player every season. So why do so many people blame our current problems on transfers and signings? Some of these teams barely have a squad

Results are the most important thing but you can't get good results long term if your transfer business is **** and Brendan is finding that out now. What we're seeing now is the accumulation of one dreadful transfer window after another, up until recently we had SAS to paper over the cracks.

[baitman]

Firstly I'd like to dissagree with the Bascombe article...i don't think this years transfers have all been a disasteer, they just have not been used right and enough.
Most of them will come good as they are young and have massive potencial.

agree that some/most of the new signings will come good, but the issue is we needed first team ready players to improve the starting 11, with the other players then being turned into the squad fillers.

lovren and lallana were supposed to be our sure fire first team ready players.
the rest, money spent on potential, is what has screwed us. that money should have brought in 2-3 top quality players who would have been guaranteed starters.

[SK]

agree that some/most of the new signings will come good, but the issue is we needed first team ready players to improve the starting 11, with the other players then being turned into the squad fillers.

lovren and lallana were supposed to be our sure fire first team ready players.
the rest, money spent on potential, is what has screwed us. that money should have brought in 2-3 top quality players who would have been guaranteed starters.

we needed some first team players, lovren and lallana and balo were meant to be that and failed. Therein lies the problem not with Can, Moreno and Marković.

[Sarb]

http://gu.com/p/4443k/stw

Another article. This time by Andy Hunter. Some pretty good points raised

[Yozza]

http://gu.com/p/4443k/stw

Another article. This time by Andy Hunter. Some pretty good points raised

Pressure is increasing on BR...