Brendan Rodgers

[Bender]

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

He's saying all the right things. I just hope people don't want him gone by January because it hasn't turned around overnight, hopefully we'll be able to see the system and know the direction we're heading. Felt a little bit lost for the last 3 seasons or so.

[Vermilion]

Love the line about how the two parts of the club are a bit out of sync....'the supporters are world class...but the team needs aligning to that'.

[Shaggy]

Just could not be more impressed with him. I know this stuff is meaningless once the real stuff starts but compare and contrast with Hodgson's first presser - blowing smoke up Ferguson's arse and begging for forgiveness, bragging about his record etc.

[Alex]

I just like that he is already talking about winning the league.

[Reece]

Just could not be more impressed with him. I know this stuff is meaningless once the real stuff starts but compare and contrast with Hodgson's first presser - blowing smoke up Ferguson's arse and begging for forgiveness, bragging about his record etc.

Have you gotten over the fact that his name is Brendan yet?

But yeah likewise. He was on TalkSport whilst I was driving home earlier, and whilst he admittedly repeated a lot of what he said yesterday, he yet again came across very impressively.

[Nicey]

Love the line about how the two parts of the club are a bit out of sync....'the supporters are world class...but the team needs aligning to that'.

[Lee]

Just could not be more impressed with him. I know this stuff is meaningless once the real stuff starts but compare and contrast with Hodgson's first presser - blowing smoke up Ferguson's arse and begging for forgiveness, bragging about his record etc.

Completely.

Rodgers is class. Looking forward to seeing him implement his ideas next season.

[Muddled]

He's saying all the right things. I just hope people don't want him gone by January because it hasn't turned around overnight, hopefully we'll be able to see the system and know the direction we're heading. Felt a little bit lost for the last 3 seasons or so.

+1.

We need to show a little patience, as has been mentioned, this will be an evolution, not a revolution. It will be interesting to see fans expectations for the upcoming season.

[Fosterbloke]

I know it's a way off but I really would love to see how the mind games play out between Rodgers and Fergie.

Fergie: "I think experience will tell"
Rodgers: "Like it did against Bilbao?"

[red g]

Can't put my finger on it but I think he comes across like Souness does now, very measured but you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of him.

Ps Sure he doesn't manage like him though

[Lecter]

Rodgers outlines his LFC vision

2nd Jun 2012 - Latest News



Brendan Rodgers has spoken of his intention to play attacking football at Anfield and entertain the Kop.

After seeing his Swansea team applauded off the pitch for their performance at Anfield last November, he witnessed at close hand just what a unique bunch of supporters Liverpool have.

The new boss was reserve team manager at Stamford Bridge when Liverpool beat Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final, and he insists the special atmosphere of Anfield, matched by an attacking team can intimidate opponents.

Recalling the 2005 semi-final, Rodgers said: "The (Chelsea) players said they had never experienced support like that.

"That was ultimately what won the game. I want to use the incredible support to make coming to Anfield the longest 90 minutes of an opponent's life.

"I want to see great attacking football with creativity and imagination, with relentless passing of the ball.

"I know what it's like because I had a team like that at Swansea. That was with a terrific group of players. When people came to Swansea, it was probably the longest 90 minutes in their life. So after 10 minutes, when they hadn't had a touch of the ball, they are looking at the clock and seeing only 10 minutes had gone. It's a long afternoon."


Rodgers knows the expectations at Anfield are different to those at the Liberty Stadium, but he has a strong mental approach and is eager to give the supporters something to shout about.

"When you come to a club like this one, the shirt weighs much heavier than any other shirt," he said.

"The weight of expectation is phenomenal. My job next season is to try and lift some of that weight off the shirt. I'll take the pressure.

"The players can just go and concentrate on performing and if you don't do that you'll get the result eight or nine times out of 10 because of your talent.

"The reality is that this is a club where I need to align the playing group with the supporters. There is an imbalance at the minute.

"You've got some of the world's best supporters here and the playing group is not quite at that level yet. What excities me is the motivation to get that level back up again and that is why I came."


The pass and move philosophy which has become Liverpool's trademark is what Rodgers wants to bring to the pitch on a regular basis and he insists it is important to keep those traditions.

He added: "I think every player will tell you they would love to play that way. The question is, does every player want to work that way?

"For me, a lot of our game is based on passing. Our game at Swansea was talked about a lot and lauded. What people didn't recognise is that to have the ball for 60-70 per cent of the game you have to get it back, very, very quickly.


'Brendan will shine at LFC'


"So our transition in the game and positioning to get the ball back became very good and that allowed us to beat Manchester City, to beat Arsenal, should have beaten Chelsea and to beat Liverpool.

"It's not starting from scratch but tweaking. I don't think it is a total rebuild.

"Obviously I have a philosophy in terms of where I want to get to but that won't happen on the first day. What we will need to do is make a number of adjustments and bring in players for key positions that will allow us to play that way.

"You can't come to Liverpool and play a direct game of football, lumping-it style.

"This is a club that is historic for the identity, style and DNA of its football."

[Lecter]

New Liverpool FC boss Brendan Rodgers outlines his vision while insisting he's not a yes man



by Philip Kirkbride, Liverpool Echo
Jun 2 2012

NEW Liverpool FC boss Brendan Rodgers has revealed it took three offers before he agreed to join LFC – after refusing to work under a sporting director.

The 39-year-old successor to Kenny Dalglish spelled out his beliefs during negotiations on how to manage a club – and made it clear he would not want Louis van Gaal as the next appointment at Anfield.

Fenway Sports Group, the Reds’ American owners, are in the process of implementing a new management structure but such a framework will no longer include someone in a position of authority directly above Rodgers in the chain of command.

Rodgers, the club’s number one target, insisted on having complete control of all footballing matters at Liverpool. And though FSG say they were never steadfast in their desire for a sporting director, the ex Swansea City manager fought hard to accept the job on his terms.


Former Barcelona and Ajax coach Van Gaal had been heavily linked with taking a role upstairs at Anfield but Rodgers, in discussions with principal owner John W Henry and chairman Tom Werner, said he would be unwilling to take over from Dalglish if the Dutchman, or anyone else, was given the role.

The Reds’ new boss insists he is not a “power freak” but says, such a structure must already be in place before you appoint a new manager. Not the other way round.

Referring to the reaction after the dismissal of Kenny Dalglish and ‘phone calls’ that ensued, he added: “Among those mi llion phone calls are people who want to come in and tell them how to do things.

“The one thing I have recognised by talking to these people here is a real honesty. They have probably spoken to one or two people about certain roles but I wanted clarity on it and I didn’t agree until after three times.

“I wanted to make sure that was going to be the case, that I would be in charge of football matters; that I would control the team, control the work.

“And then what we have underpinning that is a team all with one vision – and one mentality. That is to make the first team better.

“If it was anything other than that, then I couldn’t have said yes. Because that’s not my strength.

“One of the things you need to do is to know yourself. And I know myself.

“I know what makes me work well and that wouldn’t have been a model I would have succeeded in.

“I have provided leadership all the way through myself. I am better when I have control.

“I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage it in terms of the team and I have a direct clear line through to the owners.

“Once that becomes hazed and grey, for me there is a problem. I don’t think it was a model the owners were set on, by any means. I think it’s one that people have come to them and suggested. They are still learning about the game.”

Liverpool have confirmed that instead, the role of sporting director will be divided amongst “key appointments” with Rodgers stressing the need for him to maintain overall control but work with a team of trusted experts in various fields.

“It’s very simple – you’ve got a manager and in and around that you’ve got different departments,” he said.

“When you are at a club of this status and of this size there’s no one person in charge of everything.

“I can’t do everything, that’s nigh on impossible, and that’s no different to any other top manager. They’ll manager their club – a Wenger for example – and then they’ll have a chief scout and heads of recruitment and heads of medical and he will manage that.

“Then obviously these people will go out and identify targets that fit the identity of the club and bring a list of three or four names, we’ll look at the value and worth and then you’ll make the decision as the manager because it’s absolute madness if you are the manager of the club and someone else tells you to have that player, it doesn’t work.

“I’ve had total clarity with that from the guys so I’ve got confidence that will remain.

“It was for this reason that I didn’t want to be sat up there, say what I’ve said and then in three weeks time Louis Van Gaal walks in the door. It does not work.”

Rodgers’ time at Chelsea, where worked in the youth and reserve set-ups, has given him a flavour of what life is like under a sporting director.

Frank Arnesen, who now occupies a similar role at Hamburg, spent a season at Stamford Bridge and Rodgers said it was a successful combination – but he prefers to work without one.

“I’ve worked with it before, don’t get with me wrong,” he added.

“I worked with Frank Arnesen at Chelsea and had a brilliant relationship with Frank.

“Frank came and was outside with me on the field as sporting director of Chelsea for a year and I still have a great relationship with him.

“It’s not that I can’t work with a sporting director, I’m open to the idea but I would obviously have to take stock.

“I feel that if you are going to do that as a club you have to do that first. That was my recommendation.

“If you want to have a sporting director, get him in and then you can pick your manager from there but if you do I won’t be the manager.”


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[Shanks]

Full audio interview is up on the TS website..

http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/wee...olution-173527

[Norbs]

He has big balls to accept all responsibility in our transition. We needed someone like that which is something I think Martinez wouldn't have demanded. Rodgers is in total respect of the job which is why he was prepared to pass on it if the conditions weren't right.

**** yeah.