Brendan Rodgers

[CJ]

Hotel charges $15 a day for internet access and given I barely spend time there it doesn't seem worth it.

So in short I'm a cheapskate

**** off and enjoy your holiday you fool

buy more beer with the $15

[Exiled_red]

**** off and enjoy your holiday you fool

buy more beer with the $15

I'm not paying it I'm in a bar with free wifi, only on here for a few mins to find out what's been going on, while waiting to meet friends.

[little dave hedgehog]

nickname search over.

http://www.getbuckyballs.com/

[CJ]

I'm not paying it I'm in a bar with free wifi, only on here for a few mins to find out what's been going on, while waiting to meet friends.

will let you off then.

enjoy!!

[colin85]

@ comparing him to Shankly. He's not even started the job yet.
He's not Shankly and there won't be another like him, but let's hope in the future his name can be mentioned alongside Shankly, Paisley , Fagan , Dalglish , Benitez. How do you put Houllier in small letters?

[Helios Creed]

you get the feeling he doesn't take nonsense either.

let's hope he doesn't come on here then - numerous bannings could result..

[Muddled]

Fair comment Colin, but let's look at some quotes from the new boss on his own merit:

I like to control games. I like to be responsible for our own destiny. If you are better than your opponent with the ball you have a 79 per cent chance of winning the game. For me it is quite logical. It doesn’t matter how big or small you are, if you don’t have the ball you can’t score.

My template for everything is organisation. With the ball you have to know the movement patterns, the rotation, the fluidity and positioning of the team. Then there’s our defensive organisation. So if it is not going well we have a default mechanism which makes us hard to beat and we can pass our way into the game again. Rest with the ball. Then we’ll build again.

I believe if you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you. So our emphasis is based around our positioning both with and without the ball. And for us, when we press well, we pass well.

You work on zonal pressure, so that when it is in your zone, you have the capacity to press. That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important. But you also have to understand when you can't and what the triggers are then to go for it again because you can't run about like a madman.

It's decision-making and intelligence. And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball. I believe they have all of the [attributes] and, if you can structure that, then you can have real, effective results.

When we have the football everybody’s a player. The difference with us is that when we have the ball we play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 and a goalkeeper.

[colin85]

i read that in shankly's voice

[CJ]

let's hope he doesn't come on here then - numerous bannings could result..

numerous indeed

i wouldnt ask him if he liked peas

[Catrin]

That stuff about knowing when to press so that you don't just run about like a madman...he wants them to do what Rushie used to do.

[Shanks]

So based on what type of style he apparently wants to play..

Who goes and who stays?

For me..

Downing could be off, along with Kuyt and Spearing,
Not sure what roll Carroll has to play but hope he can fit into "The System"

[RichC]

All of the above could be in danger along with Adam for me.

Think Carroll should fit in reasonably well in the system and at the very least offer a plan B for us

[JohnDoe]

I don't think there will be any high profile departures, and there shouldn't be IMO.

[RichC]

depends on how they fit into the style of play we want to adopt really, that really goes for all players we have at the moment. If they don't fit into the system we want to play we need to ship them out and replace with players that do.

All guess work at the moment though on who might stay and who doesn't fit in; I do expect some out going players though

[Muddled]

depends on how they fit into the style of play we want to adopt really, that really goes for all players we have at the moment. If they don't fit into the system we want to play we need to ship them out and replace with players that do.

All guess work at the moment though on who might stay and who doesn't fit in; I do expect some out going players though

+1.

As a rough guide, this gives us a decent enough layout of our current squad:



I think he thinks that Maxi is off.