Brendan Rodgers

[Fredo]

Shades of Glen Hoddle and Eileen Drewery.

[Muddled]

Shades of Glen Hoddle and Eileen Drewery.

[Red_Polo]

Shades of Glen Hoddle and Eileen Drewery.

Forgot about that

At least this isn't complete mumbo-jumbo though.

[Phoenix07]

Just watched the interview on Redmen ... we have found a good one here ..

Me too. Much better to watch the video than listening to the audio.

Rodgers' discussion on 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 showed one thing; he wants more complete players rather than specialist players, which is what the 4-2-3-1 tends to need (Benitez's system).

Do we have these at the club? Not in a number of areas, but he knows where the problems are and what needs to be done.

He's obviously pinched a few ideas from Mourinho in terms of communication. Some of the stuff is identical to Mourinho during his early Benfica days.

[destinydude]

Let's hope this so called documentary won't make us look silly.

[Bender]

Let's hope this so called documentary won't make us look silly.

Get the feeling we will be a laughing stock more so considering our start to the season and where we are in the table along with the andy Carroll fiasco

[Vermilion]

Every club picks up the odd fan here and there, even non league ones.

I'm talkin a worth while increase in fan base, and it's not going to happen based on a documentary. imo.

Winning is what increases fan bases.

[dww]

Me too. Much better to watch the video than listening to the audio.

Rodgers' discussion on 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 showed one thing; he wants more complete players rather than specialist players, which is what the 4-2-3-1 tends to need (Benitez's system).

Do we have these at the club? Not in a number of areas, but he knows where the problems are and what needs to be done.

He's obviously pinched a few ideas from Mourinho in terms of communication. Some of the stuff is identical to Mourinho during his early Benfica days.

Not sure this is really true. Especially given Rodgers repeated distinction between the controlling and more mobile midfielders.

[Mostar]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9531116/Liverpool-manager-Brendan-Rodgers-to-receive-help-from-technical-committee.html

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers to receive help from 'technical committee’

Liverpool are to announce the creation of a “technical committee” of “football people” in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the transfer deadline day debacle that led to the club allowing Andy Carroll to go out on loan without a replacement striker being signed.

The committee will advise manager Brendan Rodgers but will also, interestingly, take on a much wider role as to how Liverpool is run, the type of football the club will play and all the 'technical’ aspects that are sometimes taken by a director of football.

Although Rodgers, as part of his negotiations to take over at Anfield, insisted he would not work directly for a director of football, despite Liverpool sounding out several candidates, including former Dutch coach Louis van Gaal, the club has not ruled out eventually making the appointment.

However, the likelihood is that it will soon reveal the identity of a number of people who will form a committee of advisers, some of whom are already acting as sounding-boards, for Liverpool’s owners John W Henry and Tom Werner.

The Americans are fully committed to adopting a “European-style model” of running the club and do not want to follow the typical British approach of a manager having top-to-bottom control of the club believing it is unsustainable and costly. The owners admire the approach taken by West Bromwich Albion. The club’s sporting and technical director Dan Ashworth, who is now wanted by the Football Association, was linked to a move to Liverpool in the summer.

Liverpool also point out that the wealthiest club in the Premier League, Manchester City, do not allow manager Roberto Mancini full control of transfers with Brian Marwood, the football administrator, playing a key role on behalf of the owners.

Liverpool’s owners will be careful not to cause tension with Rodgers who has made it clear that he will not tolerate interference in first-team matters although, crucially, the manager will be expected to discuss his targets with the technical committee who may also make their own recommendations on which players are pursued. Such an approach may set alarm bells ringing, given the inherent possibility that the manager might feel interference which could lead to conflict.

There were clear problems last week when Rodgers’ attempts to sign Clint Dempsey from Fulham were vetoed because Liverpool’s owners did not believe the deal – the American was valued at £6m – was value for money for a 29-year-old with only one year left on his contract. Although Liverpool insist they offered more than the £3m that Fulham sources have indicated was bid, they did not match the asking price and Dempsey eventually left for Tottenham Hotspur instead.

Liverpool had also proposed a swap deal with Jordan Henderson moving to Craven Cottage in return for Dempsey and although Fulham were interested, the 22-year-old England midfielder, who was signed for £16m last summer in a spending spree which Liverpool are still paying a heavy price for, did not agree to the deal and it collapsed.

The failure to agree a deal for Chelsea’s Daniel Sturridge – Liverpool and Rodgers only wanted to loan the striker while Chelsea wanted a permanent transfer – meant that with Carroll going to West Ham United on loan on the Thursday night, Rodgers was left with just two senior strikers and one of those is 21-year-old Fabio Borini who is yet to score a goal in the Premier League.

There was also some discussion as to whether Liverpool could sign the Brazilian striker Leandro Damiao from Internacional but they could not reach an agreement and ran out of time for that deal.

Rodgers has already expressed his annoyance to the Liverpool hierarchy and spoke of how “operational issues” had to improve and is now casting around the 'free agent’ market to see if he can sign an emergency replacement until the January transfer window opens.

Liverpool will be able to recall Carroll then but do not want to do so with Rodgers having made it evident that the £35m striker, who is out for six weeks with a hamstring tear suffered on his West Ham debut, does not figure in his plans.

There is irritation at Liverpool that so much attention - and criticism - has focused on their failure to replace Carroll with the club insisting that disagreements over the valuation of a player between executives and a manager - such as happened with Dempsey - are commonplace.

The focus on Liverpool’s failure to sign a striker fell on the club’s managing director Ian Ayre whose role has been under scrutiny for some time. There have been suggestions that Liverpool’s owners were considering returning Ayre to his former post of commercial director, where he successfully revamped the club’s activities, and bring in a more high-powered chief executive.

Although the rumours, from informed sources, persist that Ayre will be replaced - he also came under scrutiny during

the summer when the owners sacked manager Kenny Dalglish and director of football Damien Comolli – Liverpool insist there are no plans for a change to be made.

However, the club have confirmed that the technical committee is close to being formed with, intriguingly, some of its members already in place and others working their notice. At least one prospective member is thought to work for another club.

Liverpool, at present, are keeping the identities a closely guarded secret amid suggestions – again denied – that Henry has used the likes of former Barcelona coach Johan Cruyff to canvas opinion.

The expected structure is along the lines of proposals divulged when Rodgers was appointed in the summer by Ayre. Then he said that Liverpool were still keen to develop along the “more continental director of football-type structure, a collaborative group working around the football area”.

A key component will be the appointed of a chief scout, with more responsibility than that role usually suggests, and an experienced football administrator who can negotiate transfers and contracts.

Interestingly there will also be a senior figure – likely to be a former player or manager although not one necessarily previously connected with Liverpool – who will act as a figurehead for the type of

football Liverpool want to play and the philosophy the club want to follow.

The appointments will be closely scrutinised by Liverpool supporters who remain angry over the summer transfer dealings especially as the team have made an indifferent start to the season and do not appear fully equipped to compete for a Champions League place.

[little dave hedgehog]

hmm.

[DannyMan2006]

I disagree Kenny set us back years, the only real point is that he didn't move us forward. I don't see last season as any worse than the previous two, if anything it was better due to two cup finals.

With regards money spent, Commoli must take as much blame. But regardless, with every managerial appointment comes major upheaval. They all have different styles and as such need to input major surgery on the squad to get it to match their way of playing.

My one hope for the future is that LFC settle on a style of play and base future managerial appointments on this.

I don't see Rodgers as to different to Rafa. I think had we gone straight from Rafa to someone like Rodgers, we wouldn't be in such a bad situation. But going via Hodgson & Dalglish has meant the squad is full of players who can't implement the vision.

I think we have a squad full of good players in their own right, I don't think there are many who are not good enough to be at least squad based players under a certain manager.

Carroll for instance is a top level target man. Dalglish obviously wanted that style of player in his squad, and I think had Kenny remained he'd have kicked on after a good end to last season.

Carrolls only issue was not suiting a possession based game that limits percentage style hoofs up field. Not his fault and doesn't make him a bad player or even a poor signing, though he obviously came at a price far above his market value.

That said, had he been a first team player for ten years, he may have eventually proved value. The change in managerial philosophies prevented that.

With all the above in mind, I think a technical committee is an excellent idea, that should hopefully see future signings match the strategy and playing style they wish to implement.

Having gone through a long managerial process and it obvious that parts of this committee had an input into the appointment of Rodgers, I feel it is clear he is in line with the vision set out.

Due to this, the only issue I see with future signings being made will be if Rodgers desires a player on the latter stages of their career who comes at a high cost.

[Fredo]

Not a bad idea per se but I just don't see this working here.

[Tee]

Committees....almost as bad as Commollis....

[baitman]

transfer committee...

so long as its a committee consisting of LvG ... oops, too late

the two ex-city lads will begin their scouting duties soon, who else would add to the "team"

[Frenchie]

how many statues are there in this world celebrating committees?