Brendan Rodgers

[Mark79]

Bit too revealing on tactics

The BBC article?
There's nothing there that isn't apparent from watching the team play, is there?

[RedAndWhite]

The BBC article?
There's nothing there that isn't apparent from watching the team play, is there?

Agreed - if you need the BBC to point those things out then you shouldn't be managing a team. Or perhaps, you should, especially if we have to play you.

[Liverpool]

Brendan Rodgers Talks Snoop Dog, Acting Career, Maradona | FTBpro TV - YouTube

the answer about who would you invite, the last few weeks on this run in. Ive felt Rodgers has been like a combination of Shankly/Paisley. The confidence and brash believe like Shankly, and the humble unassuming behavior of Sir Bob. I wondered if it was a coincidence, but he's definitely studied the two men and is trying to incorporate them into his own persona.

[Shaggy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2613543/Brendan-Rodgers-ready-sign-new-Liverpool-contract-revealing-Jose-Mourinho-advised-Anfield.html

Brendan Rodgers ready to sign new Liverpool contract... after revealing Jose Mourinho advised him to go to Anfield

• Brendan Rodgers will sign a new contract at Liverpool
• The manager had put talk about a new deal on hold
• Rodgers will lock horns with Jose Mourinho at Anfield on Sunday

By DOMINIC KING

Brendan Rodgers has confirmed he will sign a new long-term deal this summer as he prepares to lock horns with the man who advised him to join Liverpool.

Though Rodgers has put all discussions about his future on hold to prevent distractions during Liverpool's title charge, he has revealed it is now simply a case of 'when' rather than 'if' he puts pen-to-paper.

It has long been the intentions of Liverpool's owners to reward Rodgers, who has 12 months plus the option for another year on his current contract, but the manager's first priority is stopping Jose Mourinho.

Rodgers and the Chelsea manager remain close friends but, as Liverpool home in on their date with destiny, all acquaintances will be shelved. Nothing is going to disturb Rodgers' focus in what is their biggest domestic fixture for 25 years.

'There is nothing really (planned) until the end of the season,' said Rodgers, discussing his future. 'But there is no doubt that, at some point, we will agree another deal. I am sure of that.'

With each passing week over the last 18 months, Liverpool's decision to recruit Rodgers has looked increasingly shrewd as they have been transformed from perennial underachievers to potential champions.

And for that Fenway Sports Group owe Mourinho a small debt of gratitude: Rodgers was being courted by Tottenham as well as Liverpool but, after an exchange of text messages, Mourinho nodded his protege in the direction of Anfield.

'Jose told me to take the job and what a great club Liverpool was,' Rodgers revealed. 'I had spoken to him on it, he encouraged me about the sheer scale of the club. I was talking to him about a choice I maybe had, he knows the size of this.

'It is a friendship (we have). It has been a continual relationship since 2004. We have just kept in contact. I have got on with my life and work and that's it. He's been supportive of me wherever I have been even, in my time here.

'We might be considered a rival but I know that if they didn’t win the league he would want us to win it.'

But is their relationship strong enough to withstand rivalry? Liverpool and Chelsea antagonise each other and the increase in tensions stem from Mourinho's first spell in England, when the clubs played each other 15 times in three years.

'I understand the history because I was on the opposite side,' said Rodgers. 'In that period maybe it was made to be the managers (Mourinho and Rafa Benitez) and that was the rivalry, but I am a different person and man.

'I only concentrate on things I can control which is the players and my club. I will always fight for the club however that may be. I am sure it will be a brilliant atmosphere because of the past but more important how we are doing now.'

There is little doubt Anfield will, as Rodgers says, be "in bloom" for this game, a swirling mass of scarves, flags and banners. Liverpool have not been this close to to the title since 1990 and the locals are trying to lift them over the line.

It will be another afternoon when the noise is pumped up to mind-scrambling levels and Glen Johnson, who was on the Chelsea bench in 2005 during the fabled Champions League semi-final, has explained the influence Anfield can have.

'I’ve seen it from both sides and I remember the atmosphere that night,' said Johnson. 'Of course I didn’t enjoy it at the time but looking back, that is what you play football for, to be involved in those nights.

Whether I was playing for Liverpool or not, I could appreciate the support. It definitely takes a bit out of you when you are the away team. When the atmosphere is that intense, it does give you that extra 10 per cent 'I’m pretty sure the fans will be like they were against Man City and now we have to follow up with the same result. If we play like we did that day, we can beat anyone.'

[Sarb]

Last few managers have totally lost it after signing a new deal. Lets hope Rodgers can buck the trend

[RichC]

Last few managers have totally lost it after signing a new deal. Lets hope Rodgers can buck the trend

The last few managers also haven't been 5 points clear with 3 games to go!

[Sarb]

The last few managers also haven't been 5 points clear with 3 games to go!

Not referring to title race. Just saying when we have dished out new deals to managers they usually go a bit messed up

[Fredo]

**** me Sarb.

Relax, man.

[Sarb]

**** me Sarb.

Relax, man.

I cant

[Fredo]

I cant

If cleaning can't sort you out, try something else.

[wiw]

Wasn't it Rafa who moved when we play YNWA?

[baitman]

**** me Sarb.

Relax, man.

you've seen his avatar, right?

[Fierce]

Last few managers have totally lost it after signing a new deal. Lets hope Rodgers can buck the trend

You really are one pessimistic son of a gun

[Yozza]

Wasn't it Rafa who moved when we play YNWA?

I thought this too

[baitman]

we desperately need a better song for brendan, and if we win the title...

yanky doodle...

brendan rodgers hes our man
hero of the kopites
won the league for Liverpool
and took us back to europe

more verses...

i was going to have something like and smashed the bitter blue ****e in the last line but i wouldnt want to have to dirty brendans song with a mention of the bitters.