Brendan Rodgers

[Paul12]

... CB ...can wait.

[Norbs]

YES!!!!

If we have to, sell Sterling and sign Dybala or Lacazette, Coutinho in the hole with Lallana competing and Markovic & Origi in the squad.

Mignolet
Montoya - Skrtel - Sakho - Moreno
Henderson - Kondogbia - Can
Coutinho
Sturridge - Lacazette


Sterling wouldn't even get in that team anyway. Unless we dropped Couts to midfield and had Sterling in the hole.

Bench

Keeper
Lovren
Flanagan and Allen
Lallana
Ibe
Origi

[ntto]

question is - would you trust Brendan (assuming he approves all committee recommendations) to make the "right" signings?

I'd love to see some analysis of all the players Brendan has signed over his management career to see whether the bulk were players he had previously worked with and whether any that were players he hadn't previously worked with were judged to be successful

[Lecter]

question is - would you trust Brendan (assuming he approves all committee recommendations) to make the "right" signings?

I'd love to see some analysis of all the players Brendan has signed over his management career to see whether the bulk were players he had previously worked with and whether any that were players he hadn't previously worked with were judged to be successful

The jury is still out for me on Brendan and the committee regarding signings

[Chilts33]

Brilliant coach but wouldn't trust him to do the weekly shop.

[gratziani]

Just shoot the idiot who spent 60 million on Lovren , Mario and Markovic , not one first teamer out of that lot , and that is with Lallana as well , all squaddies ,

Still think Brendan deserves to be backed again , just hope we get a couple of first team players this summer , straight in and playing from the off , so that means Big signings ,

I really think that is how close we are ,

[Lecter]

I think most of those buys were the committees except maybe Lovren if you believe the rumours

That said I am fairly certain our manager was instrumental in spending £26 million on Borini & Allen so that isnt exactly an endorsement of his talent in the transfer market

Coutinho, Sturridge (when fit), Can (potentially) and maybe Sakho are the only signings of note during his tenure

Thats pretty ****ing damning whoever is in charge of the decision making

[ntto]

even if they were committee singings doesn't Brendan sanction all signings?

either way, our recruitment needs looking at as we've wasted 100m

[frank the tank]

I think most of those buys were the committees except maybe Lovren if you believe the rumours

That said I am fairly certain our manager was instrumental in spending £26 million on Borini & Allen so that isnt exactly an endorsement of his talent in the transfer market

Coutinho, Sturridge (when fit), Can (potentially) and maybe Sakho are the only signings of note during his tenure

Thats pretty ****ing damning whoever is in charge of the decision making

I think Joe Allen for £15m has been okay. If you remember when we signed him, then Brendan didn't have any scouts and the club didn't have many options for him so they went for players he worked with before. Considering the wages that Allen is on, over 5 or 6 seasons £15m won't be a bad investment. Borini has been disappointing but if he focked off last summer then we would have actually made a £3m profit on the lad....

Mignolet hasn't been a bad signing either for £9m. That gets you fock all these days and considering he is on a £40k per week salary as opposed to Reina's £120k, then the club save wages on Mignolet that pays for his transfer fee in just over 2 years. I think from FSG's point of view, that is the case with a lot of the players Brendan has signed - the likes of Bellamy, Maxi, Kuyt and Joe Cole were on about £2m a season more than their replacements.....

I think Moreno and Markovic have the potential to be okay players for LFC as well but not sure they were worth the transfer fees. I got slated last summer when I suggested that Ryan Bertrand would have been a good signing - i think Moreno has a higher potential but there is no doubt in mind that Bertrand would have been better for us this season.

Brendan is one of the best in the business at getting young players to develop into first team players - which is good because we have a lot of good young players coming through. I think if he goes in to a meeting with FSG in June though and asks for another 6 or 7 players, then he could be booted out if he is not careful. For me, Brendans best approach would be to say that we are going to get rid of Balotelli, Borini and Lambert and replace with Origi and one other top striker. That we are also going to get Milner on a free transfer and push Emre Can into midfield as well. And that we need to sign a top right back to replace Glen.

[gratziani]

I think we all agree that money has been wasted on signings , just how we now move on from that ,

The other year we were after Costa , Mikharytan (sp) , Willen , so someone is spotting some decent players out there , just need to get these type in for next year before other team's

[Exiled_red]

even if they were committee singings doesn't Brendan sanction all signings?

either way, our recruitment needs looking at as we've wasted 100m

I guess it depends how the committee works maybe Rodgers has to sanction a signing maybe not. Suppose he does it's not difficult to imagine the following scenario:

Rodgers believes we need a striker, comes to the committee with some options as do other committee members. They go through the list and the summer progresses and players move elsewhere, are too expensive or unfit. By the end you are left with one player on the list: Mario Balotelli, someone the committee recomended but that Rodgers doesn't particularly want. The committee say it's Balotelli or no-one. If you are Rodgers the chances are, knowing that you need a striker, you sanction the move because you assume that not having a striker will be more of a problem than having someone who you don't particularly want but could hopefully do a job.

Now I'm not saying that is what happened, but IMO there are issues with committees, I am not saying Rodgers would do better or worse on his own, but the structure that we used last year didn't yield good results.

[gratziani]

I guess it depends how the committee works maybe Rodgers has to sanction a signing maybe not. Suppose he does it's not difficult to imagine the following scenario:

Rodgers believes we need a striker, comes to the committee with some options as do other committee members. They go through the list and the summer progresses and players move elsewhere, are too expensive or unfit. By the end you are left with one player on the list: Mario Balotelli, someone the committee recomended but that Rodgers doesn't particularly want. The committee say it's Balotelli or no-one. If you are Rodgers the chances are, knowing that you need a striker, you sanction the move because you assume that not having a striker will be more of a problem than having someone who you don't particularly want but could hopefully do a job.

if that is the case , then the people on the committee are complete ****ing idiots , we lose Suarez one of the best strikers on the planet and they try and replace with Remy then Balotelli ,

[dom9]

I love it when we get sweary, angry new posters.

[npinn001]

even if they were committee singings doesn't Brendan sanction all signings?

either way, our recruitment needs looking at as we've wasted 100m

Why are we always here? Seems like if I went away from LFC for 3-4 years and came back, I could bet we would all be (rightly) saying that we wasted £100m plus again, nothing to show for it, and no further on. Its repeated over and over.

[Roboklopp]

I love it when we get sweary, angry new posters.

We can't all be too cool for skool Dom...