Klopp seems too obvious. If Godgers goes I expect us to try and be too smart for our own good and hire someone else. Gary Monk or Slavisa Jokanovic maybe.
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Throw the cheque book at him..
He'll bring the fans together and the club is crying out for it, he'll also slap the greedy lazy ****ers about in the process.Vive la FranceComment
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This would be Klopp when he first meets Sterling, and is told he won't be signing the proposed contract.
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Surely if Rodgers goes FSG won't make the same mistake and go more unproven managers when there is one of the best managers in Europe with a track record of winning trophies both domestically and in European competition is avaliable for zero compensation plus who is still in his 40's so fits the brief in terms of a youngish exciting coach. We can't **** this one up can we? If we let Klopp slip through our fingers we may as well pack in, this is our chance to get back into the elite and hopefully he can bring a few players with himKurtangled in the McFadden thread 16/01/08
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While I definitely do not want him as manager next season, it is sorry to see him like that.Originally posted by Shaggy View PostLooks like he's been crying.
He deserves respect rather than poison.
He gave it his best and it was not enough. No harm in that. I think the job was just too big for him and it came a bit too soon for him. If he had built up his CV a bit more with some trophies and came here, we would have lot more patience for him. As he has nothing to show in terms of track record, with every setback, the doubts are magnified.
To a certain extent I do place a bit of the blame on FSG. If you are trying to build a club to compete at the top level with emphasis on youngsters, that is when you really need a heavy hitter with a track record. Of course Rodgers made a rod for himself by refusing to work with an experienced DOF. Inexperienced manager, squad, coaching staff and CEO - the propensity for the train to derail is very high irrespective of how talented the manager is.Comment
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Most likely the same reaction when the transfer committee meets and shows him the list of strikers.Originally posted by Phoenix07 View PostThis would be Klopp when he first meets Sterling, and is told he won't be signing the proposed contract.
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Inept Liverpool roll over to leave question marks over the future of Brendan Rodgers
Tony Barrett
Updated 30 minutes ago
Stoke City 6 Liverpool 1
As endings go, this was Hammer House of Horrors rather than Mills and Boon. Steven Gerrard’s Liverpool career drew to a close in a bloodbath as Liverpool suffered their heaviest defeat in more than half a century.
As their captain departed, the prospect of their manager, Brendan Rodgers, doing the same increased. This may have been the last day of the season but a 6-1 loss to Stoke City did little to justify Rodgers’s opinion that he is “150 per cent safe” in his job.
With a crucial review pending that will determine how Liverpool proceed from a campaign that ended in shambles, their players either failed to grasp the importance of the assessment or used it as an opportunity to undermine their own manager. While the latter option may seem conspiratorial it would at least go some way towards explaining how a team which had £120 million spent on it last summer could serve up such a shocking display.
Inevitably, the focus was all on Gerrard, and the midfield player at least did his bit by scoring Liverpool’s consolation. But now that he is headed towards a new career in the USA, attention will inevitably be drawn to those he will leave behind. From ownership to transfer committee and from manager to players, Liverpool cannot escape the kind of scrutiny that will come their way on the back of their worst defeat since losing 7-2 to Tottenham Hotspur in April 1963.
Ironically, this setback allowed Tottenham to climb above them in the Barclays Premier League table, leaving Liverpool to finish in sixth place and having to contemplate their competitive start to next season being brought forward to July 30, when they will face a Europa League qualifier. Whether Rodgers is still around to lead them into the forthcoming campaign remains to be seen. As distant as Liverpool’s owners have become, the shockwaves of this result will have been felt in Boston.
Liverpool’s performance was as funereal as their new all black away kit, with their first half display challenging any of the worst in the club’s history for sheer ineptitude and spinelessness. From the first kick, the visitors were outmuscled, outplayed and outthought by a Stoke side which played with the kind of endeavour, desire and unity that their opponents so badly lacked.
With Raheem Sterling left on the substitutes’ bench, Liverpool managed to give the winger’s agent, Aidy Ward, a much needed PR boost by demonstrating exactly why his client is so determined to leave. The sound of the Stoke City fans accusing Sterling of being “a greedy b******” won applause from the Liverpool fans, but even those in the away end who view the England international as a grasping ingrate would be hard pressed to come up with many reasons why he should stay.
In the opening 45 minutes, Stoke delivered five reasons why he should depart as Liverpool, tactically inept with numerous square pegs in round holes, were torn apart. Each goal showcased the glaring weaknesses in this Liverpool side that have become increasingly apparent as the season has wore on, none more so than down their right-hand side where Emre Can was once again hung out to dry.
Can clearly has ability but he is not a right back. That much has been clear since Aston Villa targeted him successfully in last month’s FA Cup semi-final but Rodgers has continued to persevere with the German in that role and this time it went beyond proving costly; it veered into being catastrophic. Marko Arnautovic took Can to the cleaners for Stoke’s first and third goals, both of which were scored by Mame Diouf.
In between, the befuddled Can headed Charlie Adam’s deep cross straight to Jonathan Walters who scored at the second attempt after Simon Mignolet had made a desperate save. Liverpool appealed for a penalty when Adam Lallana appeared to be tripped by Geoff Cameron only for Anthony Taylor, the referee, to wave play on.
Three goals down on the day before the tenth anniversary of Istanbul, the more optimistic among the travelling support may have harboured dreams of a comeback to give Gerrard the perfect send off, but any such dreams were dashed when Stoke scored a fourth.
The comedy of errors that led up to the goal were bad enough as Mamadou Sakho’s wayward pass was miscontrolled on the stretch by Lucas Leiva, but the identity of the scorer made it worse as Adam – a player discarded by Rodgers – latched onto the loose ball and dispatched it into the bottom left-hand corner of Mignolet’s goal.
There were only three minutes of the half remaining but that was still sufficient time for Stoke to add a fifth as Steven Nzonzi took advantage of the yawning gaps on the right side of Liverpool’s defence before beating Mignolet with a wonderful curling shot. Despite having enjoyed 57 per cent of possession, Liverpool found themselves 5-0 down. Death by football but not as Rodgers ever intended it.
As the manager made his way towards the tunnel at half-time, he was barracked by the Liverpool supporters. With the club’s owners, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), set to oversee a review into a poor season, the last thing Rodgers could afford to do was lose the fans whose backing he freely admits had gone beyond the call of duty, but that process is now clearly under way. Neither was the Liverpool manager’s cause aided by the choruses of “You’re getting sacked in the morning” that rained down on him from the Stoke fans.
Rodgers made two changes at half-time, introducing Jordon Ibe and Kolo Toure for Alberto Moreno and Can but, had he been allowed to, he could easily have made 11. An improvement of sorts followed as Lallana and Gerrard both had shots saved by Asmir Begovic but Stoke had more than earned the right to ease off in the second half and they did so in the knowledge their season was already guaranteed to end on a remarkable high.
The goal that Gerrard craved duly arrived in the 70th minute as he latched onto a flick header from Rickie Lambert, the substitute, and fired a low shot past Begovic into the far corner. It was number 186 of Gerrard’s Liverpool career but the circumstances in which it came were memorable for only the wrong reasons, although the ovation he was afforded by the home supporters served as a reminder of the esteem that he is held in.
One of Gerrard’s former team mates, Peter Crouch, emerged from the substitutes’ bench to complete the rout with a well taken header from Diouf’s cross.
The last time Liverpool won the league title in 1990, they ended the season with a 6-1 away win. Their descent from perennial winners to also-rans now has been lent a symmetery. Where they go from here remains to be seen.
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He just doesn't know how to win I'm afraid, doesn't manage games very well at all.
Got no hard feelings towards him but its time to leave.
3 years, nothing to show for it and a feeling of no foundations really left behind.Vive la FranceComment
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I just want him not to be our manager...
He looks like a broken man. There is no chance of him getting another tune out of this inept squad he has "built"
Klopp has to be our man... As a club, we are at a crossroads now. The end of season meeting in Boston is pivotal.
We can only hope that FSG reach the just and correct decision
Klopp in, all day long.
DALGLISH !! :respect
klopptastic !Comment
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I think it will say a lot about our owners if they go for him or not.Originally posted by Molby View Post
He's a strong personality and I'm still wondering if they want a lapdog.Vive la FranceComment
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Most great managers are strong personalities who are not afraid to challenge the owners. I hope the owners realize that.Originally posted by Robbie-9-Fowler View PostComment
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yes i do want one more drunken seasonOriginally posted by Bloodraven View Post
PELEGRINI WON the league and people still want him gone . even though i am silly drunk i believe with proper strikers we will deliverComment
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I'm not certain they will and that's my worry, I wouldn't be surprised if they go with their original idea of a DoF now.Originally posted by peekay View PostVive la FranceComment
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