Brendan Rodgers

[Buzzo]

I can think of one manager who will definitely think Rodgers is getting off lightly.

[danperkins]

I can think of one manager who will definitely think Rodgers is getting off lightly.

it's still as hilarious as the first time I looked at it.

[Roboklopp]

I know what you're saying, someone somewhere is going to get it spot on.

But you don't play the lottery with your opinion. This guy called it right, he didn't just start head butting the keyboard like the s-man seems to be doing.

[Marvel]

I have no love for the man but I respect him as an individual and because he is our manager.

I don't care about what he's done in his personal life or whatever changes hes made to himself. I only care about the what happens on the pitch and it hasn't been good enough.

That's why I dont want him to continue as our manager. All the other stuff is just excuses because the fact is that nobody would give a **** who he shags or how white his teeth are as long as we were playing well on the pitch and our results were good. They aren't so fans are using all of it as a whole package.

Mourinho is the most odious little ****bag ive ever seen, but fans tolerate it because he delivers results. Fans forget all the bad because their team is winning.

[ronanm]

He did handle it- very well if you look at the points in his 2nd- penultimate season. We had our best squad, but it wasn't the best squad. We had NGog as back-up, Scum had Tevez.

I know, as pointed out to an earlier poster,I was joking

[Roboklopp]

I know dude, I caught up. Big soz.

[Mattshark]

I personally like Rodgers but I don't think he has the ability to us forward and that is the most important thing.

[captainfog]

Last season was exhilarating and brilliant to watch. But we were *awful* at defending. If we need to score more than 100 goals to mount a title challenge under Rodgers then we're not going to be challenging for many titles.

He's had three years to organise our defense and he's had some good players to work with too, but he can't do it. Well, he was able to shore us up at for a period this season but that involved packing the defence with as many bodies as possible as opposed to having a proper defensive plan.

[marcus50bucks]

Tony Barrett in his Benteke piece

Rodgers remains at the heart of Liverpool’s planning and there is nothing to suggest that the manager’s position is under threat.

Rather than abandoning their managerial structure, in which Rodgers works as part of a transfer committee, the immediate post-season indications are that Liverpool’s owner, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), is planning a series of refinements and improvements to the model.

There is no intention to appoint a director of football, but the club’s backroom staff is likely to be bolstered in keeping with FSG’s belief that Rodgers would benefit from greater support.

Chris Bascombe on the Toure and Wisdom deals

Both deals were keenly sought by Rodgers, further demonstrating his confidence that he will still be in charge next season.

I'll be very surprised if he's sacked now. Think he'll be given more time.

[The s man]

If Toure stays then for me we can't have Skrtel and Sakho playing nearly every game, we must but a much better centre back to add competition for Sakho and Skrtel.
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[Buzzo]

Here's the thing that has been gnawing away at me, maybe nothing, maybe something.

We seem to be getting pretty much spammed by the press with all these articles saying Rodgers is safe, none of them containing any direct quotes just a suggestion that it is going to be business as usual. I've never seen so many similar articles about us for 2/3 days in all the main papers.

At the same time within hours of our season finishing we hear almost immediately that Jurgen Klopp is now taking a 6 month sabbatical, again, without any direct quotes, Klopp becomes bookies favourite to take over from Rodgers, our season ends and the new sabbatical info all happens within about, what, 24 hours? I've never seen a direct quote from him other than about him learning Spanish, indeed surely the time to announce the sabbatical is the moment he announced he would be stepping down at Dortmund. All he seems to have said is his future will not be discussed until after the German cup final. The same with us, we know there is to be an end of season review, but now that it is just a formality.

Something doesn't seem to stack up here. There seems to be almost too many articles telling us its business as usual, they protesteth too hard. There just seems like there is quite a lot of smoke around right now, with no direct quotes. Why haven't the club issued a statement backing Rodgers and saying he only recently signed a new deal?

Interesting. Maybes I, maybes no. Or maybes I am blinded by my desire for us to have a new manager?

[Fosterbloke]

If Benitez (1 Champions League, 1 Super Cup and 1 FA Cup with us) is below average



What does that make Rodgers???

And a second CL final!

[The_weatherman]

Really disappointed if he stays, FSG are just wasting time and resources for a whole year. I've been disinterested since March, can't muster any sort of enthusiasm for the team as it is.

[Buzzo]

Tony Barrett in his Benteke piece

Chris Bascombe on the Toure and Wisdom deals

I'll be very surprised if he's sacked now. Think he'll be given more time.

[peekay]

from the article below, it looks like Rodgers is going to stay.


Tony Barrett
Published 1 minute ago
Liverpool are preparing a bid for Christian Benteke but will not lodge it until after Aston Villa
have played Arsenal in the FA Cup final on Saturday.
Benteke enters the final two years of his contract at Villa Park this summer and Liverpool are
hopeful that an offer of more than £20 million will convince Villa to sell the Belgium
forward, who Brendan Rodgers wants to become the new spearhead of his attack.
Rodgers wants to add greater physicality and firepower to Liverpool’s front line and believes
that Benteke would provide both qualities, hence the 24-year-old emerging as one of the
club’s chief transfer targets before what promises to be another close season of change at
Anfield.
Liverpool have also begun the process of overhauling their squad by preparing the way for
those players Rodgers has deemed surplus to requirements to leave.
In a significant indication of Rodgers’s influence regardless of speculation about his future,
José Enrique, the left back, and Fabio Borini, the forward, have both been told to find
themselves new clubs in recent days.
Neither player features in Rodgers’s plans and Liverpool will look to sell the out-of-favour
duo, with Borini ready to accept that his time at Anfield is over after rejecting a £14 million
transfer to Sunderland last summer to stay and fight for his place.
That decision has backfired. Borini started only three Barclays Premier League games all
season despite Daniel Sturridge’s injury problems and Rodgers’s reluctance to use either
Rickie Lambert or Mario Balotelli. Similarly, Enrique, who has also had injury problems, has
started only twice in the league.
Lambert will be allowed to leave to play regular first-team football, while Balotelli will also
be sold if a buyer can be found, having long been written off as a poor acquisition. Brad Jones
and Glen Johnson are already in the process of securing moves, with their contracts set to
expire in the coming weeks.
The biggest casualty of the cull could be Lazar Markovic, who has struggled to make an
impact since joining Liverpool from Benfica in a £20 million deal last summer. Although
Liverpool retain confidence in the winger’s talent, there is a concern that he may not be
equipped to thrive in English football.
Liverpool continue to work on incoming transfers and deals for Danny Ings and James Milner
are understood to be close.
Kolo Touré and Andre Wisdom have both signed contract extensions. Touré has agreed an
additional year, with his present deal set to expire next month, while Wisdom, who has spent
the season on loan at West Bromwich Albion, has committed his future to Liverpool until
2019.
Rodgers remains at the heart of Liverpool’s planning and there is nothing to suggest that the
manager’s position is under threat.
Rather than abandoning their managerial structure, in which Rodgers works as part of a
transfer committee, the immediate post-season indications are that Liverpool’s owner,
Fenway Sports Group (FSG), is planning a series of refinements and improvements to the
model.
There is no intention to appoint a director of football, but the club’s backroom staff is likely to
be bolstered in keeping with FSG’s belief that Rodgers would benefit from greater support