Brendan Rodgers

[redmike65]

I imagine like Rodgers they are pining everything on Sturridge.

[TheElephantMan]

It's not early - it's the fourth season. However they did stick by their man not long ago so they're hardly likely to get rid just yet. Our situation isn't quite at the Hodgson stage yet, but not too far off.

[Leyton388]

LFC have won just four of their last 13 league matches, having beaten only Newcastle, QPR, Stoke and Bournemouth since March.

[PTP]

James Pearce @JamesPearceEcho 13h13 hours ago
@Gareth0Bradley You can't let a manager spend £80m on players he wanted and replace backroom staff and then sack him after 2 defeats.

James Pearce @JamesPearceEcho 13h13 hours ago
@Gareth0Bradley he will get the chance to turn it around but he's under real pressure.

James Pearce @JamesPearceEcho 13h13 hours ago
@Gareth0Bradley I understand why many want change but I just think having stuck by him in summer FSG can't backtrack so early in season.

James Pearce @JamesPearceEcho 13h13 hours ago
@Gareth0Bradley I think it's a very different team with Coutinho, Henderson and Sturridge back in there.

Problem there is that, Sturridge is nowhere near reliable enough with fitness, coutinho will be gone next summer and Henderson as much as I like him isn't good enough to make a that big a difference

[Shaggy]

I actually LOLd at this

[ame]https://twitter.com/jimbeglin/status/643500337941323776[/ame]

[Roboklopp]

Aye. Good teams should still be capable to put in decent performances even without those best players. Not play like 11 castrated headless chickens.

[redmike65]

Problem there is that, Sturridge is nowhere near reliable enough with fitness, coutinho will be gone next summer and Henderson as much as I like him isn't good enough to make a that big a difference

Aye. Good teams should still be capable to put in decent performances even without those best players. Not play like 11 castrated headless chickens.

QFT, the true test of a managers capability is not when he has everyone at his disposal but when the injury list takes its toll. If Rodgers is waiting for that magic moment when everyone is fit and firing then he might as well forget it.

[PTP]

plus we've just spent £60 odd million bringing in benteke/firminho/Milner who on paper should be able to cover Sturridge/coutinho/Henderson

[Exiled_red]

I actually LOLd at this

https://twitter.com/jimbeglin/status/643500337941323776

[Leyton388]

I'm starting to wonder just what Sakho has done to Rodgers to be treated as he is being? Our best defender and he can't get in the team. Kind of males me think that the rumour about Rodgers alienating committee signsing might be true.

[MrMichael]

James Pearce @JamesPearceEcho 13h13 hours ago
@Gareth0Bradley You can't let a manager spend £80m on players he wanted and replace backroom staff and then sack him after 2 defeats.

James Pearce @JamesPearceEcho 13h13 hours ago
@Gareth0Bradley he will get the chance to turn it around but he's under real pressure.

James Pearce @JamesPearceEcho 13h13 hours ago
@Gareth0Bradley I understand why many want change but I just think having stuck by him in summer FSG can't backtrack so early in season.

These are fair enough I think, I don't think it is realistic to expect FSG to sack him just yet. A couple of insipid home performances in the next two could change that perhaps, but alternatively if we pull ourselves together just enough we could have 13 points from 7, that isn't quite sacking territory yet even if something more fundamental is obviously wrong now than just results.

I wouldn't bet he'll see out October though at this rate.

[TheElephantMan]

I wouldn't bet he'll see out October though at this rate.

I think he'll get ten games.

[Lecter]

As much as I think they should do it now, I don't believe they will

However it will happen sooner or later as he won't turn this around.

At best he will stop the boat capsizing but it will just tip back the other way

[MrMichael]

I'm starting to wonder just what Sakho has done to Rodgers to be treated as he is being? Our best defender and he can't get in the team. Kind of males me think that the rumour about Rodgers alienating committee signsing might be true.

He's not the first manager to bizarrely rate one player over another. Hodgson's anti-Agger crusade, Houllier with Heskey over Litmanen or Fowler, Rafa spurning Alonso for Gareth Barry...

I think Rodgers has got himself into a crazy muddle with his CBs. He doesn't trust the paring of Skrtel & Sakho, and he's right not to imo *shudders*. Skrtel somewhat by fluke went from being bombed out to no.1 name on the teamsheet, which has left Rodgers almost by default giving Lovren another go alongside him, to predictable consequences.

With all the business we did last summer, some of it involving admitting to and trying to correct previous errors, that we didn't move to replace both Skrtel & Lovren if possible with someone suited to play with Sakho seems a big error of judgement. One climbdown too far perhaps.

[Mark79]

Why not trust Skrtel and Sahko though? How could that partnership be any worse than Skrtel and Lovren, both individually and as a pairing?