Brendan Rodgers

[Harv]

You want to stifle conversation. You want anyone who doesn't agree with you to shut the **** up. Why don't you shut the **** up you tedious prick. Go and support your local team wherever that might be. This is a messageboard - the whole point is that people don't shut the **** up.

[Harv]

Goodbye El Dente

[kingfunk]

I tell ya what ****ing grates me. Ex players now pundits, Cara, Souness, Redknap ect...
When we were losing, they were saying, this isn't good enough for Liverpool, Liverpool need to change the way the play, is Brendan the right man bla bla bla.
Then the owners sack the manager, what 90% of the fans were looking for, and the likely cunts are all moaning again. Feels like they are all bitter and always trying to pull the club down. ****s me right off.

[Corndog]

I know that team had Suarez, but it also had Sturridge sterling and coutinho with Gerrard killing that Deep lying playmaker role. Some credit must go to Rodgers for getting all of those players in the same side.

However the performances and muddled transfer strategy of the last 18 months have rightly cost him his job. It has honestly been such a long time since I have seen a totally convincing LFC performance, even when results have been in the teams favour.

You can't be allowed to get away with disasters like Markovic where a guy is signed for big money, played out of position and then loaned out, probably so he can be signed afterwards for half the fee all in the space of a year or two.

He was given more time and money than most of his peers would get. Agree Re carra, Souness. They are contradicting themselves now.

[topscorer]

funny how brendan wasnt binned in the summer, got to keep his job, but then eight games later he is out. surely if they wanted him they would have stuck with him...



you'd think maybe fsg sounded someone out and they said no, or needed time, but then the situation changed. it might not have been so much our **** start, more about the availability of a decent replacement.

maybe the chance the potential replacement might be going elsewhere unless we moved quickly.

I think he convinced them he was still the right man for the job, 8 games in they've seen no improvement and the fans clearly unhappy hence they've acted.

I think it's like Rich says.

I'm sure he's a likable enough chap in the flesh and they still believed in him. Fan discontent wasn't outright rebellion at the end of the season and the owners probably didn't want to be reactive to social media.

Then performances didn't improve and fan discontent turned into outright rebellion.

I'm sure they remember the Hodgson saga and didn't want a repeat of that.

[frank the tank]

I think it's like Rich says.

I'm sure he's a likable enough chap in the flesh and they still believed in him. Fan discontent wasn't outright rebellion at the end of the season and the owners probably didn't want to be reactive to social media.

Then performances didn't improve and fan discontent turned into outright rebellion.

I'm sure they remember the Hodgson saga and didn't want a repeat of that.

I dontl think fsg would sack him because the fans wanted him out. I suspect brendan started contradicting what he told the owners in june. Words like "rebuilding" "developing" and "we lost all our top players" wont have washed. Also reverting to 3 at the back could have pissed them off as well because all his signings were for another system.

[dizzycat]

I think it was apathy that finally did for him, from both the fans and the players.

[Harv]

Apart from his abysmal tactics that showed no signs of getting any better it was clearly his own mouth that got him the sack. He can't help himself, he just has to spew out ****. The fans had seen their arses with it and i bet Henry wanted to cave his head in every time he heard him saying things like "give me the tools" when he just gave him 80m to spend

[dom9]

Ian Wright made a very pertinent point I think in that all BR had to do that season was ensure the defending was spot on but ultimately failed, that's where his real failure lay IMO. Anyhow I wish him well, he was very fortunate to have managed such a great club but the job was too big for him.

I think there was quite a bit of revisionism going there. That team had no right to be challenging for the league. It came from nowhere and nobody saw it coming.

To say that all he had to do was to make sure the team didn't let in as many goals in order to win the league was a massive oversimplification to me.

I'm almost interested to see what Ian Wright was saying about us during that season. I'm reasonably sure it wasn't that.

[dom9]

Apart from his abysmal tactics that showed no signs of getting any better it was clearly his own mouth that got him the sack. He can't help himself, he just has to spew out ****. The fans had seen their arses with it and i bet Henry wanted to cave his head in every time he heard him saying things like "give me the tools" when he just gave him 80m to spend

Or it was clearly the results. Maybe.

[Norbs]

Honestly, when I look back at that season I don't see him, I see Suarez, he was the mad genius, the best we've ever had, the one who dazzled me, inspired the team and made me believe again. I'm not going to remember Rodgers clapping his hands on the sidelines.

I got pelted at the time for calling Brendan naive in the game against Chelsea. All he needed to do was draw the game which was basically all Chelsea set out to do. He couldn't play out the drawer and it meant we needed to score 7 against Palace. Having lost to Chelsea we still needed to keep the pressure on City and beat Palace. He was naive again in trying to score a hatful when the game was won.

Naive naive naive

[Harv]

Or it was clearly the results. Maybe.

clearly dom

[Maxiedge]

Very good coach, not a good manager is my lasting opinion of him

[el matador]

Very good coach, not a good manager is my lasting opinion of him

[dom9]

clearly dom

Clearly.

If they'd have been more acceptable, he'd still have a job regardless of his interview technique.