If the unthinkable happened and Rodgers was sacked.....

[Bjornebye]

I am a long way from wanting it to happen but I know a few on here are getting restless and there is a story on the bbc gossip pages (probably bullshit) about the owners getting twitchy with our form.

 

If they did jump the gun and sack him who realistically would you want in?

 

Hiddink is having a mare with the dutch team but I've always rated him especially at club level and he would probably be my first realistic choice

 

Simeone second. I think he is a right cunt but he is a great manager. Likely he wont fancy the challenge of us when the City job will probably be avaialable.

 

Klopp - shit season in the Bundesliga with Dortmund. Still a class act. In-fact he is probably my first choice.

 

Rafa and Di-Matteo follow.

[Kevin D]

I've heard of this fella from Norway...

[TheFridge]

Easy choice - Rafa.

 

If not him then someone who has been around the block, twice.

[Jairzinho]

*Rubs hands together psychotically*

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I think that'd probably be it for me.  I'd lose what's left of my appetite for Premier League football.

 

So it'd be a matter of indifference to me who would replace him.

 

Still, like you say, it's unthinkable that a manager could bring back the joy and excitement to the extent that Rodgers did last season, then get the boot after less than a third of the following season.

[Boss]

Klopp and Simeone wouldn't come, because if Rodgers was sacked we'd probably be languishing in 7th or 8th place. Hiddink, what's the point? he's old and it'd be another steady the ship scenario and more transitional seasons. Rafa would be nostalgia, i love Rafa but they do say "never go back". Di Matteo? fuck off 

 

Stick with Rodgers for the long haul, it's our best shot.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Di Matteo. Oh my!

 

Benitez, De Boer, Garcia or Pellegrini, if City jib him.

[Kevin D]

*Rubs hands together psychotically*

Why did he place his thumb against his two index fingers* for so long?

 

 

*Due to the conditions of our out of court settlement, I am not allowed to use the phrase "hand rubbing pervert*

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Or, if looking outside the box, Paco Jemez from Rayo Vallecano.

[TheFridge]

It was unthinkable at the start of the season but not now, if we carry on like this into the new year then he would fully deserve to be fired, he would see out the season in any case i reckon barring an absolute calamity.

[Jairzinho]

Why did he place his thumb against his two index fingers* for so long?

 

 

*Due to the conditions of our out of court settlement, I am not allowed to use the phrase "hand rubbing pervert*

 

A priest on the bottle is the lamp that leads to the milk under the mountain.

[xerxes]

Hardly unthinkable. If out league form bombs, we don't progress in the CL, don't do anything in the cups, don't qualify for Europe and the new signings fail, he is in trouble in the summer.

 

Much hinges on FSG's objectives. Chelsea and Man City have shown that if you want to crack the top four you have to spend, and spend again, and be prepared to change managers.

 

If they want to go for it, and keep going for it ( financially,)and Brendan has not convinced, they may look elsewhere, if they are happy to be there or thereabouts, Brendan will be good enough.

[Trumo]

Unless this season goes completely pear-shaped and it becomes obvious that Rodgers won't turn things around, I wouldn't be looking to replace him. At Liverpool, the trend has been for the team's form to pick up sharply in the second half of the season and that is something that definitely needs to happen this season, but Rodgers also needs to show that his training methods and philosophy can be effective when there is less training and recuperation times between matches. Any side that aspires to be amongst the best in the country and competitive in Europe needs to cope with that.

 

However, IF it were to happen that we're looking for a replacement, I would look towards Jorge Jesus of Benfica. His teams get broken up every year as the richest clubs come in for their best players but he manages to build a competitive team again. He likes his teams to play attacking football with a lot of pressing and mobility. He knows how to build and organise a solid back line. He has experiences of winning things. He has experience of competing at the business end of European competition. In short, he's got the credentials but he isn't deemed to be a 'big name'.

[Denny Crane]

Very early days yet, but not unthinkable every manager is a bad dozen games away from the sack, well at least at most ambitious clubs. I would go for a manager who has European experience of at least 3-4 years of balancing domestic and European competitions. I would also go for a manager who has won stuff and could help us attract top players and has performed in Europe.

 

Not sure who would be avail in this hypothetical scenario. But if Henry did not send a naked Linda round to charm Klopp I would be very pissed off to say the least.

[Baltar]

Easy choice for me, has to be Rafa. 

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Very early days yet, but not unthinkable every manager is a bad dozen games away from the sack, well at least at most ambitious clubs. I would go for a manager who has European experience of at least 3-4 years of balancing domestic and European competitions. I would also go for a manager who has won stuff and could help us attract top players and has performed in Europe. Not sure who would be avail in this hypothetical scenario. But if Henry did not send a naked Linda round to charm Klopp I would be very pissed off to say the least.

 

Well, I'd expect that the Dortmund fans don't turn quite as quickly as ours; their team is currently 1 points above the relegation zone. 

[Denny Crane]

Well, I'd expect that the Dortmund fans don't turn quite as quickly as ours; their team is currently 1 points above the relegation zone. 

Erm that is what happens when you win shit Numero.

[Red Banjo]

Its not unthinkable at all.

 

If you finish 2nd, and spend £100m+ to go a step further, naturally you will under some sort of pressure when you're then 11th in mid November. 

 

I would hope there are serious questions being asked by the hierarchy. Its wholly unacceptable. Lets just hope Brendan has the answers.

[RobbieOR]

Very early days yet, but not unthinkable every manager is a bad dozen games away from the sack, well at least at most ambitious clubs. I would go for a manager who has European experience of at least 3-4 years of balancing domestic and European competitions. I would also go for a manager who has won stuff and could help us attract top players and has performed in Europe.

 

Not sure who would be avail in this hypothetical scenario. But if Henry did not send a naked Linda round to charm Klopp I would be very pissed off to say the least.

 

First of all, he is not 12 games away from the sack.

 

Second of all, the man you have described there sounds like Rafael Benitez who you constantly put down.

 

We have a manager, threads like this are stupid. No offence Stig.

[RobbieOR]

Its not unthinkable at all.

 

If you finish 2nd, and spend £100m+ to go a step further, naturally you will under some sort of pressure when you're then 11th in mid November. 

 

I would hope there are serious questions being asked by the hierarchy. Its wholly unacceptable. Lets just hope Brendan has the answers.

 

We didnt spend over a hundred million to go a step further. We spent that much because we sold Suarez.

[BCM]

Rafa. Klopp.Simeone.  In that order.

 

Up to Rodgers now that come the end of the season we wont be having this coversation.The team simply has to improve second half of the season

 

Out in the group stages of the champions league, 5th or lower in the league and out of all domestic cups, and i think the writing will be on the wall.

[Tyler Durden]

I think everyone agrees that he will see this season out no matter what really but I don't think there could be many arguments if we carry on as we are and he was sacked, some of the teams around us will be bound to get their shit together at some point.

 

11th and 14 points after 11 games is totally unacceptable after our spend. I wasn't his biggest fan during his first season because I felt he persisted with a style of football unsuited to the players we had but last year I accepted we looked great in an attacking sense and he has to take some of that credit, when he first came in people more informed then me said he was poor defensively and he hasn't addressed that in the 3 seasons so far being here, that is a massive worry.

 

I don't buy into all these 'commitee buys' either, he showed by convincing the owners not to employ a DOF that he wouldn't have someone controlling him so I doubt he'd allow a comitee to foist players on him. As far as I'm concerned they are all his buys unless he says otherwise.

 

Not sure who could replace him but if he can get his shit together and get us top 4 then he deserves another season but if I was the owners I'd insist he takes on a specialist defensive coach and gets some experience involved in his back room staff.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Erm that is what happens when you win shit Numero.

 

Yeah? It could also be that they don't have cunts like you in their supporter base, or at least not as many. His first two seasons were 6th and 5th, and he'd done absolutely fuck all before joining them. You see, some people know when they've got a good manager, and some stay quiet for 18 months whilst things are going well and then get their knives out the minute things aren't. There's a word for those people.

 

There will be bumps in the road, and I said that 2 years ago and during last season, and now is one of those. The problem is that some people have the attention spans of a goldfish. 

[Denny Crane]

 

 

Second of all, the man you have described there sounds like Rafael Benitez who you constantly put down.

 

 

I think you have me confused with someone-else I am not Moof.

 

Benitez is a good manager but I very very much doubt he will be managing here again at least under FSG.

[Boss]

The same people who would want Rodgers out for finishing below the champions league places are the one's that would of called for Rafa's sacking when we finished 7th. Their solution to Rodgers is bringing back Rafa, do they not see the irony?