Brendan Rodgers Thread

[johnsusername]

An empty chair would be more useful than Ayre.

 

How did he get the promotion? Was he interviewed or did they just give him the job? Or did he win it in a raffle?

[Ranxerox]

To be fair to Scotty, I don't think he expects Rome to be built in 2 years, just see consistent progress. I'd be more than happy for us to take another step up from the side that finished last season, because it was pretty decent. Spurs/Arsenal level, I'd say.

 

Yes this is my view, I think Europe is reasonable both from expectations and also from what he has been given to work with. I don't expect CL this year although I wouldn't say its impossible. Euro is good enough for me this year.

 

Finishing 7th again or lower seems to me a lack of progress. He has to be measured on results at some point, however a cup win and no Euro would be OK by me even though it didn't save Dalglish.

 

If Suarez leaves and none of the money is made available I'd be willing to cut him some more slack or if we have a particularly nasty run of key injuries likewise.

[piscinin]

An empty chair would be more useful than Ayre.

 

How did he get the promotion? Was he interviewed or did they just give him the job? Or did he win it in a raffle?

 

If extracting revenue from Asia is your primary goal, then to be fair, it would be difficult to find a someone with football experience that is better qualified than him.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Yes this is my view, I think Europe is reasonable both from expectations and also from what he has been given to work with. I don't expect CL this year although I wouldn't say its impossible. Euro is good enough for me this year.

 

For me it rests on what happens in the transfer window. If we get in a few quality players with a decent replacement for Suarez, we can expect a real challenge for the CL. If we don't sign anybody and sell Suarez, what can we realistically expect from the manager?

 

Big few weeks coming up.

[Ranxerox]

For me it rests on what happens in the transfer window. If we get in a few quality players with a decent replacement for Suarez, we can expect a real challenge for the CL. If we don't sign anybody and sell Suarez, what can we realistically expect from the manager?

Big few weeks coming up.

 

..agree and did say in my post if they don't spend the Suarez money he deserves more patience.

[xerxes]

For me it rests on what happens in the transfer window. If we get in a few quality players with a decent replacement for Suarez, we can expect a real challenge for the CL. If we don't sign anybody and sell Suarez, what can we realistically expect from the manager?

 

Big few weeks coming up.

 

All fair comment.

 

And two or three volunteers would be preferable to one Pressed man.

[Anubis]

If extracting revenue from Asia is your primary goal, then to be fair, it would be difficult to find a someone with football experience that is better qualified than him.

 

Hasn't he cut his ties with Asia now he's ditched Ting Tong for Heidi Klum?

[Gnasher]

Get behind the manager, he'll never be a shanks, bob, kenny, who could be? but he's no fucking roy hodge either. The present manager of liverpool imo deserves support at this time.

 

What's the alternative? What msg would it send if the manager didnt receive the full backing of the fans at this time? The club would look toxic.

[Walter Sobchak]

Get behind the manager, he'll never be a shanks, bob, kenny, who could be? but he's no fucking roy hodge either. The present manager of liverpool imo deserves support at this time.

 

What's the alternative? What msg would it send if the manager didnt receive the full backing of the fans at this time? The club would look toxic.

 

Fucking agree mate, Buck knows the score about this club has done since day 1.

 

The bloke is a class act, all the shit he has had thrown at him from certain sections of the fanbase has been disgracefull.

 

He is 1 of us now and deserves our backing.

[gmac]

Characteristics I loved in Benitez was his single mindedness and strength of character. Rodgers seems to display those. Whether he develops into what we want we’ll see ….but it’s certainly a good basis.

[Evelyn Tentions]

Get behind the manager, he'll never be a shanks, bob, kenny, who could be? but he's no fucking roy hodge either. The present manager of liverpool imo deserves support at this time.

 

What's the alternative? What msg would it send if the manager didnt receive the full backing of the fans at this time? The club would look toxic.

 

True dat.

Suarez, Spearing Skrtel look like going and, hopefully, Downing to go.

We've played some decent football in the warm ups, should have dosh in the kitty for a few more of BRs targets before the window closes, why can't we get behind the manager. Like many others I was heartbroken to see Kenny (unfairly imo) go,but I'm prepared to give BR a chance. I just wish he'd ignore the press a bit more

[Red Soul]

Fucking agree mate, Buck knows the score about this club has done since day 1.

 

The bloke is a class act, all the shit he has had thrown at him from certain sections of the fanbase has been disgracefull.

 

He is 1 of us now and deserves our backing.

 

Buck?.I submit.You stupid,stupid twat.

[snez1]

Thought his press conference yesterday was spot on. Spoke brilliantly. Even wrote this about it....

 

One Man & His Blog: Rodgers evokes the Spirit of Shankly

 

Well, we know what Brendan Rodgers has been reading recently, don’t we. Red or Dead by David Peace is the hagiography of Bill Shankly and it is flying off the shelves as we speak. It charts the life and times of the great man from his arrival at Liverpool Football Club to the end of his days. It is a book centred around his fierce determination, passion, honesty and devotion to his life as Liverpool manager. It is a labour of love that celebrates his socialistic views, his desire for everyone at Liverpool (and indeed, the wider world) to work for each other. Every fan, tea lady and cleaner was every bit as important in Shanks’ mind as the superstars that he moulded into the great Liverpool teams of the 60s and 70s. Moments of triumph and despair were to be shared and commitment to the cause was not celebrated, but a pre requisite. How times change.

 

One can only guess how Shankly would have dealt with modern football and it’s spoilt, millionaire players. He’d probably have Luis Suarez doing laps of Melwood for the next three years for turning his back on the club and it’s people this week. Of course, in modern football that is not an option and lamentably we have no Shanklys left. Society and football have changed almost beyond recognition but when Brendan Rodgers faced the media to discuss that interview from Luis Suarez, the current incumbent of the Liverpool managerial position sent out messages that fans of any era would have approved of. The origins of those messages were easy to determine.

 

Rodgers can’t talk like Shankly, few can, but he gave it his best shot and relied on the principles of the great man to get him through a tricky moment.

 

The easy option would have been for Rodgers to give ‘no comment’ on his want away forward. Instead, he laid things out clearly. With honesty. With passion.

 

“Obviously the remarks I've read are bitterly disappointing - but my job is bigger than that. My job is to fight and protect the club. I will take strong, decisive action, absolutely. There has been total disrespect of the club - this is a lack of respect for a club that has given him everything. Absolutely everything.”

 

Rodgers is no Shankly. No manager today is. But his words evoked the great man. His words were music to the ears of Liverpool’s supporters. How Arsenal fans would have loved Arsene Wenger to say the same sort of things last year instead of selling Robin van Persie to Manchester United.

 

The messages from Rodgers were not ambiguous. Yes, Suarez was bang out of order. Yes, he would be punished. Yes he has betrayed the club. The only surprising thing was that Rodgers didn’t repeat himself again and again during his answers to mirror Peace’s writing style in Red or Dead.

 

Rodgers appealed to the emotion of fans and spoke of Suarez’s betrayal of them. It was almost textbook Shankly if, understandably, lacking in some of the gravitas that the Scot carried.

 

“I really, really feel sorry for the supporters, people that have sung his name. We have travelled the world over the course of this pre-season. 85,000 fans were singing Luis' name in Jakarta. It was the same in Australia, in Thailand and at Steven Gerrard's testimonial.”

 

Shankly’s holy trinity of manager, players and supporters were used in Rodgers’ condemnation of the Uruguayan also. When quizzed on whether Suarez could wear the red shirt again, the manager showed how deeply Suarez had cut the club.

 

“There's a few bridges to cross before that can happen (play for Liverpool again). It's about the respect, that's the only thing we look for. This is one of the most iconic football clubs in the world, you can't disrespect it. That's something I will ensure (an apology) before anything happens in the future.”

 

Of course, this could all be grandstanding but Liverpool’s resistance to sell to Arsenal seems sincere. How would Rodgers look if Suarez was sold for £40m after claiming that his value is far in excess of that all summer long? How would John W. Henry look after that famous tweet if Suarez made his way to the Emirates? Liverpool have backed themselves into a corner but it was the correct thing to do both from a moral viewpoint and as business decision. Selling Suarez to a rival at a low price shouldn’t even be an option.

 

The recent developments in the case suggest that Suarez has no legal grounds to demand a transfer at £40m. He is a rebel without a clause. Liverpool remain in the difficult position of having their best player being unhappy and determined to move but with no offer on the table that matches his value. It’s easy to see that there are many miles left in this saga but Liverpool and in particular Brendan Rodgers have dealt perfectly with it thus far. One hopes that FSG have the courage of their convictions and prevent Suarez from moving to the club that Liverpool need to overtake.

 

Rodgers’ press conference was a timely reminder that, even after all this time, the spirit of the man who built Liverpool and his ethos still reside somewhere within the corridors of Anfield.

[Aldonose]

The longer he's in the job, the more he has impressed me to be honest. Yesterday was proof, if it was needed, that he isn't any type of soft touch or yes man. He also strikes me as an intelligent person who will use the current situation to unify the team/club even more. As long as he's allowed to bring a couple of top class players in before the window shuts, and Suarez is also replaced if, as seems inevitable, he goes, then I'm really excited about the forthcoming season.

[Block109'er]

Credit where it's due, I've been enormously pleased and proud to hear Brendan Rogers say what he has in the last 24 hours.

 

Couldn't be a turning point for him with those fans (myself included) who have not exactly taken to him in the way we have other Liverpool Managers.

 

Nice on Brendan.

[mattyq]

Credit where it's due' date=' I've been enormously pleased and proud to hear Brendan Rogers say what he has in the last 24 hours.

 

Couldn't be a turning point for him with those fans (myself included) who have not exactly taken to him in the way we have other Liverpool Managers.

 

Nice on Brendan.[/quote']

 

It's all about results

He gets them and everybody loves him. He doesn't and he's gone

[Bjornebye]

Fucking agree mate, Buck knows the score about this club has done since day 1.

 

The bloke is a class act, all the shit he has had thrown at him from certain sections of the fanbase has been disgracefull.

 

He is 1 of us now and deserves our backing.

 

[Saucepan]

Is there any videos of when Rodgers lashed out at Suarez?

 

EDIT: Strike that, I guess it was a written piece.

[Walter Sobchak]

 

And your issue is...?

[TheHowieLama]

The Buck must stop here, and now.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Its just talk if we sell to arsenal. How the situation ends is when ill see if he or FSG did good. The club knows how to say the right things right up until the point we do the wrong thing.

[PaulMcC]

I'll judge him on his actions and results. If Suarez goes to Arsenala nd we're not very close to 4th place points wise next season everything he's said will be meaningless.

[Russ Atmosphere]

I'll judge him on his actions and results. If Suarez goes to Arsenala nd we're not very close to 4th place points wise next season everything he's said will be meaningless.

 

Rinus Michels wouldn't get this squad close to 4th place next year.

[PaulMcC]

Rinus Michels wouldn't get this squad close to 4th place next year.

 

He should be making sure the owners give him money. I'd blame it more on the owners if we don't spent at least 30m net this window.

 

Although I'd question Rodgers spending 9m to replace replace Reina and spending 7m on Luis Alberto if he isn't getting plenty more cash to spend. 16m could buy us a starting player.

[Jairzinho]

Rinus Michels wouldn't get this squad close to 4th place next year.

 

He is dead, to be fair.