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He hasn't made much of an impression this season He has implanted himself in the side though. He wants to try and amalgamate with the other players a bit more. Brace yourselves for the summer transfer shenanigans. etc etc. Plenty more where they came from. Or not....

Got this off Joe.ie Daniel Sturridge will turn 26 having made 91 league starts. Eden Hazard (24) makes his 213th today. Thibaut Courtois (22) makes his 183rd. Mad.

Seasonus horribilis

Hyena- Grimy Brit flick about corrupt cops. 6/10. Ending lost it 2 points.

got this off the Offal forums. Some decent points. Make Way For A Proper Genius, Brendan By John Nicholson Would you rather have another season of Brendan trying to pretend that ****** is sugar or for Jurgen Klopp to arrive, play some heavy metal football and win trophies? The sacking of Brendan Rodgers - which now seems much, much more likely after an abysmal performance on Sunday - will be greeted in press circles with a degree of dismay. Brendan is good value. For a start, most of us have amused ourselves by typing Brenda more times than Brendan. As a result, he does have a Brenda-like quality. He says odd things which can be written down and mused over. He turns up with a face looking like a freshly polished pair of brown leather brogues. Brendan is special, he isn't one out of the bottle. Not unless the bottle is marked 'stripper fake tan', anyway. He has seemed both wise and weird. He has been interesting and innovative, so we will all miss Brendan to some extent, but three years is plenty to manage a football club, even if you've been successful (which he hasn't been). Worse still, the feeling that everything is going down the pan at Anfield is irresistible. Brendan liked to talk of the 'project'. But the whole notion of projects, when it comes to modern-day football, is marketing-speak nonsense and God, Brendan does love marketing-speak nonsense. Just calling it a project doesn't mean you need more than three years to make it work. The job at Liverpool isn't easy, but managing one of the bigger clubs in world football in the 21st century has a simple spec. This is it: you spend a lot of money on excellent players for a couple of years, then you win a lot of games and at least one trophy. If you don't do that, someone else will be invited to do it instead. That is the modern game. That is how all the successful clubs do it. Any deviation from that norm is exceptional and can't be justified merely because your man celebrates goals with one hand in his pocket. Brendan will know only too well that one of those exceptions was Borussia Dortmund, whose manager won a lot of silverware before deciding to get out on his own terms. The difference was that Jurgen Klopp took over a failing side, took one season to improve them enough to get into the Europa League and then won the league. Twice. Given he is available, it would be a surrender of the owners' duty to try and make Liverpool into a global footballing force to ignore him. Another couple of years of Rodgers mooning out of the TV screens with his large pores glistening has never seemed less attractive after an FA Cup semi-final where they redefined the concept of not turning up. The whiff of 'you don't know what you're doing' hangs heavy over Rodgers' tenure. Klopp is a perfect fit on Merseyside, where an oddball character around whom a cult of personality can develop is almost one of the pre-requisites for the job. For the rest of us who love a wacko manager, we lose one pretender and we gain one proven. In fact, we gain a much more entertaining man who convinces in the role as maverick genius far more easily, having won five trophies in his tenure at Dortmund, as well as a Champions League runners-up medal. He builds a team on strong collective team ethic. Liverpool fans should like that. There is no downside to Klopp taking over. It will fill all hearts with joy. Is your heart full of joy at the thought of another season of Brendan? No. Nobody could say that. It's over. The jury has always been out on whether Rodgers is a sage or a stupid. His ability to undermine his current success with premature statements about future success has become almost a defining characteristic of the man. At times he's done really well, at time he's looked inexperienced and is clearly learning on the job. This is only holding Liverpool back. The thought of another summer of unconvincing transfers under Rodgers must fill all at the club with a sense of dread. Liverpool are a couple of places higher up the wealth league than Dortmund; they can offer Klopp so much. He has the chance to revitalise a great club, to become a proper major hero. He has the chance to be the head coach of one of the few clubs in world football with a global reach. You need a big character at the head of such a huge ship and Klopp would expand Liverpool's fanbase. He would get the club attention and he is a damn good coach who likes to play 'heavy metal' football. This is a good thing. Would you rather have another season of Brendan trying to pretend that ****** is sugar? Or, as Rodgers himself might say, "failure is merely deferred success". Dortmund have had a terrible season, a season which has allowed those who dislike how much some of football's cognoscenti love Klopp to point the finger and say 'see, he's not that good' but it is only proof of the maxim that when it comes to football management, you're not there for a long time, just for a good time. Get in, be successful, leave. That's the gig. He stayed too long at Dortmund. There is an old-fashioned idea that Liverpool should be a bastion for the tradition of long-serving managers, but those days have gone. When your income is as high as Liverpool's, you buy some great players, organise them, win and win quickly, or you give someone else a go. This is the entertainment business, not a welfare scheme. It looks now that Rodgers got the gig too soon and couldn't learn quickly enough. It's a shame but it's not sad. He's given us a lot of fun, albeit sometimes not in the way he'd have wanted. He can turn up and pretend to be clever somewhere else, while Liverpool can have a go at playing heavy metal football under someone who isn't just trying to be an eccentric genius.

The cats out of the bag now. Once the fans start questioning the prognosis of the manager it rarely ends well. Fuck it, get Klopp in, fill the team full of German destroyers and blitzkrieg the league.

Bottom line is, will Rodgers win us the league? He had the best chance he's ever going to get and he didn't do it. I don't see him winning us the league unfortunately and that's where we should judge the manager. If he can't do it then move him on.

But but but it's Stevies birthday!!!

Rodgers has got Middlesbrough manager written all over him. I

Death by football indeed.

Poor old Ricky lambert doesn't have a fast twitch muscle fibre in his whole body.

For 30 grand a week you could punch me in the knackers every day if you so wished.

Ings, Walcott. It'll be Kevin fucking Phillips next. This summer is gonna suck balls.

Yeah, I'll have a bit of that too. I got over the result surprisingly quickly today. Fuck them.

Friend of mine used to put a chomp bar in a glass of milk and stick it in the microwave for a few minutes after a night on the ale. Not sure how that relates to Sterling either to be honest.

Seems arsenal still haven't found what they're looking for.

Nobody does glorious failure like arsenal. Wankers. Sanctimonious pricks the whole lot of them.

He's quick He's red His kids are now well fed Sterling sterling.

Shite weather, opposition up for it, not great performance, 3 points though. Sweet. Move on, next game.

The Diamond can't agree with this sentiment.

Got a real bad feeling Johnson might appear

Gerard off .

I think we'll run out easy winners here Sterling or not. 3-0.

Touch of bekenbauer About herr Can.