"There are just one or two operational things we need to iron out." - Brenden Rodgers today. please log in to view this image http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19458601 Rodgers is not happy.
He needs to tell them that they can't win anything if they are intent on running the club on a shoe-string budget. We all wanting CL football and to win the title but just saying that isnt going to make it happen. Man City spent half a billion and only just scrapped a title last year, not saying this is the route to go down as it isnt sustainable without Oil Barons (and even then) and we are in a better starting position than Man City were (branding etc), but its clear that if you want to win and get better you have to actually put some money in.
This. and he also needs to point out that you cannot judge a player purely by age. Dempsey being 29 is no big deal. You have to treat each player differently. Didier Drogba for example is still going strong at 34, whilst Joe Cole struggles for fitness at 29/30(?). If Rogers was to say he wants Owen, I feel that John Henry would say he is to old.
i think he could have fitted Carrol into his plans..the guy is a beast ,especially as a plan B.....we are in similar positions and i think the most important thing here is to back the manager...however your man has it a tad harder than ours because your owners are not backing him.
Drogba...now that would cheer me up but cant see it Anelka..yeah could live with that Owen...my god I'm not sure I could handle him coming back after seeing him in a manure shirt and celebrating the title with them. forget about all the other stuff that happened just that alone makes me angry. Rather put Morgan in there.
But to be fair he would've fitted Carroll in his plans if he knew he wasn't getting a replacement for him! The problem he thought the owners were going to fund the purchase of a striker if he got Carroll and Adam off the wage budget but it ended up not working out in that way. So he's been ****ed over by the owners in that sense.
Poor fella is on the wrong end of Dalglish's ineptitude. Kenny blew the family silver and now BR has to make do with what's left.
Rodgers seems like a nice guy and he's going to be shafted in the same way that Hodgson was shafted as he's not one of the "family".
there seems to be two opions here. 1. is rodgers is the good guy who can do no wrong 2. is rodger is a complete amateur hour guy who's out of his depth. in the end no matter which camp you fit in its perfectly fair to say this week has been a total and utter disaster for rodgers and makes him look quite bad.
God you chat some ****. Rodgers gets on with his job and takes defeats on the chin, even if they're not helped by other circumstances. Woy would blame everybody but himself, useless prick he is
Hodgson wasnt shafted. We didnt want him and not because he wasnt a Liverpool old boy (neither as Rafa but he has always been well liked by all). Hodgson was removed cause he was dire, his play was crap, the team was at an all time low, his buys were cheapo ****, he lost two of the most important players at the time (Masca and Torres, Torres had already decided to leave before Kenny came back), he was best buds with Ferguson and his interviews was so bad and cringe worthy that it made Kenny's look brilliant. He was also unwanted as he was the last bad decision by the most hated owners ever. Fans from other clubs need to stop with this Hodgson hero treatment and that we treated him badly. Other clubs sack managers for loads of reasons dont get this kind of **** about. Put simple Hodgson was sacked cause he was bad.
I'm not sure if he can do no wrong, every manager makes mistakes but you're right that this week has been an absolute disaster for him. That disaster (yet again) eminated from the very top. You've been very balanced all summer in fairness mate saying you'd reserve judgement on the clubs dealings until the window closed. I remember you saying we needed to shift certain players which in fairness we've done...but I think you said you felt we needed 6 buys of quality to redress this.
There is a massive difference between Brendan Rodgers and Woy. Brendan Rodgers made a brave decision in letting Andy Carroll go out on loan, would Woy have? I don't think so. He would have plonked him on the bench, where he would be no use to anyone. It takes a brave manager to do what Brendan Rodgers did, its still 50/50 on whether it was the right decision. If Brendans previous signings are anything to go by, then we're going to see a higher standard of player join the club, will they be the easy options as selected by Kenny. Lets be fair, Kenny did make easy, safe and functional signings with the exception of Jose Enrique and Luis Suarez. If Brendan believes his ''Liverpool type player'' is Joe Allen and Nuri Sahin, then I'm all for him getting a long stint as manager. These two are the future of Liverpool and there is little or no debating that.
I still can't understand why Rogers did it. He almost bullied Carroll out of the Club, which is not like him - unless there is an underlying reason. Carroll is not only a big lump, but can play football as well. As a coach I would have thought that Rodgers would have got the best out of him - as he did with all players at Swansea. The only conclusion that I can come to is that Rodgers did not want him near the squad either because he was a bad influence on the other players or had a poor attitude to what Rodgers was trying to introduce.
