Rival watch
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I was joking about Rodger's being sacked earlier but I didn't actually see it happening. Ridiculous from the owners.
“It hasn’t gone well for him and he needed to make a good start this season. He was maybe fortunate to stay on at the end of last season.
"I don’t like doing it now. Do it in the summer if you want to make a change. He’ll have known himself that he had to make a good start and he hasn’t."
Carragher spot on with this, in my opinion. There's no point giving a manager a final chance at the start of the season. Either you have faith in him to achieve what you want or you don't and you make that decision at the end of the season, not the beginning! Now a new manager's got to make the best of an unbalanced squad for 3 months until the window opens and no one else will want to be buy/sell much in January.
You really shouldn't be sacking managers so early in the season unless there's an extremely serious problem. Ramos with 2 points from 8 games? Got to go. Rodgers with 12 points from 8 games? Disappointing start but nothing more.
I can only guess that the players must have turned on him, surely there's no otherway to explain it?
I'm pleased he's gone ahead of our game though as he has a very good record against us as Liverpool boss. Hopefully Liverpool don't get a new manager up turn in form though.
“It hasn’t gone well for him and he needed to make a good start this season. He was maybe fortunate to stay on at the end of last season.
"I don’t like doing it now. Do it in the summer if you want to make a change. He’ll have known himself that he had to make a good start and he hasn’t."
Carragher spot on with this, in my opinion. There's no point giving a manager a final chance at the start of the season. Either you have faith in him to achieve what you want or you don't and you make that decision at the end of the season, not the beginning! Now a new manager's got to make the best of an unbalanced squad for 3 months until the window opens and no one else will want to be buy/sell much in January.
You really shouldn't be sacking managers so early in the season unless there's an extremely serious problem. Ramos with 2 points from 8 games? Got to go. Rodgers with 12 points from 8 games? Disappointing start but nothing more.
I can only guess that the players must have turned on him, surely there's no otherway to explain it?
I'm pleased he's gone ahead of our game though as he has a very good record against us as Liverpool boss. Hopefully Liverpool don't get a new manager up turn in form though.
Typical, I go on holiday and that's when Rodgers gets the boot.
Anyone want to take bets on how long before the pundits bring up the amount of money he pissed away during his time at the club?
Anyone want to take bets on how long before the pundits bring up the amount of money he pissed away during his time at the club?
Rodgers took more credit than he deserved from his time at Swansea and he has finally got his comeuppance.
It is a very big decision to sack him now rather than at the end of last season and you suspect that Liverpool have a replacement lined up, especially when you see some of the names available right now - Klopp, Ancelotti, even Frank de Boer was saying he'd be interested the other day and he's already got a big job! Now the latter would surprise me midseason but there are some strong candidates out there for the job and it'll be interesting to see both who Liverpool end up with and where Rodgers goes next. I'm not sure too many clubs would actually be so keen on him, certainly not any as high profile as Liverpool.
I actually have a sinking feeling he might end up a Spurs manager someday. I don't know why I feel that, but I do. I dearly hope I'm wrong.
It is a very big decision to sack him now rather than at the end of last season and you suspect that Liverpool have a replacement lined up, especially when you see some of the names available right now - Klopp, Ancelotti, even Frank de Boer was saying he'd be interested the other day and he's already got a big job! Now the latter would surprise me midseason but there are some strong candidates out there for the job and it'll be interesting to see both who Liverpool end up with and where Rodgers goes next. I'm not sure too many clubs would actually be so keen on him, certainly not any as high profile as Liverpool.
I actually have a sinking feeling he might end up a Spurs manager someday. I don't know why I feel that, but I do. I dearly hope I'm wrong.
I’d take my chances with Gerrard over Klopp, that’s for sure.
I thought a group that could get the Red Sox their first title in eighty years could do anything with anyone. Tain’t necessarily so. First they failed with the old guard, then with new blood The second mistake is stranger than the first. Rodgers wasn’t all bad in terms of results. He did have one good year, Suarez or no. But how he spent 300 million, and how anyone let him spend 300 million, remains a mystery. How FMG will make a profit is a bigger one.
I thought a group that could get the Red Sox their first title in eighty years could do anything with anyone. Tain’t necessarily so. First they failed with the old guard, then with new blood The second mistake is stranger than the first. Rodgers wasn’t all bad in terms of results. He did have one good year, Suarez or no. But how he spent 300 million, and how anyone let him spend 300 million, remains a mystery. How FMG will make a profit is a bigger one.
Sacrilege!! All managers are tripping over themselves to be the next victim (sorry,manager) of the great Mousers - everybody knows that!
What is happening on this board? Yesterday i was called a heretic and today i'm being shouted "sacrilege" at! You've all gone loony
Well, you can't go around denigrating God's own football team and not expect some reaction...
The £300 million is not fair. He had some top players sold that he had to replace. I don't like it when Gooners go on about us spending fortunes when we have balanced the books over recent seasons and so I can't let it pass when it's a team I don't like. Net spend is the critical gague, not gross. I suspect they have still spent a fortune, but it's not £300m, surely. Replacing Suarez and Sterling,, and, and - ok my argument is unravelling.
Fair point but only if the big-gobbed idiot hadn't said how we should be challenging having spent a third of what he did.
Your forgot Downing...but I think their net spend is about £150m over the last four years.
Really is a sad time them sacking Miss Brenda, now means they'll likely improve under their next gaffer (whether it be Klopp/ Ancelotti), especially if they're given another £300m+ to spend. Suarez and Sturridge kept him in the job longer than he should've been, no sympathy for him anyway, especially after his gobby comments about us - which ultimately backfired and made him look a right tit.
I never had a problem with Liverpool growing up. But now what I can't stand is their general portrayal in the media of "entitlement" - as if they have a right to top 4 or higher. Almost every time they are talked about it's in terms of how their challenge for top 4 is going. This is completely out of sync with recent seasons - except one of course - but the way people talk about them suggests they regularly finish top 4 or certainly higher than us. In fact we regularly finish higher than them! There is also extremely little criticism, such as so little result from the vast amounts spent. I could go on, but I'm just winding myself up!
I also wasn't too upset by Arse's demolition of ManU. LvG is so arrogant, he really believes he has something special instead of a lot of luck (having his best team almost forced on him by suspension and injury last season) and money. Seriously, could Moyes not have done just as well with that sort of financial backing?
I also wasn't too upset by Arse's demolition of ManU. LvG is so arrogant, he really believes he has something special instead of a lot of luck (having his best team almost forced on him by suspension and injury last season) and money. Seriously, could Moyes not have done just as well with that sort of financial backing?
The British media do stick to their storylines, don’t they? For Liverpool it’s always the noble hunt to recapture the old glory. Spurs are always someone to have a dig at. The odd result is that Liverpool get a small fraction of the criticism Spurs got for spending twice as much money with less to show for it, even when their net spend is infinitely more. My point would be seven names: Carroll, Sturridge, Origi, Bentecke, Ings, Balotelli, Lambert. How the hell can you buy seven strikers in a couple of years without making your club a laughingstock? Especially when only one of them has so far been anything but a failure, and he’s displayed dangerous signs of being a crock? Has anybody ever gone from striker savants (selling Torres for huge money at the right moment) to idiots so quickly? Tbf, it’s FMG’s transfer committee who deserve the blame rather than Rodgers.
What sport it is to hoist the engineer by his own petard.
What sport it is to hoist the engineer by his own petard.
Harry Redknapp making friends up North, again:
Can't say that he's wrong about it being a challenging job, though.
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Somehow managed to bring us into it and ignore the fact that a couple of those "poor" Sunderland players were bought by him to WHL! Can't say that he's wrong about it being a challenging job, though.
Klopp to Anfield looks done. Annoying that it's with plenty of time for him to get to know the squad before their annual cup final against us 
Having said that, his (almost) all-conquering Dortmund team was better in almost every department than the current Liverpool XI. I'd say only Coutinho would've got into that side, maybe Clyne too. He's got his work cut out for him.
On a small positive note, at least Liverpool press conferences will now be entertaining instead of bitter, defensive, cagey and deluded.
Having said that, his (almost) all-conquering Dortmund team was better in almost every department than the current Liverpool XI. I'd say only Coutinho would've got into that side, maybe Clyne too. He's got his work cut out for him.
On a small positive note, at least Liverpool press conferences will now be entertaining instead of bitter, defensive, cagey and deluded.