The timing is surprising. You’d think it would make more sense to have done it earlier or later. Rodgers was good at getting his team playing well for a sustained period at some point during the season. On the other hand, the amount of money Liverpool has wasted since he came in is mind-boggling. We got all kinds of flak for 100 million that resulted in two of the better players in the league this year, and one of the best 10s in football, and his spending 3 times that amount hasn’t gotten half the criticism. Since the other thing he did was make Liverpool our bogey team, I’m not as concerned that once again we face a team with a new manager. That seems like it happens all the time for some reason. Crap game today vs. Everton all the way around. If it were ice hockey it would be called chippy. Lots of fouls and rising tempers got the best of flow.
Yep he sure did...he also said we approached him before we signed AVB but he turned us down...cos, unlike liverpool, we sack our managers
What I hadn’t realized was the strange saga of the 290 million. It began when Rodgers said he wouldn’t work with a DOF, came in and loaned out Carroll and failed to get in Sturridge, leaving the squad short of strikers, and making it clear his judgment was not to be relied on. He said the loan of Carroll was 99% financially motivated, the first of many times he blamed his boss for various shortcomings. Then FMG began its transfer committee, which resulted in 31 players brought in for 290 million. Going down the list, I counted 3-4 successes, none of whom have been nearly as good as Eriksen over the course of his time here, or Lamela this year. The transfer committee’s ineptitude has been mind-boggling. If you spend 290 million you’d expect to improve a bit. More to the point, if your net spend is what LIverpool’s was, you’d expect to improve a lot. Having a manager who then says, "Give me the tools," would certainly have me seeing red. Word is that they’ll have to pay Rodgers 10 million to leave, bringing the figure almost completely wasted to 300 million. These must be interesting times at FMG. They had a huge success getting the perennial loser Red Sox to a title. They figured they had a knack for livelying up big sports brands. It does seem like shooting fish in a barrel. With Liverpool’s worldwide fan base, a group showing reasonably good judgment could have made a mint in an era of skyrocketing professional sport revenue. FMG has nevertheless managed to squander hundreds of millions getting nowhere. It’s as if they piled out of a clown car. They need success soon, but would be unwise to keep trying to buy it. I wonder how far away they are from packing themselves back into their clown car, honking the horn and driving away.
As I keep pointing out - continued success in the transfer market is nigh on impossible. Liverpool have been a fair bit below average and we've been a fair bit above. But Liverpool's squad cost a lot more than ours and is worth more than ours so he should be doing better with it.
Just to show that the Delusional Scouser stereotype is still alive and well: Particularly impressed by Origi, Liverpool got better as the game went on, had lots of chances around the box... what the **** was he watching?
Half our squad out injured, new system and away from home. Still couldnt beat us....lol. Was a fair result and not bad for a first game
We were missing roughly as many players as you were and got an early injury to add to it, but that wasn't my point. The guy appears to have been watching a completely different game to everyone else. You clearly didn't get better as it went on, for a start. Your best period was clearly the first 20 minutes or so.
Perhaps he was watching McManaman, Owen, Redknapp, Souness, Carragher etc etc, the desperation throughout the football media for Liverpool to succeed is truly laughable and at the same time dreadfully sickening. Had to laugh at the half time analysis, all they were interested in was how Pool were going to win the game and focusing on Pool`s injuries, while at the same time failing to even acknowledge Spurs` 7 missing players or that Spurs were clearly the more likely team in the first half and Pool never looked like scoring all game long bar the odd set piece.
The a good point for an "injury hit liverpool" against a "strong spurs" irritated me no end. Son, Bentaleb, Mason and Dier are all 1st team players and we lost Chadli after 3 or 4 mins of the match but this was never mentioned as it didn't fit their view. In the circumstances it was a decent point for both teams...beating a team with a new manager is always tricky as is playing with out 4 or more regular starters.
Keeping the unbeaten run going was a decent achievement considering the personnel we are currently missing. Too many draws to be a spectacular run but at least we aren't denting any confidence we might be building.
Not sure how often we'll play Mason, Bentaleb and Dier in the same team, especially with the rise of Alli and Dembele's performance Saturday. We missed Dier and Son only in my opinion, although they were big misses. Chadli/N'Jie was a close one, although Clinton had a poor game, especially at first. Control was shocking. He did look a threat as the game went on, but Chadli's finishing might have got us the points.
Klopp has his work cut out for him. I've said it before: he's inherited a horrendously average squad. The only players he currently has who would've got within a mile of his all-conquering Borussia team are Clyne and Coutinho, and even then only when they're on top form. That Borussia team was superior in every department so it will be interesting to see how he klopps. I'll just get my coat.
