Phones you tomorrow for some advice. Namely stick with Brendan or move him on, who to replace him with if the decision is move him on. Which players to move on and which to bring in ? There is only 70m plus whatever from sales to spend. My choices would be : Replace Brendan with Carlo Ancelloti or Rafa Benitez. Gone ... Gerrard, Toure, Lucas, Lambert, Borini, Balotelli, Lovren, Jones, Johnson and Sterling. In... Milner, Pedro, Cech, Walcott, Tevez , Illori (back from loan) and Mascherano Lets hear your advice to J.W.
I think its very important we don't make rash decisions regarding BR. We have just gone 3 months as the form team in the prem.,two defeats doesn't alter that
My advice to FSG is to do 1 of 2 things: 1) Persist with Rodgers - however, bring in a DoF and make Rodgers Head Coach, not manager. Get some quality coaches to work with Rodgers on other aspects i.e defending and tactics. 2) Bring in someone else. It's likely that we won't get CL and we need a big name manager to help attract players.
3 years no trophy ... well maybe the F.A.Cup Kenny was gone after 18months with a League cup and an F.A.Cup final because "he" spent 150m. Rodgers has spent more , fell into a formation that granted worked wonders but has now been found out.
20m lovren < 35m Carroll 20m markovic < 20m Downing 25m lallana < 16m Henderson 4m lambert, 16m balotelli and 11m borini < 23m Suarez Coutinho > Adam Sturridge >
Against the top teams, it didn't Rodgers is not a top rank manager as we are now finding. He had a good season based on Suarez. He is constantly outfoxed by good managers: van Gaal Wenger Mourinho constantly get the better of him.
Be careful, you'll have the #LuckedOut brigade on your case if you suggest that Rodgers isn't a quality manager lol.
Imo John Henry needs the structure fixing. We've a few good coaches so day one he should be saying its rodgers and pascoe only not everyone and get a technical director in. They should be worried about the playing surfaces and so forth not who to impose on the first team. How to develop our coaches further etc etc Rodgers and/or the transfer committee with very few exceptions have spectacularly failed imo Aspas... A total joke Balotelli... A sacking offense All 3 Southampton reserves. A total joke 49 mil of which 37 got plonked down as profit in southampton a numbers as they spent like shaw and chambers fees on better players than we got... Hilarious No for me we need a guy with the contacts and eye for a player that rodgers clearly does not have. We need to be getting the players half the contributors to this website say are tops but young
Spurs are not a top side Cuty gave us too much room from which other sides like utd simply flooded the right area of the pitch and laughed as we floundered Had chelsea not say so deep and not tried they could have whacked us first and given others the blue print Just surprised it took this long for it to get figured out When the intensity is high, passing fast and players competent and formation will put pressure on others When we drop off cos we are scared we look very very average
My advice is an obvious one to all who are in business: The person in charge is key. His drive, his principles, dynamism, his strategy, his tactical acumen, his experience. Once you've got that. You can then move on to build the team you want. Recruit the best players you can afford/willing to join the team. And then set up the best system playing the football you'd like to play. The question I suppose is this: is Rodgers making progress or are we going or gone backwards? Not from last season as Suarez will always be used as an excuse. But from the point he took over. If we haven't or we can see no future then why persist with him? Will one, two or even three years make any difference whatsoever?
Spurs are certainly decent enough,we can't pick and choose when claiming BR can't do it against the top sides. This is simply a knee-jerk reaction to the two defeats,we beat the current champions a month back
So unless a system regularly beats Chelsea, Barca, Real and / or Bayern, it's ****? Gotcha Spurs are one of the better sides in the league who we're/are challenging for top four alongside us!
We're still reaping the rewards of buying the wrong players in the summer. We reaped the rewards for the first half of the season by playing all of said players and now we are reaping the rewards when players get banned or injured(mainly banned) and have to play said ****e in their places. Look at our cover for our first 11. The United defeat was a poor performance from the manager who got it wrong and a lack of leadership and cohesion in midfield because not everyone was on the same page at all on how to play, the Arsenal defeat, well the size of the defeat anyway was caused by our lack of decent cover for any defensive position. We don't have a world beating defence in the first place and the cover for our defence is tragic. We knew this was a write off this season but the team dragged themselves back into contention but the start we had was just too big a handicap that two losses put us out of contention again, a half decent start to the season would see us still in the top four two defeats or no. So it's not time for hysteria, I backed Rodgers when we were ****, and I'll back him now because it's still the same ****ty season BUT... We have to get the right players in the summer to address our issues and we MUST rid ourselves of Moreno, the guy is a massive liability defensively and offers nowhere near enough going forward, apart from his pace wtf has he got and he doesn't even use his pace to get to the byline and cross lke, wtf is he even in the team for. I think if Rodgers fails to at least get to the final of the FA cup, his job might be in danger tho. Who is there to replace him? I'd only be on board with a change if a top manager like Ancelotti was available and willing, not likely. If Rodgers screws the pooch again this summer, next season will definitely be his last.
And someone who knows how to handle contract negotiations. In the past couple of years LFC contract wrangling's have appeared in the media too much and seem to be dragging out for too long. I don't want us to be soft on contracts but at the same time the Sterling situation shouldn't have got this far.
