Thank God!
James Pearce: Borini has failed to force his way back into Rodgers’ plans & looks increasingly likely to be sold in January. #lfc
It's a comfort he has 'plans'.
Thank God!
James Pearce: Borini has failed to force his way back into Rodgers’ plans & looks increasingly likely to be sold in January. #lfc
I never think anything positive comes from freezing a player out. Even if you don't fancy them, you still might need to use them, so a manager ought to bite his lip, keep them fit, and keep his options open. We're so thin in terms of forwards we could do worse than have him on the bench, and IMHO he could have done well against Sunderland last week.
I never think anything positive comes from freezing a player out. Even if you don't fancy them, you still might need to use them, so a manager ought to bite his lip, keep them fit, and keep his options open. We're so thin in terms of forwards we could do worse than have him on the bench, and IMHO he could have done well against Sunderland last week.
But his agent will surely tell him to stay put until the end of the season at least, so that plan is fecked.
He didn't make a 'mistake'. He made a decision for himself that Rodgers didn't like. Both are perfectly entitled to have their own opinions on that, but a player is well in his rights not to sign for a club he doesn't want to play for.
It was his right to turn down a move, but it wasn't in his best interests and hence it was a mistake. .
I don't think so. His agent will tell him there will be more chance of getting a good deal at the end of the season (and if he's truly as feckless as Rodgers implies then it won't be a strain to stay around for a few more months on a big wage - another problem with the logic). He'll also probably think it's not at all certain that Rodgers will still be manager by then - another reason why such a tactic, here and now, is poorly conceived. If you must try it, you try it from a position of strength, not weakness.
Why would his agent tell him that, necessarily? Was he a major influence on his decisions in the summer then? Because I'd have thought the one thing an agent would most want is a big piece of the action from a large fee (available in the summer) and also from a hefty increase in wages (also on offer back then). So I don't see any reason to automatically think his agent is a major driver of this, unless you know different, of course.
Clearly, if no reasonable offer materialises in January, then that's different, but I've never said otherwise.
The matter of Rodgers' position is a factor, but to be fair I was responding to the idea that such an approach is never sound. Just because I don't think it never is doesn't mean I think it always is.
If he's going to vent his frustrations at fuck ups that are his own making, he wants to rip into that other Italian gobshite.
Borini DID go on loan he did okay, well enough to make them want to keep him, but he obviously didn't fancy staying there. Seems fair enough to me. And any agent worth their salt would say stay until the summer - have you not noticed the January window being judged crap? Rodgers didn't want Downing, but he handled that perfectly sensibly. I don't really see the reason you're so eager to defend him, but let's agree to disagree because I really can't see where we'll go apart from repeating ourselves. I think I've made my points pretty clearly above. There's only so many ways of saying them.
But players move in January every year - lots of them. Do none of them have agents worth their salt? .