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I am the same guy who nearly won us the league, but better

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Brendan Rodgers is the same but different. As his team have got worse, he has got better. There were contradictions in the Northern Irishman’s arguments but conviction to his sentiments. The man who won the Manager of the Year award 16 months ago believes it would be an injustice if he secures an unwanted victory in the sack race now. “I am the same guy who nearly won us the league, but better,” he said.

It is not so much Rodgers Mk2 as new improved Brendan, he suggested. Certainly his self-belief remains intact. A first win in seven games prompted Rodgers, in the manner of his best team, to launch a swift counterattack. Undaunted by a recent record showing seven defeats and only 16 goals in Liverpool’s last 16 league games, he presented his case for continued employment with idiosyncratic eloquence.

“I think I have shown in the early stages of my management – without being arrogant – that with a talented group of players I can compete at the top end of the league. I know how to manage top players. If you give me the tools, I’ll do the work.” The inference, for the majority of the Liverpool side who were at Anfield during last season’s slump to sixth place, was damning, but Rodgers has a capacity to produce inadvertently revealing comments.
 
He just doesn't get it does he? We've beaten a piss poor Villa side by a single goal. Instead of a humble "Let's build from here one game at a time" sort of thing he does this. Typical.
 
reuque said:
More quotes here:

‘I’m fine,’ he insisted. ‘You know what comes from leadership and being a manager and the scrutiny.
I’ve never got too carried away when we’ve won, and not too disappointed when we lost. I have a hunger to succeed. There have been a lot of things going against us, but we stick together.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Aston-Villa-eases-pressure.html#ixzz3n0u5Sibm

Oh the irony...
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Collectively we’re not gelling,’ said Villa manager Tim Sherwood. ‘We’re doing it in spasms and it’s not good enough.’

Doing it in spasms is a new one
 
It's amazing that he's overlooked that we still conceded heavily. It's like, "well we've scored three and outscored the opposition, so things are back to normal".
 
It's not really a good thing to admit that your ability as s manager hinges on having someone like Suarez.
 
mark1975 said:
Is he having a dig at the committee setup aswell?
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Yep, as well as endearing himself to his current players. The guy is just a tool - this is the end game. Its desperate times when you have to start talking yourself up and that he has the audacity to do it after one win is just staggering. This is only going one way.
 
Well doing it before a potentially crucial game (in terms of Rodgers' future) at Everton is a bit shortsighted. In current form we could get a hiding because they will battle and cause us problems at the back and if we're as shy of a fight as we have been, then we could be heading for another defeat.
 
keniget said:
It's not really a good thing to admit that your ability as s manager hinges on having someone like Suarez.
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Well he's contradicting himself - I nearly won the league, then the comments about needing the players.

And i happen to think it is about the players. I think he's done very little with his coaching skills
 
The staggering thing is that he thinks anyone buys this shit. Everyone can see right though it. His arguments have more holes in them than our defence.
I don't think he'll ever learn to keep his gob shut. If he thinks he can recover from where he was then surely the Villa win was the first step up the mountain not scaling the fucking summit.
 
Reading this article, it's clear as day, the problem with LFC at the moment is his arrogance and ego..
 
I posted the whole interview here: http://www.sixcrazyminutes.com/inde...n-engulfs-liverpool.72454/page-8#post-1339766

I can understand the anger and the desire to defend himself, but it's a sad insight into his personality when he does this sort of thing. I mean, he's still coming out with that 'The club was eighth when I arrived' line, without grasping the irony of the fact that, four years on, it's again in eighth position - except, I guess, in Brendan's world, eighth four years ago was equivalent to a catastrophic disaster, whereas eighth today (or sixth last season, or seventh a couple of years before) is just a transient bit of bad luck for a great manager. Talk about delusion. And he can't just say he got the team playing very well a couple of seasons ago - he has to claim he transfixed the whole of Europe (the Europe that was thoroughly underwhelmed by him when he actually managed in Europe). I'd love to think he'd come through this crisis having learned his lessons and better prepared for success, but there's a real megalomaniac inside that Norman Wisdom suit, and, alas, it's never going away.
 
What he must learn is that he isn't the manager of Swansea. He is the manager of one the biggest clubs in the world. Every manager whoever it is will be critizied if we finish any worse than fourth. Every manager of Liverpool will live with the pressure that the next game is a must win game. No three points and you will be critizied.

That is the pressure you must cope with every day. If you don't, well, then you are not good enough.

Rodgers have failed big time. He can't cope with the pressure. 1-1 against Norwich, win against Carlisle after pens and 3-2 against Villa wouldn't even Everton fans be happy with.

Rodgers is most probably close to be sacked and he deserve it. The results may be good enough for a club like Bournemouth but not for Liverpool FC.

The CL results last leason was a joke. The EL results was a joke. The PL results was a joke.

Rodgers have failed.

Thank you Suarez for the second place finish.

Managers like Burley, Redknapp, Pardew and Pulis won manager of the year. Winning that don't make you a good manager. Good results year after year is the only proof if a manager is good enough. Rodgers CV so far, no trophies and only one good enough season in his whole career. Maybe two if you count his last season at Swansea.
 
We should copy all these quotes and email them to Henry/FSG. Aren't they disgruntled even in the least seeing all this?
 
Losing Suarez, Gerrard, Sturridge and Sterling will have effected any manager's progress, I can see that point. However, whomever is responsible for subsequent signings has not replaced quality with quality and we've suffered. As Manager he is responsible. I can't see a sacking in the immediate future but the end of the year and our respective league position will be critical in my opinion. I think any individual would be upset by a constant stream of criticism.
 
He's treading on a field of land mines. One loss and he's kaboom. He knows it too, hence all that siege mentality and fighting talk.

After all, defense was never his best trait.
 
jexykrodic said:
Losing Suarez, Gerrard, Sturridge and Sterling will have effected any manager's progress, I can see that point. However, whomever is responsible for subsequent signings has not replaced quality with quality and we've suffered. As Manager he is responsible. I can't see a sacking in the immediate future but the end of the year and our respective league position will be critical in my opinion. I think any individual would be upset by a constant stream of criticism.
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He talks about needing the tools. Well, he's signed enough of them. Bringing in new players is always a gamble, but, after four years, there's still no spine to this team, and precious few proper characters. Even if one assumes - I think incorrectly - that the committee, sans Brendan, brought in many of the players that didn't work, I'd still think you'd expect a good, shrewd manager to have managed to smuggle in a reliable keeper, at least one commanding centre back and central midfielder. If a new manager comes in, that's surely what he'll consider his first priority - and that's pretty damning in my book.

I don't want to upset Mark. I'd rather Brendan miraculously got the team winning again and rising up the table. But I don't see anything positive or admirable about his behaviour now. He desperately needs someone to take him to one side and tell him to shut up.
 
Take him behind the barn more than to the side like.
Let's hope he doesn't end up like an unflushable turd.
 
Surely FSG can only put up with the shit he's spewing only for a short time. It's bloody cringeworthy.
 
I'm told by someone who does work within the club that the 'conspiracy' thing is believed inside melwood to be aimed at a group of players who are fucked off with him, not the transfer committee, owners, or ex players.

The rumour that he spends little time with players off the training pitch was reiterated, & this falling out was the given reason. He goes out of his way to avoid players pre match & on the coach etc.
The only things worthy of note I was told is that Lucas & Milner are both trying to make things more amicable, & that Henderson is one of the players who has fallen out with him. He said he honestly didn't know why some players had turned against him, but that a 'high profile player' (he wouldn't say who) referred to him in very insulting terms in front of players from another club recently & was pulled up about it by a member of the coaching staff.

If any of this is even remotely true he's not gonna be here come Christmas.
 
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