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Rodgers fury over transfers: Liverpool boss can't hide anger as players allowed to leave club
By JOE BERNSTEIN
PUBLISHED: 22:42, 1 September 2012 | UPDATED: 22:58, 1 September 2012
The future of managing director Ian Ayre is under scrutiny as he seeks to explain why top target Clint Dempsey ended up at Tottenham.
Anfield activists have flooded Twitter and club-related forums with the kind of vitriol not seen since former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett were forced out two years ago.
Not a happy man: Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers failed to land any of his transfer targets on deadline day
Manager Brendan Rodgers pushed Andy Carroll, Charlie Adam and Jay Spearing out the door in the last 48 hours of the window but long-time target Dempsey joined Spurs on Friday after Liverpool failed to meet Fulham’s £6million asking price. The club also failed to sign a senior striker to replace Carroll.
A frustrated Rodgers met Ayre at the club’s Melwood training ground on Saturday to seek an explanation why he has been left chasing four trophies with a painfully thin squad that contains one senior striker in Luis Suarez.
Rodgers has been assured Friday’s debacle will be taken into account if the club miss out on a top-four finish, and he has been promised he can bid for players in January, including Arsenal’s Theo Walcott.
Top target: Liverpool missed out on Clint Dempsey as he opted to sign for Spurs
The 39-year-old successor to Kenny Dalglish has to decide whether to let his displeasure be known when he answers questions on TV before Sunday’s game against Arsenal.
Liverpool fans, noted for campaigns to seek justice over the Hillsborough tragedy and to remove Hicks and Gillett, took to social media in their thousands, largely to blame Ayre and the club’s latest American owners, Fenway Sports Group, for missing out on Dempsey.
Some also pointed the finger at Rodgers for his hard-line approach towards Carroll and Adam that helped lower their value.
Carroll went to West Ham on loan and helped set up a goal for Kevin Nolan in the first minute of his Hammers debut against Fulham, although he later limped off with a hamstring twinge.
Another one slips away: Rodgers was keen on Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge but failed to conclude a deal
Adam cost Stoke just £4million — a third of what Matt Jarvis and Steven Fletcher, of relegated Wolves, each went for.
Ayre was criticised for leaving Melwood two hours before the deadline passed after finding out Spurs had signed Dempsey.
Principal owner John W Henry was widely slated, with a message on the influential Anfield online website saying: ‘Terrible approach from the money men.’
Paul Dalglish, son of former manager Kenny, tweeted Rodgers’s head would ‘explode with rage’.
Moving on: Andy Carroll left Liverpool to join West Ham on loan
It is believed Liverpool bid £5m for Dempsey and, with the American frustrated at their negotiating stance, he decided to move to Tottenham for £6m.
Rodgers had said he needed reinforcements. ‘Ultimately your principles are based on the players you have. You’ve got to have certain types of players to play that way,’ he said.
The Ulsterman is practically unsackable after huge pay-offs to Rafa Benitez, Roy Hodgson and Dalglish. But he said: ‘You’ve got to win games or you don’t stay in your job.’
Sold: Charlie Adam joined Stoke for £4m
He let Adam and Carroll go on the understanding replacements would be signed, saying: ‘If I had a choice on one or two matters then there might not have been change, but that sometimes gets taken out of your hands.’
The club decided they did not want to pay £6m for a 29-year-old like Dempsey. Rodgers’s only option now is to pursue free agents like Michael Owen.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2196945/Brendan-Rodgers-angry-Liverpools-failure-sign-transfer-targets.html#ixzz25GMd6K8r
By JOE BERNSTEIN
PUBLISHED: 22:42, 1 September 2012 | UPDATED: 22:58, 1 September 2012
The future of managing director Ian Ayre is under scrutiny as he seeks to explain why top target Clint Dempsey ended up at Tottenham.
Anfield activists have flooded Twitter and club-related forums with the kind of vitriol not seen since former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett were forced out two years ago.
Not a happy man: Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers failed to land any of his transfer targets on deadline day
Manager Brendan Rodgers pushed Andy Carroll, Charlie Adam and Jay Spearing out the door in the last 48 hours of the window but long-time target Dempsey joined Spurs on Friday after Liverpool failed to meet Fulham’s £6million asking price. The club also failed to sign a senior striker to replace Carroll.
A frustrated Rodgers met Ayre at the club’s Melwood training ground on Saturday to seek an explanation why he has been left chasing four trophies with a painfully thin squad that contains one senior striker in Luis Suarez.
Rodgers has been assured Friday’s debacle will be taken into account if the club miss out on a top-four finish, and he has been promised he can bid for players in January, including Arsenal’s Theo Walcott.
Top target: Liverpool missed out on Clint Dempsey as he opted to sign for Spurs
The 39-year-old successor to Kenny Dalglish has to decide whether to let his displeasure be known when he answers questions on TV before Sunday’s game against Arsenal.
Liverpool fans, noted for campaigns to seek justice over the Hillsborough tragedy and to remove Hicks and Gillett, took to social media in their thousands, largely to blame Ayre and the club’s latest American owners, Fenway Sports Group, for missing out on Dempsey.
Some also pointed the finger at Rodgers for his hard-line approach towards Carroll and Adam that helped lower their value.
Carroll went to West Ham on loan and helped set up a goal for Kevin Nolan in the first minute of his Hammers debut against Fulham, although he later limped off with a hamstring twinge.
Another one slips away: Rodgers was keen on Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge but failed to conclude a deal
Adam cost Stoke just £4million — a third of what Matt Jarvis and Steven Fletcher, of relegated Wolves, each went for.
Ayre was criticised for leaving Melwood two hours before the deadline passed after finding out Spurs had signed Dempsey.
Principal owner John W Henry was widely slated, with a message on the influential Anfield online website saying: ‘Terrible approach from the money men.’
Paul Dalglish, son of former manager Kenny, tweeted Rodgers’s head would ‘explode with rage’.
Moving on: Andy Carroll left Liverpool to join West Ham on loan
It is believed Liverpool bid £5m for Dempsey and, with the American frustrated at their negotiating stance, he decided to move to Tottenham for £6m.
Rodgers had said he needed reinforcements. ‘Ultimately your principles are based on the players you have. You’ve got to have certain types of players to play that way,’ he said.
The Ulsterman is practically unsackable after huge pay-offs to Rafa Benitez, Roy Hodgson and Dalglish. But he said: ‘You’ve got to win games or you don’t stay in your job.’
Sold: Charlie Adam joined Stoke for £4m
He let Adam and Carroll go on the understanding replacements would be signed, saying: ‘If I had a choice on one or two matters then there might not have been change, but that sometimes gets taken out of your hands.’
The club decided they did not want to pay £6m for a 29-year-old like Dempsey. Rodgers’s only option now is to pursue free agents like Michael Owen.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2196945/Brendan-Rodgers-angry-Liverpools-failure-sign-transfer-targets.html#ixzz25GMd6K8r
Ahhh you know me Macca. I just like to fuck about.
Nothing could stop me being happy about my beloved redmen and the endless possibilities we have for the season ahead.
FUCK IT. Im going to paint one of me sheets.
Yep, so well that he won't say a word. (no new quotes) The last line show how little credence you can give to that article. They are trying to drum up a reaction with a sensationalist article.
The dog days are over.
I'm sure Rodgers is annoyed, but this is, unfortunately, another season of massive rebuilding so I'm not hugely bothered where we finish, because I think the top four is impossible and the Europa League is shit. So long as the owners see it the same way and give him the time he requires then that's all I can ask. Expectations have to be realistic.
His life would be easier if he didn't commit the initial fucked up though.
Few if any owners give a sh!te about the fans in any nicey-nicey, touchy-feely kind of way. They do however give a sh!te about the fans as a major source of income, and I simply don't believe John Henry and FSG would be stupid enough not to.
We're gonna look like bigger dickheads with this documentary. At a time when we should be all out for damage limitation, the timing, as per, is impeccable.
Is this going to be this seasons off the pitch distraction, one that will occupy the tabloids for months, resulting in difficult questions everytime Rodgers get's interviewed and coinciding with a slump in form?
Probably.
Is this going to be this seasons off the pitch distraction, one that will occupy the tabloids for months, resulting in difficult questions everytime Rodgers get's interviewed and coinciding with a slump in form?
Probably.
As far as the Europa League is concerned, you shouldn't be arrogant as well as unrealistic - in this position the club has no right to consider any competition as 'shit'. As for not caring about where the club finishes, that isn't so much 'realistic' as a meek and supine self-fulfilling prophesy - greatly facilitated by 'realistically' failing to sign any new strikers whilst cutting a squad that the manager has already gone on record as saying is 'far too small'.
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Haha. Barry Davies would be proud of you. 😉
Fuck me, that is a bad shirt though.
That fella has some properly
dodgy clobber.
That said the fella on the right is wearing a joke of a shirt too, so maybe there was some sort of hawaiin party before the photo shoot.
That fella has some properly
dodgy clobber.
That said the fella on the right is wearing a joke of a shirt too, so maybe there was some sort of hawaiin party before the photo shoot.
Looks like the traditional shirt worn by most Indonesians. Don’t think we can blame him for his shit wardrobe on this occasion.
Show us a picture of your ideal shirt Foxy.
No, on second thoughts please don't.
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