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I was bereft when we got him in as manager. Partly because he was someone I knew very little about who had not won anything. Partly because I was gutted Kenny was sacked. I thought our club should have gone for a Van Gaal, Hiddinck, someone like that. I would have even preferred Laudrup. I posted on here often about how I thought it was a backwards step, how we were accepting mid-table obscurity, how the owners had dropped a bollock. I genuinely thought we were fucked.
Whatever happens for the rest of the season I would like to point right now how much of a dunderheaded nobhead I was, and how BR is a fucking ace bloke, a brilliant manager and gets us more than I ever thought possible.
I fucking love the guy. The way he deals with the media, the man-management, the deadly steel-hand-in-velvet-glove assassin attitude, the understanding of the club, its fans, our history, what makes us tick.
I should have known when he insisted on bringing back our red nets.
I've always wanted our red nets back.
 
Steven Gerrard urges Liverpool owners to offer Brendan Rodgers new deal

• Manager is approaching final 12 months of three-year deal
• 'He has been a revelation' says Gerrard after defeat of United
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Steven Gerrard, left, and Brendan Rodgers celebrate Liverpool's 3-0 defeat of Manchester United at Old Trafford. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images
Steven Gerrard has called on Liverpool's owners to award Brendan Rodgers a new contract "as soon as possible" in recognition of the stunning transformation he has overseen at Anfield.
Rodgers has taken Liverpool from seventh in the Premier League last season into contention for a first title since 1990 but he is approaching the final 12 months of his contract without talks opening over an extension. The 41-year-old signed a three-year deal when he replaced Kenny Dalglish as Liverpool manager in 2012 and the club's owners, Fenway Sports Group, have an option for an extra year on the same terms. FSG must inform Rodgers by a specified date next season whether they intend to exercise the option but a new, improved deal is expected to be signed before that stage.

The Liverpool manager is prepared to delay contract negotiations until the summer rather than invite distractions to his team's title challenge, a pursuit enhanced by Sunday's comprehensive 3-0 defeat of Manchester United at Old Trafford.
However, Gerrard has voiced surprise at the absence of a offer to Rodgers, described by the Liverpool captain as the finest man-manager he has encountered in football. The 33-year-old said: "I have been absolutely blown away by his sessions, his tactics and his maturity in the job and I am learning off him every single day.

"When you become an older player you look to see how the manager does certain things and he has been fantastic for myself personally. I am sure the rest of the players would echo what I am saying. I am absolutely delighted he is here and I just hope that there is a lot of movement now in Boston [home to FSG] because they have got to get him signed up as soon as possible."
Gerrard, who scored twice at Old Trafford, added: "When players are in this situation with a year to go and you want to keep hold of them so desperately, then the club reacts really quickly and gets it sorted. For me, I think he deserves a very long contract here and he is perfect for this club."

Rodgers's conviction on the way forward for Liverpool was unwavering throughout a difficult start to his Anfield reign while his tactical nous, that has enabled Gerrard to flourish in a holding midfield role, was again in evidence against David Moyes's aimless United on Sunday.
"He has been a revelation," the Liverpool and England captain said. "He keeps tweaking and tinkering with the formation and making little subtle changes to personnel and tactics, and it is coming off from week to week. He is a young coach who has been there and earned the right to be Liverpool manager. From week to week he is helping us improve and get better, and he has been an absolute breath of fresh air to this football club.

"He manages every single player differently, he knows we have different characters in the dressing room and his man-to-man, one-on-one management is the best I have known.
He makes you go out on the pitch feeling a million dollars with confidence and belief, and he is a very confident manager. When you play for Liverpool you have to accept pressure, you have to take it on the chin and perform. But when you have a manager who is making you feel good, but who is also not scared to give you a good one-on-one telling-off as well, then he has the perfect ingredients."
Liverpool are four points behind Chelsea with a game in hand and welcome the Premier League leaders to Anfield on 27 April. Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City have also to visit Anfield, while Liverpool's four remaining away games are against teams in the bottom half of the table.

Gerrard said: "As a team we have to keep making statements. A lot of the so-called experts questioned us before the United game. 'Are we capable of coming to Manchester United and beating a good team – one that has been performing quite well of late besides the Olympiakos game?'
"I think we answered the question with flying colours. Not just that, but we were slightly disappointed it wasn't a five- or six-goal thrashing because the way we performed from start to finish, with everybody in the team contributing, was magnificent."
 
I was definitely not with when he was given the job. It made things worse when he demanded to be the one to buy and sell players. He also dismantled the staff. I said at the time he will fall by his own sword.

Boy am I glad I was and am wrong.

But what do I know about football management? 😉
 
In contrast with that, I wasn't particularly apprehensive about his appointment - I simply didn't know him well enough to speculate either way, so I was willing to hope for the best. I'd never have dared hope we'd make this much progress this season though. If we keep on doing equally well, hopefully the fact that Brendan's still young will mean he sticks around for a long time and keeps up the good work.

A while back, a bluenose mate of mine said he was concerned that Brendan could be our Moyes. He meant it as a compliment. 😀
 
I totally believed in him when he was appointed.
...By that I mean I thought we'd be playing the youths, balancing the books, and pushing into CL in 5 years.
Not challenging for the bloody Title in March.
 
I never realised 'orange & honest' John mckenna's record was that good tbh. Heard him spoken of simply as our fist manager & in relation to his proddy background.
 
I can't decide about him, he's too evasive and slippery. With our previous managers it was very easy to see their mistakes, then you can wait until the next game and when the mistake is repeated and confirmed you can proceed with hating them.

I'm sure Rodgers is making a bunch of sly little mistakes that keep slipping under the radar. He quickly corrects or improves things under the guise of tactical flexibility before they get noticed. I'm sure he'll get caught out at some point, perhaps not in this decade, but it's a matter of time.

I don't trust him yet, he has an air of David Koresh about him.
 
I maintain he was brought in a little too early, and not then given enough support, which left him learning on the job and battling as much with his own insecurities as with any opponents. He also had the 'misfortune' of finding himself manager just when the Hillsborough findings were announced, which (I suspect) left him feeling like an awkward outsider when everyone else at the club and in the city were never more united and wrapped in their shared history. That would have made anyone recently arrived feel painfully insecure, and he did duck and dive and flit from verbose boasting to slippery off-the-record briefings for most of last season. But as I say, that was more the fault of FSG than him - it's a hell of a club to come into without much to lean on in terms of achievements. But the important thing is he's come through that phase incredibly well, he's found real courage, he's engaged with the history of the club and he's embraced its culture. And he's learnt from his mistakes, brilliantly revised and improved his tactics and earnt the respect of everyone. He's manager of the year without any doubt and he's shown more balls than any other manger anywhere to get where he now is.
 
gkmacca said:
I maintain he was brought in a little too early, and not then given enough support, which left him learning on the job and battling as much with his own insecurities as with any opponents. He also had the 'misfortune' of finding himself manager just when the Hillsborough findings were announced, which (I suspect) left him feeling like an awkward outsider when everyone else at the club and in the city were never more united and wrapped in their shared history. That would have made anyone recently arrived feel painfully insecure, and he did duck and dive and flit from verbose boasting to slippery off-the-record briefings for most of last season. But as I say, that was more the fault of FSG than him - it's a hell of a club to come into without much to lean on in terms of achievements. But the important thing is he's come through that phase incredibly well, he's found real courage, he's engaged with the history of the club and he's embraced its culture. And he's learnt from his mistakes, brilliantly revised and improved his tactics and earnt the respect of everyone. He's manager of the year without any doubt and he's shown more balls than any other manger anywhere to get where he now is.
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Means the world to me to hear you say that Macca. I respect you a lot more than most and it worried me that you struggled to accept Mr Rodgers at first. Im double chuffed that you are where you are now with him.

Ps-Told you
;-)
 
gkmacca said:
I maintain he was brought in a little too early, and not then given enough support, which left him learning on the job and battling as much with his own insecurities as with any opponents. He also had the 'misfortune' of finding himself manager just when the Hillsborough findings were announced, which (I suspect) left him feeling like an awkward outsider when everyone else at the club and in the city were never more united and wrapped in their shared history. That would have made anyone recently arrived feel painfully insecure, and he did duck and dive and flit from verbose boasting to slippery off-the-record briefings for most of last season. But as I say, that was more the fault of FSG than him - it's a hell of a club to come into without much to lean on in terms of achievements. But the important thing is he's come through that phase incredibly well, he's found real courage, he's engaged with the history of the club and he's embraced its culture. And he's learnt from his mistakes, brilliantly revised and improved his tactics and earnt the respect of everyone. He's manager of the year without any doubt and he's shown more balls than any other manger anywhere to get where he now is.
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Then again, it's funny how things work out. If he hadn't had to work through all that and learned his lessons, maybe he wouldn't have impressed his staff and players as much. I think in a recent interview, Gerrard mentioned that senior players would look at the manager and assess what the chap was doing and how he was going to fare, and I'd like to think that they've been impressed by his improvement and adaptation as much as he's been by theirs.
 
Herr Onceared said:
Means the world to me to hear you say that Macca. I respect you a lot more than most and it worried me that you struggled to accept Mr Rodgers at first. Im double chuffed that you are where you are now with him.

Ps-Told you
;-)
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Well I maintain that Mr Rodgers provided the Liverpool board with a meaningful alternative to Louis Van Gaals immense Dutch cock flying around the dressing room. It was a risk but, fortunately for us all, one that worked out. Imagine the uproar if, after the Pardew headbutting incident, we had LVG take it upon himself to dish out penis punishment to all and sundry on the sidelines ? I shudder to think
 
Yes, but he keeps it firmly sheathed and under control and wields it under only the most serious of circumstances. Like Lion-Os Sword of Omens.
 
I just think that by some kind of cosmic accident due to some weird star allignment or some shit, we've lucked into the best young coach in the game.

How our owners took this path I have no fucking clue. But fair play to Henry and co, Mr Rodgers is the tits.
I love the motherfucker and to read in the press about his coaching and man management being key to everything is warming the cockles of me heart.
He has tactics dripping off him. He can make Jordan Henderson think hes Zidane. Hes a fucking he row.
I think he can build a dynasty here...
 
And will slay any non-believers. Never mind envelopes, take this !!! THWOCKSLAP !
 
gkmacca said:
I maintain he was brought in a little too early, and not then given enough support, which left him learning on the job and battling as much with his own insecurities as with any opponents. He also had the 'misfortune' of finding himself manager just when the Hillsborough findings were announced, which (I suspect) left him feeling like an awkward outsider when everyone else at the club and in the city were never more united and wrapped in their shared history. That would have made anyone recently arrived feel painfully insecure, and he did duck and dive and flit from verbose boasting to slippery off-the-record briefings for most of last season. But as I say, that was more the fault of FSG than him - it's a hell of a club to come into without much to lean on in terms of achievements. But the important thing is he's come through that phase incredibly well, he's found real courage, he's engaged with the history of the club and he's embraced its culture. And he's learnt from his mistakes, brilliantly revised and improved his tactics and earnt the respect of everyone. He's manager of the year without any doubt and he's shown more balls than any other manger anywhere to get where he now is.
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I think he came in and tried to be himself from the off, but probably tried too hard and in the wrong ways (sometimes) to stamp his authority on the club.

While it was refreshing to have a manager who was young and not trying to echo the past, it was daunting for us as fans to try to support and relate to him. It's not necessarily a criticism of him or us, just that he came in to replace the King (a situ almost as bad as Hodgson having Dalglish's name ringing in his ears from the terraces), and he had no real silverware background to back up any prospects. The only thing I tried to cling to, was his stints with Chelsea and going over to Spain to learn, that and the brand of football he clearly favoured.

I wanted Kenny to get us back to basics, and in many ways he did, he promoted youth and tried to instill good, bright football again (at least in the first half season). Rodgers has extended that, he's pushed the unit of players closer together, chipped away at the rough edges and created a cohesive whole. Something more experienced, higher pedigree past managers failed to do consistently or quickly.

It's still in every sense of the word, early days, but it doesn't get much more promising than unearthing a title challenge out of the dregs of mediocrity and a club back from the brink.

It's absolutely colossal, the confidence, exuberance and conviction he's managed to instill in such a short time, and whatever the future holds for us and he, this is another pivotal season in an already illustrious history.
 
He's gone from a face-stroking, Brent-a-like weirdo to an all singing, all dancing Liverpool behemoth over this season. Remarkable. All the more so for me as I had no faith in him. It's almost as if our highly successful, self-made, rich, businessmen owners look into the attributes and calibre of the men they hire before getting them in.
 
I had the "Who knows" view at times, and was critical on others, as honestly, I was blinded by the Rafa successes.

I was also relieved we didn't hire RM.

Always good to have a paddy do well 😉
 
Ive said this many a year, less with the fat old guys, more with the sexy suit wearing young bastard.
Mr Rodgers is the embodiment of my mangerial vision.
 
Herr Onceared said:
Ive said this many a year, less with the fat old guys, more with the sexy suit wearing young bastard.
Mr Rodgers is the embodiment of my mangerial vision.
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But not that all black number he's being occasionally sporting, someone needs to have a word in his ear about that. Otherwise he represents the club very well.
 
He's really grown into the job, has crucially learned from his mistakes quickly and adapted accordingly.

All underpinned by a philosophy for playing attractive football.

Awesome.
 
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