Rodgers

[Sheik Yerbouti]

FSG: "So Roberto, if we were to offer you the job we'd expect you to work with Sporting Director"

Martinez: "Que? No"

FSG: "Ok. Don't ring us we'll call you"

John: "So Tom, who is next?"

Tom: "Brendan Rodgers"

John: "Well go get him in Tom"

FSG: "So Brendan, if we were to offer you the job we'd expect you to work with a Sporting Director"

Brendan: "No"

John: "Who is the next candidate Tom?"

Tom: "There isn't one John."

John: "Brendan. You got the job. Tom, phone Dick Dangler and Cheeky Bergerstain and tell them we've changed our minds."

 

[Hansern]

Tony Barrett:

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Fenway Sports Group (FSG), Liverpool’s owner, is set to implement a strategy involving a sporting director but, at least in the short term, the role will be performed by an ensemble rather than an individual. Rodgers will be expected to work in tandem with a trio of technical, recruitment and administration specialists, but he will have the final say on transfers as the ultimate head of department. FSG sees this approach as the best way to ensure that a series of checks and balances are in place to prevent players being signed for fees that exceed their values. Rodgers has been able to appoint his own backroom staff, Colin Pascoe, Chris Davies and Glen Driscoll joining him from Swansea City — a trio of arrivals that will pave the way for Steve Clarke’s departure — but he will have no say over the more senior strategic appointments that will make up the football operations team.

 

[red_maradona]

Yet you wanted rid of Dalglish who won stuff but ultimately failed in the league and wasnt given time to correct that. The owners obviously believe that Rodgers is the right man to fit with their philosophy. Those who were dreaming of the likes of Klopp or a Rafa return were doing exactly that - dreaming. We may be a massive club but we are in massive disarray and we are simply not the draw we used to be. A hard cold fact but still that's where we are.

The club needs to transform and we've been mired in historical ennui whilst being fucked up the arse by two odious Americans and we were in the shittest state ever not so long ago. The owners have a plan to drag us into the 21st century and of course it will take risk, time and a substantial transformation. We've moaned about how poorly we've been run and performed as a club and it seems, when we appear to be restructuring to address that, people are going to moan about that too. We can't have it both ways. There will be pain on the journey.

As for Rodgers. Reading up a lot about him I truly think there's more than meets the eye. He's obsessed by football and studies the fuck out of it. We should give him a chance and that doesn't mean 10 games. It may go tits up, it may be exactly what we need. Just because he's not performed at the top level yet doesn't mean he CAN'T. Hands up who'd heard of Arsene Wenger before he went to Arsenal ? We'd have gone ape shit. As I say, give him a chance, you may just be surprised at what he can do. Time will tell as always

Admittedly if you told me we were swapping Kenny for Rogers, I would not have agreed. Having said that the appointment of an unproven gamble doesn;t detract fromt he fact that Kenny leaving was probably the right thing (the manner could have been better).

I'm sure the description of being a football fanatic and obsessive applied to tony pulis, who has better credentials than Rogers, but no one is going after him?. Wenger is nto the best example to draw upon, as I seem to recall him actually winning league titles before he arrived at Arsenal. He knew what it takes to win week in and week out and motivate players to WIN not survive relegation. Rogers has never experienced what it takes to have to win week in and week out, to motivate players to win things. He has done well in his first season by ensuring his club survives, but that is completely different to what is expected of him now. We may be in disarray, but we are still expected to win things and finish high up in the league, out wage bill alone demands it. Rest assured once he's in, I will give him a chance and pray he does well as the consequcnes of him screwing up will be devastating.

 

[Sunny]

RM, Wenger won ONE French league title about 8 years before he went to the Arse. As for giving Rodgers a chance, you certainly dont seem to have that mindset regardless of what you're saying. Kenny out ! That's all that mattered at the time regardless of the consequences

 

[amber cabs]

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We may be a massive club but we are in massive disarray and we are simply not the draw we used to be. A hard cold fact but still that's where we are.

The club needs to transform and we've been mired in historical ennui whilst being fucked up the arse by two odious Americans and we were in the shittest state ever not so long ago. The owners have a plan to drag us into the 21st century and of course it will take risk, time and a substantial transformation. We've moaned about how poorly we've been run and performed as a club and it seems, when we appear to be restructuring to address that, people are going to moan about that too. We can't have it both ways. There will be pain on the journey.

As for Rodgers. Reading up a lot about him I truly think there's more than meets the eye. He's obsessed by football and studies the fuck out of it. We should give him a chance and that doesn't mean 10 games. It may go tits up, it may be exactly what we need. Just because he's not performed at the top level yet doesn't mean he CAN'T. Hands up who'd heard of Arsene Wenger before he went to Arsenal ? We'd have gone ape shit. As I say, give him a chance, you may just be surprised at what he can do. Time will tell as always

How dare you talk sense on here

 

[Fabio]

Rodgers will do a bang up job.

Time is on his side and I'm confident in him.

 

[localny]

And that is the issue that we have to cite wegner, to justify this appointment. Theres been only two or three like him in the past 20 years. Again maybe the manager isnt as important and we can ditch bad appointments in the new structure

 

[Sunny]

Rodgers will do a bang up job.

Time is on his side and I'm confident in him.

Is it though mate? Some have the knives drawn already because he's not a big enough name or doesn't have the right track record in their mind. Modern footy baffles me at times? Not the game but the bullshit that surrounds it

 

[Sunny]

And that is the issue that we have to cite wegner, to justify this appointment. Theres been only two or three like him in the past 20 years. Again maybe the manager isnt as important and we can ditch bad appointments in the new structure

Jose Mourinho then, before he went to Porto. Nothing s as cut and dried as it seems though mate, that's the only point I'm trying to make.

 

[Ryan]

Where in the fuck do they find the blerts they always interview outside Anfield.
Ive been to Liverpool a million times and got many many good friends from there and never have i come across such cleft paleted droogs as these.
'Eeeeeem yeah yeah eeeem he knows mooooreeeno so eeeeem give im taaam give im taaam'

Fuckin heeel.

Heh, so true. The equivalent would be someone from Sky Sports News posting a question on this site looking to gauge the forum members reaction and fucking Fox being the first cunt to respond.

That'd be our fucking luck too you know.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Don't think Van Gaal will be coming mate. Not sure the club has been spouting anything though, it's all been the media doing that and a few loons on Twitter

I'm not on about what the media and twaterrati have been saying mate, I'm on about Ayre saying the next manager must have experience at the highest level, we can get any manager we go after blah blah blah.

You know me, I wait and see before forming an opinion and I hate those who cast the owners as the Devil incarnate without any proof but if we basically keep the same structure in place then we could have got Van Gaal, a manager whose record pisses on almost everyone elses, in as our manager.

The vast majority would have bought into a Van Gaal or Cheeky / Rodgers set up. What would your initial reaction have been if I told you Rodgers and his Swansea backroom staff were going to have control over Liverpool Football Club? I know exactly what it would have been. You'd have despaired. People are being positive based more on hope than cold hard facts. Rodgers has done fuck all as a manager. And that's coming from someone who'd have rather given a hungry young manager a chance than appoint Dalglish. Rodgers isn't a bad appointment IF the right structure is put in place to support him. Ayre, the Swansea back room staff and promoted Academy coaches don't enthuse me.

 

[Sunny]

I dunno, maybe they haven't given up on the Sporting Director role just Van Gaal being a loon and his cock dropping.. I agree with what you're saying but I just can't get wound up about it all, which is strange. I'm oddly calm about this.

 

[FoxForceFive]

I'm, choosing to believe it's COS Rodgers impressed them so much & has the ability to lay out exactly what is needed.

That combined with a personality to get what he wants is a massive asset as a manager.

I'm looking at the positives, he's our manager, so I choose to back him until he does something to show that to be a mistake, which he hasn't & may not do at all.

 

[Buddha]

And that is the issue that we have to cite wegner, to justify this appointment. Theres been only two or three like him in the past 20 years.

If you look at most of the managers of the top clubs in England/Spain/Germany right now it suggests otherwise?

England:
Mancini - Went into the Fiorentina job prior to completing his coaching badges
Wenger - See above
Redknapp - Has won an FA Cup in 25 years and battled relegation many times
Pardew - relegated Southampton
Di Matteo - sacked from West Brom prior to winning Champions League/FA Cup at Chelsea

Spain:
Mourinho - unknown prior to guiding Porto to the double
Guardiola - reserve team coach prior to taking over at Barca

Germany:
Klopp - got Mainz promoted to Bundelsliga and then relegated (and so resigned) in only managerial role prior to landing the Dortmund job

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I dunno, maybe they haven't given up on the Sporting Director role just Van Gaal being a loon and his cock dropping.. I agree with what you're saying but I just can't get wound up about it all, which is strange. I'm oddly calm about this.

Years of sitting watching shite has done that to you. We're all hoping that by some divine intervention Brendan Rodgers is the new Shanks, building a dynasty. I see owners backtracking cos they haven't got a jar of glue and are listening too much to power hungry Ayre. If you have a vision then great, go with it, fucking stick to it. Brendan Rodgers with one year's Premiership experience has changed their mind after one interview. Up until last week I believed in them. I'm now starting to think they haven't got a fucking Scooby. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[themn]

If you look at most of the managers of the top clubs in England/Spain/Germany right now it suggests otherwise?

England:
Mancini - Went into the Fiorentina job prior to completing his coaching badges
Wenger - See above
Redknapp - Has won an FA Cup in 25 years and battled relegation many times
Pardew - relegated Southampton
Di Matteo - sacked from West Brom prior to winning Champions League/FA Cup at Chelsea

Spain:
Mourinho - unknown prior to guiding Porto to the double
Guardiola - reserve team coach prior to taking over at Barca

Germany:
Klopp - got Mainz promoted to Bundelsliga and then relegated (and so resigned) in only managerial role prior to landing the Dortmund job

Ooooooooooooooooooh, IN.YOUR.FACE. localny !


I think.




Yes.

In your face.

 

[Cerberus]

If we turn over the mancs at anfield next season can I say "We gave them a good rodgering!"


*makes a face like an eel*

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

If we turn over the mancs at anfield next season can I say "We gave them a good rodgering!"


*makes a face like an eel*

 

[Sunny]

Years of sitting watching shite has done that to you. We're all hoping that by some divine intervention Brendan Rodgers is the new Shanks, building a dynasty. I see owners backtracking cos they haven't got a jar of glue and are listening too much to power hungry Ayre. If you have a vision then great, go with it, fucking stick to it. Brendan Rodgers with one year's Premiership experience has changed their mind after one interview. Up until last week I believed in them. I'm now starting to think they haven't got a fucking Scooby. I hope I'm wrong.

I'm numb with pain. I did say the owners haven't got a clue what they're doing over a week ago. I really do hope I was wrong. I do think there's something about Rodgers though....oh well, we'll just have to wait and see. G'night

 

[Cerberus]

All this thread needs is one of Woland's photo shop efforts of a lizard baptising Rodgers and I'm sold.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I'm numb with pain. I did say the owners haven't got a clue what they're doing over a week ago. I really do hope I was wrong. I do think there's something about Rodgers though....oh well, we'll just have to wait and see. G'night

Night honey. Love you.

 

[Sunny]

Night honey. Love you.

Be quiet on your way up.

Homo.

 

[Cerberus]

Ewwwww

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

My superboss superhero eyes can see that bit you've shaded out lover.

 

[Shadey]

Get a rooom

 

[Y1]

The way things are going Rodgers will rise out fall by his own sword. He has till Dec to prove himself that he can do it provided we are not facing relegation like under Hodges.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

"Louis, you're dead fucking boss, have won everything under The Lying Rag in three different countries BUT your 60"

That'd go down well in the real world.

 

[Atlas]

More than anything seems Brendan has almost held the club to ransom. They approached him a few few weeks back he said no thanks don't want work with lvg/sporting director they went to avb and Martinez unconvinced by them two turned back to Brendan and said be our manager and it's all your way.

I wanted lvg and not over convinced by BR but I do thunk it's a big step now to move up and it needs to be done in stages.

Good luck Brendan I pray it works out!!!

 

[are we back?]

he played hurling - thegame of warriors, so he'll do for me...

 

[mark1975]

Tbf Y1, the same could be said of AVB, he could have taken over now, he could have gone into the season and by October have stagnated things even more and be on the decline up until Christmas, and everyone would say, "awww....he's Portuguese, he's young, he'll come good, we don't have dickheads like Drogba to contend with". Whoever we bring in, unless they're a 55+ year old looking for a last big wedge, then it's not worth it. And they probably wouldn't come anyway, because our weather is shit, they're wives and kids are already settled elsewhere and they prefer Harrods to Primark.

Whatever we do it's a risk, this is a young up and coming manager. And before someone says he has only dealt with a relegation side, therefore we'll be relegation fodder, our theory for appointing Kenny (and I'm as guilty of this as much as anyone), is that he played for us, was probably our best player and he won the Premiership after spending shitloads 15 years ago with another side, before the Premiership became continental. Maybe we do need to start a fresh, a clean slate with a new breed.