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Yeah because we weren't allowed to sign players from Fulham or Valencia either.
It's really a Nostradamus style prediction.
 
I thought you were very restrained buddy.
'I will support him FULLY!!......until we are 16 games into the new season!'
 
I agree totally GkM
I love him and its such a shame he hasnt been here the last 5 years.
 
I don't know why Huw Jenkins is complaining now that LFC handled the process too publicly. It seems no one can control Dave Whelan.
 
I was going to say, there hasn't been a peep out of us yet some journalists have complained about how disgracefully we've handled the process, it's baffling really.
 
You are losing your touch.
I hope it doesn't spill over in to your fashion sense
 
The man is a legend. I'd imagine there was a certain culture clash with FSG though, especially over media relations.
 
Mystic said:
I was going to say, there hasn't been a peep out of us yet some journalists have complained about how disgracefully we've handled the process, it's baffling really.
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Jenkins is sitting £7M strong. He has nothing to complain about.
 
Jamie Redknapp: Classy Rodgers will pass the Kop test by introducing tiki-taka to Anfield

I spent some time with Brendan Rodgers when I started my coaching badges at Chelsea. He was reserve-team manager then and I could see he had something about him.

We have spoken since about his coaching methods and his football philosophy. This is it: ‘The other team can’t score against you if they haven’t got the ball.’

He wants his teams to pass in all areas. He has used a system that has worked in Spain, especially for Barcelona — principally the two centre halves split, the full backs push on and the holding midfielder steps in and plays from there. Everyone is encouraged to get on the ball, take risks, pass it, keep it. Liverpool will be playing the tiki-taka style.

He won’t change at Liverpool, but he will need time to implement his way of playing. The Liverpool crowd will be patient, because they love and understand their football and will quickly see what he is trying to achieve.

Liverpool used to pass teams to sleep, but in recent times some of the managers they have had sent the players to sleep in training, with sessions based on stopping the opposition. At times, Liverpool supporters have been starved of good football.

This squad should be excited about working with Brendan because he won’t waste a training session, where he will be working with the ball and teaching them how to break down other teams.

When you are working for a good coach, players should go home every day thinking: ‘I’ve learned something there.’ Coaches should educate their players and this man does that.

Players go into work wondering what they will discover next. That is one of his strengths. I remain a Kenny Dalglish fan, but the board have decided that one cup and eighth place is not a good enough return. This has been a difficult season for Liverpool and so it is not a bad time for Brendan to be stepping in.

Over the last 10 years, it’s been one step forward and then two back and, even though I believe there were signs of healthy recovery under Dalglish, they finished 37 points behind the top two.

Liverpool played with less fear and more freedom last season, although their home form was very poor.

Brendan will need more goals to come from midfield: at Swansea last season, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Joe Allen and Nathan Dyer scored 16 Premier League goals between them. Steven Gerrard, Charlie Adam and Stewart Downing scored seven. This is where Liverpool come up well short.

I expect Rodgers to hijack the Sigurdsson deal (Swansea are trying to take him permanently from Hoffenheim) and I expect him to try to get Allen, too. Neither would look out of place in a Liverpool shirt.

There could be a long road ahead for Liverpool, but this has been a reality check for the fans. They say they wanted Jose Mourinho or Pep Guardiola, but Liverpool finished eighth — and were behind Everton, despite having a far superior squad. The club have done just fine by getting Rodgers.

They have got to grow again into a force and they haven’t got Guardiola, but they may have the next Guardiola. As a former captain of the club, I am excited by this appointment and the owners should be congratulated for investing in a young British coach. Manchester United did that when they appointed Sir Alex Ferguson.

Brendan inherits a strong squad but he needs to improve it and maybe he will raid Swansea.

When he took over there, he improved players. Some of them couldn’t wait to get the ball as far away as possible, but now they are happy on the ball. Ashley Williams, the centre half, is a good example.

This is a step up for a young manager, at 39, but he has suffered a setback before, when he was sacked by Reading. So this is not like Andre Villas-Boas, who had never encountered difficulty in his career before and walked into a brick wall at Chelsea.

Rodgers is not inheriting a difficult group of players, either. They will welcome him and enjoy his approach to playing football. In return, he should embrace the knowledge and quality in his dressing room.

His captain, Gerrard, has so much to offer and Brendan will know that, on and off the pitch, Jamie Carragher is worth tapping into. I would go a step further and offer Jamie a formal coaching role to extend his influence at the club.

One final point: the Liverpool fans who think the club have appointed a manager who didn’t want them because he turned down an interview are wrong. He didn’t want to be part of a beauty contest.

His audition came last season in two matches when his Swansea team took four points off Liverpool in the Premier League.
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Brendan Rodgers’ Swansea side were applauded from the field by Liverpool supporters after their performance at Anfield back in November. That is rare to see in the modern game – even in front of a set of supporters renowned for appreciating good football – particularly because of the scoreline. Swansea hadn’t even won the game. They had drawn 0-0.

In terms of turning possession into shots, Swansea were actually one of the least efficient sides in Europe. They tended to hold onto the ball for extremely long periods, particularly at the back, even when trailing in games. It’s difficult to think of a side – even Barcelona – who place such emphasis upon ball retention over chance creation.

In one sense, it’s a defensive tactic – the more you hold onto the ball, the less chance there is that the opposition will threaten. This approach broadly worked for Swansea, although they only had the joint-tenth best record of goals conceded in the league last season, and they also conceded the seventh-most shots, which is surprising considering they enjoyed the third highest possession.

Rodgers’ approach was essentially very pragmatic. He knew his side excelled at holding onto the ball, but by Premier League standards Swansea were not particularly potent upfront, nor overwhelmingly secure at the back. Therefore, the longer Swansea were in possession, the better. They might create only a couple of clear-cut chances a game, but that was a better situation than forcing the ball forward too quickly, conceding possession and allowing the opposition into the game.

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A clear feature of Rodgers’ game is his insistence on the goalkeeper passing out from the back. He actually recruited Dutchman Michel Vorm specifically because he was comfortable with the ball at his feet, and this style should suit Pepe Reina – renowned as a very good distributor of the ball, although often over longer distances than Vorm’s passes.

That said, Vorm did often hit the ball long when the opposition pressed Swansea’s centre-backs at goal kicks – see the difference in his distribution between the Bolton and Stoke home matches.

Daniel Agger is perfect for that style, too, while Martin Skrtel won’t be uncomfortable. At Swansea, right-back Angel Rangel was considered one of the best players on the ball, so almost all Swansea’s moves went through him – that might happen at Liverpool with leftback Jose Enrique, though rightback Glen Johnson is also good on the ball.

In midfield, Rodgers is likely to want neat, reliable passers. Lucas Leiva fits into this strategy perfectly, while Jordan Henderson should also benefit from Rodgers’ appointment, as he provides energy to connect the midfield and attack.

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Steven Gerrard should have the discipline to adapt, though there could perhaps be question marks about Charlie Adam – he tries ambitious passes too often, and while Rodgers did favour quick switches from flank to flank, Adam’s pass completion rate will have to rise dramatically if he wants a place in Rodgers’ midfield – compare his passing to that of Leon Britton...

Upfront, we’re assuming that Rodgers will play a wide front three, with two wingers and a central striker. Luis Suarez and Craig Bellamy are a perfect fit for either role, and Dirk Kuyt might be favoured for his versatility and hard running too. Stewart Downing might have more of a problem – he’d be pushed higher up the pitch, whereas he generally likes getting the ball to feet and running with it – though after his poor 2011/12, he should be open to a change of role.

There will inevitably be questions about how Andy Carroll will fit into a side based around short passing, but Carroll isn’t just a static, lumbering targetman. When he starred for Newcastle in the first half of 2010/11, he was potent all-round striker – quick across the ground, good at working the channels, and excellent when presented with a chance in the penalty box on his favoured left foot.

Carroll is not the antithesis of a short passing system, and has been wrongly typecast as a mere header of the ball. He could benefit from being asked to play an all-round game, and while Rodgers tending to stick to 4-3-3 at Swansea, a system with two strikers in home matches is perfectly possible.
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It was only a small thing, but anyone else notice Rodgers said. Carra has been a great centre back whereas he said Gerrard is a world class midfielder?

Very telling that imo, past vs present tense, combined with his philosophy over centre backs.
 
Rodgers may be from Norn Iron but that accent is as much Scottish as it is Ulster. Wonder where he gets that from.

Be that as it may, I was impressed. Now let's see him walk the walk.
 
He will fight for his life - we should also fight for him. I've had doubts, but now I will tow gladly tow the party line and pray that my fears are dispelled. YNWA.
 
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