Danny Murphy was saying on the radio the other day that a number of senior players were up in arms about not playing against Real.
Rumour mill: It all kicked off in Madrid.
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That basically means Gerrard, doesn't it?
That's good news, not that sure I'm keen on him renting a flat from a player, but as Gerrard is seemingly undroppable anyway I suppose it makes no difference.
Like I said, I ignore most of these rumours now, there's too many & they're too extreme to be truly believable. There's plenty about Everton players too & I assume they're bollocks too.
It would not be coca cola.
It would be rola cola but he would train it to be just as good.
No, but would be fantastic if it happened. Believe spurs are in for him too.
Evertonian taxi drivers are getting far more imaginative.
Yep, was all over Twitter a couple of days ago.
FSG are very keen and are trying to convince Rodgers a DOF is what we need.
Has done a brilliant job at Sevilla.
Klopp and Dortmund are all over the place at the moment.
Could be the right time.
If we decide to replace Rodgers, which is to soon anyway imho, Klopp or De Boer would be my choice.
None of them would leave until the end of the season anyway, so Rodgers gets the season.
Well that explains it.
Clearly, Gerrard will put Brendan's rent up if he gets dropped. 🙂
Fuck yea, did anyone see Ajax's goal in the match they just played? Some nice team goals there.
I don't think for a minute that they'll succeed in convincing Rodgers. When they tried with van Gaal in mind Rodgers wasn't having it, and I can't see that changing now. Question is whether they'll give in to him this time.
Why should they convince Rogers? His an employee and if the upper hierarchy make changes then Rogers should work with it.
Rogers has completely lost his way this season and something needs changing.
Rogers has completely lost his way this season and something needs changing.
Well, they'll try to convince him if they want to keep him (if the whole rumour is true of course). The crunch will come if he won't go for it, at which point they'll have to decide which is their priority - keeping Rodgers or bringing in a DOF. I agree with you that something has to change, and I don't think Rodgers' bargaining position is as strong as it was when they originally floated the DOF idea, so he'll have to tread carefully.
What a DOF would do is something of a moveable feast - I doubt there's just one model of how such a set-up works. I do agree, as I said above, that Rodgers isn't going to go for it, so both sides in that discussion (if it happens) will have big decisions to make.
I'd put your penultimate sentence slightly differently. I think they did sort the matter out, or believed they had, but may now be having second thoughts. And yes, *if* this does all happen I do think Rodgers' position may well boil down to "Back me or sack me". What I don't know is which way FSG would then jump. If they keep him on, he may find his targets get quite a bit more demanding.
I'd put your penultimate sentence slightly differently. I think they did sort the matter out, or believed they had, but may now be having second thoughts. And yes, *if* this does all happen I do think Rodgers' position may well boil down to "Back me or sack me". What I don't know is which way FSG would then jump. If they keep him on, he may find his targets get quite a bit more demanding.
A DoF likely protects the club in terms of value and targets. So if a manager moves on, the club is not left having to scramble around and embark on another transitional period with players leaving and players coming in because the new manager fancies somebody else. For that to work, I think, there has to be a club philosophy all the way from the sprogs to the first team so that a new manager (coach is probably a better name) seamlessly slots in.
I felt at the time that it would have suited Liverpool, and maybe even Rodgers, if they hadn't bothered with something so formal but just had a wise old head, a bit like when Paisley returned as a non-threatening advisor, to provide support in the background. And that would be much more effective than all of these shady figures lurking in the murk. In the short term I think Brendan could do with some help, but in the long term I think he'll outgrow the need for it, and a rigid structure would make his development as a manager tougher to encourage.
Well, much damage is done early on if you do start that way. Take the academy - it's been torn up and reconstituted by Rodgers, so that, after Rafa did the same, is another process that will take huge expense and time to alter if they decide to do so. Gerrard, rather interestingly, raised this point recently when Steve Heighway returned:
Gerrard believes it is wrong to give managers control over academies, where continuity is essential.
“Steve Heighway should never have left. That’s what I can’t understand at clubs,” said Gerrard. “The managers change so often - there are not many Wengers or Fergusons [who stay for years] - but the structure of the academies should stay the same whoever the manager is of the first team. The manager shouldn’t have the power to change things every two or three years.
“Roy Hodgson, for example, could have turned the academy around here at Liverpool in six months and then left. The kids wouldn’t know whether they were coming or going. I don’t know what the right structure is but we need to find it and then keep it in place for the next 50 years so that the kids come through. And that should be the same at national level.”
Gerrard believes it is wrong to give managers control over academies, where continuity is essential.
“Steve Heighway should never have left. That’s what I can’t understand at clubs,” said Gerrard. “The managers change so often - there are not many Wengers or Fergusons [who stay for years] - but the structure of the academies should stay the same whoever the manager is of the first team. The manager shouldn’t have the power to change things every two or three years.
“Roy Hodgson, for example, could have turned the academy around here at Liverpool in six months and then left. The kids wouldn’t know whether they were coming or going. I don’t know what the right structure is but we need to find it and then keep it in place for the next 50 years so that the kids come through. And that should be the same at national level.”
In all fairness they've been twatted with injuries most of the season and strangely playing well in the CL
Why?
Or he makes shit signings.
If they kicked off then fuck them, Rodgers did it on the back of piss poor performance after piss poor performance. So for all their "kicking off", they walked straight back into the team yesterday and did themselves zero justice, all they've done is compound the point.
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