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Yeah let's not steady the ship, let's just let it sink and rebuild again.

Why did Chelsea get Benitez when their season was going down the toilet?

First and foremost he was hired to guide them back into CL contention and he did.

I don't want to lose our CL spot again. I have absolutely no faith that Rodgers will be capable to pull us back from the brink.
Not a single player he's signed this summer has strengthened us. NOT ONE!
 
Yeah but Benitez didn't have a job at that point.

We would pay to sack Rodgers, pay to get Benitez and then enter a cycle of buying loads of young goalkeepers before eventually falling out with the owners.
 
Bradley said:
Yeah but Benitez didn't have a job at that point.

We would pay to sack Rodgers, pay to get Benitez and then enter a cycle of buying loads of young goalkeepers before eventually falling out with the owners.
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I guess you're right let's stick with Rodgers since he's under a contract and let's not hire another manager who's currently under a contract. I hear that Ranieri just got sacked, Souness hasn't been working for a while, neither has Keane. All viable options iyo.
 
Modo said:
I guess you're right let's stick with Rodgers since he's under a contract and let's not hire another manager who's currently under a contract. I hear that Ranieri just got sacked, Souness hasn't been working for a while, neither has Keane. All viable options iyo.
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Those are the kind of snide little remarks that make you unpopular, and deservedly so. Besides, Bradley's right. Abramovich was never going to pay big bucks to poach someone just for an interim job.
 
Judge Jules said:
Those are the kind of snide little remarks that make you unpopular, and deservedly so. Besides, Bradley's right. Abramovich was never going to pay big bucks to poach someone just for an interim job.
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Well, goes to show how highly rated Benitez is then. Cause he could mind as well have gone for Curbishly
 
Don't be silly. It's a lot less complicated than you're trying to make it in your attempt to justify banging the drum for Rafa's return. Abramovich wanted (a) an interim manager (b) who had a good record in Europe. Simples.
 
Modo said:
I guess you're right let's stick with Rodgers since he's under a contract and let's not hire another manager who's currently under a contract. I hear that Ranieri just got sacked, Souness hasn't been working for a while, neither has Keane. All viable options iyo.
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I don't see Rafa as a solution beyond 'steadying the ship'. So why would you pay a massive amount to do that. If you are all about a steady ship you may as well get somebody out of contract, go back to the King until the end of the season. And I don't imagine too many people would be keen on that.

If it comes to it and Rodgers goes we need a manager who will bring progress, not tread water.
 
What he needs to do is get deals to sign players we need agreed so that they move on 1st Jan... New GK top priority. Throw a chunk at Cech just to get him in for 18 months whilst we get scouts on a proper job to find a long term replacement.
 
Brizzle said:
What he needs to do is get deals to sign players we need agreed so that they move on 1st Jan... New GK top priority. Throw a chunk at Cech just to get him in for 18 months whilst we get scouts on a proper job to find a long term replacement.
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Never gonna happen..

Not in a million years...
 
Judge Jules said:
Don't be silly. It's a lot less complicated than you're trying to make it in your attempt to justify banging the drum for Rafa's return. Abramovich wanted (a) an interim manager (b) who had a good record in Europe. Simples.
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That is what we need. if we want to be seen playing in Europe again next season.. People are misunderstanding how important the Europa League could actually be this season.. Its a second bite of the cherry in terms of qualifying for the Champions League.. Id rather be in it than out of Europe all together.. Rafa is the ideal manager for that competition

Champions League is worth 60 million next season just for qualifying for the group stages, double of that for this season.. So yeh lets all fuck about like we normally do and fall further behind..

Benitez is a guaranteed safe pair of hands and well worth the risk imho...
 
The only thing more depressing than our form this season is people suggesting Rafa as someone who can help us climb the table.
 
Dreambeliever said:
The only thing more depressing than our form this season is people suggesting Rafa as someone who can help us climb the table.
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No, I'd say it was a solid, evidence based risk assessment but I think BR will be given more time and I hope he gets some luck and a break from the owners that he's not getting from many supporters right now.
 
He done himself here.. Left himself wide open... I remember him saying that too..

But wait, it gets even worse

Cast your mind even further back, to April, and Brendan Rodgers (who spent over £100m in the transfer market this summer) had THIS to say:
"I think the pressure is if you're Manchester City or Chelsea, and you've spent that money and you expect to win the league.
"That's probably pressure. I don't think there's pressure on us, other than what we have from within.
"Look at Tottenham. If you spend more than £100 million, you expect to be challenging for the league."
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mark1975 said:
Anyway, obviously there has to come a time when questions have to be asked, that's the same in any profession, I just hope we don't become a club that pull the plug on every managerial placement at the first sign of trouble. It wasn't that long ago we were the cream of the league and everyone was talking about Rodgers and the style of football we are playing. I think he's fucked up in many instances and I think he's been unfortunate in losing two class strikers, it's time to weather the storm, but that's an impossible task if people are giving up on him already. The players look clueless and resigned to fucking up everytime they walk on the pitch, it's time for some leaders.

I still stand by everything I said after the Madrid match, I don't buy that it was the wrong decision, I think it's probably one of the bravest things he's done and it was the Rodgers, in some ways, that I want to see. Bring Toure and Lucas back in to steady the ship. Fuck off Balotelli, give Sterling and Gerrard a timeout, and work to climb our way out of trouble. It'd be nice if people actually backed and supported him though, instead of reading crap threads about who to replace him with, or commenting about how promising a manager he is, while giving him a 10 game deadline to work miracles or do on.

YNWA and all that hollow jazz.
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I'm with every word of that.
 
Bradley said:
Yeah but Benitez didn't have a job at that point.

We would pay to sack Rodgers, pay to get Benitez and then enter a cycle of buying loads of young goalkeepers before eventually falling out with the owners.
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I don't want Rafa back, but that old line about him falling out with owners is just lazy-arses bollocks. It was Hicks and Gillette for fucks sake.
 
Turned the TV off after Mignolet took about what seemed like30 minutes to take the free kick and ended kicking it out on the full.

Sums our season up so far perfectly.
 
mr_moo said:


Can't believe he sold pepe for this piece of dross
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Yea fuck Brendan and his rejection of a DoF cause "he needs a direct line to the top men", bullshit.
Gets rid of Reina for a worse player. Dickhead!
Spends a shitload on defenders and we still fucking suck at defending.
I don't want this hack to get more money to spend.
Bring in the DoF, Rodgers blew his chance.
*pissed off*
 
From the metro, also mirror saying so

Rodgers 'to be replaced at Liverpool by this German manager'
Could Brendan Rodgers (left) be replaced by Jurgen Klopp? (Pictures: Getty Images)
Liverpool are seemingly planning for life after Brendan Rodgers after reportedly lining up Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp as his replacement at the club.

The sensational claim comes just hours after The Reds succumbed to a shock 3-1 defeat at Crystal Palace, with the loss being Liverpool’s third consecutive defeat and their sixth overall so far this season.

With fans and pundits such as Jamie Carragher beginning to criticise Rodgers, The Express have claimed that the Liverpool board could hire Klopp to replace their current manager should they decide to let him go.

Klopp – whose Dortmund side currently lie in the Bundesliga relegation zone – has also been linked with a move to Arsenal following recent comments he made about wanting to manage in the Premier League.
 
For what it's worth, if Klopp was to leave Dortmund I think he'd jump at the chance of managing us.
 
I don't follow the German league that closely so maybe I've missed something, but I was under the impression that Klopp views the Dortmund project as his baby and is very loyal to it.

Has that really changed or is it simply a case of a comment being taken out of context and then sensationalized as is normally the case with these things?

If he did genuinely "drop a hint" or whatever then Klopp will have gone way down in my estimations.
 
Buddha said:
For what it's worth, if Klopp was to leave Dortmund I think he'd jump at the chance of managing us.
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The papers - after a pun famine that has seen them reduced to calling Rooney 'Roo' - would cream themselves at the thought of him arriving. 'Klopp' and 'Kop'. It would be their finest hour.
 
keniget said:
I don't follow the German league that closely so maybe I've missed something, but I was under the impression that Klopp views the Dortmund project as his baby and is very loyal to it.

Has that really changed or is it simply a case of a comment being taken out of context and then sensationalized as is normally the case with these things?

If he did genuinely "drop a hint" or whatever then Klopp will have gone way down in my estimations.
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As usual, he was just asked a question about would he ever consider working elsewhere and he just said something like, well, England's league would suit me best, so one day, maybe...
 
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