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Tom Werner : we gave Brendan Rodgers enough time

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• Manager paid price for signings ‘he recommended’ that did not come off
• Jürgen Klopp ‘the right manager to take us forward’, says chairman

Tom Werner, the Liverpool chairman, has described Jürgen Klopp as the world-class manager to satisfy the club’s craving for silverware and insisted Brendan Rodgerswas given ample time to improve results.

The Fenway Sports Group chairman was instrumental in the decision to sack Rodgers last Sunday and replace him with the former Borussia Dortmund coach within four days. While the switch has been rapturously received by Liverpool supporters, it represents a departure from FSG’s plan for a young coach to develop a young squad over time. Werner, however, claims Rodgers suffered on account of his own signings as manager and that he expects the current squad to respond to Klopp’s quality.

“When we appointed Brendan we thought he was going to be the right manager for Liverpool,” the chairman said. “Obviously we now feel that we have got the world-class manager and beyond that there is not much more I would like to say.

“We gave Brendan, as you know, an opportunity to see if we could improve this season. There was some very good football last season and some not so good football. There were some challenges that dealt with injuries, we brought in some new players that Brendan recommended that we thought would take us forward. We are where we are. I don’t want to say too much. Brendan is an outstanding manager and we decided to move in a different direction and I am very optimistic.”

Werner, right, added: “Obviously we have a challenge this season and Jürgen said it right. None of the supporters are satisfied with our position right now and we believe that Jürgen is the right manager to take us forward. As you all know we came into this situation with great ambition and I would rather focus on the future.”

Liverpool’s chairman refused to be drawn on when contact was first made with the German coach but admitted: “We have thought about him for a long time and everyone who knows football knows he is an outstanding manager. Obviously he motivates players. We all expect the players are going to respond to him.”

Werner conceded that FSG has had “more managers than we hoped” but believes Klopp, the group’s third appointment as manager and fourth in total, “will be here for a very long time”.

Next week marks the fifth anniversary of FSG’s takeover of Liverpool and the chairman accepted its initial aims for the club are yet to be realised. He added: “We have obviously had some great moments in these five years and came very close to winning the league two years ago. Nobody is satisfied today with our position and as owners we are not going to put undue pressure on Jürgen. He knows that there are great expectations and when we look at the time line I think we have made some improvements. We all know the challenge that we saw when we came into the club five years ago and I think we are proud when we walked into the stadium today and we showed Jürgen the new main stand that is being constructed. Until we win more trophies we won’t be satisfied.”
 
You should post the interview in full. And rename it more aptly because it wasn't a direct attack on BR - which you have made it seem like. It is far more about Klopp.
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Tom Werner admits that owners Fenway Sports Group had long since coveted Jurgen Klopp prior to his appointment as Liverpool manager. The Reds chairman flew in from Boston for Klopp’s unveiling and is convinced the former Borussia Dortmund boss will transform the club’s fortunes. Werner refused to be drawn on when FSG first made an approach to the 48-year-old coach. However, it’s no secret that they wanted him following the sackings of previous managers Roy Hodgson and Kenny Dalglish. On both occasions Klopp informed them he was fully committed to Dortmund but after his recent four-month break from football he jumped at the chance to succeed Brendan Rodgers.

Asked about the short four-day gap between sacking Rodgers and confirmation of Klopp as his successor, Werner said: “We have learned to keep certain matters confidential. “We had a meeting recently with Jurgen that he has talked about and I don’t want to talk too much about these conversations. “But we have thought about him for a long time and everyone who knows football knows he is an outstanding manager.
We all expect the players to respond to him “Obviously, he motivates players and when we spoke to him we saw there was a great connection between his vision and what we want to do moving forward. “It is very attractive football, attacking football. He has said that he doesn’t want to put too much expectation on the near future but we all expect the players are going to respond to him.”

The appointment of Klopp marks a move away from FSG’s model of having a young up and coming coach. The owners opted to keep faith with Rodgers after a woeful end to last season but their patience ran out after seeing Liverpool start the current campaign in similarly sluggish fashion. Klopp inherits a team who sit 10th in the Premier League with 12 points from eight matches.
Brendan is an outstanding manager but we decided to move in a different direction “We gave Brendan as you know an opportunity to see if we could improve this season,” Werner said. “There was some very good football last season and some not so good football. “There were some challenges with injuries. We brought in some new players that Brendan recommended that we thought would take us forward.
“We are where we are. I don’t want to say too much, Brendan is an outstanding manager but we decided to move in a different direction and I am very optimistic. “I thought Brendan’s comments at the end were very classy and we have a lot of respect for Brendan.

When we appointed Brendan we thought he was going to be the right manager for Liverpool. Obviously we now feel that we have got a world class manager and beyond that there is not much more I would like to say. “Obviously, we have a challenge this season and Jurgen said it right. None of the supporters are satisfied with our position right now and we believe that Jurgen is the right manager to take us forward. “We came into this situation with great ambition and I would rather focus right now on the future.”

Next weeks marks the fifth anniversary of FSG’s takeover of Liverpool. Financially, the Reds are in a much stronger position and the redevelopment of Anfield is now well advanced, but on the field the success they targeted has eluded them. Liverpool have won just one League Cup in that period and have only qualified for the Champions League once.

FSG have already sacked three managers but Werner believes that in Klopp they have the right man at the helm to ensure they kick on. “We have obviously had some great moments in these five years,” Werner said. “We came very close to winning the league two years ago. Nobody is satisfied with our position and as owners we are not going to put undue pressure on Jurgen.


“He knows that there are great expectations and when we look at the time line I think we have made some improvements. “We all know the challenge that we saw when we came into the club five years ago and I think we are proud when we walked into the stadium today and we showed Jurgen the new main stand that is being constructed. But until we win more trophies we won’t be satisfied.

“Our track record is to encourage stability. There have been more managers here than we hoped but I hope that Jurgen will be here for a very long time." l "closer to the fans" after Anfield appointment
 
Paddy Barclay really gets worse and worse. He was on Sky this morning defending Rodgers in the most patronising manner. His 'schtick' is to clearly not give a toss about Liverpool, but defend their failing managers as if it's down to the failure of the owners to back him and the fans to understand him. He did it with Hodgson, ludicrously, claiming we were simply too stupid to appreciate what a smart coach he was, even whilst losing to Northampton and dreaming of a draw at Goodison. Now he's at it with Rodgers, attacking FSG for not sticking with him when it was clear he'd have got us back in the top four. The other hacks looked at him with understandable contempt.

Intriguingly, though, Alyson Rudd said that she'd been told months ago that 'Klopp will be here in October', which makes the spending in the summer even more peculiar.
 
gkmacca said:
Paddy Barclay really gets worse and worse. He was on Sky this morning defending Rodgers in the most patronising manner. His 'schtick' is to clearly not give a toss about Liverpool, but defend their failing managers as if it's down to the failure of the owners to back him and the fans to understand him. He did it with Hodgson, ludicrously, claiming we were simply too stupid to appreciate what a smart coach he was, even whilst losing to Northampton and dreaming of a draw at Goodison. Now he's at it with Rodgers, attacking FSG for not sticking with him when it was clear he'd have got us back in the top four. The other hacks looked at him with understandable contempt.

Intriguingly, though, Alyson Rudd said that she'd been told months ago that 'Klopp will be here in October', which makes the spending in the summer even more peculiar.
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Seen it, he just spurts out verbal diarrhoea
 
gkmacca said:
Intriguingly, though, Alyson Rudd said that she'd been told months ago that 'Klopp will be here in October', which makes the spending in the summer even more peculiar.
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Unless they were 'Committee' signings with Klopp in mind 😉
 
Why is Alyson Rudd complaining about the academy?
She complained that the academy was better during Heighway's time in charge.
It's better than ever imo.
 
Yes, that was odd. She was right if she was harking back to when Rafa took control initially and filled the place with mediocre Spanish kids, with the local scouting system left to atrophy, but by the end of his reign that had changed and it's progressed since then.
 
gkmacca said:
Yes, that was odd. She was right if she was harking back to when Rafa took control initially and filled the place with mediocre Spanish kids, with the local scouting system left to atrophy, but by the end of his reign that had changed and it's progressed since then.
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Exactly
 
Scouting and getting Sterling and selling him for mucho millions later kinda suggests our academy is in the right direction.
 
What she got right about Rodgers is one of the things that made me despair from the beginning - his habit of regularly saying stuff on the record and then holding off the record briefing sessions where he'd say the opposite. Of course, Barclay, as he was trying to depict Brendan as a misunderstood genius, objected to that with a pompous complaint about journalistic ethics, but her argument was justified - Rodgers never stopped doing that.
 
gkmacca said:
What she got right about Rodgers is one of the things that made me despair from the beginning - his habit of regularly saying stuff on the record and then holding off the record briefing sessions where he'd say the opposite.
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What sort of things would he be talking about in these instances?
 
Does make you wonder, the two big signings of the summer were Benteke, who Klopp wanted, and Firmino, a star of German footy who no-one had ever heard of outside the Bundesliga. Maybe they did buy players for Klopp, he just wasn't available yet.

But... they wouldn't have taken on Gary Mc and O'Driscall if that were the case.
 
gkmacca said:
What she got right about Rodgers is one of the things that made me despair from the beginning - his habit of regularly saying stuff on the record and then holding off the record briefing sessions where he'd say the opposite. Of course, Barclay, as he was trying to depict Brendan as a misunderstood genius, objected to that with a pompous complaint about journalistic ethics, but her argument was justified - Rodgers never stopped doing that.
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I never understood how a man who's obviously very media-savvy would do this.
 
Woland said:
Does make you wonder, the two big signings of the summer were Benteke, who Klopp wanted, and Firmino, a star of German footy who no-one had ever heard of outside the Bundesliga. Maybe they did buy players for Klopp, he just wasn't available yet.

But... they wouldn't have taken on Gary Mc and O'Driscall if that were the case.
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I read somewhere FSG were trying to call Rodgers' bluff and thought he'd voluntarily leave along with his right-hand men.
 
Oliver Twist said:
What sort of things would he be talking about in these instances?
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The squad, Ayre, Gordon, the committee, FSG in general. It wasn't just your run-of-the-mill positive front, private candour managerial routine, it was much slippier and cynical than that, always apportioning blame elsewhere whilst publicly accepting the buck stopped with him. And apart from anything else, that was just naive, because once the sheer frequency of all that got back to his players, his colleagues, Ayre, Gordon and FSG, any real trust evaporated.
 
gkmacca said:
The squad, Ayre, Gordon, the committee, FSG in general. It wasn't just your run-of-the-mill positive front, private candour managerial routine, it was much slippier and cynical than that, always apportioning blame elsewhere whilst publicly accepting the buck stopped with him. And apart from anything else, that was just naive, because once the sheer frequency of all that got back to his players, his colleagues, Ayre, Gordon and FSG, any real trust evaporated.
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Crikey.

Hope all this comes out in the post mortem in some rag.
 
TSD said:
I never understood how a man who's obviously very media-savvy would do this.
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Inexperience. You can be a very media savvy operator at Swansea, where you've got a handful of local hacks in your pocket and a few national hacks who wish they were covering a more glamorous region and are only too happy to be given some meatier stuff under the radar, but move from there straight to a club like LFC and you just can't stay in control playing what is actually a really high-risk game.I mean, many months before the end he wasn't even speaking to the Echo, which is absolutely unheard of, but it was a sign of him feeling they'd all worked him out.
 
Woland said:
Does make you wonder, the two big signings of the summer were Benteke, who Klopp wanted, and Firmino, a star of German footy who no-one had ever heard of outside the Bundesliga. Maybe they did buy players for Klopp, he just wasn't available yet.

But... they wouldn't have taken on Gary Mc and O'Driscall if that were the case.
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If they'd have kept on the coaches, the norm would have been to put them on long term contracts I would imagine.
I'm guessing O'Driscall and Macca were on short term contracts.
 
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