Worst contract decision in FSG era?

[Rosco]

I don't think it was a good idea. I think paying 16 million fee plus the wages of Balotelli is surely worse though?

Well i took the thread to mean an extension decision as opposed to a signing.

Otherwise I'd have listed Carroll, Downing and a number of others off

 

[ILD]

Well i took the thread to mean an extension decision as opposed to a signing.

Otherwise I'd have listed Carroll, Downing and a number of others off

I presumed it was any contract given (since people were including Milner etc) so I included Mario in my suggestions.
If not, then it changes things obviously.

 

[Jack D Rips]

The original post is open to interpretation in fairness.

 

[Rosco]

The original post is open to interpretation in fairness.

I still think Rodgers is the most correct answer whatever the interpretation

 

[Tinto]

Can somebody jog my memory with the Reina timeline? i.e how his time ended with us?
He had a spat with Rodgers wasn't it? He thought Barca would come in for him but Valdez stayed? In the interim we had signed Mingolet so we loaned out Reina? Was that it? I also remember Reina being sloppy and beaten on his near post a few times. I'm not trying to claim he was still at his best. I also remember Gene Hughes HATING Pepe. ha.

Reina was more than sloppy. I would say he didn't care as much and not as professional. He got fat and any shot that was hit reasonably hard and on target would fly into the back of the net like he wasn't there. He just wasn't a very good goalkeeper anymore and was one of highest earners at the club. Plus he said that he wouldn't say no to signing for United or something like that.

Nobody cared he was let go and then I think he wrote a somewhat stroppy goodbye letter to the fans...

That's how I remember it anyway.

 

[manwithnoname]

Reina was more than sloppy. I would say he didn't care as much and not as professional. He got fat and any shot that was hit reasonably hard and on target would fly into the back of the net like he wasn't there. He just wasn't a very good goalkeeper anymore and was one of highest earners at the club. Plus he said that he wouldn't say no to signing for United or something like that.

Nobody cared he was let go and then I think he wrote a somewhat stroppy goodbye letter to the fans...

That's how I remember it anyway.

Reina did look overweight and sluggish towards the end. It was certainly obvious he wasn't at the same level as when Benitez was in charge. And he was getting all sorts of abuse because he did seem to never save anything at all. No saves Reina.

Not sure what happened really, he seems a lot slimmer and agile recently

 

[Mamma Mia]

Reina did look overweight and sluggish towards the end. It was certainly obvious he wasn't at the same level as when Benitez was in charge. And he was getting all sorts of abuse because he did seem to never save anything at all. No saves Reina.

Not sure what happened really, he seems a lot slimmer and agile recently

What are you on?

 

[RedStar]

Rodgers had 12 months left on his contact at the time he was offered that new deal and he had just won the PFA manager of the season and given us our best league season in years. A 2 year extension would have made more sense but it was logical at the time we would tie him to a longer deal. It is in no way comparible with signing Carrol or Balotelli, 2 monumental fuck ups that anybody could see coming a mile off

 

[mark1975]

Rodgers had 12 months left on his contact at the time he was offered that new deal and he had just won the PFA manager of the season and given us our best league season in years. A 2 year extension would have made more sense but it was logical at the time we would tie him to a longer deal. It is in no way comparible with signing Carrol or Balotelli, 2 monumental fuck ups that anybody could see coming a mile off

Quite. It was the length of the contract that was wrong, but we'd done similar in the past with other managers, so it's not exactly an isolated incident of over confidence in who was in charge.

It's a bit of a daft choice really, given the scale of managerial contracts in comparison to player ones. The bigger issue is that Rodgers had a cloud hanging over him at the start of the season. The club didn't nip it in the bud, they sacked staff, recruited new staff, allowed millions of pounds of player investment, let the pathetic (failed) committee setup continue and then sacked the manager anyway.

And quelle surprise we have idiots like Jono still taking this opportunity to have another pathetic swipe at him.

 

[Judge Jules]

Quite. It was the length of the contract that was wrong, but we'd done similar in the past with other managers, so it's not exactly an isolated incident of over confidence in who was in charge.

It's a bit of a daft choice really, given the scale of managerial contracts in comparison to player ones. The bigger issue is that Rodgers had a cloud hanging over him at the start of the season. The club didn't nip it in the bud, they sacked staff, recruited new staff, allowed millions of pounds of player investment, let the pathetic (failed) committee setup continue and then sacked the manager anyway.

And quelle surprise we have idiots like Jono still taking this opportunity to have another pathetic swipe at him.

While I see what you're saying, mark, for once I don't agree. The combo of those bolded bits made the decision to give him 4 years a jaw-droppingly poor one IMHO.

 

[mark1975]

While I see what you're saying, mark, for once I don't agree. The combo of those bolded bits made the decision to give him 4 years a jaw-droppingly poor one IMHO.

It did, I agree. I think I lost my point along the way there. The point was, it was criminal to allow the guy to go into the season with the axe hanging over him and the shadow of Klopp. Everyone knew Klopp was a very real possibility, the club must have had some kind of contact with him, so it just goes to show how much misguided faith they have in their pathetic committee set up, that they again allowed it to squander millions, without a care for the potential pitfalls should they have changed manager. It's fucking reckless.

Either way, we can't really argue against Rodgers earning a new contract at the time, just the length of the deal.