10 May 2015 19:05:01
Hello edds, I for one am tired of brendan rodgers, so can I ask a simple yes or no question to ed001 and ed002, in your opinion will rodgers be the liverpool manager come the start of the next season?
Thank you in advance.
{Ed002's Note - I would have never employed him and would have thrown him out much earlier than this. I have suggested that Michael Gordon and the owners need to look to their advisors to find a new head coach/manager and move Rodgers on. It has not worked, he is a PR minefield and is responsible for the complete failure of the club in the past three years. The owners need to act as the did with the Red Sox and that gave them the success they craved.
However, right now I am not so sure what will happen with Brendan Rodgers.}
10 May 2015 19:16:59
Just hard to see who would come in ed . They are not clambering over each other sadly
10 May 2015 19:20:52
I was never on board with all the ire at Rodgers' press statements, until today. He has just said that the difference between Chelsea and Liverpool is that Chelsea brought in three starters, and Liverpool lost three. So, 5th place is par. Hmmm. One might think that English football had some sort of random draft system. It doesn't. Liverpool lost two to injury and sold one. Then spent £120m bringing in 8, and punting one on loan. At best, Rodgers is disengenuous.
10 May 2015 19:23:03
He seems to think he's safe as he has recently mentioned marquee signings and playing young players in the Europa league. I agree with you eds, good coach but not good enough
10 May 2015 19:30:29
Haven't seen what Rodgers has said this time but in general lately he's been shifting blame to the transfer committee which is fairly ironic considering.
10 May 2015 19:48:43
First question is who are Fsg's advisors? The same who advised Fsg to look to Rodgers. The second point is that i assume by your guarded response that your guess is that its far from a given that Rodgers will be getting the bullet? Purely due to a lack a candidates available or any other reason? Surely he has to go?
{Ed002's Note - FSG have taken advice from a number of people - I am not going to get in to naming names.}
10 May 2015 19:54:48
Thrown him out at what point ?
{Ed002's Note - After a handful of games.}
10 May 2015 20:46:29
if remember was it not David Dein who recommended Rodgers?
10 May 2015 20:46:42
The club needs to change from manager and all coaching staff I think rodgers is out his dept but our whole coaching staff are woeful at best I agree 100% with ed002 comments and would hope fsg are ruthless but also take there time in appointing the right manager who then can pick a good coaching team. Me Personally is hoping the review of the club ends up with both rodgers and the coaching staff picking up p45s at the end of May (wishful thinking never done anyone any harm)
10 May 2015 20:52:48
hi edo2 u say your not sure wat will happen with bodgers so there really is a chance this buffoon could still be in charge next season I just can't belive fsg haven't acted like you say they weren't scared to do it with red sox and if they don't then it would be a massive failure on there side
10 May 2015 21:08:06
Baseball is a totally different sport and a common misconception is this koneyball stuff, they did a man City for there success at boston!
Epstein had one of the top 3 budgets in the whole mlb!
Brendan.is getting dealt a completely different hand and I'm all for critics but there is plenty he has done right and the eds just.ignore because they don't like the man, see beilsa is struggling for top 4 at marseille. Another dismal campaign in Europe for him #number1headcoach
10 May 2015 21:41:02
I wouldn't say that Rodgers has been dealt "a completely different hand" at all. The owners have invested very generously and consistently in transfers over the past 3 seasons, and Rodgers has squandered most of it. Last summer alone we spent £112 million on transfer fees. Face it, Rodgers has had plenty of money to spend, and, bar a few exceptions, has not spent it very well at all.
10 May 2015 23:59:34
you can flip all the transfer business into negative and all Brendan fault!
But can't wr also.look at the side that he goes I want costa, he's gonna.cost 35 mil be on a 150k a week and have no sell on fee - what happens?? - Do they say yes or no? We no who's getting selected but it is from within a model, when we have our options.put forward to Brendan there ain't going to be reus, fabs, Pedro, huguain, lacazette, Di maria (they are just examples of a different type of transfer) ours are young with potential and if there old they ain't.gonna be overly expensive and won't.be on 100 k a week+
So you can say Brendan selecting the best that is avaliable to him! I can't see them going out (if there was for example a budget for 60mil) and getting lacazette for example and.giving him a fat pay packet!
They signed a young.player for the future for boston in the last windows and payed him 32 mil over five years and also had to pay another 32mil in fines on the same contraxt because they are failing there versions.off ffp over there asWell.
Would they get lacazette this summer 40mil for exampLe and put him on 150k a week? Nope!
11 May 2015 01:16:41
Lfc18, you must be new here on these boards because you don't know what you're talking about. What bad hand was he dealt? He was backed to the hilt with 215m in three years and still no trophies yet all we hear is spin and doublespeak in the media about wanting marquee signings but won't buy them when he's given the funds. Nonsense! Costa was ready to be bought because we met his release clause and AM was willing to sell but he was an option if LS left hence, did not come. Willian was there but Chelsea an Tottenham offered more. Alexis was there to be bought but chose Arsenal. Then BR wastes money on Marko when Ibe and Sterling can play wide. He knew Suarez was going and Studge was a sick note yet spends money on Lambo and Balo while he rejected Bony, Remy and every other striker he was offered, per Ed01's info. Yet after all this, he has the gaule to indirectly criticize the owners in the media for not providing him with top players, all in a bid to not answer for his own failures. What do you want the owners to do? Just keep giving him money to waste till they go broke? If you think the owners are going to give BR more money to waste and trash them in the media when he fails to perform, then you are due for a psych visit.
PS: the owners don't do moneyball with footie nor do they have the policy of buying young with resal value. That rubbish has been debunked by the Eds already so no need repeating it.
11 May 2015 02:32:23
Recruitment of players has been terrible for 26 years. I hardly think replacing the manager will solve it.
It's more complicated than changing the manager. We've tried that several times and it hasn't made a jot of difference.
{Ed001's Note - how can you say it hasn't made a difference? The differences are clear to see. We have gone from looking for a target man (which ended up being Carroll) under one manager, to adding 300 tiny attacking midfielders under Brendan. Each manager changes the recruitment policy, so it makes a huge difference. It is not the be all and end all but it makes a major difference.}
11 May 2015 09:12:24
We're still making the same mistakes we've been making for the last 26 years, hence it has not made any difference.
11 May 2015 09:49:08
All I want to know redihio is why haven't we got mkhitaryan, costa, William at the club! They were identified but the people with the money decid decided they weren't going to go out and get them!
And it's 100 mil for Liverpool football club over 5 transfer windows, and 115 over one with 65 brought in!
Your dad gives you 100 quid, super news? But you find out he's sold your PlayStation? THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE!!!
{Ed002's Note - Bleating on and on about the same thing will just get the posts deleted - so the you understand, I will explain yet again: (a) Mkhitaryan was never going to happen due to the price being too high and Shakhtar wanting a single payment. It would have been dependent on the sale of Suarez. The Dnipro owner was always likely to want to keep Konoplyanka. (b) Willian was a player Liverpool were interested in, but they did not offer enough money to buy him. (c) Costa was not going to happen without selling Suarez - because of the money and because he was seen as his replacement.}
11 May 2015 18:14:47
Thanks, Ed because clearly, lfc 18 can't read.