14 May 2015 20:05:14
Should Brendan Rogers go?
Yes.
When he was first appointed, I was mildly excited. A young manager with an exciting and what appeared to be a well thought out footballing philosophy and had done well at Swansea. With the resources available at Liverpool how well could he do for us? But time has shown us it was nothing more than Spin and an arrogant belief/stubbornness. Where has it gone wrong for him?
1) Strange tactical decisions. Even during last season when we were doing well, he made some confusing match game decisions. At times we needed to press and would take off an attacking player and replace with a more defensive minded person and vice versa. Players being played out of position, wrong formations etc.
2) Choice of signings. As the manager he must take responsibility for the purchases. If he disagreed he should have the skill, strength and character and argument to convince the committee why not. He has a way that he wants to play and with that in mind he should only have bought players that fit his philosophy. He will be judged by the outcome of the season not the committee. Not only were some of the players chosen questionable but also we were not addressing the areas where we needed to strengthen. Other people have written about the players here so I will not repeat this and the amount of money squandered.
3) The players bought have not performed to the level that Brendan can reasonably expect. Some of this is down to injury but most of it due to poor management, poor tactical awareness, playing out of position and players being asked to play a way that does not utilize their strengths but nullifies them and knocks their confidence.
4) Lack of courage to admit when things have not worked out and implement a new strategy. Defensively we have always been weak under him and his quotes to the press about a defensive coach have come back to haunt him.
5) PR nightmare. What an embarrassment he is to LFC. I cringe when I see his interviews. How many times can one put their foot into their mouth? But I also feel that as a club Liverpool are also to blame for allowing him to repeatedly embarrass himself and the club.
6) People claim that he is great at developing players and indeed even Gerrard today was singing his praises. However I cannot see real evidence of this as I see far more players playing below their natural ability than players excelling. Can Rogers really take the credit for performances from Henderson or Sterling?
7) Finally results. Above I have simply expressed my opinion, which people may or may agree with. However results speak for themselves. Yes we came second last year but that was a disappointment and we should have won. He has won nothing and we are not moving forward. We do not know what our best team is, formation or even individual positions.
However, the big question is who would want to replace him? We need someone who commands the respect of the players and who can attract good players and convince them to join us over the top 4 teams. This is a real problem but I do not believe that we should hold on to Rodgers simply because there is no obvious replacement currently available. Failure should not be rewarded or tolerated. I am sure that most managers could come in to Liverpool and with the current crop of players do a better job than Rogers, instill some confidence in the players and team and bring some respect back to LFC.
We need to act quickly and bring someone in and give him a chance to work with the team over preseason and give us a chance of starting the season strongly.
14 May 2015 22:02:13
Go now !
14 May 2015 22:20:02
klopp, ancelotti, bielsa, frank de boer, rafa(yes I said it, the man that made gerrard reject offers from real madrid)
14 May 2015 22:59:13
What annoyed me the most is after a thrilling season of twin strikers and Coutinho/Sterling thriving behind them, we completely switch it up, buying multiple competing attacking mids and lumbering strikers to try play a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1? It's almost as if last season's success was despite Rogers who clearly to play a different way, and Suarez's departure was an excuse to go back to what he really wanted do all along. I'll take last season thanks!
15 May 2015 02:18:41
You lads needs to accept that Rodgers will be LFC manager next season.
15 May 2015 03:22:34
Zimbo is right. We almost won the league in spite of BR and not due to him and this season is proof of that regardless of how much his apologists here and in the media wanna spin it. The system you alluded to has always been his system and had he not listened to Bielsa, where would we be? Not a chance at winning the PL and BR would prolly have been fired. We have seen his system fail over and over again and this season just shows that we have a manager whose system is a failure and doesn't have a clue.
15 May 2015 07:51:04
Why would we need to accept that, Ron? He might be, he might not be- I could easily see it going either way.
15 May 2015 09:23:30
Did Rafa convince Gerrard? Thought Gerrard just couldn't leave?
15 May 2015 09:32:25
He's not going to be sacked, I know that.
He could resign due to some unforeseen circumstance but that's pretty unlikely.
15 May 2015 10:15:18
Dont understand why people want rafa back.
Yeah he gave us good moments but the last 2 years we were going backwards.
He may have managed to keep hold of gerrard but this is also the man who made Alonso leave because he wanted barry.
As dalglish has shown its never good going back
15 May 2015 11:08:23
How can you say the last 2 years we were going backwards under Rafa?
I completely agree we went backwards in his last season. However his second to last season, we finished 2nd with a record number of points for a runner up.
Also the phrase 'It's never good going back' Tell that to Jose.
I'm not supporting Rafa to join, I want De Boer. Just think it's a tad harsh to completely write him off.
15 May 2015 11:13:23
And how would you know that Ron, when the owners probably haven't made up their mind?
15 May 2015 13:12:33
Audiogorilla
Apologies on the last two seasons it was only the final season then.
But come on even though rafa didn't get the players he wanted occasionally he still wasted a hell of a lot of money.
Aquaillani buying him injured what's that all about.
Also the reason we finished 2nd was because rafa refused to play Keane and kept playing ngog upfront with the understanding it was because rafa didn't want Keane.
I remember against hull I think that season was it 2-2 at half time he brought ngog on instead of Keane, what is ngog going to do.
16 May 2015 02:27:04
Ron prolly posts wishful thinking after wishing upon a star and projects them as fact.