03 Sep 2015 15:03:27
Harry claiming this is the worst liverpool side in years.
While it might not be far from the mark it wasn't long ago he said he wanted Rodgers as his number two if he got the England job.
Careful what you wish for Harry.
03 Sep 2015 16:10:38
Apparently Rodgers did a pretty decent job at Swansea. I still remember the match at Anfield. It was the making of the player Allen.
03 Sep 2015 16:34:40
Not that I rate Harry Redknapp,but there's a world of difference between bring a coach in charge of attacking football and being a manager in charge of squad rotation,teamsheets,building a team,overviewing the introduction of youth etc.
03 Sep 2015 17:08:21
Never a truer word said from Harry, he has hit the nail on the head
03 Sep 2015 17:21:43
Harry did a wonderfully similar job at qpr from what I've seen. Qpr are in much worse shape than LFC.
03 Sep 2015 17:47:06
Liverpool have the 7th most expensively assembled squad in Europe. And we're complete crap. Buck stops with Rodge.
03 Sep 2015 18:27:55
My god, you guys are ridiculous. Worst squad in years? Compared to Hodgson's days? We've got plenty of solid players. Have we been entertaining so far? No. But I'll be damned if this is the worst squad in years. I still think we will finish no lower than fifth this season. Is Harry saying it's the worst Chelsea have been in years? Arsenal? United?
I get everyone is upset about losing to West Ham, especially at home and by a sad score-line. Truthfully, I have my reservations about the squad and don't think a few of the players we are consistently playing are quite there (Gomez and Ibe, in particular, who I think expectations are way too heavy on) and I see a few that should be playing regularly (Sakho, Ings) that are never getting a look in. But if we would have won, would you all have been saying the same nonsense?
We have a lot of potential for success in our squad over the next few years. Can, Henderson, Coutinho, Firmino will be the spine of this squad, and you have Sturridge, Allen and Flanagan to come back, who can all contribute quite a bit.
I will continue to support the team. I will take disagrees from plenty of fans for these comments, but I don't see a reason to panic after 4 games. Every year, teams lose games at home, and we made some poor defensive mistakes which cost us (same as Arsenal did on opening day with Cech). Coutinho getting sent off negated any chance we had of getting back into the game late.
There are plenty of things I would like to see done differently, but I can also see positives in our play. For example, with a bit more luck, we could have very easily taken all 3 points against Arsenal and would be sitting on 9 points after 4 games. If we take the time off to adjust our lineup we may well surprise people against United.
03 Sep 2015 20:39:35
Hodgson was the only Liverpool manager that i can think of that was given practically zip to spend. Has the money spent by Rodgers in his 4 seasons made us that much more entertaining than what Hodgson served up. i'm far from a Hodgson fan but i do like to think i see things evenly and fairly. He had to scrape the barrell when he was in charge. Would he have done better with Rodger's war chest? I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
03 Sep 2015 21:01:17
how can you draw comparisons with roy hodgson,he was barely there 10 mins and had no money to spend,west ham also had a player sent and managed to score,arsenal scored a perfectly good goal and where robbed,if it had of counted they would have prob sat a little deeper to protect their make-shift defense and picked off liverpool on the counter attack
03 Sep 2015 21:26:03
Because Word Up, the statement was that it was the worst squad, a comparison by its nature. Not'worst squad based on money and time'. Let us know if you require further assistance.
03 Sep 2015 21:48:23
Roy would have done better with 200 mill in the bank. No question about it.
03 Sep 2015 21:56:09
It's not the squad that's the problem. It's the man wielding them. He seems to genuinely enjoying the worst players in his squad, either this is a practical joke or Brenda is a massive sadist.
03 Sep 2015 22:55:14
@ Irish - Hodgson wouldn't have done better with Rodgers' war chest. He's able to organise a bad team and make them scrap and look better than they are, but given better players his tactical limitations become quickly apparent. He leaves the defence too deep so there's a big gap to midfield, and doesn't encourage midfielders to get on the ball and just has them run around like headless chickens trying to support the direct balls into the forwards. It's scrappy, percentage football that any team with decent center backs should be able to nullify. No amount of money would fix that. The fact that England go nearly 100% in qualifiers under him tells me a lot about international football.
Of course then when it get serious at the major tournament, his approach gets found out and England are awful. Remember how Gerrard & Hendo had really good seasons in 2013/2014, but were then absolutely terrible in the 2014 World Cup? Should be fairly obvious who was managing them better between Rodgers and Hodgson.
Rodgers has issues - namely that he's struggled with setting up the team properly since 2014 and we haven't played anywhere near the best of our ability since we beat Man City in March - but let's not exaggerate.
04 Sep 2015 01:10:26
Managers like Roy Hodgson, Egil Olsen and Otto Rehhagel destroyes the beautiful game of football.
04 Sep 2015 01:41:29
Leaving the defense too deep, midfielders running around like headless chickens, poor in cup ties- these all sound really familiar Something Red ;-)
04 Sep 2015 04:43:44
Hodgsons squad wasn't that bad. If you want proof you just have to look at the players at his disposal and also the fact that overnight Kenny turned the rubbish minus Torres and Babel into the second best team in the league (results).
Here are some of Hodgsons players: Reina, G Johnson, Agger, Carra, Fabio Aurelio, Lucas, Joe Cole, Gerrard, Maxi Rodriguez, Torres, Kuyt.
When you consider we lost to Northampton Town with Hodgson in charge I think that concludes the discussion. Hodgson was a much worse manager in terms of selection, tactics, entertainment and results but also gobbing off in the press.
04 Sep 2015 10:09:12
I personally player for players think this is the best squad we've had in years better than both the team's that finished second. Also I am talking squad not starting 11 as both our second place team's had fairly poor back up. I think this is the strongest position we've been in throughout the squad for a decade anyway
04 Sep 2015 10:10:17
Sorry just wanted to ad that by no means means I'm saying we're playing well or will play well but I'm just literally talking about on the fantasy world of paper football!
04 Sep 2015 10:57:38
I cannot wait until January. When we can buy another load of players and loan them out.
CLUELESS.