Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Warning in OP, 10/12

Tipsy McSwagger

super_furry wrote: »

How is Rodgers going to turn things around?

By resigning

super_furry

Just don't see where the next league win is coming from. Wouldn't even back us to beat Bournemouth.

klose

super_furry wrote: »

How is Rodgers going to turn things around?

He blindly persists with the same players every week. Lovren should be sitting in the stands next week but he wont, he will start again and sakho will be looking on from the stands. Allen and Gerrard offering zero in midfield? Theyll start again and can will look on from the bench. Hes stubborn and it will cost him his job.

kfallon

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Difference between the two teams is in goal and up front. Both solveable in January, and both clearly recognised by Rodgers. Talk of him being sacked is nonsense at this stage.

LOL! He couldn't solve a crossword, useless in the transfer market

LuckyLloyd

super_furry wrote: »

How is Rodgers going to turn things around?

By making way for another manager to take over.

Vicxas

Could be managerless tomorrow.

Turtyturd

If 'The Rodgers' gets sacked in the morning can he take 'Super f*cking Mario' with him.

Slattsy

Lets say Rodgers is sacked in the morning.
Who comes in?

mav79

Damn I'd take Tony Pulis to come in tomorrow till the end of the season, he might just get us to defend at least. This team is just painful to watch at the moment.

Mr Alan

Slattsy wrote: »

Lets say Rodgers is sacked in the morning.
Who comes in?

Someone better.

J Mysterio

I wouldnt be surprised if he has lost the dressing room. He doesnt show any trust with his players in constantly chopping and changing. No consistancy in the team and strange decisions. Relationships must be badly damaged. Sakho, Borini, Lallana and Mignolet anyway but probably more to it.

Performing well is no guarantee to start. Being ****e is no guarantee to be dropped.

El Inho

I don't want rodgers sacked, but if the likes of Klopp became available, I would want him replaced.

Jones can't be the fall guy of a team that have been useless for months. His positioning may be questioned but a cross across the box obviously shows a keeper ad out of position.

Loevren is done. Balo is done. Markovic can go away and someone needs to come in and take the pressure off sterling.

Gerrard needs to get over last year too. He's just got no fire in the belly. He's far from finished, but he just doesn't seem to care.

LuckyLloyd

Slattsy wrote: »

Lets say Rodgers is sacked in the morning.
Who comes in?

Benitez

Ardent

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Difference between the two teams is in goal and up front. Both solveable in January, and both clearly recognised by Rodgers. Talk of him being sacked is nonsense at this stage.

We won't be signing anyone in January. Not before we sell players first at least.

LuckyLloyd

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Difference between the two teams is in goal and up front. Both solveable in January, and both clearly recognised by Rodgers. Talk of him being sacked is nonsense at this stage.

And what about all the other games eh?

Slattsy

Klopp would be my choice.
Dont want Rafa back.

J Mysterio

Why is Gerrard back in DM, why is Lucas dropped.

Why is Lovren back in the team, why was Toure dropped.

LuckyLloyd

By the way, Balotelli clearly should have started...

SM01

I'm afraid I'm done with Rodgers too. Nothing knee-jerk, just a culmination of poor results, mind-boggling team selections and substitutions, misdirected buys (of which he must take a sizable responsibility along with whatever committee exists), tactical ineptitude and player-mismanagement which shows no sign of abating. Actually, things are deteriorating with time. I wanted him to succeed and turn it around but we've reached the point where I don't think he is capable with this team and I wouldn't trust him to oversee any future reinvestment. The word 'embarrassing' is used flippantly on boards and so it's meaning is somewhat diluted. Regardless, I find the state my beloved team are in now as embarrassing. Fundamental change is needed.

dogbert27

Rodgers won't be sacked in the morning but if we don't get a result against Bournemouth then he is in real trouble.

Winning a cup is his only way of covering up a crap league campaign but even with that we've struggled. We struggled against Boro only winning in a mindless penalty shoot out and got past Swansea with 2 late, late goals.

Bournemouth have just gone top of their league playing good football and scoring 5 yesterday. Tuesday night will be a tough night.

Most will be pissed with the suggestion of Rafa replacing Rodgers before Christmas but I would rather have Benitez back now as I have more confidence in him making us progress through the Europa Cup than Rodgers and right now winning that competition will be the only way we get back to the CL next year.

Klopp is in the papers as a replacement but he won't leave Dortmund while they're still in the CL.

AVB I wouldn't touch.

Tipsy McSwagger

Slattsy wrote: »

Lets say Rodgers is sacked in the morning.
Who comes in?

Mike Bassett would be better than that charlatan

Slattsy

De Gea on crack here.

kfallon

dogbert27 wrote: »

Rodgers won't be sacked in the morning but if we don't get a result against Bournemouth then he is in real trouble.

Winning a cup is his only way of covering up a crap league campaign but even with that we've struggled. We struggled against Boro only winning in a mindless penalty shoot out and got past Swansea with 2 late, late goals.

Bournemouth have just gone top of their league playing good football and scoring 5 yesterday. Tuesday night will be a tough night.

Most will be pissed with the suggestion of Rafa replacing Rodgers before Christmas but I would rather have Benitez back now as I have more confidence in him making us progress through the Europa Cup than Rodgers and right now winning that competition will be the only way we get back to the CL next year.

Klopp is in the papers as a replacement but he won't leave Dortmund while they're still in the CL.

AVB I wouldn't touch.

Winning a cup didn't save Kenny

Agent Coulson

Straight up go for Klopp he needs a change we need a change seem like a perfect match to me.

Mr Alan

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

By the way, Balotelli clearly should have started...

This....

rossie1977

dogbert27 wrote: »

Rodgers won't be sacked in the morning but if we don't get a result against Bournemouth then he is in real trouble.

Winning a cup is his only way of covering up a crap league campaign but even with that we've struggled.

kenny won a cup and got to another final where they should have won and still got sacked by fsg despite playing much better first half of the season than this current liverpool team...

Soft Falling Rain

Gone exactly how I suspected it would: we'd have our chances but wouldn't take them, and would get picked off by the not exactly superior team, but the more clinical one.

Shambolic. Absolutely disgusted.

marklazarcovic

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

By the way, Balotelli clearly should have started...

hes not fit yet ... have created plenty,they just have not finished, but we will slate the manager ..its not really fair

LuckyLloyd

Toure tries so damn hard.

Ardent

Mad how quickly things can change in football. Rodgers must have felt very comfortable at the start of this season - finished 2nd the season before, lots of goodwill from the fans, in the CL, £100m of new players. Never would have thought folks would be calling for his head by xmas!

Tipsy McSwagger

A decent manager and we would have won this game no problem

Mr Alan

SM01 wrote: »

Actually, things are deteriorating with time.

This is why imo anyone scoffing at the idea of him being sacked are kidding themselves.

FSG are no fools & they must be fuming at the amount of money Rodgers has wasted & the deterioration in the team as he makes it more & more his.

stampydmonkey

SM01 wrote: »

I'm afraid I'm done with Rodgers too. Nothing knee-jerk, just a culmination of poor results, mind-boggling team selections and substitutions, misdirected buys (of which he must take a sizable responsibility along with whatever committee exists), tactical ineptitude and player-mismanagement which shows no sign of abating. Actually, things are deteriorating with time. I wanted him to succeed and turn it around but we've reached the point where I don't think he is capable with this team and I wouldn't trust him to oversee any future reinvestment. The word 'embarrassing' is used flippantly on boards and so it's meaning is somewhat diluted. Regardless, I find the state my beloved team are in now as embarrassing. Fundamental change is needed.

I absolutely agree with this. The constant tinkering and the lack of development in any form bar backwards is what concerns me about the man. Yes a lot of players are in terrible form but the manager is not helping them at all. The way he waffles on in post match interviews wouldn't give you too much confidence he will ever turn it around. All the signings have been poor (except maybe Lallana and Manquillo) but everyone else...as said above Fundamental change is needed.

Agent Coulson

marklazarcovic wrote: »

hes not fit yet ... have created plenty,they just have not finished, but we will slate the manager ..its not really fair

Of course it's fair most of his tactical genius has been found out as spoofing.

Turtyturd

Mr Alan wrote: »

This....

Definitely, he probably would have doubled the amount of goals he has scored since coming on.

eagle eye

I think this could be the final nail in the coffin for Brendan Rogers if they are considering sacking him. Out of the ECL midweek and then a loss to your biggest rival. The timing just doesn't help him at all.

Mr Alan

marklazarcovic wrote: »

hes not fit yet ... have created plenty,they just have not finished, but we will slate the manager ..its not really fair

Entirely the managers fault tbh. Started with no striker. ****e purchases when replacing top class striker he inherited.

LuckyLloyd

marklazarcovic wrote: »

hes not fit yet ... have created plenty,they just have not finished, but we will slate the manager ..its not really fair

Not fair?

- he talked the big talk about Spur's transfer dealings last year;
- then he signed a load of dross;
- he has fundamentally been unable to replicate the intensity of our performances last year without Suarez;
- he was unable to progress from the easiest CL group he reasonably could have faced;
- our chances of CL qualification are essentially over;
- our performances are getting worse in terms of the basics;
- his selections are becoming increasingly bizarre;

Bye bye.

spockety

If losing away to Manchester united is the sacking benchmark, then I would be just as worried about the owners as the manager.

Charlie19

I really can't understand why people think Mario should of started.

MD1990

Wouldn't put the blame on Rodgers today. The team was set up well.

SlickRic

Until we organise our back 4 and get players who can score, we can forget about everything.

kfallon

spockety wrote: »

If losing away to Manchester united is the sacking benchmark, then I would be just as worried about the owners as the manager.

It's not the benchmark, it's the final straw!

dogbert27

To be fair to posters who are being called out as giving knee jerk reactions.

We have been waiting for Rodgers to turn things around since losing to Aston Villa 1-0 at home at the start of September.

It's 2 and a half months later, we're being spanked by United with our next league game being Arsenal.

He doesn't know what to do with Gerrard anymore. Henderson and Coutinho are shadows of the players they were last season.

Not one summer signing has influenced the starting 11 after spending over 100 million and it doesn't look like any will.

Just very disappointing.

klose

spockety wrote: »

If losing away to Manchester united is the sacking benchmark, then I would be just as worried about the owners as the manager.

The entire season bar the spurs game weve been terrible and we are getting worse imo. Theres nothing knee jerk about him possibly getting sacked imo

Slattsy

DDG is man of the match - tells some of the story i guess, on another day we could have been 4 or 5 up.

Big pressure on Rodgers now.

Agent Coulson

Going to your biggest rivial without playing a striker.

Going to Madrid in the CL and playing a B-Team.

For me those two thing alone should have him sacked.

citytillidie

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

A decent manager and we would have won this game no problem

A decent finisher you mean

pmy.murphy

Brendan is starting to lose the plot and his purchases have been awful along with his team selections but I dunno if sacking him now would help if were bringing in AVB. He would be just as lost coming into the job. Id keep Brendan unless until the end of the season unless theres a top class alternative available which theres not. AVB hadnt a clue either what to do when things were going wrong at Spurs like Brendan now. Most definately not an upgrade. An element of realism is required I think, its all very well and good calling for the managers head

Utopia Parkway

Bournemouth away not easy either. They are flying at the moment.