Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2020/2021

MD1990 wrote: »

There talking about Lampard on MNF.
I think that it is lesson for our owners when trying to replace Klopp.

Unless Gerrard does a great job at a top 8 PL side like Leicester in the future or Wolves he shouldnt be considered for the Liverpool job after managing just Rangers.

Rodgers had a great season at us but struggled on the whole. Now 5 years later he is a much better manager probbaly ready for a top 4 club.

Everyone's path is different. Rangers itself isn't a problem for experience as, as you say yourself, it was Rodgers extra few years of management in Scotland that raised his game.

He's winning a league he was an underdog for - that's a great experience. But he needs more of that, both in Scotland, and elsewhere, just to broaden out his experience. He needs to play different teams in different ways, and encounter a huge range of situations and find a huge range of solutions. With all that in his pocket, whenever/if-ever he gains it, that's when he should be going for a top job at Liverpool or elsewhere.

No rush, we're 4 years off Klopp's successor, and I've a lot of faith in the club being much more attuned to what attributes they need, and finding the right person to do that. The lad in the opposite dugout tonight is one I'd have our eye on, was good at Leipzeig, and has been very good at Southampton. But 4 years is a long time in football, none of these lads might be relevant anymore by then.

I'm happier just watching what Gerrard is achieving at Rangers - domestically, and in Europe - on its own merits, without needing to necessarily connect it to the Liverpool job.



Elsewhere, bloody hell I'm looking forward to keeping an eye on Thiago at all times in tonights game, player-cam style!

plibige wrote: »

I don't think Gerrard's experience by the time Klopp leaves will be comparable to Lampards when he got the Chelsea job.

Klopp is here probably until the end of his contract in the summer of 2024. We'll know by then if Gerrard can step up and manage Liverpool.

Lampard was unfortunate in that Chelsea had burnt through so many managers that they had nearly tried every "type of solution" bar the "former player who the squad respects". So he got put into the situation far too early. He might turn out to be a fine manager down the line, but everyone knew this was probably beyond him

Scraping Derby into the playoffs was almost the worst thing that could happen for his longer term career, as it just created so many England's Frank Lampard's Derby County headlines that it started this inexorable momentum behind his movement to the Chelsea job. It was grand while they had the transfer ban and lowered expectations, but with money spent he's been asked questions that he just doesn't have any answers for. Would have been better off with 4 or 5 more years learning before this sort of challenge.

If he fails this early test at the top, it'll be a very hard slog back. You could say that Rodgers did it, but he had overseen a fairly spectacular title challenge which offset the later backslide.