General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

Rodgers is getting dogs abuse day in day out off the same poster on here (its tedious) , you might not have noticed that part, so it may have skewed your perception a bit. Of course no manager walks away from a pay off, it would be a very dumb move.

Tbf to Rodgers his squad is being gutted. It appears the owners don't have the financial might to continue competing for Champion's League spots and have decided to try and balance the books and prioritise getting money in to the club over maintaining a strong squad. Not a fan of his but I think he has done a decent job at Leicester and I don't blame him holding out for a payoff. If the owners want him gone after gutting his squad then they should have to pay him off. They don't have to replace him but it seems they have chosen to. It's not like they are in danger of going in to administration.

Even using VAR the way you say you still have problems where red cards and offside are open to interpretation

Liverpool fans are always quick to praise Klopp for how the club operates in the transfer market. And if that's the case then surely Rodgers deserves the same praise for the transfers while he was Liverpool manager? The one in particular I'm referring to is Coutinho. The player who's sale to Barcelona we are always reminded funded the Van Dijk and Allison signings. Maybe a little more respect should be given to Rodgers for his contributions at Liverpool prior to them winning everything...

They sold three first team players in the last three summers I wouldn't call that gutting Rodgers squad.

Chilwell & Fofana being the main two and they got very good money for them

Schmeichel being the other who was well past his best and as shown in France with Nice he isn't doing a great job there either as they are 5th from bottom and only out of the religation place on goal difference.

Rodgers has also spent £150m in the transfer market as manager and hasn't done a great job recruting players himself.

For two season it is as clear as day they cannont defend set peices and yet Rodgers hasn't been able to coach them how to defend.

You don't think it's open to interpretation but then explain exactly how its open to interpretation 🤔

If he coached a team to defend he might be ok but he doesn't/cant. He was blessed with Suarez and Sturridge in the form of their lives at Liverpool and instead of trying to hold onto leads he went for more goals cos he didn't know what else to do and dropped a lot of points because of it. He never made any tactical substitutions to change a game cos he didn't have a plan B.

His main tactic at Leicester is to counter using Vardys pace and if that doesn't work they usually loose cos they can't defend.

He did well at Celtic because they were the only team in a 1 horse race.

He really isn't a likeable fella either.

Klopp doesn't get the praise for transfers at Liverpool. It's always been Michael Edwards, up until when he left last year.

So why should Rodgers get any praise? It's well known that Rodgers forced his own way with transfers at Liverpool and is part of the reason why he was sacked. Rodgers was not behind any of the transfer successes, it's the opposite

The Sturridge signing you mentioned should have actually gone through the summer previously but Rodgers vetoed it and was forced into it the following January.

One famous example is when Edwards & the scouting team recommended Firmino as the forward signing. Rodgers wouldn't have it and wanted Benteke instead and fought very hard for Benteke. Eventually a truce was called and both were signed. Firmino was left on the bench often, actually played as a RWB in one game while Benteke started and failed to impress. Firmino eventually played when Klopp took over and did impress.

Not sure about that, there's quite a few of us that still like B-Rod. He was a great servant to our club through a difficult time and did the best he could with a largely poor squad. He only had Plan A though which is ultimately what cost him his job. That Plan A seems to be all that he still has, but with the right players, it's a great plan. I still hold him in high esteem for that fantastic season and if he came back, I'd be supportive of him again. The only thing is that he pales in comparison to Klopp so would be hard to go back to.

Ten Hag is doing ok this past 2 weeks. Yes, he has gone back to basics and trying to shore it up at the back but that’s what he should have done from the very start. He deserves massive credit for standing up to Ronaldo and the team is better for it.

He had to drop Maguire, it’s an important step for the team but Maguire will get back in as Varane is injury prone. Nice to see Rashford playing well even though I’d be happy to see Utd lose every game they ever play!

I think Rodgers is generally quite liked by Liverpool fans, always get a good reception when he comes back to Anfield anyway. But he seems to have gathered a lot of hate from opposition fans from his time spent at Liverpool, I get some of it the Brodgers/David Brent stuff, but he was fairly inoffensive on the side-line and the likes so I never really understood a lot of the hate from the opposition fans. Some of it has carried to this day.

So Liverpool were poor in defence and brilliant in attack and Rodgers gets blamed for not setting them up to defend but doesn't get praised for getting them scoring goals for fun? If all credit goes to Suarez and Sturridge for the goals scored, then surely the blame goes to the regular backs for conceding so many?

I'll always have a massive soft spot for Rodgers - the fella gave me one of the most fun, exciting seasons of my life in 13/14.

I also think he's an excellent manager, with one big failing that he has trouble reinventing a team over time. He'll come in with a general plan, figure out how to get the best out of what he has, but once that goes stale (through either time, or transfers etc), he has trouble going back to the drawing board. An incredible manager for one cycle is seems.

I 100% disagree with the stuff that he just got lucky with that Liverpool front-line, and I can't really understand how anyone who watched them could think that... like, the players themselves were excellent obviously - but the interplay and tactics got the most out of them. It wasn't just Suarez or Sturridge doing it all by themselves, it was brilliant attacking interplay that cut teams open, with their quality at the end to make it count. It is zero coincidence that from when he arrived, each half-season Liverpool's points per game was higher than the previous one. There was consistent improvement, right up until Suarez left, and Sturridge broke. From then onwards, he just couldn't reinvent the team and pull off something incredible a second time.

Would say exactly the same has happened at Leicester - he had them way above where they should be by getting the absolute most out of what he came into (getting so close to 4th twice seems to be used as a stick to beat him with, rather than an achievement that was way above expectation... getting so close has been his curse). But again, once it all got a bit stale he's really struggled to pull out a second magnificent team.

I would of thought who they were asked to mark etc during set pieces would be a bigger factor than one commiting more than another?

The who scored team of the season so far is intresting

GK : Pope 7.3

RB: Tripper 7.4

CB : Schar 7.5

CB : Anderson 7.3

LB : Cancelo 7.3

LW: Salah 7.3

CM : KDB 7.8

CM : Hojberg 7.4

RW: Maximin 7.7

CF; haaland 8.2

CF : Mitrovic 7.9