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

Tipsy McSwagger · 14-12-2014 04:12PM

Slattsy wrote: »

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

Mike Bassett would be better than that charlatan

Slattsy · 14-12-2014 04:12PM

De Gea on crack here.

kfallon · 14-12-2014 04:13PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:13PM

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

Mr Alan · 14-12-2014 04:14PM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

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

This....

rossie1977 · 14-12-2014 04:14PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:14PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:15PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:16PM

Toure tries so damn hard.

Ardent · 14-12-2014 04:16PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:17PM

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

Mr Alan · 14-12-2014 04:17PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:17PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:17PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:17PM

Mr Alan wrote: »

This....

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

eagle eye · 14-12-2014 04:18PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:18PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:19PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:19PM

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

Charlie19 · 14-12-2014 04:20PM

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

MD1990 · 14-12-2014 04:20PM

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

SlickRic · 14-12-2014 04:21PM

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

kfallon · 14-12-2014 04:21PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:21PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:21PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:21PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:22PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:22PM

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

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

A decent finisher you mean

pmy.murphy · 14-12-2014 04:22PM

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 · 14-12-2014 04:22PM

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

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

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