Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015/16 (*EVERYONE READ MOD POST in OP)

Morzadec wrote: »

Came on to see if there was any news as just heard a rumour myself!

I have no way of vouching for the source and I'm posting this very much keeping in mind the "gossip" part of the thread.

But basically heard from a colleague that his brother-in-law's friend (i know) who has some ties at the club, says that Rodgers is finished.

Don't know what to think myself, jyst reporting what i heard. Take it or leave it

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Easter Egg at 15 min mark

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Is Boards being bonkers for anyone else this evening?

Bowlardo wrote: »

What are the preferred formations of klopp, ancelloti and de beor

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Unless it comes down to goal difference

Dub13 wrote: »

Mad stuff, from a lad on the match thread on Irishkop.

http://www.irishkop.com/forums/index.php?threads/everton-v-lfc-4-10-15.25617/#post-977871

For the diminishing number of us whose first instinct is to see a bright talent in Brendan Rodgers rather than a figure to lampoon, there is ample reassurance to be found in Steven Gerrard’s new memoir.
There may be fun to be had with @DeludedBrendan and the mocking tweets but, beyond the David Brent gags, the Rodgers who emerges from Gerrard’s book deserves to be taken seriously; a sharp tactician, a strong communicator, an astute improver of players.
Sometimes he can get a little carried away and, as Gerrard notes, he is ambitious perhaps to the point of ruthlessness. But there emerges a portrait of an upwardly mobile manager who, if unwanted by Liverpool at the end of this season, would be very welcome in an England tracksuit as the successor to Roy Hodgson.
According to those “sack race” odds that arrive in the inbox every Monday morning with an inappropriately cheery tone, Rodgers is nestled between Dick Advocaat and Steve McClaren on managerial death row. That is just bookie talk but it reflects an air of turbulence at Anfield compounded by last night’s struggles against Sion.
We shall see what the season brings but if Fenway Sports Group really does think it can do better — though Jürgen Klopp and Carlo Ancelotti may find Liverpool an offer they can refuse given the difficult task of making the Champions League on the division’s fifth biggest revenues — then we can be sure that the FA hierarchy is tracking Rodgers’ fate with interest. Gareth Southgate’s stock took a plunge when the under-21s deeply disappointed last summer. Gary Neville would make an intriguing choice, and no one would doubt the certainty with which he would tackle the job.
But Rodgers is the one with top-level coaching and managerial experience, a record of improving young players, especially English ones. Or, as he once said in one of those quotes that seem to polarise opinion: “My life’s work has been trying to show that British players can play.” There is a credible amount of evidence. The FA needs only speak to Jordan Henderson, Daniel Sturridge, Nathaniel Clyne, among others, about his coaching calibre.
It can look at that Gerrard book, which does not set out to paint Rodgers as the finished article but, certainly, dispels the misleading notion of the Northern Irishman as a man full of bluster.
I have heard Rodgers expound on his team-building ideas, on tactical theories and, in contrast to many managers, that time was an education. But do not take my word for it.
Read Gerrard recount in compelling detail about when he went to see Rodgers because he felt off-form and could not fathom the problem. The speed with which his manager came back with detailed analysis about a lack of head movement, and how it was affecting the tempo of the captain’s passing game, is striking.
There are plenty of stories from Gerrard of Rodgers’ ability to motivate as well as innovate. The book is littered with lines like “the training sessions were among the best I had ever experienced while his man-management was excellent, generous and imaginative”; “it needed a bold appointment from the owners — and I think they got it right with Brendan”; “Brendan came across as a nice man, and a good person, from the start”; “a very human man-manager”. Of course, there is some blunt criticism, too; a dubious signing or two and, most notably, a critique of that fateful, gung-ho approach against Chelsea with the title at stake fuelled by “an overconfidence in Brendan’s team talks” and not recognising the need to temper his boldness. Gerrard wishes that the arch pragmatist, Jose Mourinho, above anyone, had been his England manager but he has also noted that the aggressive Rodgers style might work well for the national team. A strategy built on outnumbering the opposition in midfield would aim to rid England of their most persistent failing.
At 42, Rodgers has plenty of ambitions left at club level but Liverpool are unlikely to break into the top four and, if FSG does look elsewhere, it is hard to see how he pitches up in the Champions League. Arsenal may be a job he covets but it is not easy to see how that will fall to him any time soon.
It may come to pass that the FA’s needs align with Rodgers’ if he is looking for work next summer. Gerrard can certainly see the logic by which perceived “failure” at Anfield works out well for England.

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