Brendan Rodgers sacked.

Streetwalker · 04-10-2015 07:40PM

Liverpool despite it all are still a massive draw and challenge for a top manager. I've no doubt FSG will get the business done and bring in a quality manager.

TheCitizen · 04-10-2015 07:41PM

MightyMandarin wrote: »

How are we in 'cloud cuckoo land'?

FSG can be quite stubborn but I genuinely think they will change their system, not just the manager, and will try hard to get a manager of Klopp's level.

Maybe FSG will change and be willing to relinquish control, they'll have to to get Klopp.
If they get Klopp that's good news for Liverpool fans because he will demand a bit of control, and at least he'll succeed or fail on his call.

It also means they didn't back Rodgers properly, didn't really trust him or he never had the clout to demand proper backing.

Gbear · 04-10-2015 07:41PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/GraemeKelly1/status/650750298445717504

These lads have been posting 4 times a day for 3 weeks that today was the day Rodgers was going to be sacked.

They were bound to be right eventually.

04-10-2015 07:42PM

Streetwalker wrote: »

Liverpool despite it all are still a massive draw and challenge for a top manager. I've no doubt FSG will get the business done and bring in a quality manager.

Why have you no doubts?

I have doubts based on hindsight

04-10-2015 07:43PM

Gbear wrote: »

These lads have been posting 4 times a day for 3 weeks that today was the day Rodgers was going to be sacked.

They were bound to be right eventually.

I have no idea. Someone mentioned that they couldn't link so I linked

adox · 04-10-2015 07:44PM

Whoever they bring in, you would think the deal was already done before the announcement today.

Streetwalker · 04-10-2015 07:48PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Why have you no doubts?

I have doubts based on hindsight

The business model for the club revolves around getting champions league football. At the end of the day I doubt FSG give a toss about LFC but they will care about profit and the business model. Appointing a Gary Monk/FDB type manager is a massive risk as they are not proven winners at the highest levels. No more risks proven winners will be the way to go.

At least I hope so

MightyMandarin · 04-10-2015 07:49PM

adox wrote: »

Whoever they bring in, you would think the deal was already done before the announcement today.

That's what the Bosnian paper reckoned anyway.

Either way, I think FSG would be incredibly naive not to have been assured by someone like Klopp, De Boer, Ancellotti etc. that they were willing to take the job but still sack Brendan.

BorneTobyWilde · 04-10-2015 07:49PM

adox wrote: »

Whoever they bring in, you would think the deal was already done before the announcement today.

Yea
Eva Carneiro in talks.
Will be announced soon enough.

ush · 04-10-2015 07:58PM

Streetwalker wrote: »

The business model for the club revolves around getting champions league football. At the end of the day I doubt FSG give a toss about LFC but they will care about profit and the business model. Appointing a Gary Monk/FDB type manager is a massive risk as they are not proven winners at the highest levels. No more risks proven winners will be the way to go.

At least I hope so

Gary Monk was a journeyman and has a year's managerial experience at Swansea.

FDB managed a side to 4 dutch leagues on the bounce. Nobody has ever done that. He played for Ajax, Barcelona and the Netherlands.

Is he really the same bracket as Gary Monk?

Very Bored · 04-10-2015 08:03PM

La Gazzetta dello Sport says the top two choices are Jurgen Klopp or Carlo Ancelotti. Failing that it is likely to be Walter Mazzarri.

I can't see the Liverpool board wanting anything but a yes man so I see it being Mazzarri in the end.

citytillidie · 04-10-2015 08:08PM

blueser wrote: »

That link is funny, to be fair.

It is more the facebook page who glorified the Hillsborough disaster in one of their "funny" posts

digzy · 04-10-2015 08:09PM

Ancelotti must be one of the most wronged managers.
Chelsea gave him the bullet despite winning the double the year previous and Madrid a year after la decima.

Pool would be lucky to get him.

KungPao · 04-10-2015 08:10PM

My money's on Harry Redknapp or Alan Curbishley.

blueser · 04-10-2015 08:12PM

citytillidie wrote: »

It is more the facebook page who glorified the Hillsborough disaster in one of their "funny" posts

Fair point. But I did refer to THAT particular link. Glorifying anything to do with that sad, heartbreaking day is just wrong on so many levels.

04-10-2015 08:26PM

KungPao wrote: »

My money's on Harry Redknapp or Alan Curbishley.

David O'Leary, George Burley...

Saipanne · 04-10-2015 08:31PM

John Gregory?

KungPao · 04-10-2015 08:35PM

Paul Jewel? Brian Little?

BoJack Horseman · 04-10-2015 08:35PM

Saipanne wrote: »

John Gregory?

Twitter is aflame for Joe Kinnear....

Linda Pizutti tweeted congrats to Kinnear just a few mins ago.

.....
(I assume)

Very Bored · 04-10-2015 08:38PM

Davie Kirkwood?

ArielAtom · 04-10-2015 09:02PM

Mourinho to Liverpool and Klopp to the bridgeðŸ˜‰

eagle eye · 04-10-2015 09:02PM

Big Sam is big into the science and math of football, would be a perfect signing for those moneyball loving owners.

Kerrigooney · 04-10-2015 10:04PM

KungPao wrote: »

My money's on Harry Redknapp or Alan Curbishley.

If you have more money to waste send some my direction. Ta.

Cantona's Collars · 04-10-2015 10:15PM

MightyMandarin wrote: »

Your links and Liverpool jokes are rarely, if ever, funny. Just thought I'd point that out to you.

tinpib · 04-10-2015 10:20PM

KungPao wrote: »

My money's on Harry Redknapp or Alan Curbishley.

Alan Curbishley currently summarising in the FC Dallas/Houston Dynamo game on Sky Sports 5.

So far he hasn't denied he taking the Liverpool job.

I think we all know what that means.

monkey9 · 04-10-2015 10:35PM

Kerrigooney wrote: »

If you have more money to waste send some my direction. Ta.

Sure it's David Moyes anyway. That's what the 'lads' were telling us a few weeks back.

NIMAN · 04-10-2015 11:40PM

Should have been sacked at the end of last season.

Tomagotchye · 04-10-2015 11:52PM

Can't wait for the rumours of Klopp just to get Pardew.

Probably the right call. Harsh but fair. It's a results business and he's been rubbish. Think it's ballsy thought. They should have replaced him during the summer. Hard now that manager positions have been filled, they're left with the clutter

05-10-2015 12:37AM

Liverpool are, realistically, a club that should aim for 5th. That's no slight on them, no one who followed football in the 80s could predict a day when clubs like Man City and Chelsea would be bigger by dint of the lottery of who buys them. But they are. And Rodgers was not miles off 5th, he's brought Liverpool well above that in the past with one great goalscorer. Think he deserved a bit more slack, if Everton do well Liverpool could become the city's 2nd club and could go the way of Villa, the whole sense of entitlement in football is gone.

Turtwig · 05-10-2015 12:42AM

digzy wrote: »

Ancelotti must be one of the most wronged managers.
Chelsea gave him the bullet despite winning the double the year previous and Madrid a year after la decima.

Pool would be lucky to get him.

Pfft nothing compares to Jupp Heynckes. Wins the champions league with Real Madrid...sacked! Wins the treble with Bayern..."retired".

Brendan Rodgers sacked.

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