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That last article was good
The twitterati on the money again
Some journos are now, thankfully, turning the spotlight on the owners. I think they've done a great job on the commercial side and progressing the stadium expansion but they're failing miserably on their structure and plans on the footballing side. As I've said, Rodgers is only a small part of the problem. I know I had a go at him yesterday borne mainly out of anger and frustration and in some cases in jest. I don't hate Rodgers, I just think he's out of his depth and shouldn't have been appointed in the first place. But if FSG continue with this ridiculous plan of theirs it won't matter who manages us.
Should these latest reports be true I think that the real problem for the club not changing things will be the tremendous pressure generated when we inevitably lose games.
It's something that I don't think the club can really afford. going into the new season with all of that pressure in the background doesn't bode well.
It's something that I don't think the club can really afford. going into the new season with all of that pressure in the background doesn't bode well.
It's good, though, that Rodgers says that if the owners want him to go he'll go. Because I guess he could just lock himself in his office and carry on regardless. Or hold doggedly on to the door frame while Ayre and Gordon pull on his legs. He's such a good guy to say he'll leave when he's sacked. If only everyone else in this country acted with the same good grace and basic decency, we'd all be much better for it.
So you're putting more onus on last year's 2nd place finish on refereeing decisions than on the Manager?
Is that what you're saying?
How can any review of this painful, horrific, comet crash season come up with any rational conclusion other than the manager we have is not as good as the available contenders?
How the fuck do we expect Rodgers to take this club back to winning trophies when his last few results, after 3 years in charge, have been so stupendously bad?
Quick question Mr Gordon, whoever you are - should we change the manager or all the players? Because other than one or two, the squad have demonstrated they can't or won't play for him. So we either back the manager and oversee a massive change in personnel at huge cost or we bring in a manager who can actually organise a side and get the best out of them.
And by the way, we did back the same manager last close season and most of our recruits have contributed the square root of fuck all this season because Rodgers has not an iota of a clue how to play them, so how can we have any faith that he can change it now?
Hope to fuck this is all a charade to show they are not knee-jerk and they are just waiting for Klopp to become available, because if they seriously think we can fix this crap without any heads rolling at the top, then they are pig-shit stupid or criminally insane.
How the fuck do we expect Rodgers to take this club back to winning trophies when his last few results, after 3 years in charge, have been so stupendously bad?
Quick question Mr Gordon, whoever you are - should we change the manager or all the players? Because other than one or two, the squad have demonstrated they can't or won't play for him. So we either back the manager and oversee a massive change in personnel at huge cost or we bring in a manager who can actually organise a side and get the best out of them.
And by the way, we did back the same manager last close season and most of our recruits have contributed the square root of fuck all this season because Rodgers has not an iota of a clue how to play them, so how can we have any faith that he can change it now?
Hope to fuck this is all a charade to show they are not knee-jerk and they are just waiting for Klopp to become available, because if they seriously think we can fix this crap without any heads rolling at the top, then they are pig-shit stupid or criminally insane.
They appointed Rodgers. They're pig shit stupid and criminally insane.
Brendan Rodgers backed by FSG to walk through Liverpool storm
• Manager under fire following 6-1 defeat at Stoke City
• Owners willing to continue with Rodgers despite lack of success
Jamie Jackson
Brendan Rodgers’ job as Liverpool manager is not under threat, with the club having no plans to review his position despite their dismal end to the season that featured only one victory in the last seven matches.
On Sunday Rodgers oversaw a humiliating 6-1 defeat at Stoke City, Liverpool’s worst result since 1963. Yet despite that, and a growing clamour from supporters to see the Northern Irishman replaced, Fenway Sports Group, the owner, is not assessing whether he should continue as manager for next season.
There will, however, be a review of Liverpool’s disappointing campaign. This will be led by Mike Gordon, the FSG president who is a member of the club board, plus Rodgers and Ian Ayre, the chief executive.
While communication goes on between Rodgers and FSG, based in Boston, there is no immediate rush to hold the review and it appears unlikely to be this week.
In the aftermath of the Stoke defeat Rodgers apologised to fans and appeared to throw his future into doubt by saying: “I’ve always said if the owners want me to go, I go. It’s as simple as that. I still feel I’ve got a lot to offer here. A lot has happened this year that has made the job difficult and we’ve kept fighting right to the very end but I totally understand that [question].”
When the review is held an explanation will be required for some of the more damning statistics returned by Rodgers’ team this year.
The defeat by Stoke meant the team finished in sixth place, compared with last season’s second, and the 62 points won were 22 fewer than in 2013-14.
There have been 52 league goals compared with the 101 Liverpool managed 12 months ago and the 12 league defeats were twice as many as in the previous campaign. Against the clubs that finished in the top four – Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United – Liverpool scored only one victory, over City, and managed a total of five points from the 24 available.
Rodgers also spent £115m last summer following the sale of Luis Suárez to Barcelona for £75m. Adam Lallana, Emre Can, Dejan Lovren, Mario Balotelli, Lazar Markovic, Alberto Moreno, Rickie Lambert and Divock Origi were signed. There is a case to be made that all, apart from Can, have been a failure.
However, there is an acceptance that, having lost Suárez, who has been an integral part of Barça’s La Liga-winning success and their progress to next month’s Champions League final, Rodgers was bound to struggle to replace such a talent.
The manager has also been without Daniel Sturridge, his main remaining striker, for most of the season due to the 25-year-old suffering injuries and the hip problem that ended his campaign will also rule him out of the start of next term.
In addition the controversy regarding Raheem Sterling’s public efforts to leave the club have been a distraction for Rodgers and his players, as has the farewell to Steven Gerrard that began when he announced in early January he would leave the club.
Yet despite these mitigating factors Rodgers understands the dismay from fans and, more importantly, FSG, and knows that he must recruit well this summer as he will be under scrutiny when next season starts.
Rodgers hopes to add City’s James Milner and Burnley’s impressive striker Danny Ings with Origi also arriving from Lille, having been loaned back to the French club last season after joining Liverpool last summer.
Yep. We are well and truly fucked.
• Manager under fire following 6-1 defeat at Stoke City
• Owners willing to continue with Rodgers despite lack of success
Jamie Jackson
Brendan Rodgers’ job as Liverpool manager is not under threat, with the club having no plans to review his position despite their dismal end to the season that featured only one victory in the last seven matches.
On Sunday Rodgers oversaw a humiliating 6-1 defeat at Stoke City, Liverpool’s worst result since 1963. Yet despite that, and a growing clamour from supporters to see the Northern Irishman replaced, Fenway Sports Group, the owner, is not assessing whether he should continue as manager for next season.
There will, however, be a review of Liverpool’s disappointing campaign. This will be led by Mike Gordon, the FSG president who is a member of the club board, plus Rodgers and Ian Ayre, the chief executive.
While communication goes on between Rodgers and FSG, based in Boston, there is no immediate rush to hold the review and it appears unlikely to be this week.
In the aftermath of the Stoke defeat Rodgers apologised to fans and appeared to throw his future into doubt by saying: “I’ve always said if the owners want me to go, I go. It’s as simple as that. I still feel I’ve got a lot to offer here. A lot has happened this year that has made the job difficult and we’ve kept fighting right to the very end but I totally understand that [question].”
When the review is held an explanation will be required for some of the more damning statistics returned by Rodgers’ team this year.
The defeat by Stoke meant the team finished in sixth place, compared with last season’s second, and the 62 points won were 22 fewer than in 2013-14.
There have been 52 league goals compared with the 101 Liverpool managed 12 months ago and the 12 league defeats were twice as many as in the previous campaign. Against the clubs that finished in the top four – Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United – Liverpool scored only one victory, over City, and managed a total of five points from the 24 available.
Rodgers also spent £115m last summer following the sale of Luis Suárez to Barcelona for £75m. Adam Lallana, Emre Can, Dejan Lovren, Mario Balotelli, Lazar Markovic, Alberto Moreno, Rickie Lambert and Divock Origi were signed. There is a case to be made that all, apart from Can, have been a failure.
However, there is an acceptance that, having lost Suárez, who has been an integral part of Barça’s La Liga-winning success and their progress to next month’s Champions League final, Rodgers was bound to struggle to replace such a talent.
The manager has also been without Daniel Sturridge, his main remaining striker, for most of the season due to the 25-year-old suffering injuries and the hip problem that ended his campaign will also rule him out of the start of next term.
In addition the controversy regarding Raheem Sterling’s public efforts to leave the club have been a distraction for Rodgers and his players, as has the farewell to Steven Gerrard that began when he announced in early January he would leave the club.
Yet despite these mitigating factors Rodgers understands the dismay from fans and, more importantly, FSG, and knows that he must recruit well this summer as he will be under scrutiny when next season starts.
Rodgers hopes to add City’s James Milner and Burnley’s impressive striker Danny Ings with Origi also arriving from Lille, having been loaned back to the French club last season after joining Liverpool last summer.
Yep. We are well and truly fucked.
How is losing Suarez and Sturridge (who was injury prone anyway) a mitigating factor when we had loads of strikers but never played them? Seriously, what fucking clowns have we got in charge?
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers safe for now as owners target signings - with £20m Christian Benteke top of list
Sam Wallace - Chief football correspondent
Brendan Rodgers’ job is not under immediate threat from Liverpool’s American owners in the aftermath of Sunday’s 6-1 Premier League final day defeat at Stoke City and the club expect to pursue their transfer targets as agreed this summer.
Fenway Sports Group is making an enquiry about the Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke, who has two years of his deal left to run and could fetch a price in excess of £20m.
The owners still also hope to sign the summer’s two leading free agents, Danny Ings and James Milner, and as yet there are no moves to replace the manager, with whom they have drawn up this list of potential signings.
Rodgers went into Sunday’s game aware that he would face what has been described as a robust and thorough review of the club’s season, most likely in Boston with the key figures in FSG some time next month. The owner, John W Henry, and Mike Gordon, the second-largest shareholder in FSG, are likely to attend that meeting, as well as Anfield chief executive Ian Ayre, but there is no current belief that Rodgers is under threat.
The meeting is expected to be about how the club and the owners can get more out of Rodgers, as well as addressing his £117m spending last summer after the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona.
There is the possibility of a new director of football being appointed to oversee transfers, although the club’s nominal transfer committee already has a major say in which players are signed.
Before the season, FSG set out a top-four finish and Champions League qualification as Rodgers’ target.
The club have little time to waste in preparing for next season, with the chance they could begin Europa League third-round qualifying on 30 July if Aston Villa win the FA Cup final on Saturday. If Arsenal win the Wembley showpiece, then Liverpool’s sixth-place finish will be enough to qualify them for the group stage of the competition.
It was reported in Germany last night that the former Borussia Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp is to take a six-month sabbatical from football, ruling himself out of any potential move to Liverpool.
Kolo Touré is set to sign a year’s extension at the club, despite his relative lack of playing time, to give what Rodgers hopes will be the benefit of his experience to the team next season.
Speaking after the defeat by Stoke, Touré said that the players had tried to win the game for Steven Gerrard, in his last Liverpool match, but had found themselves on the end of a damaging defeat.
“It’s no good to end the season with a game like that,” Touré said. “What can we do? It’s difficult. That’s not a great finish to the season. It’s difficult to find words after a game like that. Of course, it’s difficult for Stevie to end up on the end of a result like this. He would’ve been expecting a better result with what he has done for Liverpool.
“We wanted to do better for him. We wanted to finish fifth as well, but we could not.”
But Touré did not believe that the end to Liverpool’s season would discourage new players from joining in the summer.
“This is a great club, any player would want to play for Liverpool, we all know that,” he said. “It’s up to the club to see what they think is going to be good for them.”
“The talent is there. We conceded one goal, that’s fine. But then it was another and another and it was five at half-time. How can you describe that?”
I can describe it. You're a gang of spineless shitbags
Sam Wallace - Chief football correspondent
Brendan Rodgers’ job is not under immediate threat from Liverpool’s American owners in the aftermath of Sunday’s 6-1 Premier League final day defeat at Stoke City and the club expect to pursue their transfer targets as agreed this summer.
Fenway Sports Group is making an enquiry about the Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke, who has two years of his deal left to run and could fetch a price in excess of £20m.
The owners still also hope to sign the summer’s two leading free agents, Danny Ings and James Milner, and as yet there are no moves to replace the manager, with whom they have drawn up this list of potential signings.
Rodgers went into Sunday’s game aware that he would face what has been described as a robust and thorough review of the club’s season, most likely in Boston with the key figures in FSG some time next month. The owner, John W Henry, and Mike Gordon, the second-largest shareholder in FSG, are likely to attend that meeting, as well as Anfield chief executive Ian Ayre, but there is no current belief that Rodgers is under threat.
The meeting is expected to be about how the club and the owners can get more out of Rodgers, as well as addressing his £117m spending last summer after the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona.
There is the possibility of a new director of football being appointed to oversee transfers, although the club’s nominal transfer committee already has a major say in which players are signed.
Before the season, FSG set out a top-four finish and Champions League qualification as Rodgers’ target.
The club have little time to waste in preparing for next season, with the chance they could begin Europa League third-round qualifying on 30 July if Aston Villa win the FA Cup final on Saturday. If Arsenal win the Wembley showpiece, then Liverpool’s sixth-place finish will be enough to qualify them for the group stage of the competition.
It was reported in Germany last night that the former Borussia Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp is to take a six-month sabbatical from football, ruling himself out of any potential move to Liverpool.
Kolo Touré is set to sign a year’s extension at the club, despite his relative lack of playing time, to give what Rodgers hopes will be the benefit of his experience to the team next season.
Speaking after the defeat by Stoke, Touré said that the players had tried to win the game for Steven Gerrard, in his last Liverpool match, but had found themselves on the end of a damaging defeat.
“It’s no good to end the season with a game like that,” Touré said. “What can we do? It’s difficult. That’s not a great finish to the season. It’s difficult to find words after a game like that. Of course, it’s difficult for Stevie to end up on the end of a result like this. He would’ve been expecting a better result with what he has done for Liverpool.
“We wanted to do better for him. We wanted to finish fifth as well, but we could not.”
But Touré did not believe that the end to Liverpool’s season would discourage new players from joining in the summer.
“This is a great club, any player would want to play for Liverpool, we all know that,” he said. “It’s up to the club to see what they think is going to be good for them.”
“The talent is there. We conceded one goal, that’s fine. But then it was another and another and it was five at half-time. How can you describe that?”
I can describe it. You're a gang of spineless shitbags
And in other news, FSG have carried out a "robust" review of the sinking of the Titanic and concluded that the deck chairs needed re-positioning.
I told yous he wouldnt get sacked.
Theres something inevitable and fatalistic about all of this.
Mr Rodgers stays.
We sign Benteke, Ings and Milner.
Thats just a little bit of history repeating.
See:Carroll, Downing, Adam, Cole.......any other player who is semi decent in the premier league. We will spend 40m on that lot.
Gift.
Theres something inevitable and fatalistic about all of this.
Mr Rodgers stays.
We sign Benteke, Ings and Milner.
Thats just a little bit of history repeating.
See:Carroll, Downing, Adam, Cole.......any other player who is semi decent in the premier league. We will spend 40m on that lot.
Gift.
If the owners are not actively throwing cash at Klopp and Ancellotti in private then it's hard to trust their judgement on anything at all.
Passing up top-level managers who have won some of the biggest trophies in the game, or stick with an unproven manager who's "project" is on the brink of collapse and the players have stopped playing for? A fucking six year old could come up with the correct answer.
The fact this club believes it is capable of outthinking its rivals just adds a layer of depth to this car-crash of a comedy show that is supporting Liverpool Football Club.
Passing up top-level managers who have won some of the biggest trophies in the game, or stick with an unproven manager who's "project" is on the brink of collapse and the players have stopped playing for? A fucking six year old could come up with the correct answer.
The fact this club believes it is capable of outthinking its rivals just adds a layer of depth to this car-crash of a comedy show that is supporting Liverpool Football Club.
Also conveniently dismissing the many decisions that went against us, particularly the blatant penalties that Suarez should have won.
Managers don't matter, apart from the exceptions like Ferguson, Rafa and Rodgers.
I thought 'Markmc' was supposed to know his stuff???
I am fine about this. As long as it is Gordon, Rodgers and Ayre that do the season review I am pretty confident we will come out stronger at the other side of the review.
Ah fuck This shit..
Anyone wants to keep Rodgers after that woeful performance on Sunday.. need their head testing..
The cunt needs to go.. I think all these newspaper article are just spin.. IMHO
NO decision has been made about Rodgers Yet. .
Anyone wants to keep Rodgers after that woeful performance on Sunday.. need their head testing..
The cunt needs to go.. I think all these newspaper article are just spin.. IMHO
NO decision has been made about Rodgers Yet. .
If he stays, they're going to have to make some amazing signings to regain the fans confidence.
Echo saying that BR is just getting his chance to explain himself in the review. No decisions made yet.
I think the bigger issue is as to whether the owners have figured out that their value strategy is flawed. The titanic/deckchair comparison made elsewhere is apt.
I think the bigger issue is as to whether the owners have figured out that their value strategy is flawed. The titanic/deckchair comparison made elsewhere is apt.
"the cunt", you do realise you lose complete credibility with this hate ridden bollocks. STOP REPEATING YOURSELF. We get it.
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