Rodgers memorably clashed with a teenage Raheem Sterling at training during pre-season, while he would find himself ridiculed by outsiders after his use of an envelopes mind-trick on the show. Lifting the lid on both incidents, it was Jones who offered the young winger some words of wisdom after he had been threatened with being sent home. And revealing the mind-trick was perhaps even less successful than viewers at the time might have thought, he was not surprised to see things not run smoothly.
“What you saw on the show was what you got,” he told the ECHO in an exclusive interview. “There were little bits off camera. I remember the thing with Raheem.
“It’s funny, I was just behind him and I think Brendan was testing him. He’d done it to a few people. Give them a little prod just to see how people react. Raheem was a kid at the time and a lot was on his shoulders for what people expected.
“I just remember that moment happening and I grabbed Raheem literally just after he said it and I said to him, 'He’s testing you. Don’t bite back. Just show him, you don’t have to do anything else.' He was such a good kid.
“It’s been said about the way the press dealt with him but he was a really good kid. He did exactly that. Got his head down, kept working and all of a sudden he was a massive player for the team. An important player and has gone on to have not too bad a career.
“The thing with the envelopes was a funny one. I think it was Glen Johnson who said he’d actually seen it before, I think it was Mourinho who had done it. When he did it, as we were sitting and he was talking, he put the envelopes up and you could actually see straight through them, just the way that the light caught them. I just remember sitting there thinking, ‘I don’t think there’s anything in those envelopes!’
“But for me Brendan was and is a very good coach. You can see what he’s doing with Leicester. Coaches always try things here and there to grab people’s attention or give them a little push. When they’re being filmed, it doesn’t always go so smoothly.”
Sauce: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...pool-brendan-rodgers-raheem-sterling-23719026
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I cringed when I read this. Fucking embarrassing.
“What you saw on the show was what you got,” he told the ECHO in an exclusive interview. “There were little bits off camera. I remember the thing with Raheem.
“It’s funny, I was just behind him and I think Brendan was testing him. He’d done it to a few people. Give them a little prod just to see how people react. Raheem was a kid at the time and a lot was on his shoulders for what people expected.
“I just remember that moment happening and I grabbed Raheem literally just after he said it and I said to him, 'He’s testing you. Don’t bite back. Just show him, you don’t have to do anything else.' He was such a good kid.
“It’s been said about the way the press dealt with him but he was a really good kid. He did exactly that. Got his head down, kept working and all of a sudden he was a massive player for the team. An important player and has gone on to have not too bad a career.
“The thing with the envelopes was a funny one. I think it was Glen Johnson who said he’d actually seen it before, I think it was Mourinho who had done it. When he did it, as we were sitting and he was talking, he put the envelopes up and you could actually see straight through them, just the way that the light caught them. I just remember sitting there thinking, ‘I don’t think there’s anything in those envelopes!’
“But for me Brendan was and is a very good coach. You can see what he’s doing with Leicester. Coaches always try things here and there to grab people’s attention or give them a little push. When they’re being filmed, it doesn’t always go so smoothly.”
Sauce: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spo...pool-brendan-rodgers-raheem-sterling-23719026
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I cringed when I read this. Fucking embarrassing.
