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Liverpool were equally as bad the other night. Brentford just took advantage.

Liverpool fans coming out the ground were saying it's as bad as they've ever seen them at Anfield and couldn't believe their luck they managed to still win. Similar to us against Newcastle just didn't get going, rusty from the break or whatever it was. Maddison starts and it's probably a different score at half time or maybe Tielemans should have started with him out.

I heard FSG and the Glazers are both looking to buy Leicester once they've sold Liverpool and Man United.

Look at Everton last season. Their fans went nuclear at their situation. They wouldn't accept it.

A lot of empty seats

Didn't watch it but you sense Lineker is sick of him.

Should we be looking at a fundraising initiative from the fans to pay him off? Where's the Fofana money gone? Why did we turn down offers for Maddison if we're that skint?

He was exactly the same towards the end at Liverpool and Celtic. i.e. completely unhinged.

If we'd sacked him and paid him off at the end of last season, or before the season as he clearly wanted, then he might be well placed to get that job now on a caretaker basis at least. Pochettino is available though.

If this chancer didn't lose interest in the job and basically checked out months ago, he might have had a shot at the Chelsea job.

The worst thing is his attitude. He hasn't had the window he wanted but it's his job to lift the squad. Instead his defeatism has just demoralised the players and club further. Plenty of clubs have had underwhelming transfer windows and gone on to have good seasons.

He might have a point but Everton spent major money for several years, wasted most of it, posted mega losses and haven't had a single FFP sanction. Spurs did it best by making what was a big 5 a big 6 before building a new stadium or spending big money. We missed the boat with those two 5th place finishes. When Covid hit we were going to finish top 4, since then we had the double whammy of missing out and the hit the owners have took from the pandemic.

I see Lineker's woken up to the fraud at last

Rodgers made a point of being all pally with the BT presenters before the game so they'd make excuses for him when we inevitably lost.

What about the fee? Does 7 years mean we only 10 a year?

Problem is we're getting to the situation where we can't afford a gamble (as could be a season of struggle) and won't attract an ambitious appointment (Potter/Pochettino) which Rodgers was at the time. That leaves needing a safer pair of hands. Someone like Dyche who is used to working with what he's got and has done well at this level with what he's had to work with and would get the fight back in the players.

He wants his pay off. He checked out months ago.

He was the same at Liverpool. He even wanted the players with leadership and character out the door because he was intimidated by them. Players like Reina, Agger and Carragher. Agger did a big interview last year around this btw.

The problem is Rodgers adds to instability. Scott Parker has just been sacked for similar comments at Bournemouth as it demoralises the whole dressing room. It's his job to lift the players, not drag the mood down. Looks and sounds more and more like a man desperate for the sack and his pay off. He's checked out.

A lot of Villa fans would want Rodgers, I doubt any Leicester fan would want Gerrard. The issue with Rodgers is everything goes south after a couple of years but he might sort Villa out for a season or two. A better appointment would be Potter if they could get him, or Pochettino if they could attract him. Neither would come here at the moment though.

He's similar to Pardew. Very streaky manager. Take Newcastle, he got them to the brink of a CL place but just fell short and then the next season they nearly went down. At Palace got them to an FA Cup final where they were minutes away from beating Man United and would have done with VAR (that saved us with the late Chelsea equaliser). A vain and arrogant man who nobody at the club can sight of after a couple of years.

The strategy is probably give him a chance to turn it around and if he can't then the new manager gets funds in January after the World Cup. No point giving Rodgers a lot of money to spend only to sack him soon after. Liverpool did that in 2015 when they knew his days were numbered but still allowed him to spend 32 million on Benteke.

Funny how he's so disliked at his old clubs: https://forums.liverpoolfc.com/threads/400264-Brendan-Rodgers-Leicester-manager/page42

All teams become a reflection of their manager's personality which is why he fails after 2 years everywhere. Rodgers stands with the same vacant expression all game.

Problem with attracting a quality manager is we seem to have slipped down to the bottom half in terms of spending power rather than the top 7 or 8 of the PL. You've got the big 6, Newcastle now, West Ham, Everton always find money and are funding a new 50k stadium, Villa have spent a lot lately and are a big club and even now Leeds and Forest back in the top flight spending. We're more back in the pack with the likes of Palace and Southampton especially after Rodgers's mismanagement (and the owners scaling back) so why would Potter leave Brighton for Leicester now? He'll wait for a bigger job. For me, Potter is basically a much better Brendan Rodgers. A similar type of coach but without the ego and arrogance and transfer market fiascos. The two CL near misses and then the chance to win the Conference League last year a real missed opportunity of course. That would have really raised our profile.