Brendan Rodgers

[Bunyip]

And to think only a few weeks ago people on here were defending Puel and saying what is the alternative. Top has given you his answer.

[Corky]

3 hours ago, Bunyip said:

And to think only a few weeks ago people on here were defending Puel and saying what is the alternative. Top has given you his answer.

I think some of us had doubts as to who they'd go for but they identified their target and did everything to get him as quickly as possible and I credit them hugely for that.

[KingsX]

1 hour ago, Corky said:

I think some of us had doubts as to who they'd go for but they identified their target and did everything to get him as quickly as possible and I credit them hugely for that.

 

Quite right.  I assumed a mid-season change could only result in one of two things:

 

    - one of the usual retreads, or

    - an out of work stiff with a poor CV (and/or poor fit for our youth project).

 

For the board to so decisively identify and poach a qualified man ... that's not small-club thinking.  It gives me the optimism to believe they'll do what it takes to acquire Tielemans.

 

[blueharmie]

He's a lovely man.

[Dan]

He's done pretty much everything right so far. He's given us belief back as a fanbase and that's all I wanted.

[FLAN]

On 30/03/2019 at 17:46, broughtonblue said:

I think Barnes has made more progress in 3 months than Grey has in 3 years !

So true. This gets loads of positive reactions yet my comment was received with negativity??

[Stadt]

He tells the fans exactly what he wants to hear and I'm lapping up every word at the minute. He is proper smarmy but you can see why players would want to play for somebody that is so sure of his own ability, that confidence exudes throughout the whole club now. Night and day when you think Puel's nickname was whispering Claude ffs

[CosbehFox]

5 hours ago, Stadt said:

He tells the fans exactly what he wants to hear and I'm lapping up every word at the minute. He is proper smarmy but you can see why players would want to play for somebody that is so sure of his own ability, that confidence exudes throughout the whole club now. Night and day when you think Puel's nickname was whispering Claude ffs

Leicester fans love a bit of arrogance from their managers. The top two in my lifetime had that in buckets; o’Neill and Pearson. The fans seem to get off on the bravado

[HighPeakFox]

57 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Leicester fans love a bit of arrogance from their managers. The fans seem to get off on the bravado

Yet strangely, one of the bricks thrown at Puel was his supposed arrogance. So I guess it was some other factor really, other than his apparent poor man-management and motivational skills. I have my own thoughts on that, of course, but others will draw differing conclusions.

[CosbehFox]

37 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Yet strangely, one of the bricks thrown at Puel was his supposed arrogance. So I guess it was some other factor really, other than his apparent poor man-management and motivational skills. I have my own thoughts on that, of course, but others will draw differing conclusions.

I think the argument can be made Puel was arrogant but he never had that bravado we are aiming for ‘top six’. That interview where he stated that Leicester could not compete against Wolves, West Ham etc seemed to annoy an awful lot of our fans 

[Farrington fox]

Anyone know what CP is doing now? Bet he looks at our recent results and thinks ........

[CosbehFox]

Just now, Farrington fox said:

Anyone know what CP is doing now? Bet he looks at our recent results and thinks ........

Had this conversation yesterday how football is a funny old sport when it comes to departing and arriving managers. 

 

Our first goal had an element of luck which Puel didn't get. Solskjaer's United survived despite Watford being worthy of a point. Lennon for Celtic keeps getting late goals in poor looking situations. 

[Dan]

Arrogance doesn't really bother me. If it's confidence in your own ability being mistaken for arrogance then there's no problem.

[Babylon]

30 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

I think the argument can be made Puel was arrogant but he never had that bravado we are aiming for ‘top six’. That interview where he stated that Leicester could not compete against Wolves, West Ham etc seemed to annoy an awful lot of our fans 

Probably because our fans are as thick as two short planks and aren't capable of reading beyond a made up headline in the Mercury. The conversation was about money, and looking at our net spend of £18m compared to theirs then he was correct. Sales were funding our purchases, where as others were splashing cash without that hold over them.

[FoxFossil]

Interesting fact: IF we finish 7th rather than 12th the extra prize money is about 3 times what we paid for Brendan!

[Nick]

If we can keep this group of players together and strengthen in the summer with YT and a right sided attacking player this team could genuinely be looking at breaking in to the top 6 next season.

[Haywood_6]

Nevermind telling the fans what they want to hear. Use that silver tongue to persuade Tielemans to put pen to paper!!!

[leicesterseddon]

1 hour ago, Babylon said:

Probably because our fans are as thick as two short planks and aren't capable of reading beyond a made up headline in the Mercury. The conversation was about money, and looking at our net spend of £18m compared to theirs then he was correct. Sales were funding our purchases, where as others were splashing cash without that hold over them.

 

I watched the whole thing and still think he had a poor argument. 

 

Our net transfer spend wasn’t that much last summer but there had been a good level of investment in the windows before. 

 

Also some of our players were playing in the QF of the Champions League in 2017, when Wolves were still in the Championship! 

[Babylon]

1 minute ago, leicesterseddon said:

 

I watched the whole thing and still think he had a poor argument. 

 

Our net transfer spend wasn’t that much last summer but there had been a good level of investment in the windows before. 

 

Also some of our players were playing in the QF of the Champions League in 2017, when Wolves were still in the Championship! 

Not by him and wasted on players that weren't very good. He's had to do major surgery on the squad to get rid of most of the waste.

 

As for the Wolves point, what's that got to do with money?

[CosbehFox]

3 hours ago, Babylon said:

Probably because our fans are as thick as two short planks and aren't capable of reading beyond a made up headline in the Mercury. The conversation was about money, and looking at our net spend of £18m compared to theirs then he was correct. Sales were funding our purchases, where as others were splashing cash without that hold over them.

I knew that Babs but his quotes were easy to paraphrase for the journalists to make it out as though the top ten was a huge achievement. Equally Rodgers could say 'top seven is the aim but....' and the journalist/local press would paraphrase the top seven comment. 

[hackneyfox]

4 hours ago, FoxFossil said:

Interesting fact: IF we finish 7th rather than 12th the extra prize money is about 3 times what we paid for Brendan!

Difference last season was £9.6 million.

We paid £9 million compensation.

[Christoph]

Hopefully it will continue on to the next season. Every new manager we've had in the prem seems to start off strong but the next season always ends up weaker. I feel positive about Rodgers but there is that pessimistic Leicester fan inside me which tells me not to get too excited yet. 

[Wymsey]

Couldn't really choose a better manager than him, considering the club's philosophy and needing someone who can both motivate the players and mould the young ones excellently.

Have quite high hopes for next season.

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He lives just outside of Whitwick, after moving in a couple of weeks ago, according to a source within the club.

Nearly chose a property near Cossington.

[Foxy harry]

Also worth noting we said the exact same at this point for both puel and shakey

[Vardinio'sCat]

 

Listening to Maguire and Chilwell, they look to be implicitly signing up to have a real go next season.

 

Brendan is winning the squad over good and proper. I'm so glad we didn't get Rafa, even though I would have loved him to come at the time, even more than Brendan. Rodgers is a better fit for our talents.