Brendan Rodgers

[deanolegend1989]

6 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Bang on with this, I think we finish outside of the European positions this season without Youri. Him and Kel have bailed our Rodgers defensive footie time and time again the last 2/3 months.

Absolutely spot on. 👏. Very lucky wins vs Brighton Palace and FA Cup final were all because of pure wonder goals from these boys.

Weve been toilet since he’s gone 5 atb and a few games we’ve got through because of bits of brilliance backs it up. Top quality squad/not top quality manager.

[Rigga]

15 minutes ago, surrifox said:

What a load of cobblers

👏 well explained

[StanSP]

27 minutes ago, Rigga said:

We wont be competing with the top 4 again after this season...

 

imagine 

 

Kane - Chelsea 

haaland - Man Utd 

messi - Man City

 

Eduoard - LCFC...

 

we had our go at flirting with top 4... rollercoaster ride it was..
best we hope for is pushing for El regular as Spurs and Arsenal need rebuilds..

Kane never goes Chelsea

 

They and Spurs don't do business. 

[Rigga]

Possibly not... those 3 teams will be buying big though in attacking positions...

[LaCiudad]

8 minutes ago, deanolegend1989 said:

Absolutely spot on. 👏. Very lucky wins vs Brighton Palace and FA Cup final were all because of pure wonder goals from these boys.

Weve been toilet since he’s gone 5 atb and a few games we’ve got through because of bits of brilliance backs it up. Top quality squad/not top quality manager.

Utter crap. CBA to go in to why as it's too obvious 

[Guest Manini]

11 minutes ago, deep blue said:

Not last night, he didn't.

Not but he managed the small feat of winning a major trophy 3 days earlier. I should have been more switched on as to realise that would be talked about like it was 20 years ago as soon as we lost another game afterwards. May as well just sack him now I reckon. 

[wardyfox86]

23 minutes ago, Rigga said:

We wont be competing with the top 4 again after this season...

 

imagine 

 

Kane - Chelsea 

haaland - Man Utd 

messi - Man City

 

Eduoard - LCFC...

 

we had our go at flirting with top 4... rollercoaster ride it was..
best we hope for is pushing for El regular as Spurs and Arsenal need rebuilds..

Nonsense, we can compete against these teams in single games, even with these players coming in. It's improving against the lower sides that should be our aim. Do that and we are on good grounds. 

 

Regardless, you could make a case for 3 or 4 teams per season being disappointed at missing out on CL football, which is showing how much the league is actually levelling out slightly.

 

Look at us, look at West Ham, Leeds will keep improving, Everton might click. All of a sudden you have half the league looking tasty.

 

The league is looking similar to 15/16 really, but that is testament to the strength of the league, not the weakness of the top sides like the narrative seems to be. It will take more than the players you mentioned to take that away. Bringing them into the league will push better players down the table. 

[hackneyfox]

12 minutes ago, An Sionnach said:

Maybe , but no point in flogging a knackered horse. Wilf and Jamie are perfect examples of players who have been pushed over the limit. Rodgers should trust his squad players when his main men need resting.

It's not difficult to understand or shouldn't be.

We don't have the depth of squad that Man City, Man U, Liverpool or Chelsea have.

We've had terrible injuries to key players.

Rodgers then brought through younger players and they also got injured.

We could have done what Liverpool did, played the same style all season (the same as they have since Klopp arrived) and been been hammered, instead he's changed tactics and faces regularly and we've ground out results.

We're still fourth, guaranted fifth, could even make third and have jst won the FA Cup.

 

He has trusted his squad and yet gets slated by some absolute tools on here.

[An Sionnach]

In reality only Guardiola and Klopp are on a higher level in the premiership . Rodgers however has got some pretty decent tunes out of a relatively cheap fiddle while they have Strads and even then they play plenty of bum notes.

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Are we really questioning the players and the mentality of the managers and the players 72 hours after a monumental effort to win the fa cup? Of course it would be disappointing losing to Chelsea. Chelsea squad is a Lot deeper than ours and they were like duracel bunnies for the entire game, cheered on by their scum fans for the first time in over a year at their ground, 72 hours after being beaten by the very team they had to face, in light of Amartey doing ridiculous things to wind them up, it's up their with putting the 9-0 on the big screens before playing Southampton in the reverse fixture. We were just outplayed on the night, simple as that, it happens. It's a load of toss to suggest the players or the manager are weak mentally and some of our 'fans' need to really give their head a wobble being so overtly critical merely days after our second greatest achievement in 50 years. 

[4everfox]

48 minutes ago, deanolegend1989 said:

Spot on. Exactly this in bold. Has he then do you think?

Not a chance unfortunately.

Like I said, we won the FA Cup so it gives him a bit of time but it doesn’t mean we can pretend that he’s failed to get over the line twice in a row in the league we compete in for 2 full seasons.

Weve been in the top 4 for 2 full seasons and not qualified, it’s farcical to do that imo.

 

I’ll always be thankful for winning the FA Cup but unlike most on here it seems, I’m more thankful to Youri and Kasper than Brendan.

Arteta won the cup last season and he’s an awful manager. Winning the FA Cup might give him time but it doesn’t make him an elite manager, his negativity and poor in game management has cost us top 4 and you have to live or die on your decisions.

 

The biggest importance in this summer is keeping Youri. I don’t think many people realise how important he is to us.

All those people constantly writing ‘when Brendan came we had finished 9th/9th etc’ conveniently forget that Youris arrival happened around the same time.

So our upturn is down to a world class player and not a decent manager, in my opinion and hopefully I won’t be proven right when Youri ****s off for us failing twice and us living to rue the consequences.

 

 

We have not been in the top four for the best part of two full seasons just because of Tielemans. That's an insult to the rest of the squad and the coaching staff too. Your desire to see Rodgers gone after delivering two of our best three finishes we've ever had in the Premier League is a joke to be honest. Realistically, there isn't anyone who could do a better job either. I think we'd be much better off by sticking with this hand. Twist, and we'll end up mid table with someone like Graham Potter as manager.

[Rigga]

3 minutes ago, wardyfox86 said:

Nonsense, we can compete against these teams in single games, even with these players coming in. It's improving against the lower sides that should be our aim. Do that and we are on good grounds. 

 

Regardless, you could make a case for 3 or 4 teams per season being disappointed at missing out on CL football, which is showing how much the league is actually levelling out slightly.

 

Look at us, look at West Ham, Leeds will keep improving, Everton might click. All of a sudden you have half the league looking tasty.

 

The league is looking similar to 15/16 really, but that is testament to the strength of the league, not the weakness of the top sides like the narrative seems to be. It will take more than the players you mentioned to take that away. Bringing them into the league will push better players down the table. 

We will push for EL places for sure.

The forwards that these clubs could possibly sign for next season though just widens the gap..

 

we beat a Man Utd reserve team..

it took a wonder strike to beat Chelsea after they were all over us..

we beat them in the league because lampard was way out of his depth as a manager..

 

most of the time it’s our mindset...

we failed miserably in the end last season.

never learnt our lesson this season and start games poorly the last 2/3 months..

we play defensively and with fear 

 

Man City

Man UTD

Chelsea

Liverpool

 

Were not getting close to that unfortunately next year 

[wardyfox86]

2 minutes ago, Rigga said:

We will push for EL places for sure.

The forwards that these clubs could possibly sign for next season though just widens the gap..

 

we beat a Man Utd reserve team..

it took a wonder strike to beat Chelsea after they were all over us..

we beat them in the league because lampard was way out of his depth as a manager..

 

most of the time it’s our mindset...

we failed miserably in the end last season.

never learnt our lesson this season and start games poorly the last 2/3 months..

we play defensively and with fear 

 

Man City

Man UTD

Chelsea

Liverpool

 

Were not getting close to that unfortunately next year 

Chelsea signed Werner, Havertz, Chilwell, Mendy, Thiago Silva.

Utd signed Cavani, 1st full season for Fernandes.

Liverpool signed Thiago and Jota

Man City got Dias, Torres. 

 

They constantly sign world class players, we operate in the market underneath that, but we are closer than you're giving us credit for. 

[ARM1968]

There is no one realistic to replace Rodgers. The guy has his flaws but is a top manager. He learnt from last season and has been better this. He needs to up his game again next season, but will hopefully have a few more resources on hand and less injuries to contend with. 

[Rigga]

Potter will go onto bigger and better things than Brighton..

they have a great open style of football..

if they had a striker or two they would be top 10.

[Rigga]

Just now, ARM1968 said:

There is no one realistic to replace Rodgers. The guy has his flaws but is a top manager. He learnt from last season and has been better this. He needs to up his game again next season, but will hopefully have a few more resources on hand and less injuries to contend with. 

What has he learnt from last season.??

 

BR has done a tremendous job in his time with us.. Non of us expected a top 4 push and we are certainly currently punching above our weight...

 

I don’t see though where either BR or the team has learnt from last season.. We have been  negative and defensive in the league since Xmas..

[hackneyfox]

16 minutes ago, Rigga said:

We will push for EL places for sure.

The forwards that these clubs could possibly sign for next season though just widens the gap..

 

we beat a Man Utd reserve team..

it took a wonder strike to beat Chelsea after they were all over us..

we beat them in the league because lampard was way out of his depth as a manager..

 

most of the time it’s our mindset...

we failed miserably in the end last season.

never learnt our lesson this season and start games poorly the last 2/3 months..

we play defensively and with fear 

 

Man City

Man UTD

Chelsea

Liverpool

 

Were not getting close to that unfortunately next year 

Tony Wilson - You're Entitled to an Opinion but your Opinion is ****

[deanolegend1989]

8 minutes ago, Rigga said:

Potter will go onto bigger and better things than Brighton..

they have a great open style of football..

if they had a striker or two they would be top 10.

He would do a good job here with the quality we have. Providing we kept our best assets, Potter would do a fantastic job imo.

[Rigga]

3 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

Tony Wilson - You're Entitled to an Opinion but your Opinion is ****

So, we win the PL next year ? In your **** opinion ?

[Mr Weller]

Any fool can deliberately put the most negative interpretation possible on everything and reach a conclusion but the vast majority of people think Rodgers has done a fantastic job, and clearly so do the owners.

 

 

[Ric Flair]

Some of you actually make me wish the club would fold, frightening stuff it really is.

[UniFox21]

1 minute ago, Ric Flair said:

Some of you actually make me wish the club would fold, frightening stuff it really is.

Think a lot of them haven't dried out from Saturday

[turlo]

12 minutes ago, Rigga said:

What has he learnt from last season.??

 

BR has done a tremendous job in his time with us.. Non of us expected a top 4 push and we are certainly currently punching above our weight...

 

I don’t see though where either BR or the team has learnt from last season.. We have been  negative and defensive in the league since Xmas..

We played some of our best positive football from late December up until mid late February when injuries really started to have an impact, resulting in us then moving to a back 3. 

This season has reinforced we really need to improve our squad depth to cope with European Football and a top 4 EPL challnge. 

[Matt]

24 minutes ago, Rigga said:

Potter will go onto bigger and better things than Brighton..

they have a great open style of football..

if they had a striker or two they would be top 10.

Agreed.

 

For a 'possession based team/style' I find Brighton one of the most entertaining when i've caught some of their games this season, unfortunately they've not got a striker or goalscorer should we say.

 

Edited 19 May 2021 by Matt

[Rigga]

Still say it’s our mentality...