Rodgers In/Out

[John12345]

Rodgers out. He can't use the injury excuse or afcon so now he's going for motivation or physicality , a bizarre explanation for a top level football manager (reminds me of Sunday league tactics, 'get stuck in etc.'). He's the fukking manager. Motivate them man, you horrible toad.

[jim5000]

£15m to sack him

 

Maybe Utd coming in for him would have been best for all parties

Edited 7 February 2022 by jim5000

[oadby.fox]

5 minutes ago, jim5000 said:

£15m to sack him

 

Maybe Utd coming in for him would have been best for all parties

Yep, strengthen us and weaken a rival 

[Guest bennytwohats]

4 hours ago, The_77 said:

We were in, like, 9th place when he took over.

That’s a very simplistic metric of where we are/were as a club that I don’t think serves its purpose in this discussion.

[Stadt]

There’s been so many games where we’ve been lucky. Wolves at home in the first game, Brentford away & Leeds away where we got 5 points but it could have very easily been 0.

 

The good performances have been against two abysmal displays from Newcastle & United. Liverpool H was spirited but that was another game we rode our luck.

 

There’ll always be an excuse with Rodgers.

[jim5000]

9 minutes ago, bennytwohats said:

That’s a very simplistic metric of where we are/were as a club that I don’t think serves its purpose in this discussion.

 

Well where we are as a club is we have had an exceptional 5 years, punching above out weight. Champions of England, Champions League quater final, a season of rebuilding, followed by two 5th place finishes and the FA Cup and Charity Shield.

 

We currently have a manager that has a philosophy of playing that with the right players, is proven to be able to compete at the top end of the football league, with a club that is not in the top 10 historically given size, fanbase, location, income, stadium, etc. We've had a disappointing season but have not been able to field our first choice 11 for well over a year due to several freak injuries to long term key players and leaders within the squad, players being exhausted due to over playing, and freak injuries happening to returning players.

 

We've spent big on training facilities and plans to upgrade the stadium, and we've had to make emergency purchases to cover for injuries, rather than to build the squad, meaing there hasn't been funds in January this season to fix the problems in the squad. Youth players have come in and filled a spot when needed, but we're in the most competative league in the world and we're just treading water.

 

The season is a write-off. It's shit for the fans but there's nothing else to be done. With a big rebuild coming up, we shouldn't forget that we're only 1 bad managerial appointment away from the championship should we chose to role the dice.

 

On the other side, it does feel like the end of an era, and does Top have it within him to make the right calls and repeat the last 5 years in the next?

Edited 7 February 2022 by jim5000

[The_77]

4 hours ago, Dahnsouff said:

We were also, like, without an FA Cup when he took over too.

 

3 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

We had also never won the FA Cup, never played back to back seasons in Europe and only once finished in the top 5 of the Premier League.

Do you really think I don’t know that?

 

27 minutes ago, bennytwohats said:

That’s a very simplistic metric of where we are/were as a club that I don’t think serves its purpose in this discussion.

Obviously Rodgers deserves all the credit in the world for that FA Cup and two European campaigns. 

You wanted to slate and insult our fanbase and write like Rodgers saved us.
 

Claude Puel was sacked because the football was boring as hell, not because he was running our club to the ground. We had success before Rodgers, with Rodgers, and will have success after Rodgers. 

[kingfox]

We have entered the typical Brendan Rodgers pattern, he takes a club to a certain point, then he messes things up.

 

He did it at Liverpool, he did it at Celtic, now he’s doing it at Leicester.

 

The way some people talk, it’s as if this slump has suddenly come out of the blue, it hasn’t, this is a continuation from the back end of last season, which has snowballed into this season.

 

The FA Cup win glossed over the problems that were starting to materialise, 1-1 draw against Southampton, 4-2 loss against Newcastle, 4-2 loss against Spurs, those results in the end, ended up costing us top four...again.

 

The naive and weak mentality at this football club has occurred for about a year now, he’s had a year to rectify the problem, so far he hasn’t done so.

 

What baffles me is that it’s taking him so long to speak about certain problems, only yesterday he mentioned about mentality when it’s been a problem for ages. His comments a few months ago saying set pieces weren’t a problem, when we as fans knew set pieces had been a problem for ages. Yesterday he also mentioned about the lack of physicality, he went to rectify that problem in the summer by signing Soumare, here we are now in February and it’s still a problem.

 

There’s literally been only three times, where I’ve been proud of the team’s efforts this season. Man Utd(Home), Newcastle(Home) & Liverpool(Home), apart from that we’ve either been very average or very poor, we’ve collected some wins and some draws that we didn’t really deserve.

 

This negative, weak, naive mindset has been occurring for too long now, it’s alright throwing the players under the bus, but he has to take some responsibility himself, in typical Brendan Rodgers fashion he never does.

 

He has had a good year to stamp out certain problems, he hasn’t done so. We’ve let this negative mindset run through our club for long enough now, he needs to go before things get seriously toxic.

[Jaspa]

56 minutes ago, jim5000 said:

£15m to sack him

 

Maybe Utd coming in for him would have been best for all parties

 

How many shit signings can he fit into one summer though?

[MPH]

The tide is definitely turning… even just a couple of weeks ago it would be like a 60-40 split in favor of him staying

[MPH]

We need leaders on the pitch and we don’t have any. the last person he chose as his captain ( Tielemans) won’t even commit his future to the club. What sort of signal does that send out? You can be a great tactician but if you don’t t have leaders on the pitch it will mean nothing..

Edited 8 February 2022 by MPH

[themightyfin]

May not cost as much as we think to get rid.

Seems there may be a clause in his contract heavily in our favour should such a scenario arise relating to results.

Clever people Top,Rudin,and Susan. Don't under estimate them! 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

5 hours ago, kristianity77 said:

Out.  And have been out for ages.  The guy is capable (as shown) of humongous slumps that he can't get out of.  This is another, like the two absolute collapses towards the end of the previous two seasons.  There is no reset button this season though for another 15 games or so.  Who knows where we will be by then.

 

Yes he's won us an fa cup which is amazing, and yes we've had 2 great league finishes.  But in each of those seasons there were implosions like we've never seen before.  He turned us in to bottlers when it counts.  And now we bottle it on a regular basis even when the heat isn't on.

 

I've just never thought he's as good as people thinks he is.  We've lost everything we've built up in the past 10 years under him.

 

I don't believe we are going down this year, we will surely get 3 or 4 wins to see to that.  But if he's here to start a new season, I will panic about going down for the first time in years.

This is total hyperbole. Not saying you don't have a point but some of the comments here: "But in each of those seasons there were implosions like we've never seen before." - Erm, I've seen us get relegated 4 times pal and go through almost half a season without winning under Taylor.

 

Also "We've lost everything we've built up in the past 10 years under him." get a grip...

 

[TeamRocket]

Out but he's ain't going is he? Only way he leave is if he get a fat compo personally don't get why he should get a compo he's  been poor this season

[chapero82]

Deserves sacking just for this  

 

[erlee]

OUT was only 49% several weeks ago ..

ANGE POSTUCOGLoU for the LCFC job(( - sack him now ))

ANge has a 1 term contract - so its cheap

Edited 8 February 2022 by erlee

[KingsX]

He's now gone out of his way to frame it: it's him or the players.  That is an irreparable break which only ends one way.

 

Way too expensive to fire during a season where we're in no danger of the drop.  But nobody plays hard for a dead man walking.

 

Not a good recipe for the next few months is it?  Even I've given up hoping for a turnaround after injured players return.

[erlee]

ahh what a coincidence...

 

[The Year Of The Fox]

7 hours ago, MPH said:

The tide is definitely turning… even just a couple of weeks ago it would be like a 60-40 split in favor of him staying

It’s worrying how many still vote ‘in’

 

It’ll take relegation before they realise 

[ARM1968]

Does anyone think, in their heart of hearts, that Rodgers can turn this round?   I just cannot see it. The players have absolutely lost faith in him, so changing 4/5 in the summer isn’t going to alter that. 

[Bozman]

1 hour ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

It’s worrying how many still vote ‘in’

 

It’ll take relegation before they realise 

People are scared of change. They worry about the future under new leadership, yet we have in the main this season been dreadful to watch and I would say boring.. It's time for for another manager to have a go and hopefully in my opinion someone like Graham Potter who's had a shoestring budget to work with unlike our current manager and get the wage budget back under control , but I think we may have to wait till the end of the season for him to come Don't think he would leave Brighton at this time

[shiv]

2 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

It’s worrying how many still vote ‘in’

 

It’ll take relegation before they realise 

Just because someone doesn’t agree with you doesn’t mean they want to see Leicester relegated. Nonsense comment

[The Year Of The Fox]

48 minutes ago, shiv said:

Just because someone doesn’t agree with you doesn’t mean they want to see Leicester relegated. Nonsense comment

Where did I say I think that?

 

I said that they’ll only realise he’s no good if we were to get relegated? By then it’s too late.

 

Nonsense comment 😂

[Ely fox]

I’ve got a feeling Potter will end up Leicester City manager. Might be wrong. 

[sacreblueits442]

14 hours ago, Wasyls Pec Deck said:

We cannot look at his previous clubs to see if he can do the refresh after the 3 year cycle - because he’s left jobs around that point.

 

I was out yesterday, but I’ve been reminded he has good will in the bank. At the moment I feel like I’m willing to give him pre season and the first 10 games - but I may flip flop again.

. .what would be the sense of that!!!

  The new manager would more than likely inherit players he does not want and his only opportunity to bring in players, would be in a window, which we rarely operate in, and with money which has already been spent. 

  Any backing will have to be a commitment by the club that he gets the next season. If however the club is not satisfied then we need a manager to come in before the end of this season and assess what he has and what he will need for next season. 

  He is making all the right noise about rebuilding and this is, more so a challenge to the club than to the players, that he has taken these players as far as he could and need to be backed in the market.

  The narrative then would be the club is holding him back, and when you see Villa, West Ham and now Newcastle spending he starts to get restless and envious. 

  He new the plans when he came here, he is attempting to force the issue, and Top will have to make a decision, sooner rather than later.