Rodgers (Allegedly) Publicly Calls the Players Not Good Enough and Throws Them Under the Bus

[NotTheMarketLeader]

16 hours ago, iancognito said:

**** me !! 

What a ****.

 

Taking the piss now. 

[Corky]

10 hours ago, Babylon said:

Do you realise it was HIS head of recruitment in charge of singing those duds? He installed him, he wanted him, he brought him from Celtic. It’s on him and his team. 
 

And these problems were here long ago.

Two of our best eleven (Castagne and Dewsbury-Hall) were signed/ brought through on his watch. I'll give him Justin as a key player too. Tielemans was already here, the rest long before Rodgers arrived. The only player signed of any significance in three years is Fofana.

 

If he is so keen on other players why aren't Daka, Vestergaard and Soumare starting every week?

 

Rodgers has no excuses and he knows it.

[Mr Mister]

Why should they back him when he spunks the cash on the two defensive lynchpins of two 9-0 defeats. He would just spunk the money on even more trash and make the team worse.

[somebum]

"Friend first, boss second... Probably entertainer third"

[marcymarc666]

11 minutes ago, Mr Mister said:

Why should they back him when he spunks the cash on the two defensive lynchpins of two 9-0 defeats. He would just spunk the money on even more trash and make the team worse.

That's a humongous  amount of spunk !

[Fear Of The Fox]

I don't care what Rodgers says. Get him out of our club now and have Vardy as player/manager and Big Wes as assistant for the Brighton game. 

[Ecdysiast]

Put him in a velcro suit and we can all take turns throwing him at the wall..... 

[Matt]

6 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Villa will get hammered by Man City on Saturday and I think Gerrard will be under massive pressure, possibly even gone by the time we play each other next weekend. 

 

I could see Villa wanting Rodgers, but they are also very ambitious enough to think they could attract Pocchetino and you never know with him. Also would Rodgers walk away from us for a pay cut? Is any other club going to pay him £10m a year? I'd say no, so the temptation to get paid off first will be very real, especially as he's doing very well with the narrative it's not at all his fault.

Apparently Villa want Rodgers:

They are very ambitious, they also very deluded and think they're bigger than they actually are. (Likewise i've seen people suggest Poch for us, so....)

 

Villa love chucking money about, I think they'd go in putting a wage cut forward but as we know Rodgers sweet talks people, he could talk them into what he wants.

 

Even if he can't sweet talk them into his wage demands self preservation, protecting his reputation and feeling loved again will take hold, lets be honest should he not be paid £10m a year, he'd still be paid handsomely nonetheless.

 

Edited 2 September 2022 by Matt

[taupe]

I'd be happy for Rodgers to walk/be poached - Villa or otherwise. I can't see him being sacked, not just yet anyway.

[Matt]

Regardless of the outside narrative that "he's not been backed", i'm not sure how i'd feel if we were talking about replacing our manager with someone who's currently at a club bottom of the league and their fans unanimously want him gone.

 

That'd put me off straight away.

[sishades]

12 hours ago, String fellow said:

The word bus in the thread title got me thinking about football and public transport.

The team trains with the coach and to avoid shipping goals they park the bus or else get thrown under it!

 

Plane sailing.

[UHDrive]

6 hours ago, SafewayFox said:

Mate, read Top’s version of events in the programme notes.

 

Not saying Top and co haven’t been arrogant thinking we won’t get pulled into trouble BUT Rodgers whining is nothing but him playing politician and saving his brand.

 

He has been trusted with over 200m of spending yet how many improved our starting 11?

 

He is meant to be an “elite” coach with great man management yet he’s showing the polar opposite.

He hasn't been in control of £200 million of spending. The DoF is in control of that. 

 

I agree he's getting political about it but so would I if I'd been assured funds that never arose.

[splinterdream]

How do we think at our club players are identified, decided on, bids made, contracts negotiated? 

Because you'd think by the hatred for Rodgers, he does it solely on his own.

It's not a good situation at the club but the responsibility for putting us in this position is the person who gave Rodgers his contract.

Rodgers and the club have made mistakes with signings and contracts and I hope it's resolved amicably but can't understand the need to hate on the bloke, it doesn't show us fans in a good light, surely it can be seen there's faults on all sides, it just hasn't worked out with Rodgers, but why should he walk away from his contract?

The club needs to accept they've made a mistake (not with rodgers) but with his contract, the man oversaw us winning the FA cup so although I think it's time to part ways, we should just continue to support all the players, even vestegaard.

[Legend_in_blue]

The way in which he goes about manipulating the media is impressive.  I'd even go as far as saying he's managed it with people on here.  It's a disaster for us but everyone else laps it up and believes everything he says.

 

I've gone from wanting him out to just finding him an unpleasant individual who has long outstayed his welcome tbh.  Just **** off.

 

 

[Tom12345]

20 hours ago, Pliskin said:

I’m sure Kasper has something to say….

 

When grumpy finally gets disposed, I would like to hear Kaspers thoughts. There’s no way a club legend and captain just leaves the club without any sort of formal goodbye without something happening….

Exactly what I said when he left but got laughed at.  Kasper would have wanted to retire here but left because he could not stand Rodgers’ negativity.

[Tom12345]

3 hours ago, Legend_in_blue said:

The way in which he goes about manipulating the media is impressive.  I'd even go as far as saying he's managed it with people on here.  It's a disaster for us but everyone else laps it up and believes everything he says.

 

I've gone from wanting him out to just finding him an unpleasant individual who has long outstayed his welcome tbh.  Just **** off.

 

 

Yeah, from Ferdinand, Sherwood to even Savage! It is easy to manipulate pundits who do not do much research and not watch as many games as we do.

[Sly]

It’s simple for me really, 

 

I don’t blame Rodgers for recruitment, that’s Leicester. 
 

However, the players we’ve signed all good enough when utilised within systems. 
 

Rodgers and the current coaching setup haven’t improved us. 
 

The in game tactics and current team selections are abysmal.
 

Also, some of our in game tactically awareness at times is poor. 

[murphy]

He is right.  The failure to recruit is also compounded by the loss of form for players such as Wilf, Cags, Vardy amd Justin and also by the amount of failed signings and players that don't want to be here.

 

It seemed quite obvious to me that we are in trouble, some pundits called it and our terrible start confirms it.  The club have gambled that we will have enough to stay up but I think that is a big mistake.  Relegation would be catastrophic.

[Claudio Fannieri]

There has been a shift in the profile and type of player we recruit since Rodgers bas joined, the process is unlikely to have  changed from when Puel was here and we were pretty successful with our recruitment. 
 

However what has changed is individuals involved in the process and how they influence our strategy. 
 

Puel was clearly onboard with the strategy to buy younger players with potential to sell on for profit and to promote from the academy where possible. Rodgers has often called out our inexperience at key moments in games or in a season and certainly appears to favour ready made players with prem experience over  players with potential but largely inexperienced. 
 

Rodgers given 2 seasons nearly reaching Champions League and securing our first FA Cup win gained a lot of leverage and influence and this certainly extended to recruitment where we hired someone he held in very high esteem to head it up. 
 

Yes the club have made mistakes in allowing Rodgers to gain as much power and influence over certain aspects of the club and it would seem as with the medical dept they are bringing that back into the clubs control. 
 

in short Rodgers has had way too much influence on our transfer strategy and player retention over the last 2/3 seasons and the club have supported him to a level that is no longer sustainable, Rodgers is the last one who should be crying about the current situation. I am glad the club has come to its senses and wrestled this control back and hopefully from the winter transfer window we see a more sustainable and forward thinking approach and strategy to our recruitment. 

[Lionator]

 

this is nice, I can’t imagine our Brendon doing this. 

[Deeg67]

16 minutes ago, Lionator said:

 

this is nice, I can’t imagine our Brendon doing this. 

The haters on FT have already mocked Jesse for that clip, but there's a reason so many of his former players want to play for him again.  He's a genuinely decent guy who cares about his players in addition to being a really sharp tactician.

[sishades]

Jesses first question was "do you speak english" I would have thought he would already know that if he had signed the player.

[shailen]

If he cares about the club, would he terminate his contract by mutual consent to avoid a further financial burden on us? 

[The Year Of The Fox]

11 hours ago, sishades said:

Plane sailing.

We’re currently  a walkover 

[ithuriel]

36 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

We’re currently  a walkover 

Because we often move the ball forwards at a snails pace and once forwards, cant get back quick enough.