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

[CosbehFox]

3 minutes ago, NaijaFox said:

 

I have always been rather AMBIVALENT on the Brendan Rodgers question.

Never really thought of myself as particularly pro-BR, and thought his tactics shyte from time to time.

 

But he has made a FACTUALLY-ACCURATE statement here...

The sophistry of whether what's PUBLICLY clear should be affirmed by him is, with all respect, partisan pablum.

 

 

 

He can make the first part of the statement and then back it up with ‘we want to add new options but I’ve got a squad here of internationals and we can be better than this.’ 

 

His inability to make the situation into a siege mentality is horrifying. Stand up for the players on the external and make comments such as ‘a lot of people are writing us off and creating stories about us’ In the process he might take some fans behind him 

[ealingfox]

Just now, Corky said:

Signed four players, there of whom they've tried to ditch and the other gets five minutes at the end of games.

 

And his mate was the Head of Senior Recruitment.

[foxes_rule1978]

This isn’t the first time Rodgers has come into pretty much a ready made club and made the team worse. He did it at Liverpool too… 

[Bourbon Fox]

3 minutes ago, hejammy said:

He said something along the lines of (when asked about why Thomas started) 

'we have shipped 10 goals already this season and so I had to bring someone in who can defend so I bought on Thomas who was excellent' 

No f**cking way

[charly]

Let's face it, the incoming transfers overseen by Rodgers have been appalling. And, yes the squad is not good enough, so whose fault is that? Rodgers!!

[fazzyfox]

10 minutes ago, filbertway said:

@AjcW called it early doors. Stick him on gardening leave.

He’d get mistaken for a gnome

[yorkie1999]

Looks to me that they’re being coached to keep the ball, we’d be better off with U11s  tactics by chucking 3 strikers on and lumping the ball up to them. Worst I’ve seen is play for a long time.

[LFox99]

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, NaijaFox said:

Apparently Soyuncu is one of those players who've gotten "better" and risen in the estimation of FTers by sitting on the bench. 

Naaa it’s just a lot of people just on the same vibe as  Rodgers comments tonight of ‘we’ve conceded ten, so I wanted to change the defence’

[filbertway]

6 minutes ago, wardyfox86 said:

We can't even put out a team of 11 players with everybody in their correct positions.

 

I want him to go as much as the next guy, but we can't honestly say he's had all the help he needs.

 

We have no capable left back, 1 capable centre back and no capable right winger.

 

With a clearly declining Vardy, a clearly declining Evans, a Championship keeper, a disinterested Tielemans and (for all his good qualities) a wet- behind-the-ears KDH it's an alarmingly poor squad of players when every other team has improved and addressed their weaknesses.

We can though. Rodgers chooses not to because he's too busy making as many enemies as possible.

 

New manager and they suddenly look like a top half team again, it's really that simple. The bloke has been sucking the life out of the players and once again, I can't wait to be proved right when Top finally does the right thing.

 

[STEVIE B]

10 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

It's a Mexican stand-off between Rodgers and the club over which of them pulls the trigger first and forfeits the money. It could go on for some time.

This is true. Surely the cost of relegation, which is looking ominous under BR, would be horrific, compared to the price of sacking him ? 
 

Everything seems stale & toxic around the club. A new manager appears to be our only option. 

[splinterdream]

4 minutes ago, foxes_rule1978 said:

Rodgers had money last summer and wasted it 

He had £50m not exactly the biggest budget in the world, let’s not kid ourselves.

 

we have a go because in hindsight those signings haven’t worked out, but they weren’t seen as bad signings at the time

[turlo]

7 minutes ago, Bourbon Fox said:

Mostly Rodgers signings earning big money crippling our finances. 

[Mr Weller 2]

7 minutes ago, wardyfox86 said:

We can't even put out a team of 11 players with everybody in their correct positions.

 

I want him to go as much as the next guy, but we can't honestly say he's had all the help he needs.

 

We have no capable left back, 1 capable centre back and no capable right winger.

 

With a clearly declining Vardy, a clearly declining Evans, a Championship keeper, a disinterested Tielemans and (for all his good qualities) a wet- behind-the-ears KDH it's an alarmingly poor squad of players when every other team has improved and addressed their weaknesses.

Yet the same players finished 8th last year. I don’t think it’s an ‘alarmingly poor squad’ but a squad that’s playing with no belief.

[Kitchandro]

5 minutes ago, wardyfox86 said:

We can't even put out a team of 11 players with everybody in their correct positions.

 

I want him to go as much as the next guy, but we can't honestly say he's had all the help he needs.

 

We have no capable left back, 1 capable centre back and no capable right winger.

 

With a clearly declining Vardy, a clearly declining Evans, a Championship keeper, a disinterested Tielemans and (for all his good qualities) a wet- behind-the-ears KDH it's an alarmingly poor squad of players when every other team has improved and addressed their weaknesses.

So why didn’t he buy them last season instead of spunking it all on Southampton players?

 

Why didn’t he do it the season before? Or the one before that?

 

How many of his signings over the 3 years have been any good? Hardly any. We have bought so much rubbish under him, rubbish he has approved and suggested.

 

They have backed him, he’s failed, now they’re trying not to bankrupt the club.

[oadby.fox]

He should’ve gone after the Forest shambles at the absolute latest. It’s negligent that he’s been allowed to continue for this long when it was obvious to so many who know anything about the game that it was only going one way.

 

Lost the plot a long time ago. His fragile ego and insecurity sucks the life out of this team the longer he is here. Problems that began at the beginning of his reign have only gotten worse, and the only decent player he oversaw the transfer of literally ran away kicking and screaming. 
 

The amount of shade cast on the club by his comments over the past year or so is also ridiculous. Disappointed in the media for not calling him out on his BS as well but what do you expect.

[VLC86]

Absolutely raging. Ruined the club, regressed our squad significantly and can’t see his own faults. He’s a horrendous little ****

[foxes_rule1978]

4 minutes ago, splinterdream said:

He had £50m not exactly the biggest budget in the world, let’s not kid ourselves.

 

we have a go because in hindsight those signings haven’t worked out, but they weren’t seen as bad signings at the time

Well it was a wasted 50m, the fact 0 of the 5 come off is pretty bad… it doesn’t matter what we thought at the time, he is paid millions to get these things right. Plus the squad is much better than how they are performing at this moment. Let’s not forget the wages being paid to those players too 

Edited 1 September 2022 by foxes_rule1978

[Wizerud]

What's he referring to though? Hasn't got enough help to push for top 6? Definitely. Hasn't had enough to finish in the top half? Probably. I don't think he could use that as an excuse to be flirting with relegation though.

Edited 1 September 2022 by Wizerud

[NaijaFox]

3 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Naaa it’s just a lot of people just on the same vibe as  Rodgers comments tonight of ‘we’ve conceded ten, so I wanted to change the defence’

Too bored to do it, but feel free to dredge up FT comments the last few times he played.

If a poll was taken at the end of last season or over the off-season, pretty certain that majority of fans wanted him offloaded post-haste! 

[turlo]

While he's not been backed enough this summer, the question of why so many of our players form has dropped off a cliff over the past 12 months needs to be asked of him. Cags was in the EPL team of the year 2 seasons ago but now can't start ahead of out 4th choice CB Amartey, who's not a natural CB anyway! Why have so many players regressed under you Mr Rodgers?

[wardyfox86]

2 minutes ago, filbertway said:

We can though. Rodgers chooses not to because he's too busy making as many enemies as possible.

 

New manager and they suddenly look like a top half team again, it's really that simple. The bloke has been sucking the life out of the players and once again, I can't wait to be proved right when Top finally does the right thing.

 

Completely agree he needs to go. Needed 6 new players that buy into his methods, or 1 new manager.

 

I'm at the point where I don't really care who comes in, because just doing nothing is gross negligence.

[CosbehFox]

Just now, NaijaFox said:

Too bored to do it, but feel free to dredge up FT comments the last few times he played.

If a poll was taken at the end of last season or over the off-season, pretty certain that majority of fans wanted him offloaded post-haste! 

Yeah he was in poor form but what harm do we have changing it at the moment? 

[oadby.fox]

10 minutes ago, wardyfox86 said:

We can't even put out a team of 11 players with everybody in their correct positions.

 

I want him to go as much as the next guy, but we can't honestly say he's had all the help he needs.

 

We have no capable left back, 1 capable centre back and no capable right winger.

 

With a clearly declining Vardy, a clearly declining Evans, a Championship keeper, a disinterested Tielemans and (for all his good qualities) a wet- behind-the-ears KDH it's an alarmingly poor squad of players when every other team has improved and addressed their weaknesses.

It’s nonsense that he hasn’t been backed.

 

Until now we kept all of our big players and only added to the team but the performances got progressively worse. We are hamstrung because of the transfers that he’s overseen and because of his awful tactics, man and game management. We spunked almost £60m on Perez and Daka for instance and both contribute very little. Veste can’t get anywhere near the squad nor can Bertrand and Soumare has been hugely disappointing. 
 

He’s coached Soyuncu from being one of the more promising CBs in the league to “nowhere near the level required”. He’s delusional.

 

[filbertway]

Just now, wardyfox86 said:

Completely agree he needs to go. Needed 6 new players that buy into his methods, or 1 new manager.

 

I'm at the point where I don't really care who comes in, because just doing nothing is gross negligence.

With all due respect (as he likes to say) he's had 3 years to bring in players that buy into his methods. Bringing more players into the club that he decides he doesn't rate wouldn't have made a difference.

 

As someone said, sacking him even for £25 million would be worth signing 2 or 3 players.