lcfc043 Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 Lookman was a squad player like Perez. Fancy lumping him in with Kasper and Fofana to make him look more hard done by. Clown. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WigstonWanderer Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 Don’t think Rodgers could be trusted with precious funds to rebuild. The owners have been right to dig their heels in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cincinnati Fox Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 3 hours ago, CrispinLA in Texas said: Brendan really is living in denial, so when the fans booed after the match....he says that it's due to lack of transfers 🙄. FFS Brendan don't the the fans are thinking about that towards the end of the match....Brendan reckon it's due to your tactics, style of play, bizarre substitutions, player management, in game plan etc etc etc No, sir...they're saying boo-urns." He then asks the crowd, and they continue to boo him 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkerleeds Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 (edited) Np Edited 2 September 2022 by walkerleeds 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkerleeds Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 What a weasel. He's known the financial position of the club for a while yet now starts spouting self serving nonsense. Stop being a little bitch and crack on with the job, this squad is capable of mid table not battlin for the mooden spoon, so stop acting like it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Col city fan Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 So…if we lose to Brighton is Top going to have the minerals to sack him? He needs to. Lose to Brighton and we are absolutely rooted to the bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SixtiesFox Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 4 hours ago, nnfox said: I've come to the conclusion that Brendan is a Plan A type of guy, both in the long term strategic planning for the team and the tactical plans for the game. When it comes to matches, Brendan will usually do a pretty good job of setting the team up and understanding the opposition. This is Plan A. When something happens that where he really should change things - the shape, the tempo, bring on substitutes, i.e. enact a Plan B, he is seriously lacking. The same goes for the long term plans for the team. Objective: Improve the quality of the team. Plan A: Buy better players. If he can't do Plan A, like this summer, then he needs to move to a different approach like motivate the players he has, get them set up better and more organised or coach them to be better. If Plan A doesn't work, Brendan struggles to grasp any kind of Plan B. True elite level managers do Plan A and can adapt with Plan B, C or D if they have to. We can see that Brendan is like a wounded animal right now. He's short of ideas of how to improve the team if he can't just buy the talent in. If he's going to stay, he needs to adapt and earn his elite salary. Absolutely right. And this is the main reason why Rodgers' teams usually fail to get over the line. We didn't get over the line when odds on to finish top 4 twice, why Liverpool failed to win the Premier League when in pole position to do so, why we've often fallen short in key European games and why, but for Chilwell's toe nail, we would have most likely lost the FA Cup final after being in a winning position. The man just cannot adapt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc_forever Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 44 minutes ago, DerbyshireFox said: For all Rodgers' protests that he is being let down by the Srivaddhanaprabha family's reluctance to improve his squad, it is worth remembering that he has, since his arrival three-and-a-half years ago, spent more than £223 million in the service of that very cause source: The Telegraph. He’s not used those funds well enough. Caption sums it up perfectly. Revelation for players he inherits, but struggles when tasked with building a dynasty. He’s achieved a lot in his tenure here, but it is time to say thank you and part ways Just read the whole piece: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/09/02/brendan-rodgers-must-stop-blaming-bosses-prove-can-stop-rot/?utm_content=football&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1662134502 Good to see some national journalists recognising the situation for what it actually is. Would disagree with what he says on Daka, there is major potential there in my view but he needs to play up in a two or with a 10 close to him to get the best from him, either Ihenacho or Maddison. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HesNotGudjonsonn2 Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 Can you post the text? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iancognito Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 2 hours ago, Fox in the North said: I think evidently the owners, board and manager all gambled on last year. Unfortunately it didn’t come off for a variety of reasons, from injuries (unexpected and negligent), to luck, to coaching, tactics and performance. We’re now paying the price for that. That’s not a problem. The problem is the coach and his staff as a collective are responsible for being proactive and making the best of the squad. That is obviously not happening and hasn’t been happening for some time. As others have already said countless times the coach instead of encouraging is lashing out. Maybe he’s already tried the unity tactic, we don’t know. While some hate the coach, I don’t. He’s brought some of the best times we will experience. But his position is untenable and he has to go. It’s a shame it’s had to end this way, but this can’t go on. Like I’m the games before Ranieri left, there is very little I can see from Rodgers that will make the team turn up. Agree with all of that and with regards the coach & his staff being reponsible, watch the players in warm ups. The cameraderie has gone. There's no laughing and joking when someone skies a warm up shot into row P, no pisstaking in the rondos and some players are just wandering off doing their own thing. You can judge a lot from the 15 minutes they're out there and right now it's like Vichai's memorial all over again. If the staff can't get that back, get them enjoying football again, especially without new players livening it up, the writing's on the wall. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ron Combo Posted 2 September 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 2 September 2022 In a piece of artful deflection, Brendan Rodgers made it clear the blame for Leicester City's tailspin rested squarely with the club's owners, not him. “This isn't the club that it was two years ago,” he lamented. The suggestion was that a tepid home defeat to Manchester United reflected poorly on the parsimony of his employers, who had waited until transfer deadline day to bring in a single signing, Reims centre-back Wout Faes. And yet if he seeks the fullest explanation for the crisis at the King Power, the manager might want to look a little closer to home. For all Rodgers' protests that he is being let down by the Srivaddhanaprabha family's reluctance to improve his squad, it is worth remembering that he has, since his arrival three-and-a-half years ago, spent more than £223 million in the service of that very cause. Four players – Ayoze Perez, Dennis Praet, Patson Daka and Timothy Castagne – account for almost half that outlay. But for a critical match against United, Rodgers left all four of them on the bench, entrusting them with a combined total of six minutes’ game-time. So, does responsibility truly lie with the Thai benefactors' refusal to recruit players? Or is this more a question of Rodgers' inability to develop them? Few doubt that when Rodgers is first appointed to a job, his hurricane-force exuberance sparks an instant uplift. We saw as much at Liverpool, where, within two years of an eighth-place finish that brought Kenny Dalglish the sack, he came the closest of anybody in nearly a quarter of a century to return the league trophy to Anfield, as his Luis Suarez-propelled team scored 101 goals in a single season. But there is the finest of margins, with this wired and relentlessly earnest character, between splendour and oblivion. Rodgers' Liverpool reign disintegrated almost as fast as it had peaked, with his side sinking to sixth the year after their title charge, then to 10th before a restless Fenway Sports Group finally pulled the trigger. When the rot set in, it seemed as if he was powerless to stop it. The same pattern is being played out at Leicester. One moment, Rodgers is on the verge of perfecting his masterpiece, winning the FA Cup. The next, he finds himself presiding over an apparently inexorable decline. Leicester are bottom of the league after losing to Manchester United on Thursday CREDIT: REUTERS Granted, the financial situation hardly works in his favour. The wealth of Leicester’s owners is estimated by Forbes to have shrunk from £4.5 billion in 2018 to £1.47bn today, with the wipeout of global air travel during the pandemic grievously affecting the family’s empire of duty-free stores. Except the impasse at Leicester is not solely the product of economics, but of a clash of philosophies. In his programme notes for United’s visit, chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha argued that the consistent aim over the past 12 years was to “build your club up for long-term, sustainable success – we simply will not risk setting it down a path we don’t feel is responsible or in Leicester’s best interests”. The problem is that Rodgers’ prescribed solution is for the club to spend their way out of trouble. Lashing out at a perceived lack of ambition at boardroom level, he declared, after a fifth defeat in six: “With the greatest respect, we have not had the help in the transfer market that this team needed.” Is this truly a fair charge, though? Until the brakes were applied this summer, Rodgers had been lavishly backed. Indeed, a year earlier, he had the support of the largest net spend in Leicester’s history, strengthening through the acquisitions of Boubakary Soumare and Jannik Vestergaard, not to mention Ademola Lookman on a season-long loan. The return on investment has been patchy at best, with Daka an especially expensive misfire. Look through Rodgers’ history and you detect a similar pattern. While he deserves credit for enlisting James Milner and Roberto Firmino in his final months at Liverpool, so many of his other purchases, from Fabio Borini to Mamadou Sakho, Luis Alberto to Iago Aspas, are perhaps best forgotten. As a motivating force for the players he inherits, Rodgers can be a revelation. But as the builder of a dynasty, he is proving again at Leicester that he leaves much to be desired. 2 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SixtiesFox Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 4 hours ago, MrLuke said: Luckily I found the original So needed a good laugh! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sacreblueits442 Posted 2 September 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 2 September 2022 3 hours ago, Fox in the North said: Spot on in my opinion ....a journalist who is actually doing their job and not repeating other peoples post, about time!!! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itude Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 I agree with most of this, misses out how tactically awful he has been. but at least its confirming what a lot of us think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc_forever Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 If he does get sacked, people will see the pattern in his management as the Telegraph journo has pointed out. Likely means he won’t get a top job for some time that his ego craves. He should be knuckling down, getting rid of the negativity and giving the club a lift. Just don’t see it happening given the rut and victim mentality he’s got himself into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iancognito Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 That estimation about the drop in King Power's wealth is frightening. Losing about 2/3 of the value of the business in 2 years 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxyPalace.com Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 He’s had a shed load of cash ! Our owners have backed him well. Rodgers will be the architect of his own poor signings. 💯 % 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itude Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 All been seen before. Best guide to future behaviour is prior behaviour, remember Fofana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxfanazer Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 Can't wait for him to **** off! And his fanboys hopefully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalletFox Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 2 hours ago, Jaspa said: What are we doing, why is he still here? It's like we have to wait for planets to align or for there to be an esoteric date to come up or something, just sack him. It's over, he can't improve the situation here, we're bottom of the table! Go! We’ve got a game in 2 days, what’s the point in sacking him right now, today, if we haven’t got a replacement lined up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itude Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 Some kind of "arrangement" will probably be sorted out, £10 million maybe ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevieLynex Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 Giving Rodgers a transfer kitty is like employing a know cowboy builder to construct your dream home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StevieLynex Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 1 minute ago, MalletFox said: We’ve got a game in 2 days, what’s the point in sacking him right now, today, if we haven’t got a replacement lined up? Put Vardy in charge for the fixture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itude Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 Just now, MalletFox said: We’ve got a game in 2 days, what’s the point in sacking him right now, today, if we haven’t got a replacement lined up? Its probably become a game of "chicken" in essence now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Shire Fox Posted 2 September 2022 Share Posted 2 September 2022 3 hours ago, SheppyFox said: He replaced Suarez with Balotelli too, no? Such a dirtbag manager Yeah but silver medalist and all that.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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