kingkisnorbo Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 I’m indifferent to if he stays or goes at this point. Pretty telling really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yes Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 I just find it odd this sort of sentiment has come out time and time again, on the surface it looks like we get backed plenty, they invest in the infrastructure and generally give a decent amount to spend in the transfer market if possible, yet Puel and Rodgers both mentioned not being able to compete with others, sometimes you get the feeling most the players aren’t massively ambitious either or at least are quick to make excuses when things don’t work out. You can put it down to mentality but do they just all not feel we’re backed enough? I see players and managers at other clubs like Wolves and Villa talking about aiming for Champions League football and they’re further away than we were the last couple seasons, so why can’t our lot have the same attitude? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aus Fox Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 Had anyone actually got either a recording or the transcript of the actual interview and what he actually said. Before people pull apart a piece of crap written in a shite newspaper, it’s important to hear what he said and the context he said it in, rather than just a headline which suggests some Scottish bloke may have made these comments. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanlegend Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 I think Rodgers Is a good manager but every time he speaks I just think he has self-preservation at the very top of his priorities. He comes across quite arrogant in some of the things he says and I think he honestly believes that we are lucky to have him as manager. I think some of the players might get pissed off that every time we win a game pundits Talk about Rodgers like he’s the best manager in the league and it’s all down to him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFS Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 **** this guy off for someone who believes in Vichai’s dream. What a moron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacreblueits442 Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 47 minutes ago, Yes said: I just find it odd this sort of sentiment has come out time and time again, on the surface it looks like we get backed plenty, they invest in the infrastructure and generally give a decent amount to spend in the transfer market if possible, yet Puel and Rodgers both mentioned not being able to compete with others, sometimes you get the feeling most the players aren’t massively ambitious either or at least are quick to make excuses when things don’t work out. You can put it down to mentality but do they just all not feel we’re backed enough? I see players and managers at other clubs like Wolves and Villa talking about aiming for Champions League football and they’re further away than we were the last couple seasons, so why can’t our lot have the same attitude? ....we do, it is just that we are taking care of the infrastructure now, and will look to challenge the league in a year or so!!! With interest rates as it is, it would seem prudent to implement the capital expenditure now and finance it by our league position, with an agreement of something like a 5 year plan to repay the debt. Rodgers would have known when he joined us, and the situation would not have changed as these things are planned ahead of time. I would suspect the other clubs now looking to emulate us, are a catalyst for Rodgers to attempt to force the club to loosen the purse strings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickyblueeyes Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 2 hours ago, Ric Flair said: He'd never had said this a year or more ago. Wish he'd just shut up, refuse interviews or talk about seagulls rather than this dog shit. Yeah, this. When he speaks now, he annoys me. If he thinks he’s taken us far as he can, great, leave. Let someone else have a go. Despite seeing some awful results over the years as a Leicester fan, losing a game with seconds to go from a winning position has to be up there with the worst. So regardless of ambition Brendan, that’s on you. In fact, I could list quite a few embarrassing performances under your management. Bit of a downer given you’re managing over our pinnacle. The horseshit he comes out with in interviews to defend his shortcomings make him less likeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxlong Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 The pinnacle was 2016 and so had bugger all to do with Rodgers. It’s worth reminding ourselves what he can draw on as the present manager of Leicester City - a club with fabulous owners who have invested significantly in the team - owners who have provided some of the very best training facilities around - owners who have also given strong financial backing for investment in the squad - one of the best recruitment teams (at least until recently) that have enabled us to sign up and coming top class players and make big profits for further reinvestment if players are sold - a good academy that has also provided established first team players that can bring in high transfer fees if sold - a willingness to pay top whack to the manager in an effort to obtain the best around to mould and drive our progress Whilst it may be towards the upper end of what we can realistically achieve surely top 5 finishes and a cup is absoutely what we can be realistically aiming for. Comments like that reported in the Mail create a climate underachievement and a willingness to pat yourself on the back for failure. I loved the football we played after Rodgers was appointed but overtime we have become increasingly negative in our play. That’s hardly surprising given the message apparently coming from the manager now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetly Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 Time to start thinking about replacing him. He has done a good job but it’s going stale. His tactics are shocking and the stuff that he say’s isn’t right to many excuses. I am sure the amount we pay him we could get a suitable replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbertway Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 6 hours ago, BoyJones said: We have got some real scumbag supporters. Negative, Wokey, just love criticising anything and everything they can about the club, players or management. We’re all entitled to an opinion, but base it on fact and a sensible argument. Don’t jump on the let’s slag off BR band wagon, his record and desire to succeed is evident. After 60 years following the City, the current set of so called supporters are the worst in my experience, or at least the key board warriors who infest Toxic Talk. It’s all about them. Not the ones that booed and jeered MON? Or the bloke that walked onto the pitch and got embarrassed by Walker? Its the people that expect our 10 million pounds a season manager to have a somewhat elite and competitive mindset 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxile5 Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 Get him gone. The Thai owners didn't buy us and build the training ground for Rodgers to declare the club peaking after 2 league campaigns that ended with implosion and an FA Cup. Never mind the fact that we will the league in 2016 which is obviously far more of a success than anything he's bought to the door. Awful attitude to any sports competition, declaring ones team non competitive. I'm so tired of his arrogance. He's done well but he's the one who's peaked. The club need to get someone with quality and ambition in. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperEadem Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 5th probably is about our ceiling though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxile5 Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 13 minutes ago, SemperEadem said: 5th probably is about our ceiling though. We won the league so there's that. Whilst I can just about understand the sentiment from a financial perspective it isn't something the manager should be subscribing to, nor airing publicly, and it just reeks of 'I'm the best ever Leicester manager' despite, y'know, us winning the league. Brand Brendan protection in full swing. Why should we bother building a world class training ground? Rodgers has completed Leicester. Why bother with a new stand. He's done the BEST anyone can ever do with us. Perhaps, if we're significantly capped, he should move his ethereal talent to a club more suited to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanya Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 7 hours ago, FuriousFox46 said: Wokey ffs The woke comment was such an amusing non sequitur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperEadem Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 8 minutes ago, foxile5 said: We won the league so there's that. Whilst I can just about understand the sentiment from a financial perspective it isn't something the manager should be subscribing to, nor airing publicly, and it just reeks of 'I'm the best ever Leicester manager' despite, y'know, us winning the league. Brand Brendan protection in full swing. Why should we bother building a world class training ground? Rodgers has completed Leicester. Why bother with a new stand. He's done the BEST anyone can ever do with us. Perhaps, if we're significantly capped, he should move his ethereal talent to a club more suited to it. We did win the league yeah. But that aint happening again, it was a stars aligned season. Winning a cup and 5th in my eyes is where Leicester can reach in the footballing hierarchy when at max. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dames Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 No coincidence this rhetoric has come out this week after he’s got a lot of bashing from all corners on socials for being a massive bottler. Cares more about his image than he does about anything else. Its too late now Brendan, those bottler allegations are here to stay. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alanf0x Posted 23 January 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 23 January 2022 I can fully understand where Rodgers is coming from. Realistically, we won’t be finishing above the following teams on a regular basis: Man City Liverpool Man United Chelsea With the above teams a better attraction to play for, it makes things a lot more difficult to finish above Spurs and Arsenal too. Our better players will always have their heads turned by the above 4 helping Spurs and Arsenal in the race to the top 6. We may get the odd season where we finish above these clubs, but it’s not happening over a sustained period of time. We are then fighting it out with the next cluster of clubs in the race to be the best out of the big 6…West Ham, Villa and Wolves. 2016 was a freak season. We were the best team in the league and played to our strengths, but remember that the bigger teams above were all in transition too. I’m sure before we won the league, supporters would have taken top 10 finishes, good cup runs and pushing for the European spots. That is where we are at now. Its clear that our focus at present is to build off the pitch than on it. That may mean a few season of finishing 10th to 12th. But in the long term may help attract better players to consistently finish 7th and push Spurs and Arsenal harder than we currently are. Finishing in the top 10 isn’t such a bad thing. 82 other league teams would snap our hands off for that. I’m sure there are similar discussions going on the message boards of Wolves, West Ham and Villa! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxile5 Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 4 minutes ago, SemperEadem said: We did win the league yeah. But that aint happening again, it was a stars aligned season. Winning a cup and 5th in my eyes is where Leicester can reach in the footballing hierarchy when at max. But the fact we won indicates that there isn't a cap, unlikely or not. And Rodgers is categorically NOT the man to be writing off success for us. He should be encouraging it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dames Posted 23 January 2022 Popular Post Share Posted 23 January 2022 2 minutes ago, SemperEadem said: We did win the league yeah. But that aint happening again, it was a stars aligned season. Winning a cup and 5th in my eyes is where Leicester can reach in the footballing hierarchy when at max. of us know you’re right and agree. Deep down most of us know you’re right and agree that on paper, 5th and a cup win is an amazing season and possibly the limits of realistic expectations. However, we cannot abide a manager who we pay 10 million a year coming out publicly to constantly remind us to have no ambition. Maybe if he had some actual balls and ambition himself we might not have bottled top 4 twice and potentially done better in other cup competitions. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dames Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 7 hours ago, BoyJones said: We have got some real scumbag supporters. Negative, Wokey, just love criticising anything and everything they can about the club, players or management. We’re all entitled to an opinion, but base it on fact and a sensible argument. Don’t jump on the let’s slag off BR band wagon, his record and desire to succeed is evident. After 60 years following the City, the current set of so called supporters are the worst in my experience, or at least the key board warriors who infest Toxic Talk. It’s all about them. How are people scumbags for having a different opinion and ambitions as a supporter to you? ‘Wokey’. Absolutely cringe. Go back to GBNews boomer. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxile5 Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 10 minutes ago, Dames said: How are people scumbags for having a different opinion and ambitions as a supporter to you? ‘Wokey’. Absolutely cringe. Go back to GBNews boomer. The man's a tosser. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahnsouff Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 45 minutes ago, foxile5 said: But the fact we won indicates that there isn't a cap, unlikely or not. And Rodgers is categorically NOT the man to be writing off success for us. He should be encouraging it. Managing expectations inside the camp (and outside) is a key part of a managers job, if he is just a cheerleader then we could get anyone to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chocolate Teapot Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 Fact he gets paid so we'll restricts our budget enormously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 Whether you believe that personally or not, to state it in the way he did. Bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted 23 January 2022 Share Posted 23 January 2022 1 minute ago, Chocolate Teapot said: Fact he gets paid so we'll restricts our budget enormously. This is an issue really. Could we achieve similar success under a coach on a smaller wage (a wage more akin to those in similar positions to ourselves). The glass ceiling can always be broken, unfortunately it’s done over time in the long term, or throwing a ridiculous amount of money at it in the short term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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