Brendan Rodgers

[deep blue]

2 hours ago, An Sionnach said:

Thai's are not keen on wasting money , sacking Rodgers and his team could be north of £30 million. Although he could resign for a smaller pay off.Will he? Rodgers's business brain will tell him to gain the maximum severance pay he can. If we do sack him , this summer's transfer fund is certainly gone so any new manager will have to work with what he has got.

Pity we didn't guess how poorly Youri was going to be playing this seaso, though the management might have had a clue, given his reluctance to re-sign for us. Had we cashed in on him last summer, and got a decent wedge, that would have financed getting rid of Rodgers and with some money left over towards a replacement for Youri.

[volpeazzurro]

52 minutes ago, 5waller5 said:

 Exactly, yes.

 

I couldn’t believe my ears in the car today “before our time here, the aim of the club was to stay in the division, now we’re disappointed to not win European Semi Finals, it’s a measure of how far we’ve come”

 

And then answering a question on set pieces / corners he made the excuse that there was so little time on the training pitch they’d not had time to sort it out.

 

Staggering!

 

At least Claude had the decency to mumble!!

How much time does he need, more than a season? What an utter twat he is, particularly if he thinks normal people (not his biased media) don't see straight through him! Shameful really. 

[gerblod]

How many of youse are now looking at managers running mid-table clubs and thinking we'd be better off with one of them? Brentford look so much better than City at the moment. I'd hire Frank in a second if he showed any interest. 

[gerblod]

4 minutes ago, deep blue said:

Pity we didn't guess how poorly Youri was going to be playing this seaso, though the management might have had a clue, given his reluctance to re-sign for us. Had we cashed in on him last summer, and got a decent wedge, that would have financed getting rid of Rodgers and with some money left over towards a replacement for Youri.

Ah - but Tielemans, like Perez, is one of his blue-eyed boys.

[midland_red]

I am totally convinced and have been for some time, that BR has lost the dressing room. The team either can't or won't play the way he wants to and he doesn't have the flexibility of mind to get the best out of them by changing his approach. We now have a team which is mentally weak and that is the leaders fault.

I agree that two failures to get into the CL will have had a very demoralising effect on the team even if we were actually punching above our weight in getting there but to some extent the manager should be managing that level of stress and anxiety so we do not bottle it. We didn't bottle 2015/16 partly because we had a mentally strong team (tested in the championship and forged in the Great Escape) but also because Don Claudio was an expert in taking the stress and strain off the team, match after match as we ground out 1-0 victories and watched Leo Ulloa smash in that pen against West Ham.

And I don't understand why we cant train out our weakness at set pieces. In the end, that comes down to the leader too. If he really has lost the dressing room, then there will be no way back for him.

The owners have an admirable record for sticking loyally to their appointees and letting them get on with the job. They still clearly see LCFC as a medium term project. For obvious reasons they hesitated before removing Claudio almost to the point of disaster, but it is clear that their red line is never to imperil our Premier League status. They must have noticed that we now have relegation level form, and if it was February rather than May we would indeed look like we were going down.

If BR has lost the dressing room then how can he lead the rebuild we need in the summer?

Edited 8 May 2022 by midland_red

[charly]

Continue playing as Rogers wants, and on current form, and we'll be relegation candidates next year. And the current players aren't tough enough for a relegation scrap.

[StanSP]

29 minutes ago, Diffco said:

Rodgers has admitted that there's not enough time to rectify corner issues within training. You what? YOU WHAT? 80M STATE OF THE ART TRAINING FACILITIES. YOU WHAT? WHY EVEN INVEST AT ALL? I can't believe it. I can't believe the gall. I can't believe the exuberant blatant destruction of player motivation. He's pissing the owners investment down the God damn drain. Lesta deserve so much better than Brendan at this point. God ****ing damn 

Not enough 'time'. Not lack of facilities. 

[deep blue]

1 hour ago, SixtiesFox said:

Finally it seems even the most ,'blarney blind' Rodgers apologists are beginning to see the light. I hope Top is prepared to cut his losses and remove Rodgers before he allows him to waste what funds we do have available to add to our core of young, talented players. Failure to act sooner rather than later could lead to a relegation battle next season which we would be ill-equipped to fight.    

So true.  Rodgers has removed the fight and grit from this squad, so if we were to get close to then relegation places at any point next season we will be ill-equipped for the fight.

[Diffco]

2 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Not enough 'time'. Not lack of facilities. 

How long has he had? All season? What are upgrading facilities for if you can't improve the performance in any given lacking area? 

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

His interviews are pure egotistical BS. He is clueless tactically in changing games. He loves the praise, hates any constructive criticism. Our players have regressed in the last year and no longer show any real desire with a few exceptions. Out as far as I am concerned 

Edited 8 May 2022 by Cadno'r Cymoedd

[Mickyblueeyes]

For a man who is so careful with his comments about other clubs/owners/players, his disrespect to us is astounding. To actually suggest that it was Brendan Rodgers who made us dream is so disrespectful. In fact most of the talent in the squad was built up by those who were here before.
 

This era is so over and now the respect is being eroded. 

[Corky]

We were unlikely to get relegated with Puel in charge so any talk of us staying in the division as the great ambition is nonsense. 

 

He is, yet again, trying to justify underperformance and taking his huge salary. 

[Strokes]

Has my post been deleted, ****ing hell I edited out loads of offensive stuff as well.

[Lad1966]

I am totally annoyed with what i’ve wittiness this season. Right from the start of the season we have look disjointed and out of rhythm in our play. This is probably due to injuries. When we got players back, they have found it hard to get back to where they once were and to add to this, they’ve come back at different time and when thing start to improve, we been hit with another injury. I think we do need a reset/refresh, not necessary in terms of players, but routine, back to playing once a week, so that players can train, prepare and rest. I think the 1st dozen of games are going to be vital for BR, more of the same will see him gone.

 

Edited 8 May 2022 by Lad1966

[StanSP]

15 minutes ago, Diffco said:

How long has he had? All season? What are upgrading facilities for if you can't improve the performance in any given lacking area? 

I don't agree with his comments but I guess he means the lack of time in between each game recently. Not having proper schedules to train. 

[charly]

48 minutes ago, Diffco said:

Rodgers has admitted that there's not enough time to rectify corner issues within training. You what? YOU WHAT? 80M STATE OF THE ART TRAINING FACILITIES. YOU WHAT? WHY EVEN INVEST AT ALL? I can't believe it. I can't believe the gall. I can't believe the exuberant blatant destruction of player motivation. He's pissing the owners investment down the God damn drain. Lesta deserve so much better than Brendan at this point. God ****ing damn 

Not enough time? What !! So, just whose idea was it for Pereira (5ft 6in) to mark Abraham (6ft 5in)?????

[foxfanazer]

Get him gone asap! There's never any personal accountability from him which is something I can't respect him for.  Pit the club first Top and wield the axe

[The Year Of The Fox]

Been without my phone for 3 hours

 

Get in my car and put 5Live on and the sport headlines are Man City’s lead at the top of the table 

 

FFS 😂

[frany104]

Just get him out. We’re getting worse and I didn’t think it was possible. He talks like we’ve got 11 midgets on the pitch when we ask why we concede from corners. 

[majaco]

At the start of the season,  I was excited by the strength of our squad.   We are not even going to.manage 50 points.   

 

Injuries seemed to cripple us but then we have struggled to get points with a mainly fit squad recently.

 

I think that the following should constitute the bones of a fairly elite squad.

 

Schmeichel, Ward (top keepers at the Euros)

Perreira, Justin, Castagne, Thomas, Soyuncu, Fofana, Evans

Ndidi, Maddison, Tielemans

Albrighton, Barnes, Lookman

Vardy, Iheanacho, Daka

 

18 potentially top players!   And KDH emerged.

 

Some of those players have been poor.But they were previously good.

 

Now we have got to this stage,  Rodgers seems culpable.    Had we won the ECL, the season would have been saved.

 

But how.many games have been a painful watch?   

 

 

[chuck'em]

8 minutes ago, charly said:

Not enough time? What !! So, just whose idea was it for Pereira (5ft 6in) to mark Abraham (6ft 5in)?????

Obviously there was a height mismatch and the tactics were poor but you've nearly doubled the actual height difference here. Ricardo is 5ft 9 and Abraham is 6ft 3

[Leicester_Loyal]

Can’t believe his post match comments, I am starting to genuinely hate the bloke. 
 

I’ll be celebrating the day he gets the sack, I hope it’s sooner rather than later. 

[Ian Nacho]

What the fvck was playing KDH at wingback all about? Reminded of me at that time near the end of Raneri when he played Musa at wingback. 

[Collymore]

He has to be solely responsible now for the corner kicks. I'd have more respect if he actually took responsibility, held his hands up and stopping blaming everyone else. 

[Leicester_Loyal]

1 minute ago, Collymore said:

He has to be solely responsible now for the corner kicks. I'd have more respect if he actually took responsibility, held his hands up and stopping blaming everyone else. 

What’s worse is how long its been going on for, it’s about 2 years now. How can he possibly say he hasn’t had time to work on the issues is beyond me, he’s a disgrace!