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Brendan Rodgers

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Happy Fox

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1 minute ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

My opinion is the club don’t want to back Rodgers with any more cash to waste in the transfer market, i think they believe there is enough quality in the current squad to be comfortable this season, if we can move on some of the unwanted players then great and this can then be used to being in players who fit our model or will be saved for the winter and next summers transfer window when Glover will have had time to bed in. 
 

I honestly believe the club and Brendan are at a stage when a parting of the ways is inevitable and one way of another he will be gone within the next 4-6 weeks maximum. It is just a battle of who blinks first do the club cut their losses, sack him but pay out significant compo or do they try and force Brendan to quit/mutual consent which will bring down the compensation payment. 


“Maybe he has a Forest above us in the league clause” so if that happens he will be sacked here is hoping :D

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1 hour ago, when_you're_smiling said:

But that’s what we’ve done under Rodgers.

 

(My head hurts reading this thread.)

Yes,  what we 'have done'... 

 It pains me to say it,  but we are not doing it now.

If the last 18 Months under his management is a yard stick to judge him by,  I fear our fortunes won't be changing soon... 

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21 minutes ago, StevieLynex said:

BR has only himself to blame. Last year, during the Summer, he was given funds to bring in new players. He would have assured Top and Rudders that we would do well in the Europa League and would be in Europe again this season. It was on this basis, that the money was made available. As it turns out, we missed out on Europe and are stuck with players that no one else wants to buy, and players that want to leave. Why should Top provide funding for BR?

Quite simple because if Top doesn't enable us to bring players in then we'll continue to regress. Whether BR deserves it or not then becomes whether he should be manager or not, if he should be in the eyes of Top and the board then back him. Move players on, lower our demands and recruit better.

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2 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:


“Maybe he has a Forest above us in the league clause” so if that happens he will be sacked here is hoping :D

Or we can release him when Man Utd come calling

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1 minute ago, Ric Flair said:

Quite simple because if Top doesn't enable us to bring players in then we'll continue to regress. Whether BR deserves it or not then becomes whether he should be manager or not, if he should be in the eyes of Top and the board then back him. Move players on, lower our demands and recruit better.

I don't want BR to oversee this. He is to blame for the mess we are in

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1 hour ago, Webbo said:

Hang on we're constantly told that Brendan can't sign a player and all our best players were signed by Puel. Even with a disastrous injury list Brendan finished higher. 

 

Will we qualify for Europe again under Rodgers, I don't know. I'd say, being Leicester City, it's as likely as under any other manager. 

With a more experienced squad and also a better one that Puel had access to for the vast majority of his time here. Rodgers has been a flop in the transfer market, in Soumare, Vestegaard, Betrand, Perez and Praet, he's had more failures than successes (JJ, Castagne, Fofana, Tielemans if you give him credit for making that loan permanent), and as such is mostly relying on Puels squad, but for the majority of his time here the CM options available to Puel were Ndidi, Mendy, Choudhury, Iborra. We complained about how the football was a bit turgid and lacked attacking flair (which let's be honest came when Mahrez left, before that Puel took us to Southampton, West Brom and Spurs and had us hit 4 away from home in each of those games) but with those midfield options, is it any wonder? None of them are line breakers, you've got two destroyers and two water carriers there. Rodgers has access to two players who are capable of breaking lines in Tielemans and Praet and has us playing as tedious a football as we've seen.

 

Puel left a good squad for the future but couldn't get a tune out of it at the time, it is now the future and we're as out of tune as we were then.

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24 minutes ago, StevieLynex said:

Perfect for BR would be Man Utd once ETH gets the push after losing the first five games. Stick with him until then to save on the compensation

Why on earth would Utd go for Brendan?

Ex Liverpool, doing poorly (and that's being kind) for a long period at his current club.

I'd love to know why you think a massive club that's in disarray, would turn to him.

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1 minute ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

Sure it helps massively, but can have teams that don't spend billions but the players still totally believe in their manager 

eg Brentford, Brighton, Leeds

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Just now, Weller Wing said:

Why on earth would Utd go for Brendan?

Ex Liverpool, doing poorly (and that's being kind) for a long period at his current club.

I'd love to know why you think a massive club that's in disarray, would turn to him.

Precisely because they are in disarray and have no idea what they are doing, hence appointing BR would be the wrong decision but who cares.

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2 minutes ago, StevieLynex said:

I don't want BR to oversee this. He is to blame for the mess we are in

Rodgers is partly to blame for this mess but the reason we now cannot get players in is because our policy of paying hideously big wages to almost all of our 1st team squad has left us snookered after this FFP rule change by UEFA. That's on Rudkin and the club, nothing to do with Rodgers whatsoever. 

 

How Jon Rudkin thought it par for the course to pay Ryan Bertrand and Jannik Vestergaard nearly £80k a week is frightening. They backed the manager idly and I'm not having it that they are all innocent in this because if we don't demand they are held to account we won't get out of this mess. They have to learn from their mistakes too and quickly.

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31 minutes ago, 4everfox said:

He should have pulled the trigger after the Forest game last season. Utterly unforgiveable result. 

Youre right, but historically the owners have given managers time unless our premier league status is at risk. They backed Don Claudio almost to disaster

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1 minute ago, midland_red said:

Youre right, but historically the owners have given managers time unless our premier league status is at risk. They backed Don Claudio almost to disaster

Think he had more credit in the bank than BR

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8 hours ago, Deeg67 said:

Puel wasn't a self-promoter like Brendo (well, no one is) - just dour and an unpolished communicator.  And too French...

 

In fact it was kind of the opposite situation.  Puel talked and acted like he didn't give a futch what anybody thought of him and that pissed off people (including some players, probably) who wanted their manager to care what they thought.  Brendo's sole directive is to manage his own reputation and protect his image.

Yep. I must stress I was no fan of Puel's at all but honestly I'm not sure I found even him this infuriating.

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6 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

Yep. I must stress I was no fan of Puel's at all but honestly I'm not sure I found even him this infuriating.

Fundamentally, whatever else you feel about him, Puel was honest.  Rodgers is about the most vapid and disingenuous communicator I've ever seen in a coach or manager in sports.  Puel clearly hated the PR aspect of the job, didn't like talking to the press, and didn't think anything was as important as training and games.  Puel was guilty of not being aware of how his attitude impacted fans and worse, his players.  But at least he wasn't a walking PR machine whose entire raison d'etre was promoting his own brand. 

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3 minutes ago, tsintskaro said:

Draw against Soton following loses  to Chelsea and ManU. We are in bottom 3.

pundits start praising  Ten Hag for his first win and future revolution while Brendan is sacked 

That is not an implausible scenario

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He was very edgy in thr bbc interview... almost like he is expecting a killer question.

"Brendan, the fans are saying you're a clown and your own decisions are causing the club to drop points.  Thet say the board are fed up with you. Why are you the right guy for Leicester city?"

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