Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

No we didn’t. Jota started left, Maeda through the middle.

 

If you don’t freshen the squad up, I think it’s only natural you will see it getting stale. Which is exactly what’s happened. Put Maeda up top for 20 minutes, but then had to move him back out wide as we have no wingers to bring on. What a * state. All brought on by ourselves by the * running us. Sold Kuhn roughly 8 weeks ago and still haven’t replaced him. It’s a * riddy.

 

The team has been on absolute fumes since the tail end of last season mate, we have absolutely nothing off the bench and any team that want to nullify us can do so by forcing us down the wings. Look at the team we finished with last night.


Scales at LB, Ralston at RB, Yang RW after replacing a 34 year old Forrest, and Yamada upfront who’s still adjusting.

For a CL qualifier that’s just gross mismanagement at board level for recruitment. For the guys putting travelling over from Ireland every week putting thousands of pounds in to the club that they don’t have only for us to spend 3 million is a disgrace.

Rodgers can take his share of the blame for sure, but stop defending these * that view the support as nothing more than peasants that pour money in to the club to give themselves raises and bonuses.

 

He isn't absolved of any blame either tbf..

Our Board are Negligent but they did sanction £26m for player who aren't or shouldn't be starting for us..

 

It's ALL down to the board. BR made it clear that he came to make an impact in Europe and last season we did that.

I don't think BR has a great record in developing players, especialy ones that have been foisted on him. So why after bringing him back did they continue to load the squad with speculative projects ?

Buying players at a low fee, developing them and selling high, is an important source of income fo us. But it won't work if the manager isn't on board and if we buy a ton of muck to try and find an ounce of brass.

Last summers window was a * show, but the answer isn't to stop signing players, it's to learn from it and know when to walk away. Like we should have done with Idea at about £4m

 

But do you think Lenny would actually take the job a third time?

 

The last game was the away game.

 

We started with Jota, Maeda & Kuhn in that game mate.

 

Your right I was looking at the home game, my mistake.

 

As has been said it was Jota, Maeda, Kuhn which is an excellent front three. We are miles off that.

Taylor didn’t play. Schlupp did and had an excellent performance.

Trusty also played over Scales.

edit: I see your post above.

 

I know.

 

“Sack the board normally means sack the manager”…

No it means sack the board. * me why is he even saying that, taking a bullet for the board.

 

He isn’t mate. Think he is basically saying that when there is discontent like that from the fans, it’s normally because it’s going badly on the field, and the manager then takes the brunt as the board sack him.

 

Meant or not he’s changed the direction of the question and has taken the heat off them. Infuriating.

 

It goes way beyond Rodgers. It's been the same for years.

I just can't understand why a board who wants to hoard cash and seems to love having cash in the bank is so * short sighted and exceptionally negligent when it comes to running the football club. We could have signed Munteanu, Baliksiwsha and Nilsson Angulo for £15m, pretty much guaranteed £40m coming into the club from Champions League but now we are going to lose all that for what? To then strengthen the squad anyway, after we get knocked out. You love having cash in the bank and selling players for multi millions to top that bank account up, fine. Bring in someone who actually knows about football players, negotiating transfers, scouting and recruitment. Someone who can build a successful relationship with a manager, who both understand that they need to come and go in certain areas.

Cards on the table, I want Rodgers to stay but the biggest issue we have is that there are people on the board making footballing decisions about what is and what is not an acceptable fee to pay for players. They are making decisions on what is and what is not an acceptable salary to give someone. These aren't professional footballing people. They're businessman with no knowledge of football itself. I wouldn't tell Michael Nicholson what the Law is, he's a * Lawyer. That is the biggest problem we have by far. I'm not even sure Rodgers is the type of guy to work under under a Director of Football because I do think he wants to have more control over things and if the choice was keeping Rodgers with the status quo or bringing in a DOF and a new, young manager then there is only one winner for me and it wouldn't be keeping Rodgers.

People think the most important person at the football club is the manager but I honestly disagree. The most important person for the football club is the person who links the board and their demands and the manager and his demands and finds common ground. The person who sets the way a club plays, sets up the footballing structure and department. We don't have that person whatsoever. So, you have a manager who has backed himself into a corner by telling the fanbase he will stay 3 years and doesn't want to leave before then, even though we can all see he just wants this done with now. A board who don't even acknowledge the fanbase unless it's to update us on a member of the Green Brigade farting on an old lady and handing out 12 year bans, bleed the fanbase dry whenever they can and have gotten greedier as the seasons have went on. Remember we used to get a friendly and a qualifier on the season ticket for free? Now, they're making us fork out £25 for a Newcastle friendly, £25 for a Falkirk cup game, £30 for a Play-off qualifier while spending absolutely * all.

A manager playing politics on the field and in the media and having the strength of character to seeing that through, regardless of the results that come from it and a board who show nothing but contempt and ignorance to any fan who questions them. It's a * war playing out in front of us and neither side is giving in and the only people suffering are the people struggling to make ends meet, watching the club they love wither as these * dinosaurs refuse to bring us into the 21st century. Chronic and mind-numbing now. No wonder more and more Scottish people are starting to support English teams.

 

For his own sake he should have left at the end of last season because it’s beginning to look evident he won’t be able to take us any further. Feels eerily similar to the beginning of the third season of his first reign, only this time I think he will see it out purely to avoid receiving a similar backlash.

 

Agreed.

Ironically enough, if he did walk tomorrow, I think he would be lauded by the same fans who hated the way he left the first time around. Of course, he's always had his doubters and there are people on here who will never take to him after what happened the first time around but I think, in the whole, the fans would back his decision.

 

You have to respect his honesty at last nights post match press conference when asked about new signings, it’s time for the board to respond which they won’t. They will continue to treat the fan base with the usual contempt, they really are a shower of arrogant * wits.