Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

Vale was pish. His best attributes was not being taylor. We've just improved that position. Ofcourse your the master scout who knows better on that, with your wrong opinion.

Bet you hated the board for mooy signing. Hopefully this works out as good.


Yes we never got a striker. Would you rather pish or the one we was after? I'd rather not have to deal with another palma.

 

He won't answer a sensible question.

 

He has to put his game face on its his job but he's understandably disappointed and even * off.

Roll on the summer transfer window lol

 

Valle wasn’t pish. He was a decent left back. And what exactly makes you think Schlupp is a better left back than Valle? He may well be. He might not be. It’s hard to tell given he’s hardly played left back in years and by all accounts, it isn’t his best position.

This is nothing remotely similar to the Mooy signing. Ange knew Mooy very well. Mooy had played in this league before. Only thing similar is he was around the same age as Schlupp. Plus Mooy was a permanent deal, not a 6 month loan.

On your last point. Why do some people suggest that it was either target number 1 or pish? That should never be the choice at any serious football club. Usually if clubs can’t get option A, they go to option B who is of a similar level. Or they go and get a loan for until they can go back for option A in the next window.

It wasn’t Kvistgaarden or Lawrence Shankland.

 

Ots cause the board know we will moan for a month at most.
By the time May comes they know we'll be distracted by winning the League and then the Scottish Cup Final. We'll have forgotten about the January transfer window

The only thing that definitely was not done well was.....selling Kyogo and not replacing him.

If we had kept Kyogo, brought in Jota and the left back boy, Tierney pre-contract I'd have been quite happy.

Losing Kyogo has * do many people off

 

Tbf that was straight after the game..

He's had plenty of time to choose his words carefully, when he's seen target after target fail to land..

 

He’s never been shy at slating the support. Very different story when it comes to the board - as would be the case with most managers.

He’s quite clearly * off at the lack of signings.

 

Most people agree it's was the right move and a good to deal to punt Kyogo.. it's the lack of replacement that's unacceptable part..

 

I'd suggest that a lot of folk are scouring through his comments looking for things to back up the outrage narrative.

He's no sitting there secretly raging at his CEO and CFO not arsed about bringing him in the players he wants. That is the assumption made by a LOT of people, and the more folk jump on the bandwagon the more it becomes 'fact' in people's minds.

Believe it or not I used to be the same, going ballistic at what I seen as our club deliberately undermining managers and treating the support base with disdain.

The reality though is that they are on the 'sensible' end of the spectrum in terms of finances, which means we don't just cave in to clubs/players demands, instead having a plan going into deals and pulling the plug if we think the other party is taking the *.

I get it's not a popular strategy amongst the support, but overall am happy that's how we go about our business, despite sometimes being disappointed at losing out.

 

The thing is, the majority of fans are disappointed. We are being held back from reaching our full potential due to how we conduct our business and that's the most frustrating thing. I'm not advocating that we adopt a crazy business model like the Huns but sometimes you do have to speculate to accumulate and they should also understand that success on the field brings even greater financial rewards of it

 

He's definitely frustrated.. he too professional to voice anger.

When he was enticed him back he was likely promised better backing.. its the same issues over and over.. no consistency in our transfer dealings..

Was hoping we'd back him properly and he'd stay past his 3yrs.. probably doesn't have the energy for that..when he sees us make the same mistakes repeatedly.. haphazard in the market without real cohesive vision.

 

I think Brendan is fully committed and will directly support the transition post review to upgraded recruitment approach.
The first thing with any issue is to recognise it and call it out.
It is a competence problem, however you dress it up. As already suspected by many.

Well done the manager, would have been easy to just spit out usual tough Jan window pish.

On thing is for sure, summer HAS to go well or we will be looking for a new manager in 12 months or less.

 

No, the majority of fans are ranting and raving and throwing tantrums.

The guys working at the club know far more than you or I or any * on here, how things work. Am sure they appreciate all the input though, they must feel so lucky to have us all guiding them in the footballing business world.

 

The 'guys working at the club' failed to get what the manager required.. that's an issue.

Most people are quite measured in what they're saying, but if they want to rant and rave on a football forum that's what it's for..

 

Might be a good thing we never got our second target choice striker how many * strikers have we bought over the years

Kenny maybe get a chance here's hoping, although I think we never pushed it out after failing to get kvistargen because we have a recognised former Japanese no1 striker aswell as idah, the transfer team were never panicked