ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

[Dithering Dougie]

Rodgers doesn't have a pattern of play. He talks about a "philosophy" but he's an absolute spoofer who is getting found out with each passing game. Henderson is one of their few good players, and I only hope his absence doesn't prove to be the last straw. Rodgers is probably my favourite ever Liverpool manager.

Without doubt he's my favourite manager they've had I'm my lifetime.

It's like they've appointed a Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey an Will Ferral hybrid who's read Alex Fergusons autobiography and then mainlined the office over a weekend, there's really never been a bigger fraud in football...

I love him.

 

[LinekersLegs]

My favourite bit of the article is the bit in bold - Rodgers is only responsible for the signings that work out it seems...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...er-best-strategy-stick-him.html#ixzz3mEkScgde

The truth is that the path Liverpool have to tread is not an easy one to negotiate. They are searching for something they may never be able to find, which is why their assault on the title 16 months ago swept so many of us away on a tide of nostalgia and optimism.

Rodgers proved himself that season. He graduated as a leading manager. He demonstrated his talent. He showed he has the ability to manage a team and take it to the top. He had a philosophy and he implemented it.

The intervening months have not been easy. Liverpool were driven on that season by the brilliance of Suarez, Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling and the fading greatness of Steven Gerrard. Three of those four players have left the club. The fourth has barely played since May 2014.

Liverpool’s attempts to restock the team have not yet been successful. Mario Balotelli was a spectacular bust. Dejan Lovren has not hit the ground running. He has hit the ground falling. Adam Lallana has only shown fleeting glimpses of his class. Then again, a Rodgers signing, Philippe Coutinho, is fast emerging as the club’s best player.

The reality is that Liverpool cannot climb back to the top by outspending their rivals. They cannot win by might. They have to win by stealth. They have to win by having a better manager and a better strategy. They already have a fine manager and the best strategy is to stick with him.

To adapt Mourinho, Brendan Rodgers is a fantastic manager when he is not winning matches and he is a fantastic manager when he is. Rodgers has already proved he has what it takes. Now he just needs to be left alone to prove it again.

 

[TheFinnFan]

I actually dont mind them winning tonight.
Might give General Rodgers some extra time x.

 

[degsy]

Please Please Please stay until we do them big style then at full time we can all sing...

'Sacked in the morning, you're getting sacked in the morning'

 

[zirc]

My favourite bit of the article is the bit in bold - Rodgers is only responsible for the signings that work out it seems...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...er-best-strategy-stick-him.html#ixzz3mEkScgde

The truth is that the path Liverpool have to tread is not an easy one to negotiate. They are searching for something they may never be able to find, which is why their assault on the title 16 months ago swept so many of us away on a tide of nostalgia and optimism.

Rodgers proved himself that season. He graduated as a leading manager. He demonstrated his talent. He showed he has the ability to manage a team and take it to the top. He had a philosophy and he implemented it.

The intervening months have not been easy. Liverpool were driven on that season by the brilliance of Suarez, Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling and the fading greatness of Steven Gerrard. Three of those four players have left the club. The fourth has barely played since May 2014.

Liverpool’s attempts to restock the team have not yet been successful. Mario Balotelli was a spectacular bust. Dejan Lovren has not hit the ground running. He has hit the ground falling. Adam Lallana has only shown fleeting glimpses of his class. Then again, a Rodgers signing, Philippe Coutinho, is fast emerging as the club’s best player.

The reality is that Liverpool cannot climb back to the top by outspending their rivals. They cannot win by might. They have to win by stealth. They have to win by having a better manager and a better strategy. They already have a fine manager and the best strategy is to stick with him.

To adapt Mourinho, Brendan Rodgers is a fantastic manager when he is not winning matches and he is a fantastic manager when he is. Rodgers has already proved he has what it takes. Now he just needs to be left alone to prove it again.

Wow, the comments on that article. They've really got the knives out for him.

 

[davek]

He cant go quick enough for everyone now. He's an embarrassment all round. The media who are desperate for them to win stuff know he's a busted flush and want another spin of the managerial wheel. The fans he lost last season. It's just the convenient couple more terrible results the owners are looking for to get shut.

If there's a pound for pound worse manager ever than Gnashers I haven't heard about him.

 

[chrissyjack]

He cant go quick enough for everyone now. He's an embarrassment all round. The media who are desperate for them to win stuff know he's a busted flush and want another spin of the managerial wheel. The fans he lost last season. It's just the convenient couple more terrible results the owners are looking for to get shut.

If there's a pound for pound worse manager ever than Gnashers I haven't heard about him.

The kopites, I know , are split . A couple want him gone NOW , and can see him for what he is . Some think he's still ace . But those people choose not to hear anything bad about the BESTKLUBINTHEWEEERRLLDD,LAD. My stupid nephew being one

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

They've got a piss easy run of home fixtures, they'll be thinking he's the new Shanks again in a couple of weeks. Let's never forget we're talking about kopites here.

 

[PhilM]

Surprised really, every time I see them Henderson looks part of the problem for how they want to play. It's not so much he's a bad player for me, him and others don't seem to fit into any pattern of play the want.

But obviously you're uncle sees them more closely Phil. one thing I'm sure of though he'd not get a game for a top team.

He's honest that he is not the most talented player as you mention, but as @Layne noted he's the only one who seems anywhere near tenacious.

A lot of their play goes through him because he is the only one who consistently moves around, or is willing to try and win the ball back.

Without Henderson, he just thinks their ever increasingly slow and laborious play will just get worse until they get a tonking sometime soon.

There position in fourteenth disguised how lacklustre they've been this season; one or two more bad results and he is gone which will be a shame.

 

[PhilM]

If there's a pound for pound worse manager ever than Gnashers I haven't heard about him.

Hodgson is often spouted as their worst manager in generations, producing absolute turgid football and not the 'Liverpool way'.

The fact that some of their fans are now comparing Brenda to Ol' Woy just goes to show how poor and deluded of a manager he actually is.

Personally, we should all be thankful for Luis Suarez! If it weren't for him and his fabulous football, he'd have been gone a long time ago.

 

[sd_1992]

He cant go quick enough for everyone now. He's an embarrassment all round. The media who are desperate for them to win stuff know he's a busted flush and want another spin of the managerial wheel. The fans he lost last season. It's just the convenient couple more terrible results the owners are looking for to get shut.

If there's a pound for pound worse manager ever than Gnashers I haven't heard about him.

 

[Guest89]

I've been out of this thread for a bit so I'm guessing I'm a bit late. But I am enjoying RAWK turning on Gerrard for him daring to question 'the FACTS'.

 

[davek]

Hodgson is often spouted as their worst manager in generations, producing absolute turgid football and not the 'Liverpool way'.

The fact that some of their fans are now comparing Brenda to Ol' Woy just goes to show how poor and deluded of a manager he actually is.

Personally, we should all be thankful for Luis Suarez! If it weren't for him and his fabulous football, he'd have been gone a long time ago.

Hodgson is a vastly superior manager to Rodgers. They know why they got shut of Hodgson: the cult wanted Dalglish back and were denied; then they seized on every mistake Hodgson made and got stuck into every football journalist in the country to make them see things their way. All with Dalglish's connivance, I'll be bound.

Well they got rewarded for that: Dalglish looking like the dinosaur he is for a couple of years, and now this no mark.

Guess who had the last laugh qualifying England for the Euros with games to spare?

 

[hullefc]

The growing army of disgruntled Kopites are like a caged tiger waiting to pounce if they do rubbish against Norwich today. The phone-ins later tonight will be amusing. There used to be at least 3 coach go from Hull taking them to Anfield, think it is down to a minibus now. The last time it was so low, was when they had enough of Hodgson.

 

[Minimeister]

Remember last season when skint Rodgers was forced to buy potential because he couldn't compete with the money clubs so he bought young Adam and young Lovren to go alongside young world class Ibe and young Sakho. He's the victim here.