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

[Harryflashman]

"Rodgers has had to deal with uncomfortable headlines linking former Borussia Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp with his job, with scrutiny building after Liverpool needed penalties to scrape past Carlisle in the Capital One Cup on Wednesday. And quotes from Gerrard’s new autobiography published in the Independent will do little to improve matters.

Liverpool led the table by five points with three games to go until they were beaten 2-0 by José Mourinho’s side in April 2014, and would go on to finish two points behind champions Manchester City.

The match was decided in part by Gerrard’s slip which presented the ball to Demba Ba for a breakaway goal in first-half injury time.

But in ‘Steven Gerrard: My Story’, the influential midfielder – now with the LA Galaxy – points the finger at Rodgers as well.

Gerrard said: “I’ve never been able to say this in public before but I was seriously concerned that we thought we could blow Chelsea away. I sensed an over-confidence in Brendan’s team talks. We played into Chelsea’s hands. I feared it then and I know it now.”

Oh yes Stevie me, we believe you that you had reservations about the Chelsea game, 'too much overconfidence'. Have you forgotten that immortal scene.

Gerrard - We Go Again

"See everyone it wasn't my fault for skipping it's Brendan the overconfident fool , I know the score . I'm still the messiah , me not him , MEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

 

[ToffeeDan]

Stevie G as manager would be perfect. His ego is far too big and his tactical nous a tad questionable (might even make Rodgers look good).

 

[Groucho]

"Rodgers has had to deal with uncomfortable headlines linking former Borussia Dortmund manager Jürgen Klopp with his job, with scrutiny building after Liverpool needed penalties to scrape past Carlisle in the Capital One Cup on Wednesday. And quotes from Gerrard’s new autobiography published in the Independent will do little to improve matters.

Liverpool led the table by five points with three games to go until they were beaten 2-0 by José Mourinho’s side in April 2014, and would go on to finish two points behind champions Manchester City.

The match was decided in part by Gerrard’s slip which presented the ball to Demba Ba for a breakaway goal in first-half injury time.

But in ‘Steven Gerrard: My Story’, the influential midfielder – now with the LA Galaxy – points the finger at Rodgers as well.

Gerrard said: “I’ve never been able to say this in public before but I was seriously concerned that we thought we could blow Chelsea away. I sensed an over-confidence in Brendan’s team talks. We played into Chelsea’s hands. I feared it then and I know it now.”

Oh yes Stevie me, we believe you that you had reservations about the Chelsea game, 'too much overconfidence'. Have you forgotten that immortal scene.

Gerrard - We Go Again

Ha - never mind about the massive cock-up Gerrard made in that game, he can just criticise the team for having confidence, on his instruction.

The wally.

 

[Groucho]

Take Suarez out of that side* that came 2nd and it'd have been the poorest side to have won the league if they'd done so. And they would've been the poorest Championship winning side in Europe the following year.

Suarez, as much as I disliked him, had hidden a multitude of sins at that club and it's now funny to watch the implosion.



*which he ultimately did himself anyway

 

[Lids1978]

my mate put a £2 bet on after 20 mins, 3-0 to united, 6-0 to saints and 2-1 to RS.

would have won half a grand.

Harsh. Would have imagined he would have won a lot more than 500 hundred though on those correct scores no?

 

[l4toffee]

koeman or monk rather than klopp and ancelotti.

sad thing is the genuinely believe they will get a top manager in ala last time.

an hour to find out if the rumour is true or not

It'll be klopp

 

[Ihaters]

oR g

Take Suarez out of that side* that came 2nd and it'd have been the poorest side to have won the league if they'd done so. And they would've been the poorest Championship winning side in Europe the following year.

Suarez, as much as I disliked him, had hidden a multitude of sins at that club and it's now funny to watch the implosion.



*which he ultimately did himself anyway

As well as hiding the mess they were in, he also exposed the mess that they are, the pro racism t-shirts, vote yes to cannibalism, them thinking the media is against him because every week when he dives the media have to highlight it and so on..

His actions directly or otherwise took them from everyone's 2 least favourite team (generally behind their local rivals), to everyone's actual least favourite team.. hilariously demonstrated in a poll of most disliked teams, on the talk sport website of all places. That station is like the cults direct line to the public, bet they were crying in the corridors over that result.

 

[deipnosophist]

Take Suarez out of that side* that came 2nd and it'd have been the poorest side to have won the league if they'd done so. And they would've been the poorest Championship winning side in Europe the following year.

Suarez, as much as I disliked him, had hidden a multitude of sins at that club and it's now funny to watch the implosion.

the implosion is of neutron star magnitude...@Titus Bramble advises us that if we drop Brenda's false gnashers from a height just 1 metre above said dense body, it will attain a speed of 7 million km/hr within that 1 metre distance.

 

[Fuleco]

Surely some credit should be given to Rodgers re Suarez, he got him playing his best football.

He built a team around him when previous managers tried to build a team around Andy Carroll!

 

[Ihaters]

haha Lawrenson BBC Sport:

He added: "In a classy way the Liverpool fans showed that they thought what they were watching was unacceptable because it was the quietest I've ever known Anfield, apart from those Carlisle fans.

Brilliant, no one bothered to make noisy = classy

He's really laid into them though lol
Some change of tune that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34350920

 

[Ihaters]

Surely some credit should be given to Rodgers re Suarez, he got him playing his best football.

He built a team around him when previous managers tried to build a team around Andy Carroll!

Ah but your forgetting an important thing here... He is Brendan Rodgers so err.. no.. no he deserves no credit at all, of any sort.

 

[Fuleco]

Ah but your forgetting an important thing here... He is Brendan Rodgers so err.. no.. no he deserves no credit at all, of any sort.

Haha fair point. Remember when he claimed he had 'tamed' Balotelli by telling him how to defend corners something no manager had done before not even a master of defence like Mourinho, and how this corner marking was key to beating Spurs 3-0 last season.

 

[deipnosophist]

Aldo would think it classy as well...sums it up really

 

[Ihaters]

Haha fair point. Remember when he claimed he had 'tamed' Balotelli by telling him how to defend corners something no manager had done before not even a master of defence like Mourinho, and how this corner marking was key to beating Spurs 3-0 last season.

Rodgers has been majestic in his own head, probably because he either wins games, or has players that let him down.

 

[tmgc]

Remember 17 months ago when they were selling premier league champions tee shirts outside the ground, their fans were lining the streets to welcome the team bus, the manager was being hailed as a tactical genius, and the racist was terrorising defences.......how the mighty have fallen.

Sniff it you kopite beauts.