Brendan Rodgers - How good is he?

Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
Indeed! You don't purchase players who are worse than what you had. Same with a manager. But who is better than Pep? I think when the time comes it will be a case of getting someone who is just 'different'!
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Of course. It won’t be someone with an equal trophy count but one who has the talent to peak at an elite club. Even Pep was once just some guy with visible potential.
 
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Tuearts right boot said:
Yes...but is he as good or better than Pep and if the answer's no then there isn't much chance of him coming here. Therein lies the problem when Pep calls it a day.
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If the criteria for the next manager is; as good as or better than Pep Guardiola, I guess we'll be without a manager for a long long time.

We will eventually have to settle for good enough, there's no getting around that, and hope that a new manager will bring something new to the team which keeps us fighting for the tiles, or preferably totally destroying every single opponent we come across. :)
 
grifter said:
As the thread title suggests I’d like to hear what people think of Brendan as a manager.

I thought he was an arrogant tosser at Liverpool to be honest but I always respected the job he did there in a short space of time. He was successful at Celtic, albeit in a mickey mouse league, and got them playing some great stuff. Then at Leicester again he got them playing some good stuff in no time at all and looks likely to get them into the champions league at some point in the near future.

But overshadowing it all, the guy has this reputation of bottling it, with Liverpool throwing the title away and Leicester missing out on top 4 last year. So how good is he and could he potentially manage a club like our’s one day?
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I have a big issue with this accepted narrative on the 2014 title race. They were nowhere near the title going into the season before they went on a decent run but we were clear favourites deep into the season. Liverpool were scoring a lot of goals and letting in a lot as well (no one wins a league letting in 50), but we scored more and let in a lot less. Everyone talks about the Gerrard slip handing the title over but no one talks about the Kompany mis kick clearance that let Suárez through or the hand ball punched clearance at their end which handed them the initiative in the first place. Until that point the league was in our hands.

Rogers and Liverpool bottled the league? Do me a favour, they flattered to deceive and didn’t deserve it in the first place. It was simply another example of the raggy dipper media spinning events and sad Liverpool fans falling for it.

As regards Rogers, I think he is a good manager who has demonstrated this at multiple clubs, but I wouldn’t have him here and I think he is at the right club. However I think ambition will get the better of him and he will jump at a move to another big club for an extra few quid and end up back at a Leicester club again, he should stay where he is and create a bond and legacy with the Foxes.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I don’t think it was. I might be wrong but I think that came from higher up in the skanky Liverpool corridors.

Sterling has always been positive about Rogers and Rogers said this about Sterling;
“He has incredible talent but this was a boy who looked after his body and his life to ensure that he could give himself every chance to do it. We developed him and he respected that. But his next challenge and ambition was to move on and I’m so happy with how well he has done. He’s mature now. For Raheem it was never about money. If it was about money he could have stayed at Liverpool. It wasn’t about that. It was about being the best he can be. And in that moment in time there was an opportunity to go to Manchester City, where they had top class players. He’s gone in there and developed and become a winner.”

I don’t know if that was a bit of backtracking but I don’t recall the vitriol about Sterling actually coming from Rodgers.
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He put contract talks and the 100 k figure into the public domain, in the doco he was having a go at raz , he is completely different in his part in the witchunt , raz is polite when he was asked about him, no more no less
 
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