To add on to Kash's post.....
here's another quote by the grand wizard himself.
“The other night at Bournemouth, in an attempt to find a solution, we were playing 3-4-3. A British coach playing 3-4-3? He must have fallen on to that system by luck,” . “It might not have been that I was awake until the early hours of the morning thinking how we might do it?
“A foreign coach would be a tactical genius – playing Markovic wide, using Raheem Sterling as a free number nine, moving with penetration, playing with a box midfield and a back three – I must have just dreamt that and thrown it out there"
why I think Rodgers is the wrong man for the job ? It because of statements like the above. A win against a championship team and he basically spells out all his tactics to anybody who bothers to listen to him. Patting himself on the back because no one else gave him credit for switching to 3-4-3. Basically telling the whole world this is how he is gonna setup his team.
And the worst thing is that he wants to gain sympathy points from the press because he is British ?
Look I have no doubt Rodgers will become a good/great manager in the next decade or so. But can we as a club wait for him to learn the ropes slowly (yes....he seems to be a slow learner.....does not even have one ounce of proactiveness, likes to surrounded himself with yes-men, picks players on favouritism..etc) ?
So we LFC fans (along with Millions around the world) waiting for the moment (which could take more than a decade) when Rodgers finally grasps the finer aspects of management....
Jesus. And then what ? He goes on to manage Barcelona ?
This job offer came too soon for Rodgers... If he was a smarter man, he would have underplayed his importance to the team, working behind the scenes to improve every aspects of this team so as to prove that he is indeed the right man for the job. Keep it low profile. Hire the right coaching team who has experience in coaching players involved in European competitions. So when $hit hits the fan, we the fans might be a little more condoning to his plight.
So what does he do instead ? He spends the summer acting like a horny teenager. Wasted so many f**king months of this season trying to shoe-horn Gerrard and Johnson into the team. Talks about other team managers. Talks about other team's ambition. Signed off every f**king interview about how happy he is with the summer signings (then proceeds to throw players like balotelli and Can under the bus).... He is even more David Brent that Ricky f**king Gervais.
And only now (after months of doing $hit), he seems to be doing something about the way we setup our team. And even that has some plot holes (Dropping Mignolet for Jones, putting Gerrard back to protecting the defence). Its just getting too much. The way Rodgers sets up his team, there would always be some plot holes. Either we are too open...or we have no cutting edge in attack. This guy just does not know how to balance the team properly.
So we can either wait and wait and wait and Rodgers (slowly) becomes a good manager or we cut our losses asap when we get a good European experienced manager. My mind is made up.
And if I can add...lets not make Rodgers as if he is some kind of messiah. When he 1st came to our club he did mention that he was only interested in staying for a few years and he will move on to better things (spain ? therefore all his butt-kissing in Spanish a few weeks ago to the Spanish press). Rodgers is only interested in himself. The 1st LFC manager ever to blame the anfield pitch....wow.
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