ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:48 pm wrote:red till i die!! » Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:21 pm wrote:Still don't see how a ten year contract is going to improve any of that. If he is still in the job in another 10 years than he will have earned that through successive contracts which is the way it should be. Our players have to earn theirs so he should be no different. He rightly earned a new deal last summer and he got it but I don't see why he should be given a more lucrative deal a year later.
If he is committed to us it does not matter how long his contract is as he will stay.
As I said mate I'd move heaven and earth to keep him. I just don't see where we'd go if we lost him, especially now that United are spending as much as City/Chelsea and even Arsenal are spending £40m+ on one player.
Rafa did a phenomenal job but City weren't a force in his day and Arsenal were doing everything on a shoestring back then to pay for their stadium.
Brendan has got us punching above our weight, we are competing toe to toe with at least 4 clubs who have more resources than us and managers that can do that don't grow on tree's. It's not as if our rivals are managed by mugs either, the likes of Mourinho, LVG, Wenger and Pellegrini are amongst the best managers in the world.
One day the penny may drop with our fan base just how good a job Brendan is doing.
We punched above our weight last season but not this one and even though those clubs might have better resources they are not full of 40 million + players.
Chelsea have only ever crossed that figure once and that was the money they gave us for torres, City with the mega billions also only ever spent 40 million once and that was last summer on mangala. United have only ever crossed that figure once also and that was for di maria last summer. likewise with arsenal who spent on ozil. Thats it and its a far cry from the picture thats being painted.
We claim to have the finances to match them all and were also in the hunt for some of those players them clubs bought, sanchez, costa and willian were the big ones and we lost out, salah and mikhtaryan were another 2 in a slightly lower cost bracket that we failed to get also and the only ones we do seem to get are the ones no one else is looking for. Costa turns us down signs a new deal with athletico and goes to chelsea a year later, Even though we were close to getting him he didn't even give us a sniff when he actually moved. Even after the season we had. It isnt about the money as we have spent 35 mil on andy carroll and were willing to pay same for sanchez, We were also paying suarez 200k a week so obviously we have it to give for that one top player that costs big money.
Our problem is that we spent 35 million on carroll while for an extra 3 city got aguero. We got lallana for 25 and chelsea get fabregas and willian for 5 more. This is the problem and the quality between the players is far more than the price difference.
I agree they are top managers but rodgers also had the opportunity to work with one of them and he snubbed it. He also could have spent that magic number on a player if he didn't have to correct his previous mistakes.
He's either doing an okay job or maybe a great one but it depends on what your expectations are and if you have the rose tinted spec's on or not.