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16 Sep 2015 00:38:27
I wrote this bored during pre-season thought I would share :
Brendan's Big Year?
Rodgers is stuttering into the 2015/16 season, with nothing short of perfection to keep him in his job. After a magnificent second season, the loss of Luis Suarez made for a somewhat abysmal third year in charge, which sparked the question from a lot of reds fans if he was still the man to take the club forward and was it a magical player that made a poor manager look good?
After his reshuffle both on and off the pitch the arrivals of James Milner and Roberto Firmino in particular along with the terrifically talented coach Sean O'Driscoll being brought in as his new assistant manager the Northern Irish man has no more excuses.
In 2013/14 Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge fired Liverpool to their best season since 1990 (2nd) 2 points behind eventual champions Manchester City whilst also scoring the most goals they ever have in the premier league (101). Thus along with the longest winning streak (11) and unbeaten run (16) of any club that season made most football fans with the feeling that Rodgers was a shoe in for manager of the year, before Tony Pulis and Crystal Palace had a phenomenal last half of the season.
In the summer of 2014 Liverpool lost their prized asset Luis Suarez in a £75m transfer to F.C Barcelona, Rodgers then replaced him with the intolerable Mario Balotelli along with the likes of Southampton's Adam Lallana and Benfica's Lazar Markovic to try and plug the gap of the departed phenomenon Luis Suarez, this had a feel of the Spurs fiasco trying to replace Gareth Bale.
At the start of the 2014/15 season all kopites greatest fears became reality as after just 4 wins in their first 12 games and inevitable elimination from the champions league Rodgers was left rocking, but after a change in tactics followed by a 3-0 loss to great rivals Manchester United (14th December), Liverpool's season took a sudden upturn in form going 12 games unbeaten including 9 victories. Yet that was the only highlight in Liverpool's season as a disgraceful defeat in Benfica to eliminate them from Europa League and two semi final losses in the domestic cups left for a sour tasting 6th place finish to the season and Rodgers expected to be axed. Surprisingly with a lot of highly respected managers (Klopp, Benitez and Ancelotti) out of a job by the end of the season and expectation again spiking up, Rodgers seems to have hung on.
Colin Pascoe (assistant manager) and Mike Marsh (first team coach) look to have taken the punishment for the previous season with Brendan Rodgers hanging on and FSG (Fenway Sports Group) again putting their hands in their pockets and splashing money on the likes of Roberto Firmino (£29m), Nathaniel Clyne (£12.5m) and the imminent Christian Benteke (£32.5m) coupled with the fact that Manchester City have effectively paid £49m plus James Milner for the rogue Raheem Sterling Liverpool can be pleased with their transfer business thus far and Brendan Rodgers has no more excuses if his side does not deliver as he has had 3 transfer windows and spent over a whopping £200m since the departure of Luis Suarez, Liverpool just have to deliver.
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26 Jan 2016 00:40:23
Hi all,
Just curious as to how many posters have seen texeira play more than 5 or 10 times?
I just find it confusing as to why everyone is screaming about him and saying we should pay almost £40mil when most are going off hear say and stats (in the Ukrainian league) .
I understand excitement of a new signing we all get it but do we really need him? Is he really that good? I'm not saying he isn't because he's been decent the handful of times i have seen him but £40 is a lot of money for big risk, unless someone can tell me otherwise and that he is genuinely a top quality play.
16 Sep 2015 00:38:27
I wrote this bored during pre-season thought I would share :
Brendan's Big Year?
Rodgers is stuttering into the 2015/16 season, with nothing short of perfection to keep him in his job. After a magnificent second season, the loss of Luis Suarez made for a somewhat abysmal third year in charge, which sparked the question from a lot of reds fans if he was still the man to take the club forward and was it a magical player that made a poor manager look good?
After his reshuffle both on and off the pitch the arrivals of James Milner and Roberto Firmino in particular along with the terrifically talented coach Sean O'Driscoll being brought in as his new assistant manager the Northern Irish man has no more excuses.
In 2013/14 Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge fired Liverpool to their best season since 1990 (2nd) 2 points behind eventual champions Manchester City whilst also scoring the most goals they ever have in the premier league (101). Thus along with the longest winning streak (11) and unbeaten run (16) of any club that season made most football fans with the feeling that Rodgers was a shoe in for manager of the year, before Tony Pulis and Crystal Palace had a phenomenal last half of the season.
In the summer of 2014 Liverpool lost their prized asset Luis Suarez in a £75m transfer to F.C Barcelona, Rodgers then replaced him with the intolerable Mario Balotelli along with the likes of Southampton's Adam Lallana and Benfica's Lazar Markovic to try and plug the gap of the departed phenomenon Luis Suarez, this had a feel of the Spurs fiasco trying to replace Gareth Bale.
At the start of the 2014/15 season all kopites greatest fears became reality as after just 4 wins in their first 12 games and inevitable elimination from the champions league Rodgers was left rocking, but after a change in tactics followed by a 3-0 loss to great rivals Manchester United (14th December), Liverpool's season took a sudden upturn in form going 12 games unbeaten including 9 victories. Yet that was the only highlight in Liverpool's season as a disgraceful defeat in Benfica to eliminate them from Europa League and two semi final losses in the domestic cups left for a sour tasting 6th place finish to the season and Rodgers expected to be axed. Surprisingly with a lot of highly respected managers (Klopp, Benitez and Ancelotti) out of a job by the end of the season and expectation again spiking up, Rodgers seems to have hung on.
Colin Pascoe (assistant manager) and Mike Marsh (first team coach) look to have taken the punishment for the previous season with Brendan Rodgers hanging on and FSG (Fenway Sports Group) again putting their hands in their pockets and splashing money on the likes of Roberto Firmino (£29m), Nathaniel Clyne (£12.5m) and the imminent Christian Benteke (£32.5m) coupled with the fact that Manchester City have effectively paid £49m plus James Milner for the rogue Raheem Sterling Liverpool can be pleased with their transfer business thus far and Brendan Rodgers has no more excuses if his side does not deliver as he has had 3 transfer windows and spent over a whopping £200m since the departure of Luis Suarez, Liverpool just have to deliver.