If you were against it, you sure hid it well.
In response to Mourinho's comment about Ole's impact being short term:
When he was made permanent:
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Brendan Rodgers | Rejoins Celtic on 3 year deal
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In response to Mourinho's comment about Ole's impact being short term:
Not everyone
As I said earlier - ok, most. Hindsight is wonderful. All these people now saying ‘I wanted to wait till the end of the season’
Looks like I’m the only one who was happy about it
See post above
No, I meant now its easy to see it would have been the right decision.
It was easy back then too. Honestly read some of the comments, a lot of people prefered to wait for the end of the season
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. But there were quite a number of comments at the time questioning Woodward decision.As I said earlier - ok, most. Hindsight is wonderful. All these people now saying ‘I wanted to wait till the end of the season’
Looks like I’m the only one who was happy about it
Anyway. We are where we are and the whole situation is completely unacceptable. Another season as also rans.
Surely something has to change.
its called succession planning we signed Maguire's replacement a year before we sold him, in fact we signed 3 CBs the year before we sold Maguire, 2 of them are now the established pairing and the 3rd Benkovic is yet to make his debut but was highly rated by Brendan last season during their time working together at Celtic
I love Rodgers. Excellent manager not like the Sean Dyches of this world.
Sean Dyche is an excellent manager. He has a club with a very poor budget and facilities at this level consistently comfortably staying up, and more. Hodgson too.
Stop conflating pretty football with good management.
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Yes, because Klopp and Solskjaer are on the same playing field... come on. The "fun facts" are that Klopp took a relatively depleted Dortmund side and toppled Bayern's power over the Bundesliga at the time with a fraction of their budget and playing scintillating football, love or hate the guy, those are facts. It's also facts that Solskjaer has only managed in the Norwegian league and the only time he stepped outside of that he relegated Cardiff.
Stop acting like an elitist please, nothing more annoying than somebody that acts like anybody that doesn't have the same point of view as them is beneath them in some way, i don't have a blind love for anybody and because i don't I guess i'm not a "Top Red" eh?
You have zero proof to say that Solskjaer is any good for us whatsoever and that so far it hasn't been a wretched disaster beyond "United DNA!!!" and the fact he used to play for us, that's all you have to go on.
There's far more evidence to suggest he isn't and never will be good enough to do anything of note with this club. But hey, i'm not one of 'those' guys, i'm more than happy to be proved wrong.
Brendan is doing a tremendous job. Don't forget he came close to winning the title with LFC.
His last season and a quarter there though was some really bad football. Like really awful.
But I think going to Celtic was a good choice for him, to rebuild his stock and to develope his game again away from the big leagues.
What intrigues me about Brendan Rogers is how he'll do in Europe next season, as it looks like Leicester are in a good position to qualify. His record with Liverpool in Europe was really bad, at Celtic it's hard to tell, but their fans seemed to not be impressed with it, and it didn't improve on previous - or their current manager, in fact, it may have been worse.
So to see how he gets on there will say a lot about his development as a coach. Also if he has learnt how to set up a defence, that is another thing that will show if he's developed. I don't watch a lot of Leciester, so I am not sure. They are obviously flying now though and full of confidence.
He cracked at Liverpool and people really think he will hack it at UTD where the pressure is ten fold?
Imagine the shit he will spout when the team inevitably doesn't play well and he has to defend himself...feck it!
Did he crack at Liverpool ?
Not so sure that would be the way i would put it. Maybe if he was given a VVD and Allison to build on that season he finished second then things may have worked out different.
Also this thing about he cant sort out a defence and was his downfall for losing the title is a myth. In that game against Chelsea it was 0-0 and Liverpool in full control (on course for that point which they needed) until someone slipped and fecked up the whole game plan.
I think everyone at Liverpool cracks when it comes to the title, I'm convinced this Liverpool team will sabotage themselves by the time we get to May. He was very close to winning a title with them although, from memory, his signings are usually a bit all over the place. Don't think he's right for us but he's got a couple of players we should have bought before we forked out for Maguire (not that he's a bad signing) like Ndidi
I will help you, we have conceded the joint least goals in the league, 8 goals in 10 games, same as Sheff Utd and Liverpool.
LCFC's biggest challange will be to keep him til the end of the season.
He knows as well as anyone the big big jobs don't always come up when stock is high and I think he will be near to the top of the list if AFC, THFC or Man Utd sack their managers, I would even think he would make the PSG, Barca Real list should any of them fire mid season this year.
His time a L'pool was clearing a learning curve for him and he is benefited from it, I don't believe he had the confidence or right to be there (Hence the teeth and the makeover) when he joined Liverpool and despite the 13/14 season, be battled with that til he was sacked.
This time around he will walking into a job with a sense of purpose & confidence and whoever above sacks there manager and gets him will see an improved style of play, player development and good signings very very quickly.
He knows as well as anyone the big big jobs don't always come up when stock is high and I think he will be near to the top of the list if AFC, THFC or Man Utd sack their managers, I would even think he would make the PSG, Barca Real list should any of them fire mid season this year.
His time a L'pool was clearing a learning curve for him and he is benefited from it, I don't believe he had the confidence or right to be there (Hence the teeth and the makeover) when he joined Liverpool and despite the 13/14 season, be battled with that til he was sacked.
This time around he will walking into a job with a sense of purpose & confidence and whoever above sacks there manager and gets him will see an improved style of play, player development and good signings very very quickly.
Maybe Spurs might get him if Poch goes.
Remember, we're talking about someone who once dressed as the Great Gatsby.
and? there is no way Rodgers leaves us in season for Spurs, for a start I very much doubt we'd let him talk to them unless they pay an obscene buy out, which Spurs would never pay
I agree with you about the 'in season' bit. Sorry, I should've read the post you initially responded to.
exactly the words of many a Celtic fan this time last year
then they shouldn't have given him an £8m buy out clause in his contract so they had no say in the matter
Tldr
Is it not possible that he might want to stay at Leicester? The Owners are wonderful people to work for. He has an exciting young squad, and will soon have training facilities as good as any in the world and the guarantee of transfer funds. Spuds have crippled themselves with debt, and I think, will be as impotent as Arsenal, for years to come. If he wins honours with us, his stock will go through the roof.
He's got a batpole in his bedroom in case one of the big Euro clubs sends for him & he needs to get to the Brendanmobile quickly.
I think he'd be tempted by one of the bigger clubs myself, Leicester are an exceptionally run club but the reality is they are outside the elite clubs.
I'd say United, Chelsea or Arsenal could take him off your hands easy enough, Spurs would be a questionable one as I believe they will fall back down over the next few years.
100% possible that he is happy as a pig in sh*t and completely confident in the squad, owners and facilities.
if you look back up the thread, my point was Leicester's biggest challenge could be to hang on to him, as he will be top of lists for a lot of big clubs, including United, I wasn't arguing whether he would definitely go, just that he would be in demand
But for the record, I reckon if United, Arsenal or a European Superpower came for him he would leave in the morning. Spurs, Im not so sure.
I'm sure they are but Spurs area bigger club and if they throw enough money at him that might also entice him to leave.
Spurs is a side step if that.
Won less trophies than us since 1992, dont spend much money, squad in disarray.
Man Utd would obviously turn his head, Arsenal possibly as well but not so sure about Spurs.
He will obviously have ambition at a higher level than our club, but its a bit of a unknown if he wants to just jump at the first moment or at least try to achieve something with us first. Even Pep a club jumper tends to give at least 3 seasons per club.
It's not - spurs a huge step up in terms of the club, despite your correct point about recent trophies. I think they are less likely to turn his head though as they haven't hit rock bottom yet. Brendan is smart & can see that things will get worse before they improve at Spurs, no matter how good a job he does
Arsenal and United would definitely turn his head, two big big clubs with huge potential & are easier projects to take over, put simply the only way is up for either.
Guy came out and said how defending is easy while Liverpool conceding 50 goals per season in PL.
Wow, he’s really transformed that Leicester side. He even seems to have improved them defensively which is quite a feat considering defensive coaching was always seen as his weakness.
I’m not going to lie, I wouldn’t mind him at United.
Same.I’m not going to lie, I wouldn’t mind him at United.
He should be very high up the list of managers we are going to draw up soon.