Rodgers the United manager vs Steven Gerrard as Pool manager (after Klopp left).
Battle of the century. The philosopher vs Mr.
Battle of the century. The philosopher vs Mr.
Would you take Rodgers at United?
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Utterly ridiculous. He's not more qualified than either. The Eredivisie is a more competitive league than the Scottish Premier. A solitary FA cup is not worth more than Champions Leagues.
Every manager is a risk, obviously. Brendan is more of a risk than anyone else we've been linked to, including Ten Hag, Poch and Zidane, because United fans won't give him the time of day if things go wrong, same as Moyes.
Utd are not going for Ten Hag, that is a dead cert. Brendan is the most likely candidate and the most suitable one also. Poch is a possibility, Zidane never going to happen. Brendan or Poch? Remember Poch failed to win the league with Mbappe and Neymar.
It doesn't matter anyway. I am 90% certain Brendan will be the next Utd manager. I just hope people give him a chance instead of hoping he gets sacked from day one.
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You've ignored the entire point of what I said.
Brendan is the most likely because our board are clueless cretins who are only interested in hiring stooges. Not because he's more qualified, because he isn't. Not because he has more experience, because he doesn't. Not because he'd be more popular with players or with fans, because he wouldn't.
I'm not going to delude myself about how shit an appointment it would be just because it looks like the one we'll make. Been down that road with Moyes, not doing it again.
He didn't manage them. He even played for City as well.You want to write off Matt Busby from our history books?
Utter fecking madness if we appoint him and I won't give him a change and any success with be tainted. Not that he will succeed I very much doubt. Liverpool castoff as a manager ffs.
He would never win over me. Disgusting it is even being discussed.
Seems like certain Twitter handles are heavily promoting Rodgers to United discussions
I honestly think this Rodgers crap is some Woodward stunt to make people so appalled that keeping Ole starts to seem palatable.
Crazy how much traction an article from the daily fecking star has got.
Crazy how much traction an article from the daily fecking star has got.
How is Rodgers more qualified then Ten Hag or Zidane?
Praet, Perez, Vestergaard to name three. £65m down the drain.
Rodgers has done a good Job, you cannot argue with the positions we finished and an FA Cup.
But… you say he’s taken us as far as we can go, in one sense we are punching around the best level we probably ever will. Having said that, there are some problems with us an Elite coach would have fixed by now. We’ve proved we have an excellent team, yet he’s seen it each season go through horrendous form, generally perpetuated by his negativity, the last two seasons would absolutely should have finished in the top 4.
So whilst he’s been a fine coach for Leicester, albeit far from faultless, you are Manchester United and he has to compete with Klopp, Pep and Tuchel. Expectations should be vastly higher and you should be getting the very top managers in the world… that he ain’t. He’d be able to make us defend set pieces for a start.
Oh and have I mentioned the ludicrous injuries we keep getting since he came in? Got rid of our head fitness guy who had been here 20 years and overseen an incredible fitness and injury free record…. Brought in his own man and we get injury after injury.
i can't understand why Man Utd prefer Rodgers over Conte. Not that Rodger is not a good manager, but Conte obviously is a much bigger name to manage the ego of the dressing room. I still remember how Benitez failed in Real Madrid. He was set for failure since day one. No one in the dressing room respect him.
They probably did, but if you snooze you lose. The people at the top our your club are utterly clueless.
The overriding urge for change is clouding people’s judgement. What’s the point of getting rid of a poor manager to appoint another one who is likely to follow the same path? I wish the board displays some cojones and appoints someone who can actually challenge Pep, Klopp & Tuchel.
The board wants a yes man and not someone who would call them out on their bullshit so no Conte.
Hard to say. Eriksen was not good before Pochettino came in. Sticking him out wide, where he got space, was smart! Alli had one poor year under Poch with lots on injuries (and has been poor ever since). But he looked very good from 15 to 18. That is too long of a stretch to be called form.
Mousa Dembele was 27 by the time Pochettino arrived at Spurs. Had played close to 10 000 minutes in the PL. He was very far from highly rated.
Ah, Rodgers always was quite a fan of Vestergaard for some reason. Do you know if Fofana was Rodgers or your scouts?
Reading these stories from Leicester fans is quite interesting. The Rodgers fans just dont want to pay attention. They have made up their minds. I’ve said it before, and I will repeat it; it is quite similar to when we hired Mourinho when quite a few naive people in here got very excited.
It is so weird to see people keep repeating this.
Bar Suarez, after Suarez left, Liverpool scored 52 goals in the PL. After spending €150 mill that summer! A big amount today, a huge amount then. The summer after they also spent big on Benteke and Firmino. They still looked dire, and after eight games they had scored 8 goals in 8 games in the PL.
People have to wake the f*ck up!
I think some of the posters here are running those twitter handles pushing the Rodgers news like crazy
I'll take whoever comes in. Don't really have a choice do we. We get what we get. Rogers until summer then a world-class manager I would like.
The Caf are usually proven wrong when it comes to new manager appointments or the team line-ups on match days, so I wouldn’t be complaining or be too worried if the club hires him 
I’m glad most of this place don’t want him. Will probably mean he’ll turn out alright.
Considering half the cafe don’t have a Clive about football like Ole has proven.
Considering half the cafe don’t have a Clive about football like Ole has proven.
I think he'd do a good job, and even if he didn't it'd be a lot easier to get rid of him than it is with Solskjaer. I can't see top reds referring to Brendan Rodgers as "one of our own" and singing his name after we get battered by rivals.
Bolded part is so much true. We're an elite club or we should be one so we should go for elite managers. I dont see logic in missing out on Conte and then going for Rodgers.
I think in the start we'd be much better than now and he's a good coach but in the long run I'm not so sure, especially given his teams used to have problems he wouldnt solve and he has the same problems at Leicester. Leaking goals or crumbling under pressure, missing out on top 4 two years in a row after looking pretty good most of the season. Then again he would work with the best team in his career and Ronaldo so it might work and he could take his career up a notch. Although who knows when he would come and what team he would get cause some players will leave. So if we're making this move we should make it pretty soon, waiting till the end of the season would be near suicidal.
I'm still hoping for Zidane.
Ten Haag is a pipe dream and there are no links linking us to him anyway.
I always thought Praet was decent and he will be moved on no problem. It’s too early to write Vestergaard off and Perez was more for depth. You’ll know the makeup of Leicester’s squad better then me though.
The problem is there’s no elite manager out there to compete at the top with Pep and Klopp in particular. Conte wasn’t fancied by the club and Zidane isn’t interested. For me Ten Hag would be a massive risk and I think some people are getting a bit carried away about him. That leaves Rodgers or Poch.
I'm probably coming across as overly dismissive of him, but I'm trying to look at it from a Man Utd perspective. If your board did their due diligence, there would be way too many red flags IMO.
In terms of Fofana, it was said he'd been scouted from youth level, but I'm not sure. There are certain ones you just know are Rodgers ones as the links have followed him around. Justin has been an excellent signing and he was linked with them at Celtic.
For me personally, his history with dippers is the deciding factor against him.
I would say no but we have Ole and are painfully short of options.
So I'd take him tomorrow given the choice.
If he is crap just sack him after a few months. No need to give him years
So I'd take him tomorrow given the choice.
If he is crap just sack him after a few months. No need to give him years
that's the problem, we don't sack managers after a few months. We give them 3 years to waste and 400m to spend instead.
No.. No.. and thrice No.. Rodgers is tainted due to the fact of his connection with the Dippers.. I'd rather stick with Ole until the end of the season than employ Rodgers, such is my hatred for everything about Liverpool FC.
Yep. People keep missing this obvious point. The utter shite I keep reading about Rodgers now then sack him for Ten Hag in the summer is some of the most idiotic slop I've seen on here.
Somehow I think Rodgers would be driven out by the fans fairly quick if he was doing badly.
Either way we need to save this season so if that's a caretaker or Rodgers in now we need to do it
We aren’t going to spend the 10m it costs to get rid of Ole and whoever, spend 16m to get Rodgers and his staff to spend 10m sacking them after a few months and then go get another manager and staff for another 10m or so. That would be batshit fecking mental.
Yeah, I'm with you. Starting to think the poster who suggested this was just a gimmick by the owners to buy more time for Ole was right. Although it's a bit more intelligent than I'd expect from them.
Would Rodgers really be that Bad? I think he is a really good Coach. For me the only thing is that he managed Liverpool and doesnt have a good record in Europe. I would take him now.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying IFF a year from now Rodgers is doing shit wed sack him.
Look at any other club. You hire a manager sand if they are shit you sack them.
That's what we need to start doing.
Every appointment is a risk.
Ten Hag is juts as much a risk.
Rodger's has a much higher ceiling in terms of actual talent and ability than Ole, but there's a very similar stumbling block in that I don't see him taking us to the very top. Which means honestly, what's the point? The football and organisation of the side would be better, we'd have an actual style, lovely, but we'd be not that much closer to winning the big trophies.
Plus he is a prat, but I'm really trying to forget that aspect and be more rational and fair.
Plus he is a prat, but I'm really trying to forget that aspect and be more rational and fair.
Yes but your starting point can’t be “I don’t think he’s the right guy but feck it let’s do it anyway because there’s nobody else right now” - that wastes a feck load of money and more importantly time when they inevitably don’t work out. Either you think he’s the guy or not.
So here's the situation. Our football decision making people (Woodward, Arnold, Murtough and Fletcher) were probably watching the paint dry during the second half of last season which explains why Ole was given a contract extension and why they were caught with their pants down when shit finally hit fan. The geniuses are terrified of interim managers because if the interim manager wins 3 games in a row then they would struggle to control themselves from giving him a 3 year contract. These gentlemen had allowed Conte to join Spurs even though he was ready to sign an 18 month contract out of fear that he might rock their boat to much. They probably want Rodgers not because they think he's the right man for us but because of some silly clause in his contract.
There is absolutely no shadow of a doubt that Rodgers is better then Ole. He knows his tactics, he's got his own philosophy and he'll stick to it. However a good 60-70% of managers in the Serie A, EPL and La Liga fall in that category. The guy is a bottler, he is not particularly great in signing players, he is not particularly successful in Europe and tend to struggle making it to top 4. He also had issues with Liverpool because they wanted to introduce data analysis in football and shot down Rodger's plans of bringing in his mates from Swansea. Is that the sort of manager you want at United? Doesn't he reeks of Moyes to you?
Ask yourself if Pep, Klopp or Zidane were available/interested would they go for Rodgers? If the likes of Ancelotti or Pochs were available would they go or should they go for Rodgers? So why are you settling for sixth best?
There is absolutely no shadow of a doubt that Rodgers is better then Ole. He knows his tactics, he's got his own philosophy and he'll stick to it. However a good 60-70% of managers in the Serie A, EPL and La Liga fall in that category. The guy is a bottler, he is not particularly great in signing players, he is not particularly successful in Europe and tend to struggle making it to top 4. He also had issues with Liverpool because they wanted to introduce data analysis in football and shot down Rodger's plans of bringing in his mates from Swansea. Is that the sort of manager you want at United? Doesn't he reeks of Moyes to you?
Ask yourself if Pep, Klopp or Zidane were available/interested would they go for Rodgers? If the likes of Ancelotti or Pochs were available would they go or should they go for Rodgers? So why are you settling for sixth best?
Rodgers won't come to United for few months. He's managing Leicester not Molde or its Scottish counterpart Celtic.
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