ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"
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Balotelli really strikes me as the kind of guy who reacts well to having the finger pointed at him!
Donald Twain
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I still working on whether its him or not!
Rodgers is starting to sweat a wee bit, so he is.....
‘We need to return to being a team. That has brought us success over the last 18 months. When confidence is a little bit low in the team, it can become more about the individual, but that is not what we are about. We are a team and when we work to that principle we are at our best.'
Talk about contradiction. Suarez was their saviour, his goals papered over the cracks in many games when they played garbage and confidence was low in the past, so it was about the individual then. The fact is now when they have no confidence (in spite of the Derby bravado/bull they trot out) they have no individual and the team aren't doing it. Rodgers panic-bought Balotelli when he it dawned on him that they werent the 'go to' club for other targets and having to hand-rear an over-grown toddler is the reality of that now. Throw the Sturridge situation into the mix and their wheels, if not coming off, are wobbling all over the show.
‘We need to return to being a team. That has brought us success over the last 18 months. When confidence is a little bit low in the team, it can become more about the individual, but that is not what we are about. We are a team and when we work to that principle we are at our best.'
Talk about contradiction. Suarez was their saviour, his goals papered over the cracks in many games when they played garbage and confidence was low in the past, so it was about the individual then. The fact is now when they have no confidence (in spite of the Derby bravado/bull they trot out) they have no individual and the team aren't doing it. Rodgers panic-bought Balotelli when he it dawned on him that they werent the 'go to' club for other targets and having to hand-rear an over-grown toddler is the reality of that now. Throw the Sturridge situation into the mix and their wheels, if not coming off, are wobbling all over the show.
Add to that Sterling is starting to justify all the hype as the new Wright-Phillips, Aaron Lennon, Andros Townsend, Stewart Downing.
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loooweee
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aaaaaaah yes Stewart Downing
Oh dear. Seems like 'the group' that Mr Clever keeps banging on about is tearing itself apart.
5 Friction within the squad
It was interesting to hear Rodgers’ appeal to the collective after the defeat at St Jakob Park. “It is vitally important we get back to playing as a team,” he said. “That was the huge advantage we had over the last 18 months and it is important we work together as a team.” That line came in a lament over Liverpool’s technical work this season, specifically the lack of it, but followed a night when Balotelli ignored the manager’s request to go to the travelling supporters after the final whistle, Coutinho angrily exchanged words with Rodgers during the game and blanked his manager when substituted, and Gerrard was involved in another dispute with Mignolet after a mistake on the edge of the area. They are all signs of understandable frustration but following Mamadou Sakho’s walk-out when told he was not in the matchday squad against Everton on Saturday, and Lambert’s admission that his fitness regime needs looking at as he struggles to adapt to a lesser role with his boyhood club, the harmony that went hand-in-hand with a winning team last season was not in evidence in Switzerland.
5 Friction within the squad
It was interesting to hear Rodgers’ appeal to the collective after the defeat at St Jakob Park. “It is vitally important we get back to playing as a team,” he said. “That was the huge advantage we had over the last 18 months and it is important we work together as a team.” That line came in a lament over Liverpool’s technical work this season, specifically the lack of it, but followed a night when Balotelli ignored the manager’s request to go to the travelling supporters after the final whistle, Coutinho angrily exchanged words with Rodgers during the game and blanked his manager when substituted, and Gerrard was involved in another dispute with Mignolet after a mistake on the edge of the area. They are all signs of understandable frustration but following Mamadou Sakho’s walk-out when told he was not in the matchday squad against Everton on Saturday, and Lambert’s admission that his fitness regime needs looking at as he struggles to adapt to a lesser role with his boyhood club, the harmony that went hand-in-hand with a winning team last season was not in evidence in Switzerland.
toffee matt
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http://www.theguardian.com/football...lotelli-liverpool-brendan-rodgers-luis-suarez
Great man management as usual from Rodgers.
Throwing balotelli under a bus saying he only signed him saying because nobody else wanted to come.
Great man management as usual from Rodgers.
Throwing balotelli under a bus saying he only signed him saying because nobody else wanted to come.
He really is an absolute tit it comes across as "it wasn't me it's not my fault it wasn't me it's not my fault it's his fault it's everyone's fault but mine". This is the manager who barely lasted 5 months at Reading and basically lived off a rep of being Mourinhos youth team manager. He's an absolute whopper and I can't wait when it all comes crashing down on him in approx 3 months when the owners get sick of his moaning and poor results.
He inherited an average side with a really good striker who hit form last season.
That's why they finished second. He just got lucky. Dalglish signed Suarez dont forget, not their favourite blobfish lookalike.
Irish, Welsh, Scottish - one of those accents is his.
The England manager said his relationship with Rodgers had not suffered but he is unhappy about the allegation that Sturridge was training against his wishes and should have been given a 48-hour recovery period when he suffered the injury on international duty in early September that has kept him out for nearly a month.
“I don’t remember that,” Hodgson said. “That’s dangerous, that one. I don’t remember that at all. That’s interesting. We will check that up with other members of staff. I don’t have any memory of Daniel telling me that he didn’t want to train.
“He never asked [to be given 48 hours]. I’ve never been asked to give 48 hours to any player. If I am under pressure to give each player two days off between games we won’t train at all. If every time we give two days off, we will be down to 20 days’ training in the course of the next year and a half. For me that is unacceptable. We need to work with the players.”
Hodgson added: “The interesting thing for the session where Daniel got injured is that he was quite keen to take part because he was such an important part of it, and we were trying to develop a new system of play. He was the forward who understood it best. He was more than happy to come in and help us to get our points over. I understand Brendan being unhappy. We are never happy when we send a player back injured, but we do our best.”
Hodgson and Rodgers spoke on Wednesday and the Liverpool manager now says he “does not think the same will happen again”. Yet Hodgson, facing questions about whether he had come out second-best in a club-versus-country dispute, clearly sees it a different way and he also responded to Rodgers publicly stating that Raheem Sterling should be rested from international duty.
“I need to win games, just as he does. I need my best players. He [Sterling] has played quite a lot but there must be six or seven who have played as many minutes. I do not expect managers to tell me whether players should be selected, no more than I would dream of telling them who to pick"
“I don’t remember that,” Hodgson said. “That’s dangerous, that one. I don’t remember that at all. That’s interesting. We will check that up with other members of staff. I don’t have any memory of Daniel telling me that he didn’t want to train.
“He never asked [to be given 48 hours]. I’ve never been asked to give 48 hours to any player. If I am under pressure to give each player two days off between games we won’t train at all. If every time we give two days off, we will be down to 20 days’ training in the course of the next year and a half. For me that is unacceptable. We need to work with the players.”
Hodgson added: “The interesting thing for the session where Daniel got injured is that he was quite keen to take part because he was such an important part of it, and we were trying to develop a new system of play. He was the forward who understood it best. He was more than happy to come in and help us to get our points over. I understand Brendan being unhappy. We are never happy when we send a player back injured, but we do our best.”
Hodgson and Rodgers spoke on Wednesday and the Liverpool manager now says he “does not think the same will happen again”. Yet Hodgson, facing questions about whether he had come out second-best in a club-versus-country dispute, clearly sees it a different way and he also responded to Rodgers publicly stating that Raheem Sterling should be rested from international duty.
“I need to win games, just as he does. I need my best players. He [Sterling] has played quite a lot but there must be six or seven who have played as many minutes. I do not expect managers to tell me whether players should be selected, no more than I would dream of telling them who to pick"
Toffeelover
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Hull, looks like dart throwing time!
TheFinnFan
Finners
So has Brenda lied to media about this???
Blames Hog?
Blames Hog?
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