ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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yelyah said:
That can't be right, all I've heard lately is how Hodgson is a dinosaur of a manager who injures players with his methods whilst Rodgers is a tactical, physio and coaching innovator.
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B-Rod.......

"My belief and training model is to make players better. Part of that is recovery as my game is about pressing and playing at a high physical level. Our second-day recovery is technically a session. The space we play in is very small to reduce the intensity.

‘That has worked for me all the way through my life and has kept players fit and fresh.

‘That has helped people here like Steven Gerrard to play as many games (as he has). Recovery is vital, physical and mental. I take great pride in it and give it a lot of focus.

‘I’m not waiting for a thesis to give me evidence. We’re at the edge of the game creating evidence ourselves."......

I expect one of the RAWK loons are writing the thesis as we speak..........
 
Damage limitation from Rodgers.... Having seen his arse now with the new Sturridge injury - training with his own club after weeks of rest - he now deflects attention from that by re-opening "tiredgate" to 'heal' the rift with Roy Hodgson by publicly advising him to do better next time..... "but its not for me to get involved". Hes turning in to Alan Pardew Mark II.

The Times. Saturday. 8/10/14
Brendan Rodgers aims barb at Roy Hodgson but will work to repair mess

Tony Barrett
Published at 12:01AM, October 18 2014
In his own words, Brendan Rodgers wanted to “draw a line under” the Raheem Sterling affair, to protect the teenager from any further damage having been accused of avoiding national service.
Congratulations were offered to England for three successive wins and claims that interests of club cannot dovetail with those of country were dismissed. But with one answer to one question, all pretence that the differences between Liverpool and England are close to being resolved was obliterated.
“Would you ever make a private conversation with a player public?” Rodgers was asked. “All I can talk about is myself,” he answered, emphasising that what was about to follow was not intended as a gratuitous attack on Roy Hodgson. “I think you have seen that I have questioned one player in public in terms of improvement, which was Stewart Downing, but there was a reason for that and I think you will find after that he got into the team and played for six months.
“Other than that, for me, in my opinion, every conversation you have with a player and another manager is private. That is the simplicity of it. That’s how I work and I am sure Roy will probably look at this episode maybe going forward and analyse where he can be better on it, but it’s not for me to get involved.”
That is at the heart of Liverpool’s grievance over what has become known as “tiredgate”. The feeling that the damaging six-day news cycle that followed Sterling informing Hodgson that his legs were heavy (without ever suggesting he was not willing to play against Estonia) was avoidable and unnecessary is inescapable. It has also left Rodgers with the feeling that Hodgson will have to face up to his actions and the probability that Sterling’s relationship with him has been damaged when the pair next cross paths.
“I’m sure when they meet up next they will speak on that and clear that up,” the Liverpool manager said. “It was something that was made a bigger issue than it should have been.”
The sequence of events that allowed Sterling to become the focus of a national debate about his willingness to play for England is yet to be clarified by the FA, with Hodgson’s observations, before and after the Estonia game, being the only official comment to emerge from the England camp. Rodgers and Sterling dispute claims that the 19-year-old intimated he should not play.
Instead, it is understood that Sterling’s report of heavy legs to an England masseur was eventually passed on to Hodgson by Gary Neville with the England manager taking the decision to omit Sterling from his starting line-up after speaking to him directly. “This is a boy that felt a bit tired but he didn’t say he didn’t want to play,” Rodgers said. “He said in his own words that he felt tired and I’m sure if you asked half or three quarters of the squad they will probably have said they felt a bit tired.
“What you do [as a manager] is take on board all the information and then make a decision. You respect Roy’s decision not to play him. What has been disappointing and grossly unfair is how the kid has been on the back pages for something he did not say.
“We’ve had a lot of times when he has been tired in his legs and played. But players cannot play every game at the top level, in particular young players. You will break them and they will end up finished at 26 or 27. That is every individual player you have to look at.”
Rodgers’s attempts to build bridges with Hodgson were genuine and extensive. Not only did he describe himself as someone who “takes great pride in someone playing for their country”, the Northern Irishman even went as far as to say that he would not have any misgivings should Sterling receive a call-up to play for England Under-21 in the European Championships next summer.
Even amid such diplomacy, though, Rodgers’s use of language, deliberate and to the point, highlighted his belief that Liverpool felt the need to act as a safe haven for Sterling after a testing week that “shook him”.
“He is back here in a secure environment,” Rodgers said, the obvious inference to draw being that the environment Sterling had been in with England had not been equally protective. “As I said, I wanted to get him back here and focused and draw a line and move on. That’s my priority really.
“Whatever the association say and whatever is written, I can’t control that. For me the priority was getting him back here in an environment that has seen him develop from the youth team and become an international player.”
Despite the obvious differences that continue to divide the managers, Rodgers believes his relationship with Hodgson is not beyond repair having denied that the thorny issue of second-day recoveries — which Rodgers regards as a necessity but Hodgson views as excessive — means they will always be at odds.
“I would like to think we can reconcile our differences,” Rodgers said. “There is enough communication. There are enough people from the FA coming in to here to watch and study how we work and we try to provide as much information as possible. So whenever the players go away they can play to their level. I respect those philosophies and ways of working may be different and players will maybe have to adapt but we would do everything possible to help.
“I think we have served England well here at Liverpool with the numbers of players we push through for the national team and the style of football we try and play. I go back to the old Liverpool and the players they brought through. My interest is that the Liverpool players do well and are protected and they can then go away and do well for their countries.”
Should they meet at Loftus Road tomorrow after Liverpool’s clash with Queens Park Rangers, Rodgers and Hodgson will have plenty to discuss. Only if they reach an accommodation with one another, will a line finally be drawn under a particularly messy and divisive saga
 
Minimeister said:
Any other manager going there last season would have caved in to the frenzy they created. Only someone who hates them so much would of done what Jose did. If you don't like him for that then you're odd. That and the way he told idiots like Redknapp and the rest of the media cronies what was going on. He's a top bloke.
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Redknapp likes to come across as an affable everyman diamond geezer, just like his dad does, but as soon as mourinho threw a bit of banter his way he stamped his foot and had a tantrum.

"He's embarrassed himself there"

No Jamie, he really hasn't.
 
Jacob said:
Damage limitation from Rodgers.... Having seen his arse now with the new Sturridge injury - training with his own club after weeks of rest - he now deflects attention from that by re-opening "tiredgate" to 'heal' the rift with Roy Hodgson by publicly advising him to do better next time..... "but its not for me to get involved". Hes turning in to Alan Pardew Mark II.

The Times. Saturday. 8/10/14
Brendan Rodgers aims barb at Roy Hodgson but will work to repair mess

Tony Barrett
Published at 12:01AM, October 18 2014
In his own words, Brendan Rodgers wanted to “draw a line under” the Raheem Sterling affair, to protect the teenager from any further damage having been accused of avoiding national service.
Congratulations were offered to England for three successive wins and claims that interests of club cannot dovetail with those of country were dismissed. But with one answer to one question, all pretence that the differences between Liverpool and England are close to being resolved was obliterated.
“Would you ever make a private conversation with a player public?” Rodgers was asked. “All I can talk about is myself,” he answered, emphasising that what was about to follow was not intended as a gratuitous attack on Roy Hodgson. “I think you have seen that I have questioned one player in public in terms of improvement, which was Stewart Downing, but there was a reason for that and I think you will find after that he got into the team and played for six months.
“Other than that, for me, in my opinion, every conversation you have with a player and another manager is private. That is the simplicity of it. That’s how I work and I am sure Roy will probably look at this episode maybe going forward and analyse where he can be better on it, but it’s not for me to get involved.”
That is at the heart of Liverpool’s grievance over what has become known as “tiredgate”. The feeling that the damaging six-day news cycle that followed Sterling informing Hodgson that his legs were heavy (without ever suggesting he was not willing to play against Estonia) was avoidable and unnecessary is inescapable. It has also left Rodgers with the feeling that Hodgson will have to face up to his actions and the probability that Sterling’s relationship with him has been damaged when the pair next cross paths.
“I’m sure when they meet up next they will speak on that and clear that up,” the Liverpool manager said. “It was something that was made a bigger issue than it should have been.”
The sequence of events that allowed Sterling to become the focus of a national debate about his willingness to play for England is yet to be clarified by the FA, with Hodgson’s observations, before and after the Estonia game, being the only official comment to emerge from the England camp. Rodgers and Sterling dispute claims that the 19-year-old intimated he should not play.
Instead, it is understood that Sterling’s report of heavy legs to an England masseur was eventually passed on to Hodgson by Gary Neville with the England manager taking the decision to omit Sterling from his starting line-up after speaking to him directly. “This is a boy that felt a bit tired but he didn’t say he didn’t want to play,” Rodgers said. “He said in his own words that he felt tired and I’m sure if you asked half or three quarters of the squad they will probably have said they felt a bit tired.
“What you do [as a manager] is take on board all the information and then make a decision. You respect Roy’s decision not to play him. What has been disappointing and grossly unfair is how the kid has been on the back pages for something he did not say.
“We’ve had a lot of times when he has been tired in his legs and played. But players cannot play every game at the top level, in particular young players. You will break them and they will end up finished at 26 or 27. That is every individual player you have to look at.”
Rodgers’s attempts to build bridges with Hodgson were genuine and extensive. Not only did he describe himself as someone who “takes great pride in someone playing for their country”, the Northern Irishman even went as far as to say that he would not have any misgivings should Sterling receive a call-up to play for England Under-21 in the European Championships next summer.
Even amid such diplomacy, though, Rodgers’s use of language, deliberate and to the point, highlighted his belief that Liverpool felt the need to act as a safe haven for Sterling after a testing week that “shook him”.
“He is back here in a secure environment,” Rodgers said, the obvious inference to draw being that the environment Sterling had been in with England had not been equally protective. “As I said, I wanted to get him back here and focused and draw a line and move on. That’s my priority really.
“Whatever the association say and whatever is written, I can’t control that. For me the priority was getting him back here in an environment that has seen him develop from the youth team and become an international player.”
Despite the obvious differences that continue to divide the managers, Rodgers believes his relationship with Hodgson is not beyond repair having denied that the thorny issue of second-day recoveries — which Rodgers regards as a necessity but Hodgson views as excessive — means they will always be at odds.
“I would like to think we can reconcile our differences,” Rodgers said. “There is enough communication. There are enough people from the FA coming in to here to watch and study how we work and we try to provide as much information as possible. So whenever the players go away they can play to their level. I respect those philosophies and ways of working may be different and players will maybe have to adapt but we would do everything possible to help.
“I think we have served England well here at Liverpool with the numbers of players we push through for the national team and the style of football we try and play. I go back to the old Liverpool and the players they brought through. My interest is that the Liverpool players do well and are protected and they can then go away and do well for their countries.”
Should they meet at Loftus Road tomorrow after Liverpool’s clash with Queens Park Rangers, Rodgers and Hodgson will have plenty to discuss. Only if they reach an accommodation with one another, will a line finally be drawn under a particularly messy and divisive saga
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he's so respectful and pragmatic isn't he ??? what a guy
 
I had forgotten that Hodgson had managed Liverpool. I bet the loves turning the screw on them. I imagine it's all a bit below him at this point though. Managing England after supposedly failing at management...
 
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