LOLiverpooLOL - Next Season

[Silver Fox]

I thought it was actually part of Swansea's compensation package for Rodgers that Liverpool couldn't buy any Swansea players for a year?

[cmonurz]

I thought it was actually part of Swansea's compensation package for Rodgers that Liverpool couldn't buy any Swansea players for a year?

^This.

So if Sinclair moves it is because the Swansea chairman allowed it.

Still, don't want to get in the way of FFC's Rodgers-rant.

[cmonurz]

Wouldn't surprise me to see Scott Sinclair follow Rogers to Liverpool as another option on the wing.

Oh and this. No Kes-o.

[Royal Rother]

Very decent but I don't see him as a Top 4 player.

It is going to be so interesting watching Liverpool's fortunes / football this season. I really hope Rodgers can be successful there but I fear the worst - it will take time to change their style and there are so many big egos around that it could become a very difficult time for him.

The job he is presumably being asked to perform is not a one-season job - will the fans / media give him the time to get it working properly?

(These Qs have probably already been posed 6 weeks ago.)

[cmonurz]

I think the fans will – and I don’t think Liverpool playing as stodgy, direct football as Rodgers inherited when he took over at Reading so the change he needs to instill in the players may not be as stark; more along the lines of Hodgson getting Capello’s men to play like Fulham, it’s something I expect can be trained into the players reasonably quickly, they aren’t short of players with some skill on the ball.

Much might depend on the return of Lucas (or otherwise). Rodger’s game plan relies on a tackler and ball-player and Liverpool missed him hugely last season.

I think he’ll get time enough from the fans – but the media will crucify/annoint him depending on Liverpool’s start to the season.

[Avon Royal]

If Rodgers makes Christmas I'll be surprised.

Look how the dippers treated Roy, they won't give Rodgers any time at all if he doesn't win from the start.

[Vision]

If Rodgers makes Christmas I'll be surprised.

Look how the dippers treated Roy, they won't give Rodgers any time at all if he doesn't win from the start.

Tbf Liverpool fans generally have a better record than most when it comes to supporting managers. Hodgson was just the wrong man at the wrong time, the fans wanted King Kenny at all costs. Think they've been given a reality check.

Newcastle fans were the same. Fat Sam didn't have a chance cos the fans wanted Shearer.

[No Fixed Abode]

and some people thought the third kit was a 'joke'.

[Wax Jacket]

If Rodgers makes Christmas I'll be surprised.

Look how the dippers treated Roy, they won't give Rodgers any time at all if he doesn't win from the start.

Tbf Liverpool fans generally have a better record than most when it comes to supporting managers. Hodgson was just the wrong man at the wrong time, the fans wanted King Kenny at all costs. Think they've been given a reality check.

Newcastle fans were the same. Fat Sam didn't have a chance cos the fans wanted Shearer.

LOL @ football fans basically

[Avon Royal]

and some people thought the third kit was a 'joke'

It is a joke to be fair.

[Very near...far away]

Rodgers is now going on about having the right people on the bus when the season starts. When he starts to use these "folksy" terms I'd get a bit worried if I were a Liverpool supporter.

Mind you, he's not knocking back the chance of sending Carroll out on loan - so maybe he's not daft after all. And now that mug Gold is saying 'e wouldn't knock back vat big Geordie lad etc. Don't West Ham have a manager, or is he still in Las Vegas?

[TBM]

Luis Suarez has re-opened the row over his race ban last season, despite being ordered by Liverpool not to discuss it.

The Uruguayan has accused Manchester United of wielding their political power to get him suspended for his controversial comments aimed at United defender Patrice Evra.

The Liverpool striker revealed he was so devastated by the effects of his Evra racism ‘trial’, he was left in tears for days on end as his reputation took a battering.

Speaking to a TV station in his homeland, where the forward is preparing to captain their football team at this summer's Olympics, Suarez offered another explosive insight into his controversial row with Evra.

In it, he claimed:

* United are the political power in English football.

* The Old Trafford club contrived to get him banned.

* It was Evra's fault that the pair didn't subsequently shake hands.

* That the handshake issue was a second conspiracy against him by United.

* He and his wife were reduced to tears by the ordeal.

* Even United fans offered him support.

In the wide-ranging interview with TV show RR Gol, Suarez revealed his Anfield bosses have asked him not to speak about the Evra affair.

But he didn't hold back as he said: "It was so hard what happened to me. I don't show my emotions on the field, but outside I do - and I cried a lot with all the Evra stuff.

"The trial (disciplinary hearing) week was so complicated for me. My wife and I cried a lot during that week.

"People at the club are sure that it was a way that Manchester United used to put me out of the team and stop Liverpool.

"But in England, Man United has this political power, and you have to respect that and shut your mouth."

Suarez made clear that he feels the FA's guilty verdict on a racism charge, and the subsequent eight-match ban, was inspired by United's political clout within the English game.

And he even went as far as to suggest that when he was later vilified for refusing to shake Evra's hand the next time the pair met after the verdict, it was another United conspiracy.

"It was a misunderstanding, what happened between me and Evra at Old Trafford when we were to shake hands," he insisted, but then added:

"In fact, I think it was all arranged against me again, as it had happened with the punishment.

"I promised my wife, the manager and the directors that I was going to shake my hand with Evra. Why not?, I thought, because I had no problems with him.

"I had been punished because of him, but I had no problems with shaking hands. But I was not forced to greet him. I had no problems with Evra. It was only a handshake and I was OK with that.

"The media in England showed the moment when I passed in front of him, but they didn't see that he had his hand low before.

"Only the media in Uruguay and Spain showed that I wanted to shake his hand."

Suarez revealed he felt desperate at times during the long-running saga, but said he was given a major boost from a surprising source when he met a United fan in a restaurant.

"I had to go to Manchester in a taxi for the trial. I got up at seven in the morning and I came home at nine at night. I was exhausted, I was so tired. I wanted to cry, and kick all the things around me," he added.

"I came home and I wanted to do all that, but I couldn't because my daughter was at home. There were really complicated days, and then things became harder after the punishment.

"But Man United fans respect me.

"I have an anecdote: One day, after what had happened with the Man United player, a Man United fan came to the restaurant where I was having lunch with my wife and asked for a picture. He told me, 'I admire you as a footballer.'"

[ZacNaloen]

Tbf I thought he tried to shake his hand but Evra set him up

[cmonurz]

Rodgers has come out and said that 'for £35m you'd hope a player can fit into whatever style you play' - still expect Carroll to leave though.

Ignoring his over-priced transfer to Liverpool, I genuinely think if the club let him go they will be disposing of a striker who will develop into one of the best in the country.

[TBM]

Rodgers has come out and said that 'for £35m you'd hope a player can fit into whatever style you play' - still expect Carroll to leave though.

Ignoring his over-priced transfer to Liverpool, I genuinely think if the club let him go they will be disposing of a striker who will develop into one of the best in the country.

Yes, but not at Liverpool he wont........especially not in the "Rodgers style". He'd be better off at someone like Spurs

[Royal With Cheese]

I don't remember Spurs being a particularly route 1 footballing side?

He'd be far better in the Winbledon squad of 1988.

[Reading West]

Or the team that plays with the style of wimbledon'88.......Stoke

Would be interesting to see two of Liverpool's cast offs up front..Crouch and Carroll

[Seal]

Rodgers performed well at one club, where he inherited a team who had been developed by Martinez and Sousa to pass the ball.

He's already talking his usual good game.

I suspect he'll be found out.

[GreaterTorontoRoyal]

Tied Toronto FC
Poor showing form Liverpool, as well.

[cmonurz]

Pretty desperate to laugh at pre season results, epecially given the team(s) that played, but each to their own!