Yes that’s the name. He kind of set everything up from memory and basically gave them a direction. The chairman deserves credit also. He basically made sure that the following managers were going to follow a similar style of play etc.
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At Liverpool Brendan could not attract top players but insisted on filling the club with mediocre players, Klopp goes after a certain type of players that fit into the system he likes to play. Klopp is the real deal while Brenda is a bluffer.
Don’t forget Flanno at LB.
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But he scored that belter against Spurs!
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Exactly. He bombed Carroll out as he didn’t fit his way of playing. Death by football or possession, or some shite like that Rodgers said. But then he quickly changed to a counter attacking style and by the end we had no discernible way of playing as we changed so frequently mid game.
I’m all for a coach being adaptable and flexible but my Christ, we were doing tactics gymnastics near the end of Rodgers time and the players looked confused.
No comparison between them imo
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Rodgers almost won the league, and maybe his currency in our history would now look different…he had arguably two of our greatest ever players in Gerrard and Suarez to get him to that point.
Klopp won the league.
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Sexy times.
When I read the title all I could think is
Not even in the same universe. Klopp is a god.
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Similarities: Passive Zonal defence at corners, strange tactics at defensive corners (particularly player positions).
Confidence in their selected players. Over reliance on training performance rather than what is offered on the pitch, particularly Klopp who says there’s no time to train between matches.
Differences: Charisma. Character. Man management (love those hugs). Ability to chose players and inprove them. Developing and integrating youth players (particularly with not pissing them off, Klopps just seem to want to improve).
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BR is an opportunistic tosser with a big mouth (harsh I know, but in the whole…). Klopp on the other hand is one of the greats in football management.
I don’t even know how to compare these two. They play on two entirely different levels.
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Rodgers is an intern, Klopp is a maestro.
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There is no comparison.
Klopp has been loved, respected and missed by the fans of every club he’s been at
Rodgers has left a bad taste in the mouth of the fans of all the clubs he’s been at.
I even hear on the grapevine the board at celtic couldn’t wait for him to leave, due to his constant demands for more money for transfers
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Remarkably, not only by the fans, but also by his players and the clubs’ respective boards. And by the media representatives. Hell, he’s even liked by most fans from rival clubs, who can only dream of having him as their manager. 
Maybe some rival managers might eat some sour grapes from time to time, after having been soundly beaten by him, or might be jealous of his successes, but deep down, I’m quite sure that everyone respects and even likes his frank and unassuming personality.
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@Zoran put this post in the Klopp thread.
For me, this highlights the essential difference between an elite coach like Klopp, and a good one like Rodgers.
Klopp has a vision of football that he can articulate and bring everyone around.
That in itself isn’t enough. But, if you have that vision and you can get people to buy into it, then you can recruit to it, and the analysts and scouts have something they can narrow down player ID on the basis of. The youth coaches have something they can develop footballers in line with. The first team coaches can focus player improvement around it.
Everything flows from the vision of the manager.
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Didn’t Rodgers turn down the chance to sign virgil from celtic when he was Liverpool manager for 15m said he wasn’t whathe was looking for.
he then pushed the blame to the transfer committee.
What we must remember… Bodgers has lots of positives he can learn from Jurgen
Yet Jurgen can learn no positives from Bodgers
Me thinks it won’t be long before we see a Bodgers at the Wheel Thread :0)
That was my understanding. I can’t remember who commented on it, but it was a pundit who had been linked to Liverpool saying we were offered him before Southampton. Rodgers didn’t rate him.
Now I think about it, it might have been Gary Mac?
I remember on TIA when Rodgers was near the end of his tenure with Liverpool, the pre match threads were full of posters trying to predict the formation we would play😂. There were as many posts on predicting the formation as there were predicting the line up. Rodgers really was all over the place at the end.
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Even predictions on how many formations he would use during the game, I think his record was 7, it wasn’t funny at the time but … 