I don’t mean to pick on him but bringing it up because I am genuinely curious. I wonder how Rodgers would have answered that question. (maybe he has been asked, if anyone knows?)
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That three of them are in envelopes?
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And the rest have great character?
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He would still be answering it.
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As my Chelsea supporting friend said, “if he keeps them up he’s ‘cheddar’”. Good start, if (5% chance) he gets a result today he’ll be in a strong spot. I don’t know that he’ll be ready to step into Klopp’s shoes right after Villa but he’s turned out a far better manager than I would have anticipated in 2018.
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Peps already started things of negatively with this fixture.
Hopefully the Villa players are up for it and City fail to win.
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Great name for a goth band
“I’ll give you 25% off” ??
Always said if he does well here then it’s one to consider my dream is Klopp somehow stops the ageing process and sticks around.
I still feel he might stick another extension on before he goes to be honest but Gerrard has done nothing wrong in the way he has gone about learning, from the youth to Rangers and now to Villa.
Alonso will find him in a similar situation the next move he makes or we look further.
I still think Klopp may extend mind I think Covid set back his rebuild and I think his recovery last year gave him a boost.
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Yeah I think a lot of people might have missed just how big a deal it was to turn the form around at the back end of last season and end up finishing 3rd. There was a feeling by many on this very board (@Walshy07 mostly) that Klopp was re-living the end of his Dortmund tenure and that we were destined for a mid-table finish and that he wouldn’t be able to turn it around. Being able to banish those demons will have given him a huge personal lift, same as with winning the CL and getting the monkey off his back in major cup finals.
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He’d have said “Some people say I look a bit like Christopher Eccleston. Well, have you ever seen Doctor Who do this?” *throws football into air, tries to head it, trips over kit bag, lands face first in a shitty puddle.
Related to this - a BBC article today quoted what is apparently one of Eddie Howe’s motivational mantras.
“Make every day your masterpiece” he tells them. I can only imagine the inspiration drawn from the local Geordie boys with IQs lower than Newcastle’s points total.
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You can live without water but not without hope, go out there and make it rain goals.
Failing that buy some https://www.angelrevive.com/
No Idea what Rodgers says, and dont really care…
but I reckon Klopp final words are…
“Smash them, there shit!”
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That was Hodgson’s mantra as well and he believed we truly achieved it even after a 1-0 win against Fulham
Saw that banner last night before their game, what the hell.
When desperation hits the roof.
Looking forward to the reception he’ll get at Anfield next week but not to the media coverage until then. They’ll try to make it something bigger than it is.
It is something big though?
Club legend returns to his homeplace.
That is a major piece of news.
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First time I’ve watched Stevie’s Aston Villa aside from various highlights. The way they played against Leicester reminded me a bit of Rafa’s Liverpool before Torres joined - quite direct, a bit narrow, one advanced midfielder orbiting around the target man, otherwise often looking to catch opposition on the counter, isolate them in three-on-three moves (I played like that A LOT on PES, especially after Torres joined 
).
I think that PL graphics had them as 4-3-3 but they played 4-4-2 from what I’ve seen, with Buendia often coming in from the left and McGinn spending a lot of time on the right. I was impressed with the way they harried Leicester players but they left a lot of open space doing that, not sure why Rodgers couldn’t exploit it, maybe it was the injuries.
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