I guess you really are what you eat.
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Lean and hungry, son.
yes but a week is a long time in footballâŚ
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Kenny bought Carroll. You canât pin that one on Rodgers. Rodgers didnât have the investment that the sale of Coutinho afforded Jurgen. Fortunately, Klopp spent it well in establishing a spine that was sorely needed.
Please donât get injured!
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Sorry if it was construed as such, but I didnât really mean to link Rodgers and Carroll. separate sentences, just donât like having a target man when we play the ball out on the deck.
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âWeâre smashing them, theyâre shitâ
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He had a mazy run in that game when Porto were attacking the Annie Road, itâs also then when I thought âwe must be following this guyâ (of course, we were linked/mentioned with him by that time).
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No, but Rodgers did have the Suarez money, and enough cash another year on to buy Benteke for ÂŁ32.5m, so lets not pretend there wasnât money being spent while he was here.
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Firstly Suarez was sold for 65 million. We spent half that on a replacement.
Secondly - how would you rate Benteke to Suarez? Suarez is a fucking genius.
So really Rodgers replaced a genius with a good player, but not the one we needed. Then he got given Balotelli. Enough said.
Yes, weâll never win a major trophy without him.
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OK what are you trying to say? Rodgers was useless? FFS he almost won us the prem.
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Nobody is irreplaceable. Suarez wasnât, we just did a terrible job of it. Salah isnât either. Itâs just difficult.
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No, not useless. But certainly had character flaws that led to the decline of a promising side that came close to winning the title.
Youâre implying Rodgers had little or no cash to spend. He had the money from both the Suarez and Sterling sales, and he fought the recruitment team to bring in players such as Benteke who were a poor fit for the team he had. And rather than take responsibility for such poor decision making he continued to blame everybody else.
He ultimately got sacked because he wouldnât stop fighting others within the club.
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Granted - it is a figure of speech. Not meant to be taken literally. The context was that Suarez was central to that squad. He was goal scorer, provider , talisman and brought others into the game. We were awesome. When he left it was a massive hole to fill. You just have to see what he achieved at Barca afterwards to really appreciate that. Utterly brilliant. And our replacement - Benteke. A very good player, but no Suarez.
BR chat here:
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He wasnât the replacement, he came the following season - at Brendanâs behest having missed out on Bony. After spending a season watching a team struggle with little pace his option was this guy, while waving goodbye to Raheem the same window.
Luis Suarez hungry? 