The Football.....

[accountantpete]

Brendan had to go - unfortunately the FSG/Brendan Rogers combo couldn't attract the really good players to the club and the development side of things hasn't produced enough either.

They now need a big name - Jose?

 

[vickster]

Woot Arsenal

Is it just me, or is Van Gaal a very strange man?!

 

[Andrew_P]

I wonder if Klopp will flop with the cop

I should get a job with the super Sun

 

[MarkF]

We nearly won the league with him

Nearly won the league with Suarez you mean?

 

[Andrew_P]

Woot Arsenal

Is it just me, or is Van Gaal a very strange man?!

All the Dutch managers look like they have spent the day on the spliff!

 

[vickster]

All the Dutch managers look like they have spent the day on the spliff!

Maybe. I think he's just creepy

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Meanwhile, in a house in Sandbanks, 'Arry is looking at a map and working out how long it would take to commute from Bournemouth to Liverpool...

 

[13 rider]

What's Carlo Ancolotti up to these days or is he going back to Chelsea

 

[Roadhump]

How long before a scouser mentions that Rodgers was not the right calibre for a team as deserving of success as Liverpool?

Yes, their sense of entitlement and delusions are staggering. I am gutted he has gone, and I hope they appoint a manager of similar calibre as his replacement.

 

[martint235]

Nearly won the league with Suarez you mean?

Even Suarez needed managing, plus there was a team behind him. Admittedly his skill allowed us to play an exceptionally quick counter-attacking style of football. I think teams would have found us out the following season though: run really, really, really quickly for the first half an hour, score two goals and then hope we survive was the general giste.

 

[AndyRM]

Brendan had to go - unfortunately the FSG/Brendan Rogers combo couldn't attract the really good players to the club and the development side of things hasn't produced enough either.

They now need a big name - Jose?

What 'development side of things'? I can only think of one player who's come through the Liverpool ranks in recent years - Gerrard.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

CFC have just released statement of support for Jose on their website - so those LFC's fans hopes of Jose as manager have been dashed.

 

[martint235]

Ah the old "full confidence of the board" thing. Jose is probably on a Liverpool train right now

 

[AndyRM]

No chance Jose will go to Liverpool IMO - I doubt he'd want any part in that ludicrous 'transfer committee'.

Klopp would make sense (what with his experience of winning stuff, unlike Rodgers...) - and I suspect that a deal to bring him to Liverpool was struck some time ago.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Ah the old "full confidence of the board" thing. Jose is probably on a Liverpool train right now

No, don't think so. I've never known CFC to put out a statement like that in the past. No need for them to do so if Jose was for the chop and they would look pretty stupid if they were to sack him after this release.