I want to see this team win the League and more Champions Leagues as much as any other Liverpool fan, however I want more than that. I want a team who are consistently in the running for titles and silverware. I want a team with a strong culture. This is not achieved by constantly sacking managers when results take a turn for the worse or they make underwhelming purchases in a transfer window. Sacking the manager means you have to rebuild the teams' culture yet again- haven't we done that enough these past 5 years?
While I agree that any manager (and the players) need to be held accountable for results long-term, I feel that the #rodgersout# brigade are jumping the gun and forgetting that:
a) Not only has the #1 goalscorer from the squad last season departed, but the #2 goalscorer has been out injured virtually all season thus far, and
b) BR made purchases in the last transfer window before that #2 goalscorer was injured.
If Sturridge comes back and BR's attempts to bolster the squad come January see little or no progress then sure, FSG ought to be giving more thought to a replacement. But I'm done with this "Let's sack the manager and bring in manager A,B,C who is the answer to all our problems because he's won stuff before with (insert team name)" mentality. More often than not, it's a bandaid solution and you end up going round in circles chasing some miracle cure.
Heaven's sake, in spite of everything else, we're 12 rounds in and Liverpool are just 5 points out of the Champions League spots, but some 'fans' are carrying on like a bunch of entitlement-minded plastics who sound like they pay attention to little else about the club than the match day results!
Trust me, we're not so narrow-minded that all we're concerned about is results. It's a lot more to do with the way we're losing rather than just simply losing. The way that we are losing is ultimately not offering much hope for the future. Everyone would be a lot easier on BR if we were still performing decently but just missing a trick.
Look, I completely understand where you're coming from... But the problem with relying on BR to correctly bolster the squad in January is he is piss poor at recruitment. He pays big money for second tier players who more often that not don't cut it. He's bought over 20 players in his time here, and only two have been a bona fide success, which is actually being quite generous to Coutinho, if you ask me. Meanwhile over at Southampton, they have showed what smart, shrewd recruitment can deliver.
Another problem is that a huge reason for our downfall is our defence, and it's not some kind of funk that's unusually different to how Rodgers' football teams usually operate.
He has never managed a defensively reliable team. So therefore, do I have any reason to believe that our defensive problems will be cured under Rodgers? Of course I don't. The only thing which proves to paper over this massive crack is having 1 or 2 really good strikers, i.e. SAS- which brings me to this:
Rodgers' set up of how we play is seemingly so flawed that we are actually relying on ONE player to make everything work for us. We spent over 100 million pounds to cope with situations like this, so why are we using the injury of
one player as an excuse for being so bad!? I don't see how that is indicative of a team that has a sustainable, long-term future?
How are we going to progress if our manager will probably keep on buying dross that has to, as a team, shape around a brilliant striker that spends more time off the field than on it? It's really no coincidence that our last, and only great performance of the season, featured Daniel Sturridge. It's all well and good to see how our team goes once Sturridge is back, but don't you think that's a bit of a bandaid solution too? Considering that this guy requires a million bandaids himself to get fit? Let me re-emphasise that people no longer have faith in BR anymore largely because we don't have faith in his recruitment abilities. Waiting to see if we buy good players and start playing better after January, is almost like waiting to see if you win the lotto.
I think it's fine calling for the manager's head, as long as you believe you have a viable solution. If BR fails, which is looking increasingly likely, then unfortunately there is no other option than to rebuild again! That's why Jack is keen for a partnership of De Boer and Cruyff, because they seem like guys who know exactly what they're doing. In our opinion, these guys (especially Cruyff) could completely overhaul how our football operations are conducted at the club.
I don't think we're trying to knee-jerk. We're just trying to see around corners.
and magicians like Ibra, Suarez, list goes on...
