NEIL ATKINSON has Sean Rogers to his left and Paul Cope to his right as they try and make sense of the departures of Colin Pascoe and Mike Marsh.
They discuss the type of personality who might replace them, and what it potentially means for Brendan Rodgers. Is he a ‘dead man walking’. or could his position actually be strengthened?
I’ve absolutely nothing to base this on except for a hunch but is it possible that FSG have gotten rid of Pascoe and Marsh to try to force Rodgers to leave on his own accord therefore they don’t have to pay any compo???
It’s not like they havnt employed other penny pinching tactics.
I just don’t understand how they can get rid of the team but not get rid of the manager. Who appoints the new team??
Havnt got listening to the podcast yet so maybe you’ve answered these already.
I heard he gets 10m if he is sacked this summer, it would be pretty nasty of them, I don’t like Rodgers much but nobody deserves that it’s constructive dismissal, I think Rodgers was on board with this, and has realised he is somewhat out of his depth and needs more experience around him.
My view, too. I think they baulked at a wholesale clearly (which was needed) but opted for castrstion of BR. He is now in an invidious position. If they force a deputy on him like Sami, or one of the other suggested possibles, then any improved showing will be seen as down to the newcomer and not BR, especially if players he’s shunned like Markovic and even Balo come good. His ego would not cop any glory reflecting on someone he ‘didn’t want’ and he’ll bolt. He is on the cusp of being marginalised. If FSG are smart (and they haven’t been to date) they would have a ready-made Paisley/Fagan ready to step up, people with better credentials than Rodgers had when he sold himself to them,
You keep referring to some internet poll where 80% of people voted in favour of Rodgers being replaced. According to the club, Liverpool has 580 million supporters world wide. A more conservative estimate by the BBC places that number at 71 million. I’m a local, and I didn’t vote. How many of the supporters world wide voted in the poll? How many aren’t on social media? I think it’s safe to say the overwhelming majority of us didn’t vote so the poll doesn’t represent our views. High time you stopped referencing it and acknowledged this fact.
Yeah but it would be a reasonable sample of our supporter base I mean in elections they use polls which are of relatively small numbers in relation to the population and they are rarely far off the mark.
Imo and playing my own devils advocacy, maybe the manager’s self appraisal at such a Watershed moment in time which clearly requires difficult decisions to be taken for the benefit of the greater good, and maybe a position we as normal every day people have all found ourselves in at various stages of our own lives albeit as works managers or business owners, as fathers or as Partners, the list is endless I suppose . But there comes a time when we’ve all felt the need to grasp the nettle at that defining moment when we arrive at a X road and we can either take the same route leading us to nowhere or we’ve studied the map and chartered a potentily more prosperous route in search of the promised land and the Holy Grail , a well worn route in terms of Elite managers from bygone days, at least those of our forefathers at LFC plus the likes of Clough whose side kick was Peter Taylor, indeed no shrinking violet’ u many accounts, Kendal & Harvey , Ferguson & numerous assistants during his successful tenure, Wenger & Rice. Benitez & Paco to some degree, and then there is Mourinho?
The Elite English managers as above have tended to step away from the day to day coaching and focus more of their time as a strategist heading their own talent scouting system etc and their past success can’t really be questioned Maybe Rodgers will require to take more of an office based position during daily training and fitness sessions and he’s decided he needs a more dominant assistant and coaching team and IMO this is without doubt a progressive step in the right direction for LFC and surely the majority of rationally minded fans would support such a decision. However here we are yet again as fans waiting with abaited breath over the passing weeks , waiting to see this latest backstage drama revelation keeping us on the edge. The Finale will no doubt tell us plenty of the internal power struggle and politics taking place within our mighty Club. And the eternal optimist in me is telling me that by mid July all will be revealed and a master plan wil be unfolded and laid bare on the table for all to see and maybe, just maybe it will go some way to unite the Anfield fan base so it can revert to type and give our team whoever it will be, their full support.
Keep The Faith and yes sometimes that faith needs to be blind.
Y .N.W.A.
Mentioned at 15.40 regards BR saying that at Reading he was too loyal to players and this may be a reaction to that.
From the many Swans fans I know this is one of their big criticisms with BR, he continually played players that were percieved as his ‘favourites’ regardless of form or play. Quite often Swans fans could see players dying out there week after week and yet BR perservered with them even though he had capable players in the squad to replace.
So to assume that BR is suddenly become ruthless ( considering the link between him and Pascoe stretches back a fair way) is I think a bit wishful, though I accept this is all speculation at this point, but I just don’t agree with that assesment