Liverpool FC Official Thread

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:

Cam wrote:

You lying fuck

This, did he fuck choose. Arsene Wenger could have had him if he'd wanted.

Ted wrote:Why do you think Mourinho didnt want him?

Cristiano wrote:6 mill,you pay his salary and we get him back after the season? PERFECT

Ted wrote:I've read reports about Mourinho having a fall out with him and that sort of thing.

Cadbury wrote:My friend, he's staying. That's why he's number 4.

Jord wrote:Sahin has been a Liverpool fan since he was a young boy.

Cadbury wrote:Lol deluded Americans.

Cam wrote:Wish Jela would get rid of that quote

Cristiano wrote:

Cadbury wrote:Lol deluded Americans.

Not everyone that lives here is American, silly boy.

BRENDAN RODGERS has lifted the lid on just how close he came to being Roberto Mancini’s right-hand man.

Rodgers had been out of work for six months after leaving Reading by mutual consent, his management dream shattered after working his socks off to get to the top.

But then came the call from City at his lowest point – and a couple of days in the light blues’ company was to change his life forever and eventually send him on the road to Anfield.

Rodgers spent valuable time in the City camp before flying to Milan to meet boss Mancini for informal talks.
He finally opted, though, to become boss at Swansea two years ago – but acknowledges today just what a ­confidence booster being a temporary Blue gave him.

And Rodgers, raised in Northern Ireland, is grateful for the greatest of insights into what makes Mancini, his staff and players tick at such a highly successful level.

Rodgers said: “I had just left Reading after a long ­career in coaching and all of a sudden I was on the ­outside looking in.

“Then thankfully City gave me my confidence back by bringing me in. One or two things started to develop but I never got to the end point with them and obviously I went to Swansea.

“But I had been out of the game for six months and then I got the call that there was a possibility about ­going to City. I went up to have a couple of days looking around.

“Then I flew to Milan to meet Roberto. It was ­obviously really exciting what was happening there. For me, I didn’t think I was maybe going to get a manager’s job.

“So the next best thing to managing was at least ­working with top players. If that opportunity was going to come up, then brilliant.

“But then as it happens, you get nothing for six months and then all of a sudden I get the opportunity to go to Swansea. And to be number one was always going to be it, ­irrespective of money and whatever contract.”

So would he have benefited from some of those ­bucketloads of cash on offer from free-spending, ­Abu Dhabi-backed City?

Rodgers joked: “I would have preferred the ­wheelbarrow. I probably would have earned more at City but I had nothing in writing at the time.

“The chance to manage a great club like Swansea was too good to turn down.

“But I spoke to the City staff, to Brian Marwood and then Roberto.

“In that little period I gained a real insight of the club at first hand.

“It was good for my confidence and, anyway, at the time I was prepared to go and coach kids. Make a difference to people.”

It goes without saying the brilliant job he went on to complete at Swansea.

And now, although ­admitting that Liverpool are playing catch-up, he is determined to restore the club to the position of rulers once more at home and abroad.

Rodgers, who had spells as Reading youth coach and Chelsea reserves boss before cutting his ­managerial teeth at Watford and with the Royals, and then hitting the big time with ­Swansea, added: “There’s been a lot of trauma here in the last few years in relation to takeovers and ­everything. And a lot of instability.

“There’s only one team can win the league and everyone else is catching up. Manchester United are trying to catch up this year. The reality is where we are at. We want to improve and we want to move forward.

“It’s been a number of seasons now since we ­competed at Champions League level. For a club with this history and ­everything around it, it is where we have to be.

“We’re not there – and that’s the reality, too.

“So we need to fight like hell to try to get in there.

“I knew the size of the ­challenge. I knew I had ­limited funds. I haven’t come into this blind.

“I know the sheer size and ­expectancy here.

“That was part of the ­challenge to come, to test myself to the absolute maximum as a ­manager.

“And hopefully ­improve over a period of time then we can rise and push on.

“First, we need to ensure that ­Anfield is a real ­cauldron of a place.”

Rodgers, who has so far brought in striker Fabio Borini from Roma, Joe Allen from Swansea and Nuri Sahin on loan from Real Madrid, is excited by what lays ahead and added: “The idea is to make ­Anfield as difficult a place as ­possible for the ­opponent – and that starts against ­Manchester City.”

Cam wrote:Wish Jela would get rid of that quote