KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum will Rodgers sign players he hasn't coached before?

we know he wanted Siggurdson but Tottenham pulled a fast one on us.
we know he wanted Borini and we got him.
we know he wants joe allen and apparently we're going to pay overprice for him.
how about players he hasn't coached before. i mean, we were heavily linked with Rasmus Elm in june i think and now i see Cska Moscow got him for less than 6 mil(1/3 the price reported around Allen).
any thoughts on the matter?

Yes I think he would sign players he hasn't coached before. Just like he did at every single club he's managed before. My personal thoughts on the matter are that it's a ridiculous question.

I concur.

He'd never coached Lita, Moore, Rouledge, Vorm, Tremmel, Caulker before but he signed them for Swansea.

In fact he only signed 3 players for Swansea that he'd worked with before.

To me it's a sign of him being shrewd in the market. We don't have bags of cash so he's spending on players we need and players he knows inside out.

To summarise this questions shows more about the original poster than it does Brendan.

He has a preferred style of playing and if a player has worked under him before and done well playing that way then I can understand him taking a look at them early in his Liverpool tenure but it is a concern given that he has always managed at clubs with lower expectations before so the sort of player required is different and they may not be able to make the step up.

Hopefully Borini will be a success at Liverpool and seeing how well Sigurdsson did last season for Swansea and for Spurs in pre-season I think he could have made the step up and maybe we should have tried a bit harder to get him. Allen I'm not sure about, he is a good young player but several of our current squad looked good at their clubs and haven't make the step up so it would be a risk (although pretty much any signing is) and I don't think we should pay over the odds for him.

I seem to remember reading that changes had been made to our scouting team back in June when we brought in Dave Fallows from Man City so with new staff and management team in place hopefully they will be able to find some good players in future but for this window (or at least the early parts) it may be a case of sticking to what they know.

Still another 4 weeks to go until the transfer window closes so I'm still hopeful that once the much needed clear out is complete (wouldn't be surprised to see a few more departures) we will bring in some new players, some of which may have played under BR before, others that have played in a similar formation for club or country.

I hope we will get to see more of some of our promising youngsters this season and there was an article on the official site earlier stating he had been in touch with clubs abroad about loaning players in, this is an area of the transfer market we haven't really utilised in the past few years so maybe that will be a cost effective way to bring in a different type of player and freshen up the squad.

Rodgers will sign what he can afford, and at this moment in time it looks as if the owners are giving him very little to make real change. YET the owners will be the first ones to bemoan no Champions League for another season, but then ignore the fact that they didn't invest, when it was needed.

While they are much better than the previous yanks, they are very very cautious and slow, but then some people will say "methodical".

In other news: the turtle continues its journey across the beach.

Hey didn't the turtle win that race? Give it some time mate, I will be worried when the window ends with only Borini brought but at the moment I will sit and wait.

I is not just on about transfer activity, I is on about on the whole also.

These owners believe in employing "qualified" people to do the job for them, its how the yanks work, its all about statistics, juggling numbers and structured ladders.

It's about time they knuckle down and start putting the money where their mouth is. top 4 this, top 4 that, they can kiss it goodbye if they don't stick some £ on the table for Brendan to get the calibre of players he needs.

To be fair on them, they have said they don't expect top4 in Rodger's first season.

You can understand the owners reluctance to give out money the way it was wasted by Dalglish. The players he bought just haven't been good enough and the only ones that look like they might be are Downing and Enrique. We will all have to wonder what Rodgers could have done with £100m.

As for the original question, I would say that he will sign the plates he thinks are right for how he wants us to go forward. If he's coached them then so be it. If not I'm sure he won't be out of by it.

I just can't help thinking this thread is just another one for the doom mungers to just have a go like most other threads on this site at the minute. It's getting a bit boring coming on here and seeing nothing but people having a go at one thing or another. People need to get a grip. This is going to be a work in progress that hopefully will see us better of than last year, maybe even top 4. Let's just stop being negative all the time and support the team and the new manager.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footbal...rget-Agger.html

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