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Agree with G. I would say it's more about whether FSG will fully back Rodgers with the fund he wants fir the players he wants. If not and he's hampered by the committee etc. I don't think we will win it and could even fall out of the top 4 again next year. Fully agree with that wilkij, except I’d add a bit about Rodgers and the defence issue. While I’m an admirer of what he’s done and delivered in terms of improvement on our football style and quality, including securing CL and a challenge for the title, I’m disappointed with his focus on defence and that as many on this forum have said cost us the title this season. Does he have it in him to build a fortress style defence? I don’t know but time will tell, unless of course he’s stymied by the silly policy and even sillier committee system, including the incompetent Ayre and penny pinching FSG. The one thing I do know is that there’s been no great and consistent team that didn’t have a great and consistent defence. Will Rodgers build that? Will FSG fund that? Well the record on both fronts thus far would question it.
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nearly everyone I speak to these days says "but Liverpool are only where they are because they didn't have European football to worry about" if that's the fcking case why doesn't every team that finishes 7th challenge for the title?
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Agree with G. I would say it's more about whether FSG will fully back Rodgers with the fund he wants fir the players he wants. If not and he's hampered by the committee etc. I don't think we will win it and could even fall out of the top 4 again next year. Fully agree with that wilkij, except I’d add a bit about Rodgers and the defence issue. While I’m an admirer of what he’s done and delivered in terms of improvement on our football style and quality, including securing CL and a challenge for the title, I’m disappointed with his focus on defence and that as many on this forum have said cost us the title this season. Does he have it in him to build a fortress style defence? I don’t know but time will tell, unless of course he’s stymied by the silly policy and even sillier committee system, including the incompetent Ayre and penny pinching FSG. The one thing I do know is that there’s been no great and consistent team that didn’t have a great and consistent defence. Will Rodgers build that? Will FSG fund that? Well the record on both fronts thus far would question it. Right questions to ask, indeed. Defensive tactics is BR's weakness IMO, if he can sort that out, there is no reason why we won't win the title with him. However, if we keep on conceding as we have, we won't win the league as there is not much to improve on the goals scoring front. We have the top 2 strikers of the league this season, it will not be like that every season.
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No, he's been extremely lucky this season, it just so happens that this title challenge has coincided with Fergie retiring, no European football and a tactic of scoring one more than the opposition and completely forgetting about the defence.
I have no doubt in my mind that if Fergie hadn't retired yet, then Man Utd would be in our position, which I fully think that's where they will be next season under Van Gaal.
Our tactic is strong in attack, but one of the worst in defence, Rodgers needs to decide what's more important, attack/attack, balance or ultra defensive. I have a feeling he will stick to the former and concede 50 goals again.
We will also have extra matches next season, until Rodgers decides it's too much and gets us knocked out of cups early again as he doesn't rate them.
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Only fsg, Ayre, fallows can answer your question.
Even if ....fsg had managed to sign two of the 4,5 class players br wanted to sign in the summer & in jan 2014.....
We wud be champions by now If Rodgers hadn't signed Aspas ad Alberto, he might have been able to sign a better player, if he had stuck with Reina and not splashed the money on Mignolet, again he might have been able to afford a better player, let's not forget that he also broke the clubs record defensive transfer twice on Ilori and Sakho, that 30m alone could have bought a player like Mata.
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Spice Boys, surely you must be over the moon with BR getting us to 2nd with your prediction of 6th-7th?
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No manager can guarantee to win a title. All he can guarantee is to reach a level that allows him to compete for a title. Whether he wins it or not is determined by very fine details he has no control upon (a player slipping, a goal from a deflected ball, a stupid refereeing decision, etc...). So imo the question should be "Could Brendan Rodgers win the title?" rather than "Will Brendan Rodgers win the title?". Then the answer would be Yes based on the fact that he still has a mathematical chance of winning it on the last day of the season meaning that he is a genuine competitor for the title. So can Pellegrini, Murinho and even Wenger.
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i think our success this season came mostly from SAS,normaly any team having a player scoring over 30 goals lift the title and we actualy have the 2nd runner up in our team aswell....our defensive error is what BR bring to our play
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i think our success this season came mostly from SAS,normaly any team having a player scoring over 30 goals lift the title and we actualy have the 2nd runner up in our team aswell....our defensive error is what BR bring to our play So what's your plan then? Sack Rodgers?
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If he's as astute as many of us hope, he'll be learning fast, just like he did last year compared to this. He'll know full well defence cost us and will look to tighten up to a degree, whilst maintaining the attacking principle.
He still needs FSG to cough up considering Lfc's rivals will strengthen. It needs to be better than last summer and certainly better than January.
As someone said, I'd worry FSG now believe they can acheive this level every year with 20-30m.
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