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not convinced. am pretty sure brendan didnt want mario. I cannot imagine that Ayre is lying in public, if Rodgers goes public and says otherwise, then maybe I will have a doubt, otherwise, noway. Coming to Mario, I rather think that Rodgers had spend the budget he had on Lallana, Markovic, Lovren etc for 100m, so not many players were available for 16m. It certainly wouldn't be the first time someone has lied in public. As for using up the budget, why not take Remy at half the price of Mario? Are you sure it wasn't Rodgers who chose Mario over Remy? If Ayre is lying, then I expect Rodgers to come out and correct him. I've always heard from Rodgers himself that he was happy for the support he was getting from FSG, I have no reason not to believe him and Ayre instead of believing in rumours.
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What Ayre is saying sounds right. But some of these players were forced on Brendan. I'm pretty sure there were a lot of trade offs from Brendan and other committee members which meant no one got all the players they actually wanted. If Brendan agrees to a player he doesn't want then the committee may be more willing to sanction players chosen by him. In other words, if he says yes to Balo, Moreno, Markovic then the committee would give their backing for Brendan to sign Lovren, Lallana, Lambert. The players the committee chose look a sight better than the ones he chose then.
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not convinced. am pretty sure brendan didnt want mario. I cannot imagine that Ayre is lying in public, if Rodgers goes public and says otherwise, then maybe I will have a doubt, otherwise, noway. Coming to Mario, I rather think that Rodgers had spend the budget he had on Lallana, Markovic, Lovren etc for 100m, so not many players were available for 16m. It certainly wouldn't be the first time someone has lied in public. As for using up the budget, why not take Remy at half the price of Mario? Are you sure it wasn't Rodgers who chose Mario over Remy? If Ayre is lying, then I expect Rodgers to come out and correct him. I've always heard from Rodgers himself that he was happy for the support he was getting from FSG, I have no reason not to believe him and Ayre instead of believing in rumours. are you kidding me? if he keeps his mouth shut he will get millions and if he opens his mouth he will only get a fraction of the money . they all have gags imposed on they when they get paid off
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not convinced. am pretty sure brendan didnt want mario. I cannot imagine that Ayre is lying in public, if Rodgers goes public and says otherwise, then maybe I will have a doubt, otherwise, noway. Coming to Mario, I rather think that Rodgers had spend the budget he had on Lallana, Markovic, Lovren etc for 100m, so not many players were available for 16m. It certainly wouldn't be the first time someone has lied in public. As for using up the budget, why not take Remy at half the price of Mario? Are you sure it wasn't Rodgers who chose Mario over Remy? If Ayre is lying, then I expect Rodgers to come out and correct him. I've always heard from Rodgers himself that he was happy for the support he was getting from FSG, I have no reason not to believe him and Ayre instead of believing in rumours. If Mario was Rodgers choice then why categorically state he wouldn't be signing only the week before? Are you saying Rodgers lied in public?
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Managers have done that before.. I remember Rafa claiming we weren't interested in Kuyt a couple of days before we signed him.
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Saying you're not interested and saying a categorical no is a bit different. Mario was a 'committee' signing all day long. Remember the excerpt from Gerrard's book where Rodgers told him he had no choice but to take the gamble?
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Well I agree, I don't think Rodgers wanted Mario. Was just pointing out that managers lie in public all the time.
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It's over now, we're never going to find out what actually happened. It just depends who you believe and to be honest Brendan doesn't strike me as the type to dish out digs even if it is the truth.
Mario and Brendan have gone lets focus on Klopp and the players we have got.
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It's over now, we're never going to find out what actually happened. It just depends who you believe and to be honest Brendan doesn't strike me as the type to dish out digs even if it is the truth.
Mario and Brendan have gone lets focus on Klopp and the players we have got.  are you feeling ok? so your not going to mention brenden in every other post?
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not convinced. am pretty sure brendan didnt want mario. I cannot imagine that Ayre is lying in public, if Rodgers goes public and says otherwise, then maybe I will have a doubt, otherwise, noway. Coming to Mario, I rather think that Rodgers had spend the budget he had on Lallana, Markovic, Lovren etc for 100m, so not many players were available for 16m. Why would Brendan start a public argument with his former employer when that is totally uncharacteristic of him? Even at his spell at Reading when things turned sour he left the club with great humility. He could have blamed people but instead he thanked the club, he said he learnt lessons from the experience and even said how exceptionally well his replacement had done. You can laugh at it but a lot of other manager wouldn't have done the same thing. And whether you thinks he a bad manager or not he should be respected for the way he conducts himself. Maybe he was just treated ok and the committee was there to help him with him having the final say. As Ayre said, they were not sitting there and voting with the majority calling the day and this thing about he had to accept a player he didn't want to get one he wanted is nonsense. Everybody knows he doesn't have the eye for a good player, Borini and Allen being clear examples, they were signed before any committee was put in place. Last but not least, if a manager cannot get his way through to have the right tools to do his job and he continues in the process, then he is a bad manager.
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