The Manager Sacked/Hired Thread 2015/16

[Alan]

Financially they are no longer at the races. Their squad is seventh place material at absolute best.

Not sure I'd quite go that far.

Still they are woefully short in midfield (excepting weird attacking midfielders) but if they fix that issue and Sturridge stays healthy they could make an impact on the top four, I think.

 

[Langers]

Rumours on Twatter that Ancelotti is close to a deal to take over.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Not sure I'd quite go that far.

Still they are woefully short in midfield (excepting weird attacking midfielders) but if they fix that issue and Sturridge stays healthy they could make an impact on the top four, I think.

They have one left back and he cannot defend. Skrtel is still their best centre half and he should have been upgraded on years ago. Lucas is still their best (only?) defensive midfielder and Rodgers tried to sell him three times. The goalkeeper is miles short of elite standard. Whoever comes in will probably improve them slightly defensively - as it would be hard to make them worse, Rodgers never got a handle on that side of the game - but they don't have the personnel to reel off clean sheet after clean sheet with any reliability.

They also have a £32m striker who thrives on crosses and a grand total of one winger (19 years old) at the club. They won't be top four this season, no way.

 

[Alan]

Rumours on $#@!ter that Ancelotti is close to a deal to take over.

Breaking Romanisti hearts.

 

[Derby Wolf]

The problem is the new manager will need to move on some of the guff that Rodgers has bought at over inflated prices, they're going to take a hit on recouping those fees on top of possibly financing new signings.

 

[Alan]

They have one left back and he cannot defend. Skrtel is still their best centre half and he should have been upgraded on years ago. Lucas is still their best (only?) defensive midfielder and Rodgers tried to sell him three times. The goalkeeper is miles short of elite standard. Whoever comes in will probably improve them slightly defensively - as it would be hard to make them worse, Rodgers never got a handle on that side of the game - but they don't have the personnel to reel off clean sheet after clean sheet with any reliability.

They also have a £32m striker who thrives on crosses and a grand total of one winger (19 years old) at the club. They won't be top four this season, no way.

Mignolet; Clyne, Sakho, Skrtel, Moreno; Can, Milner; Firmino; Coutinho, Benteke, Sturridge.

If managed properly, that's not a team I'm keen to have to defend against.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Holy lack of width, Batman.

You could walk through that team.

 

[Alan]

Most of Liverpool's best play under Rodgers came without traditional width.

Anyway you'd naturally have to ask Coutinho and Sturridge to defend wider and attack narrower. I'm sure they'll get over the extra five paces it takes to adjust.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

That'll be some of their best play when they were too porous to actually win anything, yeah? When they owned Suarez, Sterling and Gerrard as well.

They won't make the top four principally because they're incredibly rickety and leak goals all the time. The defenders (and keeper) they own make far too many basic errors all the time, cf Everton's goal today. If you then remove any pretence at protecting said rickety back four by taking Lucas out of the team then that rate of errors will increase even further.

 

[jd1981]

Liverpool are still one of the giants of world football. They may not have won the league for a generation, but their worldwide fanbase is amazing. Top managers will always be interested in managing a club of Liverpools stature.

History and tradition is fine but it's about the here and now and who has the big spending capability, conversely you could argue Chelsea are not a huge and prior to Abromovich arriving they had won less league titles than we had.

 

[Alan]

Can is the holder in that group, if you want to use that word.

As stated, "if managed properly". Most of their defenders were not poor at previous clubs (you could go either way with Sakho warming the bench on and off at PSG) so one would imagine that they will improve without Brendan "what's marking" Rodgers.

Not winning anything still resulted in 2nd place, which would be top 4, which is all we're really projecting here.

 

[Freddeno]

Liverpool have been overspending in the attacking mid area..thea should get a good cb to stable thimgs up...cant believe how many million pounds rodgers have spent on guff...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Can has got zero discipline, Joe Allen would be more effective there. Which speaks volumes.

I can't say I saw much of Moreno in Spain but it isn't instruction from the manager which gives him no positional sense and no ability to stop crosses, surely? Sakho is a disaster waiting to happen with his lack of composure on the ball, Skrtel has always made loads of errors, Lovren was a shambles at Lyon and his year at Southampton looks like the outlier as it stands. They just aren't very good, the common thread being that Brendan bought most of them. They are almost three months out from being able to improve on these players (and they aren't going to buy three quarters of a new defence in January) so I can't see things improving especially quickly whoever is in charge.

 

[Johnny75]

Holy lack of width, Batman.

You could walk through that team.

:icon_lol:

That team is more frail than a kinder egg in the vicinity of a 2 year old.

 

[Lord Knows]

I would possibly go with Lucien Favre at Liverpool in what could be a five year project. Liverpool also have to replace that badly flawed player recruitment model.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Sherwood's got to be coming under some pressure soon. One point from seven games, Chelsea (yes, I know), Swansea, Tottenham, Man City and Everton up next.

 

[Kenny]

Jose get's the old "Vote of Confidence"

 

[Boozad]

Sherwood's got to be coming under some pressure soon. One point from seven games, Chelsea (yes, I know), Swansea, Tottenham, Man City and Everton up next.

I hope they keep him until May next year. He's doing a stellar job, equally as good as Lambert was doing.

 

[leedswolf]

Jose get's the old "Vote of Confidence"

From Jose presumably.

 

[Alan]

Sherwood's got to be coming under some pressure soon. One point from seven games, Chelsea (yes, I know), Swansea, Tottenham, Man City and Everton up next.

No excuse, even without any decent forwards they ought to be comfortably mid table. Gestede can at least finish if nothing else and they have good pieces elsewhere.