No, he was initially invited to a get to know you meeting which he declined unless it was a proper interview. Although he did say he wanted to stay loyal to Swansea.
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No, he was initially invited to a get to know you meeting which he declined unless it was a proper interview. Although he did say he wanted to stay loyal to Swansea.
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Everything I have read on Sky Sports has suggested that Liverpool made a formal approach, Rodgers declined to speak to them, but Liverpool want to make another approach. I don't see how this suggests that Rodgers has done anything other than rule himself out after ignoring their first attempt.
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I'd say he's been ruled out pretty much, unless the Liverpool owners think that repeatedly asking him to speak to them will yield different results. He seems happy at Swansea, they did really well last season and now that they have a bit of cash they can just concentrate on strengthening over the summer. He doesn't need to and shouldn't go anywhere else in my opinion.
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Why? All he has done is saved you from relegation, at no point has he provent himself to be any more than that, there are no positive moves forward from him at wigan.
Furthermore, we will have to pay a significant sum of money to Whelan for his release, if the need is for liverpool fans to be realistic, then why spend the money on something so risky. Just give it to Clarke, he must have learnt something from Mourinho and wont cost us a penny.
Swansea have dismissed rumours of a new approach according to this:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footba...ss-new-rodgers-liverpool-link-91466-31064673/
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/footba...ss-new-rodgers-liverpool-link-91466-31064673/
Liverpool should go for Di Matteo if Chelsea don't want him. FA Cup and European Championships Cup for a his 1st season as caretaker roll
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Liverpool should go for Di Matteo if Chelsea don't want him. FA Cup and European Championships Cup for a his 1st season as caretaker roll
this is the kind of hilarious thing fans say, Martinez isn't good enough because WIGAN the team with a set budget and a number of players to start off with, only beat relegation? That isn't in any way the measure of the manager, Mourinho at Wigan wouldn't get midtable with that budget and that team, it's that simple. Martinez has Wigan both playing "proper" football, and playing above where their budget dictates, two(maybe three) teams with hugely higher wage budgets(one almost double and one 60% or so higher) got relegated over Wigan.
Likewise RDM did not in any way build the Chelsea team, he didn't buy Drogba, Ramires, Lampard, Terry, Ivanovic, Cech, Mata, etc, etc.
Ability to defend your way excellently through a few games, with a fantastic defence someone else bought is one thing, rebuilding a team that finished quite fairly below the top 6, into a top four or eventually title winning team is an entirely different proposition.
Of the two managers Martinez has shown year on year, improvement in quality of the football, the team, the results and on a budget. RDM hasn't shown that lately, he's shown other qualities but long term RDM hasn't proved an awful lot taking someone elses team to a couple finals. Martinez in management terms has shown FAR more in the past few years.
A man talking sense.
LOL, i'm no fan of any team
I'm more into ice hockey than football (used to play in my younger days).So, you don't really rate RDM, who jumped into the helm mid season and managed to steer a team to FA cup winners and European Champions, simply because he didn't buy any players?
Yet you hail RM because of good final 4 matches of Wigans' great escape. Even tho they spent the other 33 in the drop zone?
We've had about 10 different favourites for this so I'm not sure it means anything.
Like Pigeon, after reading up on Rodgers I'm now more open to the idea of him getting the job than before. He appears to be a more natural fit to work alongside van Gaal too.
It isn't Rafa then, this gunna be fun.
*best Borat voice* VERY EXCITE!!!
He's tweeted to say he can't reveal to avoid getting his mole and himself in trouble. As everyone else has said, we only knew about Martinez 'coz Whelan couldn't hold his own water; this could turn out to be a big surprise/shock.
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LOL, i'm no fan of any team
So, you don't really rate RDM, who jumped into the helm mid season and managed to steer a team to FA cup winners and European Champions, simply because he didn't buy any players?
Yet you hail RM because of good final 4 matches of Wigans' great escape. Even tho they spent the other 33 in the drop zone?
No, firstly they played good football, with no strikers, most of the season, just no end product because Moses is a selfish little ****. Secondly Martinez built Swansea team from not much and the Wigan team and improved both significantly, on a budget, with no pulling power in terms of bringing in top players. He's exceeded the clubs ambitions, money, budget and targets at every stage of the past few seasons.
The last 4 games, you don't even know what Wigan's "form" was because they lost 3 games in their last 15, almost 4 times as many as your suggested "good" period.
Likewise I didn't say RDM hadn't done well in any way shape or form. Here's a hint LIverpool don't have the team Chelsea do, they don't have a Drogba, they don't have the defence, midfield or offence of Chelsea. RDM's job at Liverpool would be massive improvement, BUYING players, moving the team form and dramatic improvement. Taking over a team, buying no players, and getting the team merely back to where the team was ALWAYS capable of performing isn't nearly as difficult as improving a team beyond what they are currently capable of.
The chelsea job in a nutshell was to get the best the current squad could offer, the job at liverpool will be to build a new team that is better than the current one.
RDM did NOT do that this season, in any way shape or form, Martinez has done that at two seperate clubs recently. Hence he's proved he can do what Liverpool need, RDM hasn't.
Wigan's league form was vastly better than Chelsea's in the last 15 games, also just to clarify that RDM was only in charge from March 4th.
Liverpool need a manager who has proven he can improve a team sensibly on a budget, a real budget could make the job easier, RDM hasn't shown much at all.
With West Brom he had the team losing and Hodgson showed significant improvement in the team.
Is that the manager LIverpool really want, the one who got fired from West Brom and Hodgson took them over and made them vastly better straight away? lol
Another one for the DM cliche bank along with lol, you fail to comprehend, well done for being stupid, learn to read etc.
Mr Dalglish, you have a lot to answer for
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