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Just checked this out of interest.
Feyenoord average 62% possession and complete 85% of their passes.
Liverpool average 62% possession and complete 86% of their passes.
In that case why was Rodgers getting Gerrard to cold call prospective recruits.So whats your point here?
As Gerrard explains:
‘I had an unofficial role at the club, trying to persuade some great players to join Liverpool. It was the same ritual every summer. The club would let me know which long-shot target they had in mind and then ask me to contact him. They thought that a request to consider moving to Liverpool would have more impact coming from me.’
He admits that one ‘long-shot target’ was very ambitious indeed:
‘Brendan asked me to take a crack at trying to talk Toni Kroos into signing for Liverpool. He smiled when I said we’d be p***ing into the wind with this one…I knew Real Madrid were gearing up to make Bayern Munich an offer and so I felt a bit awkward when I texted Kroos. The German was on his way to winning the World Cup with his country and Real were the champions of Europe.
‘Some of the best footballers in the world can also be the most respectful. Kroos didn’t make me feel like I was a total idiot. But, of course, he would soon sign for Real Madrid. We had a nice little exchange of texts and I said well done and good luck.’
We became a lot stronger when Klopp convinced Van Dijk to turn down City and Chelsea and sign for us. Do you honestly think that happens without Klopp meeting up with Van Dijk.
Manchester City
Arsenal
arguably Liverpool 2016-2022
Real Madrid
Barcelona
Atletico Madrid
Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
Bayer Leverkusen
Paris Saint-Germain
Ajax
Porto
Benfica
...
It's actually hard to find a club that doesn't!
His reputation (which is hugely over exaggerated) preceded him today, when Coufal put the ball out but the officials immediately assumed it was a miss.
No I understand all of this, but will the new manager have a different profile of player to build the team around?Probably looking at similar Philosophy stuff wise.
Depend who takes over and their philosphopy?
Or do they go with someone with a similar one?
It's like the motto of all political careers end in failure. If a player leaves Liverpool it's either because he's fucked us off for another club (Coutinho/Torres/Sterling), we've fucked him off because he's not been good enough/we've got a good offer, or his legs are going and we're having to faze him out/a contractual issue for a player over 30.
One of the reasons we get a lot of bitter ex-players as pundits is due to how they left.
The likes of Firmino and Milner are the exceptions in that their contracts are up and they get the big send offs in their last game. Milner still disappointed not to be kept on though.
There are a couple of things John.Whatever Al. What are the ideal models? (post a unique Fergerson)
Firstly what doesn't get mentioned very often is how often these teams who have a Head Coach/Sporting Director model change their coach. The coach becomes disposable. If you were looking for a parallel in this Country then it would be Chelsea. If you were looking for the top clubs in Europe then you would look at Bayern and Madrid.
It sounds great the Sporting Director building a squad that extends beyond the lifespan of the Coach. The problem is it creates a dressing room with more power than the Coach. Look at how many times the Chelsea, Madrid or Bayern dressing room has downed tools and seen off a Coach.
Instead of the Sporting director being held to account he just blames the Coach for not utilising the players properly.
The LFC of 2024 is A LOT stronger across the board than in 2014 for heavens sake Al. Why are you being this weird mate? This is a nothing story.
And now Jota? Fuckin' hell! This lad is selling evreyone.
