fresh blood we need, managers who have the hunger for trophies, managers like de boer, klopp, simeone
I said it over the summer in regards to player transfers and it applies to managers as well: we need winners. Players who have won
league titles and know what it takes to win. Look at Suarez; he won the league before coming to us, several times, and knew what it took to win. He gave 110% every time on the pitch, no matter what. Compare/contrast to players like Henderson, Allen, Mignolet etc. Even going back a few years to players like Adam, Downing, Carroll and so on---these are all players who spent their entire careers before us at mid-table clubs, where there was never any pressure to win. They were happy to finish mid-table. And what, suddenly they come to Liverpool and they have the winning mentality? give me a break.
The same goes for managers. I don't think Rodgers is all he is cracked up to be but I wouldn't go so far as to say he doesn't have a winning mentality. I'm sure last season when were up 7 points on City, he wanted to win the league. The problem is he doesn't know how. Because he has NEVER won the league. Anywhere. The closest he has ever come was being promoted with Swansea from the Championship, and that he got through the playoff.
We need to win the league. We have to. We're not going to be consistently up there with the heavy hitters until we are back winning the league. And we need to have a manager who knows what it takes to win a league over the course of an entire season. Who knows how to pace the players, who knows who he can trust and who he can't, who can keep them motivated each and every game etc no matter if they are the top rivals or the minnows. I mean look at the last 20 minutes of the match against Basel. We were well up for it and gave it a right go. That was the most passion and intensity I've seen from us all season.
So that proves that the players CAN play like that. So why can't Rodgers get them to play like that every game? isn't that the job of the manager? to make sure the players are up for it? that's how you win the league, by going out to win every game. But he's not instilling them with the right attitude. I don't know to what extent it is his fault but surely a manager who has the experience of winning the league would know how to get stuck into his players to make them have fire no matter how important the game is.
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