Baffles me when even I knew that Balo works well with a striking partner. Getting him surrounded with midfielders won't work! Gerrard, Can and Hendo basically playing in same position, leaving Couth to lead the attack. Sterling and Ibe not too effective; esp Sterling.

BR just too blind to see. We might dominate possession but virtually zero penetrations.

The tactical mastermind manager never learn that playing Balo as lone striker never work.
Balo is not Suarez.

More the a training ground attack vs defend.

Apart from Ibe hitting the bar, there was virtually zero threatening shot on goal.

I was a BR supporter, but after last night's game.
It's hard to get behind what he stands for.
The team looks disjointed, and directionless.
The passing, the movement was directionless.
I don't see them attacking with intent and proper strategies.
It was just trying to look for little passes and back heels into the box and hope it gets to Balo or falls in front of somebody to nick it in.

Coutinho has immense talent and drive to win the game.
But you see him get frustrated and try to shoot outside the box.
Because his forwards and teammates aren't doing jack shit to get a goal.

Fark it was frustrating just to watch.

Brendan's flaws are all exposed with the absence of a prolific striker like Suarez.
He has no tactics.

It's true he brought the best out of Suarez by controlling the beast in him, and letting him have free reign in the pitch.

BR can manage a man, but he cannot manage a team.

We need a proven manager with wining mentality.
Brendan talks about philosophy. but it looks like he doesn't have an end or deadline in mind. He thinks he has forever to build a club.
Van Gaal had a rough start but took half a season to inject his philosophy and back at winning easy games, and much recently winning against giants.

Put a deadline on BR, and sign someone who's won something and knows how to get a team up there.

You got everything right except for 2 sentences above.

I do not know how you can credit him for Suarez's beastly form. What he did to Suarez was akin to just throwing a mature hungry tiger into the woods and nothing more than that.

Lest not we forget he was brought in the first place for his ability to teach young Cubs to hunt for preys...we have not seen any signs of Wodgers doing that.

Sterling n Coutinho are players with massive potential....I could probably give Wodgers a half credit for that. But still it doesn't cover all flops he brought in...if Wodgers is so great at developing talent as he claims it...we wouldn't be in this spot right now.

Wodgers out

Liverpool's Philippe Coutinho has today been named in the PFA Barclays Premier League Team of the Year. And he only makes 70k per week.

This post has been edited by yeelong: Apr 26 2015, 08:59 PM

Give Rodgers the benefit of doubt la. He give mario n ibe a tryout cause one of the will remain at Liverpool n one Liverpool will ship out.

Rodgers is using Balo now n hope suiters will buy him off at a cheap [cough] price.

To Rodgers, Balo is good as gone. He, well transfer committee is just hoping, suiters may just enquire n take Balo off Liverpool wages

If Balo goes, I hope he shines in some other teams...this will further prove what a muppet Wodgers is.

come on, balo's record speaks for itself.
2006–2007 Lumezzane 2 (0)
2007–2010 Internazionale 59 (20)
2010–2013 Manchester City 54 (20)
2013–2014 Milan 43 (26)
2014– Liverpool 15 (1)

was avg 1 goal every 2.5 games, until brenda came along.

He plays as lone striker under BR.

Very few player can suit to lone striker role and yet can score 10~20 goals, except for the like Suarez, Hazard type of player who can make something out of nothing.

Balo is player that who can shoot from range, or tap in type of player, certainly not those nutmeg defender, dribble then score.

I think he brendanrodgers is too busy preparing dossier vs 2.0 to reply you.

5th place and 2 semifinal is [cough] a modest achievement given we lost a prolific world class player.

Maybe can ask Rodgers give a sneak peek what's in 2.0 all aboutzzz 😬

Rodgers: Liverpool don't score enough
http://www.espnfc.com/barclays-premier-lea...3/video/2418400

saw this on soccernet.com just now. lol ....did he just wake up and realise that ? he's practically saying ..his tactics are spot on ..just that there's no capable strikers. like hello ??? u either splash the money find strikers capable of fitting in ..or u change your tactic to suit the strikers u have. this guy is really smoking something strong becoz he's so in denial about his failure.

To those who like to compare



This post has been edited by carloz28: Apr 26 2015, 10:04 PM

😜

Haizz, if we won ytd, we might have a shot for the 4th place. Damn!

Well, if there is one claim he is very good at which I will give him full credit for is his hyperbole talk about his tactical astuteness and how he can manage Liverpool players

+1

Someone pls knock br's head.
Use 4-4-2 diamond if wanna use balo.

5th place with 2 semi final is a big achievement for midtable club standard or midtable manager.

I taught someone said before a club spending more than 100 mil means looking to challenge on the top...

suprise coutinho yg masuk, i tot strealing

congrats to all the winners

Sterling?

Fabregas is the surprising player that is not in the team.