This Is Anfield

Yeah, City's behind the scenes stuff is top notch.

All we have is OxTV.

The Rachel Riley thing that was on MUTV where she went round Carrington was pretty good. I heard from a friend of a friend who over heard someone say that can be found on the interwebs too.

Still haven't watched Being:... need to get round to it.

Our wins have came away to Young Boys and to West Brom, I know WBA did not have a full side out, but I have to say our younger players look so good atm. Wisdom, Coates, Robinson, Suso, Sterling, Sinclair, Shelvey (apart from 'that', Yesil, Pacheco and even Henderson. Assaidi and Sahin look uber promising and we have been pretty good in all our matches. It's all about potency now, once we get the goals coming in, we can get on a good streak.

Home against Swansea, Rodgers back against Swansea, good draw.

Assaidi should play at the weekend if Borini is unavailable, looked quality tonight. He seems like he's capable of always going past his defender but has the intelligence to know when to do it effectively. Strong case for Sahin to take a spot in the midfield too, and Coates looks like he's more than capable to be our 3rd choice central defender.

Exciting times

We just need to make sure the owners give Rodgers plenty of time, i like the direction we are taking on the pitch.

Yep- it's all encouraging, let's hope they have some patience about it. I mean, we have to balance out the failures of Dalglish in a short time.

Supernova.

Steven Gerrard.

I don't get it.

I knew you'll have something to say.

Good lord.

Looks so gash.

I feel physically sick after watching that.

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/free-reds-brilliant-build-up

This video is awesome. Brilliant football.

Absolutely unreal. Youth integration could well be one of Rodgers' landmark policies here, especially after Rodgers (and to a SMALL extent) Rafa and Gerard seemed to prefer buying from elsewhere.

Worth noting that Rafa was instrumental in 'upgrading' the academy by bringing in a new structure and hiring new coaches to oversee development, not to mention actually signing some of the youngsters like Suso and Sterling. He definitely deserves a lot of credit.

Totally agree. Rodgers should get some credit for being brave enough to play them over Dalglish's big money flops but he didn't have anything to do with the youth team.

Dropping Henderson and Downing was never going to be a particularly unpopular move though, was it?

No, but if it failed he would have the easy excuse that they weren't his signings. He chose to promote the promising kids and play them instead, but if it wasn't for Benitez, those kids probably wouldn't have been there.

I think an interesting side effect of what Rafa did is the effect it had on local talent.

Scott Wootton for example left on his 16th birthday because of a perceived lack of opportunities with all the foreign youngsters coming in and signed for us.

I don't know if anyone else has left, and I don't think Scott Wootton is going to be good enough for it to be a huge loss, but it's always interesting to look at what happened as a side effect.

PURPLE!

Suarez's second goal yesterday was the best 'fuck off!' to the opposition fans I've seen in a while

By
Craig Burley

Brendan Rodgers has to stop being such a big hit for himself

THE new Liverpool manager needs to achieve something at Anfield before talking himself up in public.

SOMEONE in the Liverpool hierarchy should pull Brendan Rodgers aside quickly and have a firm word in his ear to save the guy from himself.

Rodgers has the look of a guy going about his business as if he’s already an Anfield legend and he has achieved nothing yet at the club.

He took part in a recent television documentary called ‘Being: Liverpool’ and the way he portrayed himself in that has left people in England unimpressed.

Rodgers emerged from the driver’s seat of a car that should have belonged to an American rap star. He lives in a house that you’d expect JR Ewing to reside in. Rodgers must remember it’s Southport he lives in and not Southfork.

He has a portrait of himself hanging in his house. Sure, it was a gift from the disabled fans of the Swansea Supporters Club for his contribution to charity.

But, really, putting it on display like that? It’s vanity of the highest order.

Rodgers appears to be typical of some of the managers we have. It used to be players that cornered the egotistical market but now the managers are overtaking them.

Alan Pardew and Roberto Mancini also fall into that category. They all want the limelight now.

Rodgers and the rest should take a leaf from Sir Alex Ferguson and Davie Moyes. Modest men but remarkable at their jobs.

They have earned the right to nice things in life but they will keep it in the background. They do not attract unnecessary attention to themselves.

You certainly won’t see them buying a car in the same forecourt as Snoop Dog.

Rodgers is light years behind Ferguson and a million miles away from Moyes' achievements.

The Everton gaffer should be his biggest concern because Rodgers will have to come out as the No.1 club on Merseyside this season before he can think of anything else.

Moyes has assembled his strongest squad yet. They are playing with confidence and are the most attractive team in the EPL just now.

Rodgers sometimes appears unable to keep things low key. He spent too long in the company of Jose Mourinho when he worked under him at Chelsea.

At least Mourinho could back up some of his outrageous claims with Champions League victories on his CV.

Rodgers has a poor record at Reading and an ok time at Watford on his resume.

He also inherited a good squad at Swansea that was built up by Roberto Martinez and taken to the next stage by Paulo Sousa.

But you’d think that pair never existed at the Welsh club. Goodness, Rodgers would take the credit for inventing football and tactics if he could get away with it.

It’s time for this great self-publicist to stop the bull**** and start delivering. Sack the cliches of ‘The Players plus the environment equals the behaviour’. It’s garbage.

People will start to see through this guy soon enough. I’m sure plenty of the Liverpool players have.

When I was at Derby I had John Gregory as manager and he was also full of it. The players weren’t fooled by his chat or the photos of him with Bruce Springsteen he had in his office.

But he does appear to be fully supported by the owners and that’s all that matters.

Still, they could do everyone a favour and take him aside. Before it’s too late.

What a tool.

The underlying argument is probably true though tbf

He called Ferguson 'modest'. Total bollocks.

What you mean that he's confident and idealistic despite relatively little success and experience?

I'm perfectly fine with that. That piece just reads as a wind-up against somebody he clearly doesn't like. I'll admit that the way Rodgers talks is a bit David Brent-like at times, but I imagine a lot of what he says in Being Liverpool is there for the purpose of marketing and impressing Americans.

I mean come on the guy is having a go at him for driving a nice car and living in a nice house. Its ridiculous. And 'a million miles away from Moyes' achievements' - you mean the one trophy Moyes has won in his career?

Is Craig Burley that miserable commentator/pundit on ESPN? What a terrible article.

That article summarises what is shit on this planet.