PICTURE: LUIS SUAREZ Goal vs Fulham Liverpool FC via Getty Images/Andrew Powell
After the victory over Fulham, Liverpool full of optimism. Brendan Rodgers believes his team will get better, starting with the face Stoke City on Boxing Day.
Stoke managed to draw against Liverpool at Anfield in October. However, after a win over Newcastle United last November, The Potters yet again to achieve maximum results. Ryan Shawcross and friends could only grab three draws plus one defeat.
On the other hand, Liverpool is being motivated. The win over Fulham colored with nice appearance Stewart Downing and Luis Suarez scored again, after fasting for four matches in the Premier League.
The match against Stoke at the Britannia Stadium on Tuesday (12/26/2012), was expected to re-produce maximum performance.
"We will be better in the second half of the season," Rodgers said as quoted by AP.
"We just need to continue to improve and continue to perform consistently. If we can do that, then we have a chance to continue to improve its position in the league."
On the other hand, Stoke also had its own targets, although it sounds simpler targets than targets Liverpool.
"We want 40 points. Was past that we need," said Tony Pullis.
"There are six or seven teams here that are truly extraordinary. While the rest are just trying to survive, and that's what we will do."
Brendan Rodgers, again re-issued to the premier league
refferee. He feel that today's the player who dived got the penalty.
Rodgers feel, Liverpool has several times been impaired by the
referee's decision early this season. Last weekend he was furious by the
decision of the referee gives a red card to Jonjo Shelvey, and reward
Manchester United penalty, when the two
teams faced each other in the Premier League.
In the same match he also questioned tackled conducted Jonny
Evans against Luis Suarez, but there is no penalty for the Reds. Another
complaint about the referee is Rodgers tackles against Jordan Henderson by West
Bromwich Albion player in the arena of Capitol one cup, which ultimately makes
the WBA able to score first goal.
Rodgers said the current tendency is, the referee gave a
penalty to players who dive. While that was really fouled even considered
faking it and got a yellow card.
"We want to win,
but we want to get it in an honest way. I've explained to my players if I do
not want any players diving, I want to try to win honestly. But we have to be
careful with the fact that when you fall you can penalty, while when you keep
up then you will not get it, "Rodgers said in the Telegraph.
"As happened to Luis Suarez, he is not diving, it is
valid, but he did not get a penalty and instead get a card for diving. My point
is, there are clubs that play by the rules like we were and the manager told
'do not fall' but we did not get the right decisions related to it, "he
continued.
Although often received unfavorable decision from the
referee, Rodgers said that he will continue to ask players to act honestly in
the field.
"We think that we are a team sport that fair, I always
tell my players to do the right thing, no diving, play fair. But the fair play
we show, it seems that the decision appeared just against us," complete
the Northern Ireland's 39-year-old manager
Yes, it's all been said
for over and over, since the era of Gerard Houllier, Rafa Benitez, Roy
Hodgson, Kenny Dalglish, and Now Brendan Rodgers. and yet, there is no
significant progress that the fans see, we are all tired of
hearing excuses, Liverpool need to get their glory back. We have changed
five managers and still we haven't won the premier league.
The
Problem is not on the manager, we have had a world class manager
before. the problem that must be resolve is within the club itself, the culture. We play without direction and philosophy, that's why we become so inconsistent.
For
those who think that Brendan should Out, my message is,"Are you kidding
me?". This time for once, I can tolerate the excuse of time by
our managers. It is completely insane to think that Brendan's Strategy
is not work out. Against West Brom we play wonderful football in the
first half and so unlucky at the end. Against City we play superbly and
let down by our sloppy mistake. Against Arsenal, we do play wonderful
football, but let down by HOWARD WEBB, Yes, Could you imagine that if
only he made the decision correctly, we could have at least two penalty
that should be awarded which then could changed the entire game?
No
disrespect to other manager, but i think that our previous manager has
no vision like Brendan did. they don't have any direction to what
football that they want to play and how they want to build Liverpool.
Brendan has clearly stated the Liverpool way, the Shanks way of Liverpool football is the one that he want to bring back, not tiki-taka, not possession football, it's the Liverpool way.
Before
I continue on my view, I look at the people who already worked and is
working with Brendan, none of them gave a bad impression to him. they've
like him at a person and managers. For Instance:
"It is great to play football for him because you can have fun and you can get results. I
could see at Swansea the people loved him because the football was
attractive. People like to see football (played) like this." Fabio
Borini
"When
Brendan is talking, you're so focused on what he's saying, He gets your
attention 100 per cent. You can be in a meeting for half an hour with
him, but it'll feel like 10 minutes. It's clear for everyone to see the
way Brendan wants us to play. He did fantastic at Swansea and he's a
fantastic coach." Glen Johnson
"I think a lot of players will enjoy his training methods and his approach towards everything. From
the moment he walked through the doors at Swansea, there was a feeling
that he was going to take the club onto the next level. And he did." Joe
Allen
"There
are lots of teams here that aren't very well set up tactically. He's a
coach that can see that if you can work tactically you can derive a lot
of benefit from that; you can be different. If you're well organised,
and you can play the ball, you can be successful." Luis Suarez
"Brendan was a young guy when he
started working at Chelsea. He had lots of energy, lots of enthusiasm,
very good ideas. He was learning but also showing his ideas, sharing
things. I enjoyed very much working with Brendan and we
keep in touch. I am not saying every day or every week, but we keep in
touch a lot because it's the kind of feeling we want to keep forever."
Jose Mourinho
I
could go on, but those quotes above is already enough to represent
Brendan's work to the team. I couldn't think anyone else could managed
Liverpool other than Brendan. He is a good tactical managers who loves
to play attractive and attacking football. he knows the game well, and
most importantly, he knows what he was doing. even the "Only One" itself
stated that Brendan is something else, he said that Brendan is a hard
working and intelligent guy. He even stated that the one that he believe
could be a great manager is Brendan, not AVB.
The Revolution needs time. I
believe in Brendan approach, tactically and in man management. for those
who are moaning about transfer window, believe me, Brendan and Henry is
as well disappointed as us. we should just keep going on. maybe it is a
chance for our youngster like Morgan, Suso, Pacheco to prove his worth
to the team.
I recommend All of you to watch the MONEYBALL movie,
it's a baseball movie. but you will be amazed by the idea of the movie.
it's about how to valued a player based on their ability. i think it is
something that Liverpool try to adapt to. by selling their unwanted
player and not overpaid when buying a player.
Lastly,
We SHOULD now CHEER UP and SUPPORT our team more than ever. Let's make
ANFIELD a Bastion of Invinsibility. Let's sing Louder than ever (we are
so silent in Anfield vs Arsenal). That's What the Player needed, That's
what the manager needed. That's the only thing that we could do as a
Supporter of this football club
During his career at liverpool, Steven Gerrard has never won the premier league. despite having won the Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup, League Cup, etc, is not complete if you have not lifted the Premier League trophy.
With age not young anymore, 32 years. His professional career may be just a few seasons. Even so, the desire to lift the Premier League trophy still exists, though in reality it will be very difficult.
The current manager, Brendan Rodger knows very well, that Steven Gerrard was eager to win the premier league, and with the rest of the time, Rodgers was eager to help Gerrard realize these dreams.
"Steven still has a few years of his career. His dream is to win the Premier League with Liverpool and I will fight to make it all come true," Rodgers said as quoted by the official club website.
"He is an icon for this club. He won almost everything that might win in this club, but unfortunately there is a loss, and that he would fight until the end of his career to win the title," he continued.
"He is a realist and understand the reality looks like. He was not wrong direction," said Rodgers.
"I am pleased with his contribution. He was so brilliant since I arrived here. I worked with him as a person as well as a player. Example he ideal for everyone here," said the former manager of Swansea City.
Gerrard desire to win the premier league is very passionate, Steven said, "though really want to win the premier league, and I still believe will be able to win it, (with liverpool of course), but be realistic in life, my time as a player may be a few years away, so although optimistic, I have to be realistic, "said gerrard.
Until now, Gerrard has played 584 games and scored 150 goals with the Reds. Achievement trophy include two FA Cups, three League Cups, two Community Shield Cup, one Champions League, one UEFA Cup and two European Super Cups.
His Name is Joe
Michael Allen, the 22 years old Welsh Midfielder who used to play for
Swansea City is now a Liverpool player. After months of speculation, he
finally complete his moves to Liverpool just after he finished represent
the Great Britain team with a fee around £15,000,000. he was given long-five years contract with 40,000 pounds wages per week. What a bargain for this young talented midfielder !!
Few of you might be wondering what's so special about this so called "Allen". The
answer is that he might be the missing pieces that we need in order to
get into the next level. His style of play is the mixture between Xavi
and Iniesta. His simple passing is the key to link between the
midfielder and forward, not to mention he is also like to penetrate into
the opponent penalty box. Allen also has a decent shooting and
tackling. If I have to gave him a rate, i would give an A for his short
passing, B- for his long passing, B- for his shooting, B for his speed,
and lastly B+ for his tackling.
His
position in the Liverpool starting Lineup would be in the midfield of 3
that Brendan would implement along with Stevie and Lucas. the simplest
illustration that i could tell is by using Barcelona's sample. Imagine
Lucas as Busquets, Gerrard as Iniesta, and Allen as Xavi. those player
has their own role in the midfield which would collaborate and
compliment each other. While on the bench we still have Jordan, Jonjo,
Jay, and Charile (Sahin on the way) it will only then bring good to
Liverpool, we would have plenty of option in the midfield in case some
of them are injured. Those are needed to be competitive and hopefully we
could grab the Champions League position. My
Last message here is not to get carried away with expectation to this
young lad, he's still 22 and have a long way to go to prove his worth.
But one thing for sure he has the talent. Brendan believe in him and
that's what matters. we must support our manager decision. YNWA!!!
Liverpool fc now try to force
Swansea to
release Joe Allen by making bid £15m, it triggered the release clause in Joe
Allen contract. The transfer should complete soon, and Joe will be the second
player bought by Brendan Rodger.
The 22 year old reportly had already talk with
Huw Jenkins, the Swansea
chairman, and will be had meeting together with the manager, Michael Laudrup on
thursday.
But Liverpool FC, with the ex Swansea manager, Brendan Rodgers, very
confident that they can proceed the deal quickly. The Deal beetween two clubs
already start about two weeks ago, but all Liverpool FC offers, had been all
rejected by Swansea.
Rodger say, that he is very interesting in Joe
Allen, its about a month ago, when he said ' He is a very talented players, and
everyone knows it."
Joe Allen is already returned to Swansea training ground on wednesday,
following his involvement in Olympic Football tournament with Team GB.
Well is Joe Allen worthed by £15m ?? i'm very
affraid that is only another flop transfer, like Jordan Henderson, Downing or
Carroll. But we all already know, how Joe become a Key player for Swansea last season under
Rodger management.
But this is Liverpool FC, can Joe Allen quickly
blend with the team ? while Henderson, Carrol, Downing, Adam, they all fail to
quickly contributed for Liverpool FC.
The only positive thing is that Joe Allen already
know Brendan Rodger style of play, so this can be a positive too for team.
In the past few weeks, Liverpool fans are fused about Brendan Rodgers and FSG. They are starting to panic and angry about Brendan who had get rid of few players like Kuyt, Aquilani, Maxi, and possibly Agger, Carroll and Bellamy. while on the other side, Liverpool only have signed one player, Fabio Borini, an unproven young striker. His act became unpopular to the eye of few Liverpool fans, they even labeled him as "mediocre manager" and said that FSG is about "Money" and no different with their previous owner. Does it really work that way?
FSG came to save Liverpool from H&G with 300 million, they even paid all the Liverpool debt. Their vision is to bring stability to Liverpool for long term. "The Liverpool way" is the way that they want to do it. There is no doubt that if they want, Liverpool can go with Chelsea and City way, to bring as many world class player as they can with ridiculous fees and wages; at the end it will only bring chaos, for short term you can see that Chelsea and City are successful, but it is not for long (huge debt, expenses,etc), something instant will never came good, it just like a time bomb which we don't know when but it will explode.
I just want people to try to look at the bigger picture and try to look at it at different perspective. the reason why they offload Kuyt, Aquilani, and Maxi is their wages, the trio is not the regular first XI of Brendan and for them to get those wages despite their role to the team, it is better to sold them, not to mention that their age is almost at the peak(old), those are the reason also why Liverpool try to sold Bellamy back to his hometown,Cardiff. The recent rumors about Agger might be for different reason, if City/Barca/PSG offer huge amount of fee to offshore Agger, why wouldn't Liverpool accept it? his position is Ball Playing Central Defender, in which is not irreplaceable; we still have Coates, Coady, Sama, Wisdom, and even Wilson to fill the gap, it can even become a chance for them to prove their worth of the team. and again Liverpool will get benefit as Agger is injury prone, and also if they became "too dependent" with the injury player, what happen if Agger is injured again? the other doesn't have a capability to replace him because of their lack of chance to prove themselves in the first team. for me Agger selling is 50-50. There is nothing wrong if Liverpool try to keep or sell him.
Lastly is the lack of signing. it is better to keep in mind that Liverpool is not Champions Leauge club. it is difficult for them to attract star player. the only thing that they could do is to look at more promising talent rather than buying a star player, in fact Liverpool never buy star player, they buy decent player and make them a star, that is the Liverpool Way. Example: Who was Alonso, Garcia, Torres, Mascherano, Skrtel, Agger, Johnson, and even Suarez before Liverpool bought them? They are ALL still consider as Good or OK player, the labeled of "WORLD CLASS" or "STAR" player came after they play for Liverpool. It is just a matter of time before we could see another signing or selling by Brendan Rodgers, the man knows what he is doing, he loves and knows football as well as everything about Liverpool Football Club. We should put trust to him, for me he is a BRAVE man, he is dare to become unpopular with his decision to help Liverpool competitive again.
"You have to have the sense a past, the sense of present, and the sense of future; and whatever it takes to make Liverpool successful, then my life is devoted" Brendan Rodgers
At the end of the storm there is a golden sky. YNWA Brendan Rodgers!!!!
