Sunday 23 November 2014

A Quick Letter to John W. Henry

Dear John,

Liverpool have lost again, this time to bottom of the table Queens Park Rangers. I hate to say that I'm glad but I hope it might hasten Brendan Rodger's departure from the club.

As you might know, I've never liked Rodgers. I never wanted you to appoint him. Not because he didn't play great football last year but simply because I don't like the man. I don't like his teeth, his tan, his way with words. I don't like the way he treats his players, isolating those that fall out his favour. I don't like the way he left his wife for a slimmer life with a flash car and flasher girlfriend, paid for with the generous salary you gave a man who simply impressed you with a powerpoint presentation.

I don't like his ego, the fact that he doesn't seem to recognise his mistakes. Any Liverpool fan could tell you where our mistakes lie. Balotelli oozes class but is clearly ineffective playing as a lone striker. Our midfield is weak with Gerrard, sadly, showing his age yet, I suspect, having far too much power in the changing room. Yet your man keeps substituting younger players with plenty of energy. Our defence is leaking goals but he refuses to bring in a specialist defending coach.

Not that I should care. We ditched Sky months ago and I know friends who have this week ditched Sky as well. It's partly a money thing but it's also because we've lost faith in Liverpool. I don't want to watch Brendan Rodgers, who doesn't represent the things I've always cherished about Liverpool. I'd rather watch us lose with a manager I trust than win with a man like Rodgers in charge. Perverse, I know, but the truth.

Yet, above my complaints, I still trust the owners. You're doing a fantastic job at the club and I trust you to make the right decisions. I also hope you'll recognise when you've made a wrong decision.

Get rid of Rodgers. Bring Rafa back. Give the man the chance under owners that won't stand in his way. And if that means getting rid of people at the club who were hostile to Rafa, then get rid of them as well. It might have been another bad week for Liverpool  but this is your chance to put things right.

 

11 comments:

  1. Rodgers does not learn from his mistake

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  2. pls rogers leave lfc alone 4 we are tired of no plan tactics

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  3. Please sack rodgers his way of thinking is for smaller teams like swansea i think il do a better job at coaching than him.please employ me il do it for free

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  4. Dear Mr John,

    Will all respect we have for you as liverpool fan , please help the clup to come up again .One thing that need to be done is to bring Rafa back to liverpool .Rogers have an ego that himself knows. He dont accept critics and giving him so much of money he did not know how to spend wisely .Please do it for the club

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  5. I think RB is short of ideas at the moment. How could you explain RB spent £17m on below average instead of buying four quality players.

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  6. No excuses from Rodgers tactics zero no passion in the team transfer dealings laughable,he criticized spurs for buying second rate players,but he has spent £117000000pounds on exactly the same,1 man doesn't make a team,scouting system needs a complete overhaul ,hate to say it but everton's scouting system makes ours so second rate.season ticket holder.

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  7. I think the answer is that he lacks substance as both a man and a manager. He's been over promoted because he gives a good presentation but that, sadly, is often true in this day and age. We need a manager with brains and less media guile. I say we need Rafa. He was flawed but no man is without flaws. His flaws, however, were good flaws like loyalty to the cpub and not to our then greedy owners.

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  8. 100% right so why can't people see this? Look at how things improved under Rafa, including the improvement of our academy. He had a real plan and not this bullshit glitzy stuff that the London media love so much.

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  9. RB must give way as a matter of urgency else lfc will be relegation bounce comes May 2015.

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  10. Sadly I think you're right. I see nothing there to give me hope.new need a new manager now so they can begin the work to identify players to solve our immediate problems in January.

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  11. Sorry Roger i think u need to start again from the beginning as a learning cough u cannot manage a big club like liverpool because u did not have that experiences bye bye Roger I dont want to see you again

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