Balotelli Appreciation Thread

[Rsonist]

To be honest he's letting down everyone and everything from the ghost of Shankly to the ferry that crosses the Mersey

[The Infamous]

Only thing thats started is the Liverpool fans/pundits turning on him quicker than milk in 100 degree weather.

Its a joke lol

Fuck them former Liverpool players. Im talking about Phil Thompson mainly

Prick

[Thizz]

Brendan Rodgers on Balotelli: “He is working hard to try to fit into the team ethos here but only time will tell… We will see come January"

[Kuffir]

rodgers is wack for this unprecedented media forced bitch made move tbhhh

 

did he fine sakho for swappin shirts with eto that time, i kno wenger didnt fine santos cause he aint built like that

 

true say man got the sack shortly after, how long till balotelli goes on loan

 

just kiddin..abit

[Kuffir]

Brendan Rodgers on Balotelli: “He is working hard to try to fit into the team ethos here but only time will tell… We will see come January"

 

lol sn mans lining it up already

[The Infamous]

LOL niggas need to cut Rodgers slack like he aint 35 years younger than Wenger and Jose's JR just a mere 5 years ago

[Kuffir]

seems like a rookie error to me

 

wenger wudnt do it cause he's too soft and mourinho wudnt do it cause he's too smart

 

poor man management in this case

[Heero Yuy]

Brendan Rodgers on Balotelli: “He is working hard to try to fit into the team ethos here but only time will tell… We will see come January"

 

A manager should not be saying things like this to the media.

[ONELOVE]

You man are picking apart everything brendan says in negative way salty cunts...lol

 

He needs goals SIMPLE....Iam confident he'll start scoring soon.

[Zizouz]

^ he's got no other way out of this

 

against Everton he looked a different player, don't think I've seen a more alert Balo in a long time

 

during a sequence of events in which he tracked back, won the ball and won the freekick which ended up being the goal, the commo decided to describe it as him probably fouling the Everton player to get the ball and then taking a dive to win the freekick

[Drift]

Secretly rodgers is a dead manager.

[The Infamous]

pmsl

This forum is toxic atm.

[Yeshua]

Secretly rodgers is a dead manager.

 

What a post.

[Yeshua]

seems like a rookie error to me

 

wenger wudnt do it cause he's too soft and mourinho wudnt do it cause he's too smart

 

poor man management in this case

 

Morinho disses his players in the media all the time.

 

The only part you got right is Wenger wouldn't do it because he is too soft.

[Flojo]

 

Brendan Rodgers on Balotelli: “He is working hard to try to fit into the team ethos here but only time will tell… We will see come January"

 

A manager should not be saying things like this to the media.

 

 

He's having a shocker as far as managing Balotelli's media coverage is concerned.

 

I know that he's probably just setting a public challenge to Balotelli as he has with other players but he should have recognised Ballo's not ordinary as far as column inches in the tabloids go, any and anything will be used to create a sense of hysteria around his name.

 

On the shirt swapping 'incident' him saying "I'll deal with it" and "It's not something I agree with" was enough for all hell to break loose as if Sakho and Coutinho didn't do the exact same thing against Chelsea last year.

 

He's going to have to learn very quickly that what he says about Ballo will be interpreted in an entirely different fashion in comparison to how the same words would be interpreted about another player.

[O Fenomeno]

Rodgers=Modern day Kevin Keegan

[The Infamous]

ffs thats ridiculous

KK was VERY average apart from one season in the 90's

[O Fenomeno]

Same as Rodgers

Both have thrown away leagues

Both have their teams attacking and not caring about defence.

Mignolet see Srnicek

[The Infamous]

Nah like Ice or someone said in some thread

BR first season tried to play possession football which had served him so well at Swansea with Sahin,Downing,Shelvey,Henderson etc

(you get my point)

We finished low in the league and played shit

Then second season he switched it around to a transitions,break between the lines team and we saw the fruits of that labour with our finish last season

Now he has lost Suarez and Sturridge is out for another month

man tried to play like barca scrapped it when he clocked we had a bunch of shit playing for us

then switched it to the dortmund team plate with the signings of Sturridge and Coutinho

Neither barca or dortmund have great defences they just don't do the shit skrtel and lovren do every week

[TF S4DK]

Wenger wouldn't do it cos he'd remember he's an assest and he his player atm and clearly he's playing as they have nobody better.

 

He'd fight the press for Balotelli's case, like he does for Ozil and so many others.

[Thizz]

Mourinho would praise him with one hand and criticize with the other.

 

Something he's done quite regularly.

[Kompressor]

I just don't think Rodgers was all that keen on Balotelli,

I.e ok I'll have him if we can't sign anyone else. I won't lose any kudos if I can't get through to him but if I can I'll do my reputation wonders.

If it doesn't go to plan we'll sell him on at a decent enough price, and get Origi in for next season,

Opinion isn't based on anything said or inside information, just that when lining up Ballotelli's strengths weaknesses etc they don't match with qualities Rodgers demands/asks of his players,

[Yeshua]

Rodgers=Modern day Kevin Keegan

 

Stop it.

 

Keegan is nowhere as tactically astute as Rodgers, its a silly comparison.

 

People forget Rodgers was making Swansea the best ballers in the league, with a Championship budget. He tried the same brand of possession football with us, realizing that a counter attacking system with high pressure would suit us better and took us from 7th to 2nd in the league.

 

Also forget the way he tactically outwitted nearly every big team in the league last season.

 

Cruyff has already praised him and Martinez for being the two along with Koeman to follow his philosophy, Keegan talk is way off the mark.