Jakob Breum

Didn't we score more goals under Rodgers last season than any other time?

 

Pretty much what I said 2 posts ago.He didn't play him, played Turnbull ahead of him and spoke of him having to adjust to his way of playing.

Arguably he's made him a better player as his possession stats must be far better now than 2 years ago but is much safer on the ball which is a common trend for Rodgers teams in general. Keeping possession is the priority even if it leads to the boring horseshoe of death that we are seeing more and more of over last 8 months or so

 

But you're talking about him stifling his creativity. That's not true, given as I just explained, Hatate had his best numbers for us last season. Better than his Full Season under Ange. So, it's just not true that he stifles his creativity.

His first season under Rodgers, it was quite clear that his head was turned during the transfer window. He played when fit after that happened.

 

After the Aberdeen game the other week

We’re trying to get players in, never mind getting them out! We haven’t heard anything for the likes of Reo and that. He is one of the few players in that midfield who can make those incisive passes. He’ll give the ball away at times, and that used to really frustrate me when I first started to work with him, but that is the risk he plays in his game.

“But then he produced a moment like that, which was a brilliant finish. He’s done that up here before, last year. We want to build the squad, and while there are lots of areas I’m pleased with, there are other areas we will focus on and hopefully improve.”

 

So you don't think Rodgers is obsessed with possession?
You don't think players are being told that keeping possession is the priority and not to play the riskier passes if it limits changes of keeping possession?
Do you think the players just stopped seeing those fantastic runs Kyogo made?

 

No, I don't think the players are told that keeping possession is the priority. I think players are coached to play a possession based style of play to win football games, in the same way Ange had a possession based style of play to win football games, albeit there are slight differences on how we control games.

Kyogo wanted to move. His performance levels dropped when it was clear he was trying to get out of the club. It doesn't really matter about specific players, either. The reality is we scored a record amount of goals in a season which came from other areas of the pitch. Additionally, Maeda went through the middle and we found his runs plenty of times from January onwards. So much so that we were all shouting for him to be the first choice striker moving forward. When it comes to Kyogo, was the problem the style of play or a player, who just didn't want to be here not applying himself to the same standards that he did before?

Did Rodgers style of play completely suit Kyogo? Probably not. That being said, all Rodgers asked Kyogo to do was be more involved in the build up of the game and the fact he struggled with that shows more about the player than it does the style of play. We scored 2 goals less in the league last season than Ange did in his second season, which most fans generally talk about as the fast, free-flowing football. We conceded less in the league. We performed far better in Europe. We also scored far more goals than we did in Europe under Ange.

You started this off by saying that Rodgers stifled Hatates creativity. That was just wrong, given he scored and assisted more last season than he did under Ange. So, Rodgers has made him more creative.

 

Lawell probably saying to Brendan "Why you crying for wingers? Mind that time I bought you one and you said you already had a million, and didn't need another one? Ya ungrateful wee *."

 

No I started it off by saying he didn't play Hatate when he 1st came back. He didn't.


Going in circles here and to be honest nothing your gonna say is going to change my opinion of Rodgers style of play, it's successful and aye we scored a lot of goals last year but i generally find his style of play pretty boring this match. Maybe just get this thread back onto Breum.

 

Can you * keep these threads for chat about news regarding signing the player the thread is named after please?

Each time I see these threads being bumped, I think there might be light at the end of the tunnel and it's just you idiots doing the human centipede with your head up each other's bums.