Taken from news now most popular, from Liverpool-Kop website.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has endured a difficult first season at Anfield so far, and with the club currently 12 points adrift in the race for 4th place in the Premier League, the chances of making the Champions League places seem increasingly slim. Rodgers' Anfield project is, of course, a long-term endeavour, but for the first time, it seems like his job may actually be under threat.
According to a report in French newspaper Le Parisien, FSG secretly sounded-out another manager to replace Rodgers next summer. The report states:
"According to our information, Carlo Ancelotti was approached in November and December by three Premier League clubs including Manchester City and Liverpool"
If it's true that FSG secretly approached Ancelotti a mere five months into Rodgers' reign, then it's pretty disgraceful behaviour, and echoes the Jurgen Klinnsman-Rafa Benitez debacle under Hicks and Gillett.
If FSG did send a representative to talk with Ancelotti, it's highly likely it would've been Ian Ayre. Geographically, he's the closest member of the Anfield hierarchy, and I doubt Henry or Werner would fly all the way to France from the US for a speculative meeting.
Even if it wasn't Ayre, I can't see how he wouldn't know about something like that, which means - if the story is true - that the Liverpool's MD has basically been lying to Rodgers' face for the last three months. When asked in a press conference over the weekend about rumours linking him with a move away in the summer, Ancelotti responded:
"We will see how things stand at the end of the season and, if the club is happy, and me too, we will continue. Otherwise, there’s no other choice. It’s one or the other. I’m very happy here, but if the club is not happy, I will have no problem changing."
Clearly, the Italian is willing to move on, and if Rodgers continues to preside over poor results, his position could become increasingly untenable.
Ancelotti has always had good things to say about Liverpool. Most recently, when asked by CNN World Sport who he believed are the world's best fans, he said:
"In my opinion Liverpool fans. When they sing a song your hair stands up"
Rodgers revolution on the rocks?
posted on 14/2/13
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posted on 14/2/13
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In his roundabout way telling us the FSG might be considering another flip flop.
posted on 14/2/13
I'm just waiting until I get into work to copy and paste but from my average French what I could gather from the real article is that they were questioning him on the possibility of Wenger replacing him and he was quoted. They then write a sentence saying City and Liverpool have been in contact.
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posted on 14/2/13
Its a classic case of shoot thr messenger, I suggest people start using news now, it aggregates every single piece of global news on a specific subject, maybe then I wouldnt have been first on this forum to raise it.
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posted on 14/2/13
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I'm with you on that, FSG's policy is actually making a bit of sense. It's a clear policy of using a manager who brings young players through and building a team for the future, to change now would be a catastrophic mistake IMO.
Heck, it's a story built on very little, but I wouldn't put it past our owners to do it.
posted on 14/2/13
In other news crazy story about Oscar Pastorious
posted on 14/2/13
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21455453
posted on 14/2/13
Asked by the newspaper "the Team" on the rumor of the arrival of Jose Mourinho or Arsene Wenger at PSG next summer, Carlo Ancelotti was not stolen. "If the club is not happy, I will have no problem to change," he said. Even in French, a language that has not yet mastered all the nuances, Ancelotti never say things by accident.
Manchester City and Liverpool also interested
This is a sentence to take the first degree. Indeed, Carlo Ancelotti will have no problem to change the month of June. He knows he is desired and requested by several very large European clubs. According to our information, Ancelotti has been approached in November and December by three Premier League clubs including Manchester City and Liverpool. While his team through a crisis of results, the Italian was also solicited directly by Florentino Perez, president of Real Madrid. Which he then recalled his admiration (Ancelotti had failed to sign Real in 2009) and his desire to propose the sidelines of the White House to succeed José Mourinho. While the departure of the Portuguese says a little more each week, Carlo Ancelotti is therefore included on the short list of potential successors.
Yesterday in a press conference, a Spanish journalist asked him about the team who seemed most capable of winning the Champions League. "Barca or Real? "Has he been asked innocently. "Very difficult to say. Real Madrid is not leading the championship and this may be for them a source of motivation to go far in the Champions League, "said Carletto as if he had already chosen his camp.
This is all the paper says. That's all.
*Translated by Google Translate.
Link
http://www.leparisien.fr/psg-foot-paris-saint-germain/le-real-madrid-a-contacte-ancelotti-12-02-2013-2561003.php
posted on 14/2/13
He wont be replaced, he cut down the squad and has replaced them with low cost alternatives.