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My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

Brendan Rodgers

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Brendan Rodgers
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 26
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Football Manager
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They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.
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When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.
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If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.
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I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.
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Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
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Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore
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That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important
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I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.
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I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.
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Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.
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A player's character is a crucial factor I look into before committing to signing them. They also need to show a willingness to learn, regardless of age and experience that's very important to me.
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