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Rarely has a manager ever been so willing to cultivate an ethereal messiah-like status as Brendan Rodgers.

Klopp - he is not, Mourinho - he ain't, but the Liverpool manager has placed himself somewhere along the spectrum between back page rent-a-quote and football philosopher.

It's something that's beginning to get him into a little bit of hot water.

Here are some infamous quotes he's probably trying to forget about this week...

1) "Look at Tottenham. If you spend £100m, you expect to be challenging for the league."

2) "Judge me after three years" - (in 2012)

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

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Jurgen Klopp: "I learned everything, everything that I am as a coach, [from] Arrigo Sacchi"

No prizes for guessing which manager Liverpool fans are calling to have in place this morning.

4) "I always say a squad is like a good meal - I'm not a great cook, but a good meal takes a wee bit of time."

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5) "I've always worked along the statistic that if you can dominate the game with the ball you have a 79 per cent chance of winning."

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(Possession: Stoke - 45%; Liverpool - 55%. Score: 6-1)

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6) “I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, he’ll try and get his way through it some way, but the young player will fight for you.”

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7) "When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them."

Liverpool 0-0 Hull – (66% possession for Liverpool)

Newcastle 1-0 Liverpool – (65% possession for Liverpool)

Liverpool 0-1 Aston Villa – (75% possession for Liverpool)

8) “We play with 11 men, other teams play with 10 men and a goalkeeper.”

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9) "We won't do a Tottenham"

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