Rodgers has lost most of the fans, and seemingly the player; where has it all gone wrong?
I am so glad this season is over.
How did we manage to fall this far? It became fairly obvious early on this season that Liverpool had overachieved when we finished second in 2013, but this campaign has seen the worst case scenario become a reality. This has easily been the most depressing time to be a Liverpool fan since 2010.
There are a ton of questions to ask about the future of the club: where do we go from here? What players do we need to sign? What players can we sign that the top 4 and Spurs won’t try and snatch away from us first? How should we set up next year? Which of our players will still be at the club next season? Which ones will move? Will Brendan Rodgers still have a job?
But most frustratingly, there are still a bunch of questions about the season just gone that need asking. For starters, how did we manage to lose confidence so quickly at two separate points in the season? We were flying high after the win over Spurs, but two horror results against Villa and West Ham in September and we were irredeemable. Players didn’t seem to know how to play Rodgers’ 4-2-3-1 formation and therefore play looked slow and laborious. After a couple of bad results, things started to snowball.
Rodgers did turn things around for a few months with a change in system, but once the 3-4-2-1 got found out we went back to 4-2-3-1 again and looked exactly the same as we did in September. Players would bottle big games rather than have the strength to see them through under pressure; the Man United and Arsenal games are clear proof of that. But perhaps that’s the risk you take with a young squad; no one yet has the required experience to step up and lead, to pull us through games the way that Gerrard used to.
Liverpool failed against the top sides and lost too often to poor teams
It would seem that perhaps this has something to do with the club’s recruitment policy. Rather than buy ready-made world class talent, FSG would rather that we grow it ourselves. It’s worked in some cases; Sterling was hailed the best youngster in Europe roughly a year ago, Coutinho could be world class if he brings consistency to his game and Henderson has come a hell of a long way from the player he was under Dalglish. Sturridge went from promising potential star to 20-goal-a-season threat last year.
But did we buy the right youngsters last summer? Or was it too many youngsters and not enough experience? Either way, we don’t know who to blame for that predicament as no one knows who signed what player last summer; Rodgers or the transfer committee?
That question has vexed Liverpool fans for well over a year now, as it becomes harder and harder to make sense of our transfer strategy. Losing Suarez in the summer and having Sturridge then pick up a 5 month injury that renders him useless for the rest of the season is bad enough, but you need to have a contingency plan in place. With Sturridge gone, Rodgers quickly decided that he couldn’t trust any of the three back ups even though Balotelli, Lambert and Borini were all signed during his reign for a combined total of £30m.
Finally, Rodgers made a good point recently when he said that we were about par considering that we spent the 5th most amount of money in the league on players. Before the Stoke hammering when we were still 5th in the table, he’d made a fair point. But now we’ve finished 6th and will have to start our next season at the end of July due to Europa League qualification and Spurs are once again a more desirable destination
Should Rodgers be given his P45 this week?
than us to top players. If we’ve finished lower than what our expenditures suggested we should, then that has to be on Rodgers, no matter what mitigating circumstances there may have been.
It’s a lot of issues for the manager to answer and to be honest, I’m not sure he’ll be afforded the option to. Not in public anyway; I’m sure the owners will want some explanation before they decide to sack him. In a way, that’s the most damning indictment about how this season has ended.
A few months ago I thought unequivocally that sacking Rodgers would be a bad move. I’m still not sure it would be the right decision or not, but if he does go…
I wouldn’t complain.
What has happened? Still don’t get it?
It goes along the lines of, manager comes flying colours through the interview for a top job. Can talk the talk, comes with s dossier , charts, presentation , 0 experience of managing at this level. So far so good. Now, first year out of the way–a miserable one by the way. Full of tactical mistakes, wrong formations, too many to list. But, a patient set of supporters. Second year, all he had to do is fix the defence. He failed but it earned him a third year.
As a result, given 120 million pounds to spend. Thing is, HE WAS NEVER up to the job. Last season stopped him from progressing as a manager. He started believing he was the finished article.
Talk of signings ? They are his buys! The whole lot. Please refer to aspas, Llori asaidi, Allen Borrini! Before the so called commetee came along.
Truth is, we hired a rookie hoping he would progress , but , it he turned out to be a fraudster at this level. I’ve been saying it for the last 2.5 years.
Time to do one thing that he isn’t capable of. Have dignity and resign.
We need a great great manager like Ancelotti, Van Gaal etc
to inspire the players, club, fans and every one
great managers attract great players
We had Rodgers that’s why no one comes to us
only clowns
thx
Liverpool fc is doomed. Fsg has no ambition. They should have sacked Rogers 24hrs after the Stoke match if they had ambition. Next season will be worst.
Judging by our signings so far with the exception of Milner are hardly showing signs of intent to challenge for top 4 yet alone a title challenge . Man utd had a horrendous season under Moyes which is almost identical to Rodgers reign and what did they do ? They sacked him and got a world class coach followed by big name and money signings . What did they get in return ? They got back into the champs league re established them selves as a serious title challenger and a European power house that can attract big name players . If Rodgers gets sacked in December we’re back to the old ” transitional period ” which we’ve all seen and heard over the last 20 years . Yes the dreaded rebuilding period and the unfortunately the only way things will change is if we miraculously get new ( extremely wealthy ) owners with an. Ambition matched like Chelsea , Man City etc. I’m preparing myself for yet another pathetic season . Lucky for me Barcelona is my 2nd favourite team lol