It’s funny how people are mentioning Rodgers. Rodgers is the equivalent of an attacking Mourinho. By that I mean, he will walk in and pick his 2-3 players to base his team on. And then he will rinse that out and put every effort into a system that helps his star players. By the end he will have more or less destroyed any actual development in the squad. Just like Mourinho does but in a defensive way.
Celtic is a free pass. Even Emery won at PSG. Look before that - what did Rodgers actually do at LFC? He took credit for a team that rode on the back of Suarez. He literally set the whole team up to take advantage of Suarez. If it wasn’t for him, Brendan’s little bit of glory - which was bottling the title, wouldn’t even exist. He never cared about LFC or developing the team. Just about self promotion.
When Suarez went, the star was Sterling. Again, he chose a player and based his team on him. I believe, although I may be incorrect as I do not follow them that closely, that when Suarez was the man that Sterling used to play wing back to accommodate two strikers (Sturridge another example of Brendan using a player to hype up his star). Yet when Suarez left Sterling is the main man and in the West Indies on a break over winter while the rest of the squad plays. Brendan said this was pre-agreed.
A few posts up I saw a top 5 with Klopp and Rodgers in it. I’m sorry but look at LFC. What Klopp did was transform them to be moulded into his philosophy and they have been playing consistently Klopp’s football since day 1. When he had rubbish players he played that way. Then he built season on season with a few players and they still played that way. Then they paid big for a CD and a GK and they still play that way. How is that similar to Rodgers who milked every situation to self promote himself.
Sorry but any gooner that wants Rodgers is deluded because that same gooner will be here complaining about the train wreck the squad is further down the line after he is done with it. When we are starting from a bad place we can’t really have someone that leaves squads worse off being the managerial choice.
Yep. Look at Rodgers European record and his recruitment record.
Klopp has to completely rebuild Liverpool. Lennon has to rebuild Celtic. Celtic are the City/PSG of Scotland and Rodgers was still lining up with 8/9 players in his starting 11 that were signed by previous managers because of how bad he is at recruitment.
When he recruitment caught up with him at both Liverpool and Celtic he then started to try and shift the blame onto the respective boards, and actually sabotaged certain transfers to blame the boards.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...-city-celtic-fsg-john-henry-epl-a9142616.html
Undoubtedly a good coach but there’s a reason his methods only work short term. He’s a sociopath.