by winchester_royal »
11 Dec 2019 13:30
From Despair To Where? I always understood that the root of his sacking was that he told Howe he needed x amount of Pounds in the transfer window because he didn't have the right type of players a mere 3 months after spending a small fortune on 8 players. Add to this, he failed to sign the one player he really wanted because he blabbed that it was more a less a done deal before we'd even made an offer.
It all added up to make him look a complete liability in the transfer market at a time when we had fcuk all money.
Have to remember he was a very inexperienced manager at the time who will have needed these experiences to learn from.
I think there's certainly an argument to be made that we should have shown far more patience given he was effectively tasked with changing the club's entire footballing ethos, and the available evidence from his successes since suggest that he would have been able to turn it around, however as we all know managers don't get that kind of treatment in modern football.
Obviously it's hard to say it was the
wrong choice given the success we had with McDermott immediately after - but maybe we would have had a different, more sustainable version of success if Rodgers had been given the time to build. Who knows eh? Who cares?
All we can really say with confidence now is that he is clearly a good manager, certainly not the moron some people on here tried to claim he was all that time ago, but his inexperience meant he struggled with us.