Pogue Mahone
Swiftie Fan Club President
A lot of chat in the Klopp thread (and by assorted pundits) about Liverpool's recent form being a reversion to the norm. They spend top 5-7 money to build a top 5-7 squad, full of top 5-7 players and that's where they'll finish. Between 5th and 7th place.
Someone who recently bucked this trend, spectacularly, was Brendan Rodgers. It's easy to dismiss but they were really really good in that season where they finished second. 101 goals scored, sensational attacking football and absolutely eviscerating some of the biggest clubs in the league. Since Klopp took over I've often thought that their best moments were as much about recreating the swarming, overwhelming attacking football they delivered under Rodgers as it is about anything new that Klopp has introduced.
Rodgers was sacked relatively hastily IMO. Especially considering the massive challenge he was lumbered with in finding a way to compensate for the loss of a megastar like Suarez. My personal opinion is that Henderson and Coutinho are their best players, both signed by the previous boss.
Since he left the Premier League he's been doing a hell of a good job at Celtic. Signing exciting young talents and making them more dominant than they have been in a long long time (even allowing for Rangers' collapse) They also acquitted themselves well against one of the PL's strongest teams, (City) at a time when they were in excellent form and they're very much playing his trade-mark style of football in doing so.
So yeah, can he feel a bit hard done by? Is he someone that top clubs should be looking at?
Someone who recently bucked this trend, spectacularly, was Brendan Rodgers. It's easy to dismiss but they were really really good in that season where they finished second. 101 goals scored, sensational attacking football and absolutely eviscerating some of the biggest clubs in the league. Since Klopp took over I've often thought that their best moments were as much about recreating the swarming, overwhelming attacking football they delivered under Rodgers as it is about anything new that Klopp has introduced.
Rodgers was sacked relatively hastily IMO. Especially considering the massive challenge he was lumbered with in finding a way to compensate for the loss of a megastar like Suarez. My personal opinion is that Henderson and Coutinho are their best players, both signed by the previous boss.
Since he left the Premier League he's been doing a hell of a good job at Celtic. Signing exciting young talents and making them more dominant than they have been in a long long time (even allowing for Rangers' collapse) They also acquitted themselves well against one of the PL's strongest teams, (City) at a time when they were in excellent form and they're very much playing his trade-mark style of football in doing so.
So yeah, can he feel a bit hard done by? Is he someone that top clubs should be looking at?