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Got a bit lucky with the VAR goal at the end as well after bringing Wes on. They'd have gone on to win from there.

He came out with similar towards the end of his time at Liverpool. Basically said if you sack me (they were in mid table and struggling) nobody else would do better. When things start going wrong he throws everyone under the bus.

I think he's mentally checked out like he did at Liverpool and his last year at Celtic when he was plotting his exit. Maybe he took his eye off the ball when the United links came about. He's probably waiting for his pay off at this point but his next job won't be in Manchester or North London if he's sacked by Leicester.

Teams reflect the manager though, especially after 3 years. Funny how the soft bellied Liverpool team he left soon developed a spine under Klopp. Rodgers has a weak mentality.

It's whether he can turn it around or not. At Liverpool he really lost the plot in his last year or so in charge, even though the owners gave him every chance to turn it around. At Celtic when things started to go wrong he was earmarking his exit strategy and came here. Was his eye off the ball when he was linked with the United job recently? But let's face it our league form in the first half of this season is how it was in the second half of the previous two seasons. Therefore, maybe with players coming back we can mirror those seasons in reverse. He's a feast or famine manager. The concern with Rodgers is he's had his peak here. A lot of managers these days seem to do well in 2-3 year cycles rather than 5-7. Rodgers is someone who has personality flaws (like Mourinho).

Rodgers needs to get his head back in the game if he wants one of these so called big jobs. United seem to be edging towards Pochettino. If Rodgers wants to be in the frame when the City job comes up he needs more good seasons here. A sacking here this season and where does he go from there? His next job is more likely to be a Leeds or an Everton.

He's always struggled to turn around a slump in his career. He was best in his first season or two at Celtic because they never even had a slump as they won every week domestically.

Rodgers is a feast or famine kind of manager. Things are either going really well or really badly (often both in the same season). Did a really good job in his two full seasons at Leicester but somehow managed to throw away a top 4 finish in both seasons that had been virtually assured (as he did the title at Liverpool). Did very well to get in the position but ultimately threw it away. Gerrard slipped on the halfway line, so why should that lead to a free run on goal at 0-0, in a game they only needed to draw? At Celtic he blew away the competition in his first two seasons but Rangers were no challengers at the time and miles behind having only just got back in the top flight. It was starting to unravel in his 3rd season before he was ready to walk out and took this job.

Klopp has managed long term at the clubs he's been at. Rodgers has usually struggled after a couple of seasons and not been able to turn it around. A bit like Mourinho.

But if he continues to struggle here this season then he's less attractive for United to employ, especially as the fans don't want him anyway. He could find himself out of a job soon and if he doesn't get the United one then where next for him?

We may have seen it through for top 4 (which was a total capitulation) but it was already going down hill before Covid. The season never recovered from the Liverpool hammering on Boxing Day.

It's enough to stop a Spurs or Arsenal coming in for him and realistically paying that on top of the significant salary increase Brendan would expect to turn his head. It'd take one of the big money clubs (City or Chelsea, maybe now Newcastle).

O'Neill flirted with the Leeds job for a bit but was a big lift when he stayed.

It's disenchanting to see a club like Everton, who haven't won anything for 22 years, fly ahead of us on and off the pitch after we won the title and made CL quarters last year. Plus the money they got for Lukaku and what we're likely to get for Mahrez who won player of the year in 15/16. Sandro would have been a much smarter buy than Slimani. We should have got Michael Keane last year. Now they're even coming in for Gray.