Was Rodgers right?

[blue army 1988]

8 hours ago, Bert said:

The thing with Vestergaard is that when he played for Southampton, their back lines starting point was 15 yards deeper than ours is. He simply had to defend. Head balls, clear balls. Here, he’s expected to play out from the back, which he isn’t all that good at doing and because we are that bit higher up the pitch, he’s going to get caught out with his pace on a turnover as well as more than likely being dragged out of position as on a turnover our full backs will likely be out of position. It’s the same with Denmark, they generally play a fairly low block and all he has to do is defend. 

Completely agree with this.

The part that's frustrating is couldn't Rodgers and Congleton see this themselves?

[smudgerfox]

 

37 minutes ago, blue army 1988 said:

Completely agree with this.

The part that's frustrating is couldn't Rodgers and Congleton see this themselves?

The answer to your question appears to be that recruitment under Congleton stopped being smart and scientific and became - “does Brendan rate/know this guy?.”

 

Brendan’s welcoming comments for Ryan Bennett ..
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/ryan-bennett-signing-eight-years-3807137

 

You’ll see in the article we were operating with only four centre halves - Evans, Soyuncu, Morgan - who could barely run at this stage - and Benkovic (loaned and replaced by Bennett). Bennett, like Vestergaard, never looked up to the task set him by Brendan. Benkovic was eventually paid off - another example of glaring and expensive mismanagement. 

 

The persistent failure to grasp our glaring weakness (both in numbers and in quality) at centre back came back to haunt us last season when both Evans and Fofana started the season injured and Soyuncu returned from the Euros with his confidence in tatters. I’d say a PL team that’s playing in Europe, needs six centre backs - the most we’ve had is five - and that includes Amartey and Vestergaard. 
 

Around this time Calvin Bassey was leaving our youth set up because he thought he’d get more playing opportunities elsewhere.