If you're gonna slag off the 2nd half of Kenny's 2nd time in charge I hope you're gonna include Brendan's first half of his first season which was just as f**king dire!!
Behave after what we've just spunked in the summer, I can't see us buying another striking option in the january window.
Rodgers inherited a team in dire straits, and had to be given time to implement his philosophy. It would take a magician to instantly change the fortunes of the team.
Yes, the philosophy is - very broadly - similar to Kenny's by playing football on the ground, but that's the only thing that's similar. Everything else had to take time. The argument that 'oh Dalglish played the same style as Rodgers, so the 'Rodgers philosophy' is non-existant' is futile.
Rodgers had ideas of high pressing and playing out from back, and in addition to rejecting the idea of wide play and crossing the ball, he also wanted his players to cut inside from one another. These are ideas that Dalglish didn't implement, and although the idea of quick interplay between players was an idea from Dalglish too, it too often failed as players more often than not had their backs to goal and passed backwards (I think Downing had an appalling stat where 90% or something of his passing was backwards). Rodgers style emphasised players to make more forward runs - it got a bit too static and predictable during the second half of Kenny's reign. Sadly, a lot of the blame had to be on the likes of new players at the time like Downing and co who made the team worse - the likes of Meireles and Rodriguez were far far superior than, say, Downing and Adam.
If the money was spent wiser, Kenny would probably have stayed. But the team was stuck in a rut and the coaching staff didn't know what to do. That rut continued into Rodgers first half of the season.
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