curious to see what everyone expects of rodgers in his first 3 seasons? what do you think he can realistically achieve?
there are varying views of who we need to clear out and who we need to bring in and how much money we have. veryone knows (cos it's obvious) that he has the following things to address:
-move the correct players on
-get the right players in
-give younger players (sterling etc) a chance
-it's all well and good to say carroll, hendo, adam, downing haven't been good enough 'let's get rid of them' but we would make losses on all of them now so it may not be realistic that this happens immediately.
it's clear that rodgers teams play good football. given that he hasn't signed a contract at the time of writing this - he has 7 weeks from the end of the euros to the start of the league.
i'd be happy enough with the following over the next 3 seasons:
Season 1) finish in the top 6, with a promising team and having blooded young players
Season 2) if not 4th, then pushing for 4th at season close
Season 3) top 4 minimum.
what say you?
Season 1) 6th place should be his target
Season 2) Challenging for 4th
Season 3) Challenging for 4th
It's all well and good people 'expecting' us to be firmly in the top4 within a few years but if the other top 5 or 6 teams are outspending us then there isn't a lot we can do about it. For us to finish 4th we need to do better than 3 of the 4 teams that finished above us last season. I'd be stunned if we don't finish above Everton and with the right investment we should be able to jump above newcastle. But to overtake the likes of chelsea, spurs and arsenal will take an awful lot of work and investment.
