KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum £5m for Rodgers

Thats the compensation we paid to Swansea according to their recent accounts.

Two questions:

Was he worth it?

Given Rafa was available for free, is he £5m a better manager than Benitez?

I really dislike this question, and I dislike where I know it's gonna go.

Rafa isn't the manager, Brendan Rodgers is. End of story, there's not a lot to discuss because everything is hypothetical. I'm a Rafa fan but his last season was a disaster. There were a lot of issues going on within the club that you could point the finger at for that, but there's nothing to say if he had've taken over this season, it wouldn't have carried on in the same poor manner.

This comes back yet again to the mindset of the grass always being greener on the other side. Brendan Rodgers is only 7 league games into his job. Not 70. SEVEN! Rafa had 3 defeats in his opening 7 league games, and the opposition wasn't as tough as the start we've had.

Brendan Rodgers comes to our club with a new footballing philosophy. Some of the players, particularly at the back, are not instantly taking to it. It'll take time. I said before that it'll take at least 17 league games to get a bit of a picture of how we're progressing. Realistically we need to be in the top 8 by the start of the new year. I'll make my own judgement of Rodgers at the end of the season.

how about we judge that after 5 seasons like what benitez got?

after letting carroll go he's been dealt a tough hand. also brought more youth through than what we've seen in the past 5 years.

he's been in charge for 7 premiership matches and people are already spouting this stuff, i find it unfair and very harsh tbh

Completely agree with Bar and want3d on this.

Rafa was in charge for 5 years and Brendan Rogers has had 5 minutes, it's highly unfair to judge him at this point.

Ask me again when his tenure is over.

Again you regurgitate the same old [oops]. Give Rodgers a chance FFS! He's the manager now not Rafa. Just stop banging the same old drum and support the man!

would you rather we went and got our 2nd,3rd or 4th choice manager coz our 1st choice was too expensive? i rather pay the 5m and get their main man. lets face it 5m in football is northing unless you wana buy dempsey

ridiculous and blinkered view sad so sad , plus didnt mr benitez get a massive payout from LFC ????

I thought Benitez wanted to manage a big club? ....did Hodgson get a porsche BTW?

He did and another from Milan 6 months later.