Rodgers acquired a team that finished 8th in the league the season before and he has finished above that every year, how is that not progress?
Rodgers is early 40s so he hasn't had time to develop his reputation like the others. Its been FSG's policy not to buy high profile players and instead buy unproven ones with potential. Nothing to do with Rodgers.
You talk about players needing time to settle, yet aren't using the arguement that Kenny needed time for his new players to settle, players who just so happened to come good - Henderson, Suarez....Kenny reached 2 cup finals the season before Rodgers came in, winning 1 of them which enabled them to qualify for Europe. Kenny also lost Gerrard and Lucas for half a season, Suarez served a lengthy ban after Evra gate and there were a number of games which could have gone either way, we also had a record number of shots which hit the woodwork that season.
Clarke and Kenny have gone on record several times stating that they had big plans for the following season which unfortunately had to be scrapped and they said with the team they had, top 4 would have been very likely. Kenny had already agreed to sign Diame on a free, the club were already in talks with Sturridge (Rodgers cancelled talks when he arrived), Rasmus Elm had agreed an 8m move, FSG wanted Dempsey (Rodgers cancelled plans) Kenny had made a 16m offer for Gaston Ramirez.
Rodgers took over, scrapped all plans, signed Joe Allen and Borini for 25 million, told the world we were signing a very exciting player and it turned out to be Assaidi and after our worst start in over a century we finished 7th and were knocked out of cups early doors, was that progress?
Suarez finished 2nd the following season and now without him we finished 6th. So in total after Rodgers has spent over 200 million, we've won no trophies and gone up 2 places in the league in 3 years. Some progress that is, perhaps in another 3 years and another 200 million we might be 4th.
