I know you're trolling but it's thoroughly deserved. They've gone from almost Champions in 2013/14 to utter ****e in less than 18 months, despite the manager being given hundreds of millions to spend. Sure, any team would suffer from losing a world class player like Suarez but it was Rogers who replaced him with Balotelli and Lambert.
I can't think of a signing he's made who would go down as an unqualified success, and he spends vast sums of money on players who don't seem to fit into his preferred systems.
Coutinho? Sturridge? His handling of Sterling?
He's a good developer of talent. The transfers are hard to gauge since we have a transfer committee and no one knows who wanted who. But it's clear he did not want Balotelli, and that the club basically gave him a 'him or nothing' option. You can tell that by how he dismissed Balotelli when he was asked before we signed him and via Gerrard's book.
In reality he only had a bad season at Liverpool. In his 1st season we had such a bad previous 3 seasons we just wanted to play well and then hopefully challenge for the top 4 later. He improved our style of play greatly and in the 2nd half of the season, once we had Coutinho and Sturridge, we were basically top 4 form till the end. 2nd season was the best season we've had in the EPL under any manager. His 3rd was the disappointment but even then it was mitigated by losing such a big player like Suarez and Sturridge being effectively out for the season. If they had wanted to get rid of him they should have done it in the summer. Giving him that transfer window and firing him 8 games in is a bit stupid IMO.
That said there was legitimate criticism. Bar a 3-4 month spell he's never had the defence working well right. Yes, there have been a hell of a lot of individual mistakes (see Can's clearance today) but after 3+ seasons there's something in it that we can't defend for ****. Also, IMO, he changed the formation and tactics far too often. It got the players smarter in an attacking sense but our shape has never been 'solid' and it's been far too fluid - which has probably contributed to the defensive problems.
I think the real reason he's been fired, besides less than ideal results, is that the team's confidence looked shaken. It was probably obvious that the hierarchy weren't backing Rodgers with any real strength for him to feel confident in his job and that just seemed to transfer to the players. I think he'll be one of the better British managers but the Liverpool job came a bit too early for him.
He leaves Liverpool with a ~52% win record; which is the best in the EPL era besides Benitez.
