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christmasborocooper wrote:Wasn't that always the excuse when Rafa was in charge? He didn't make the bad signings? But Hodgson did.. Now Rodgers doesn't either. Weird club. Manager should grow some balls and demand final say
Nope. Rafa made plenty of bad signings: Josemi, Voronin, Aquilani, Keane to name a few. He made a lot of mistakes - falling out with Alonso was clearly an error which led to him leaving. However Rafa signed Alonso in the first place, he signed Torres, Garcia, Mascherano, Arbeloa, Agger, Reina, etc as well.
Hodgson was a disaster that goes beyond just his transfers. He was a negative poison that spread quickly from his 'tactics' to his press conferences to his general lack of care for anything but his image. He was a yes man that Hicks and Gillett could easily control.
Rodgers has been here three years and the only transfers we've made in that time that have been successful are Coutinho and Sturridge. There's a case for Sakho, Can and Lallana but all three haven't been consistent enough yet.
Rodgers is to blame for some of the transfers, that's obvious. Lovren and Markovic are the two that have been the worst for the money paid. However signings like Lambert are never a risk - they're meant to be a third/fourth choice striker at an ambitious club.
Rodgers isn't to blame for the lack of balls our club showed over Suarez. 50 million is an insult and we should have at very least demanded that Sanchez was part of that deal. No Sanchez, no Suarez, it's very simple. Suarez was contracted to us.
Rodgers also isn't to blame for Sturridge getting injured for pretty much all season or for Sterling deciding to act like a spoilt little baby from March onwards.
However Rodgers hasn't sorted out the mess of a defence and it's been three seasons. That's not good enough.
Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work like you put it. The manager can't 'demand' to have the final say or his job is over. That's why Rafa was chucked away by the two American twats at the time for Hodgson. There is a transfer committee at Liverpool IMO - Rodgers has some say but sometimes he doesn't. Balotelli is a prime example - he was forced upon us because we didn't expect to lose Suarez until the season after. We had no Plan B and Balotelli was drafted in.
It just seems strange to me that Rodgers is a large advocate of attractive, one touch, quick tempo football yet we're liked to Benteke and Ings? I'm not suggesting those two are bad players. They're just no way near the quality we need to challenge for trophies or the top 4. I think it's a case of Rodgers being told that's the best we're going to get. The owners don't know the first thing about football and Ian Ayre pretty much runs everything else at the club.
It's time to either back Rodgers fully and send our scouts abroad to look for gems or sack him for a bigger name like Ancelotti or Klopp if we want to attract quality players because we clearly aren't looking for quality players right now.
Benteke, ings and Clyne will secure us 5th or 6th but nothing higher.
He's also never been able to keep a club in midtable, it always goes to shit for him after a year. 
Mourinho would not let an opportunity go by to show the Dutchie up, to embarrass him, to humiliate him, to utterly ridicule him next season.
