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Rodgers the overhyped manager

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Weve spent 21m net.

Nowhere near enough to compete with the teams we want to catch.
City added 100m of talent to their ranks.
Chelsea the champions bring in Pedro
United spend a quarter of a billion in 2 seasons.

We spend 21m net.

Im not even whelmed.

Rodgers cannot point towards a lack of investment from the owners. I'm not going into net/gross argument, but he's had some very large fees in which to build a squad from and a lot of it has been wasted. I did expect a higher net spend given the new TV money, but the stadium costs must be swallowing up some of it. We seem to have missed out on top tier players because we've been unable to convince them to come and play for us rather than being knocked back by the club.
 
The day that the club's league position is directly proportional to the players' wages is the day I will give up following football.
 
Of course its related, it makes it harder, but its not the be all and end all. It just means when we do get the break and things come together, we have to grasp it, because if we fail, history tells us it might be a few years wait before we have the same opportunity again. We have to be more consistent, clever and ruthless. We can't use money as an excuse when we've spent significant amounts so poorly.

As a club from top to bottom we need to get our act together and at least gradually improve, its no go good being a constant yo-yo of a team, consistency needs to be instilled in every repect and it needs to translate to the pitch. At the minute there are too many aspects that are pulling in different directions, we've seen fractions at staff level, long distance owners and a perceived split in the squad. Hopefully the changes in the Summer are an attempt to remedy our ills, only time will tell whether it was a conscious longterm decision or another typical quick, expensive fix.
 
Part of the problem, surely, is that we are trying to bed in a significant number of new players across the team for the second season in a row.

Then only surprise is that people are surprised that we're looking disjointed.

It's up to Rodgers to pull it all together, but varying tactics and lineups would not seem like the best way to get results quickly at this stage.

Clearly, a poor result against Utd and Rodgers will be under an extreme amount of pressure but I can't see the trigger being pulled this early given the decision in the summer was to back him.
 
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