It's None Of Rodgers Business How We Treat Our Ex Players Monday, 23rd Feb 2015 12:14 Liverpool manager Brendon Rodgers has been very vocal in criticising both Southampton Football Club and its supporters for their treatment of his now Ex Saints players, bluntly it's none of his business. Brendon Rodgers is not a man with a great reputation as a human being or a man, indeed amongst football fans he has a reputation of a sneaky underhand dealer who cares little about anyone else apart from Brendan Rodgers, perhaps he will become respected for his managerial career but he will never be liked. Ask the Watford Supporters Trust who said Rodgers' reputation was "severely damaged" in the eyes of the supporters after he left them for Reading barely six months after he was given his first managerial role in football. His reign at Reading lasted only another six months before he left by "Mutual Consent" with Reading just one place off the relegation places. Rodgers was cast into the football wilderness until July 2010 when Swansea Appointed him manager he lead them to promotion and then kept them in the Premier league and Swansea fans were delighted when he signed a three year deal to stay at the club, however that meant nothing when Liverpool came in for him in the summer of 2012 and he was soon off to Anfield with allegedly a gentlemans agreement in place that as part of Swansea not standing in his way he would not poach any players for 12 months. Did Rodgers keep to this, of course he didnt, within weeks he was back and had tempted Joe Allen to Merseyside angering his former employers and the Swansea faithful who lost all respect for him as an honourable man. Next up was the controversy that he had left his wife for a former LFC employee which of course he denied until the pictures proved otherwise, but the main picture was here was a man who having spent a lifetime in obscurity was not forgetting his roots especially the wife who for over 20 years had faithfully supported him. Some sympathy was felt for him in the summer of 2013 as he cried about the way that Luis Suarez was being courted by Arsenal and how they were using underhand tactics, Swansea fans must have felt a touch of irony here. A year later and he was doing exactly the same at Southampton, not just in the way he made overtones to take Lambert, Lallana and Lovren to Anfield, after all that is football, but the way he conducted himself, Adam lallana was being offered a dream move, yet Rodgers was threatening to call it all off if the player didnt sign before he went off to the World Cup, Lallana panicked and tried to force the move through but his behaviour cost him a place in the England starting line up in Brazil that is for sure. So for Rodgers to slate saints and their supporters for the way they welcomed back both Lambert and Lallana is a bit rum that is for sure, in fairness Saints fans have not said a bad word abourt Lambert, of course there were some who did on message boards, but the Saints support at Anfield back in August chanted his name and rightly so. With Adam Lallana it was slightly different, hopefully in the future Adam will be welcomed back to St Mary's, but the time is not right yet, I think most Saints fans recognise that Lallana deserved a move to a big club and of course the money was more than he was worth, but wrongly or rightly they blame the player for the way the move fathomed out, personally I think wrongly in that all parties could have conducted themselves better, the player, Saints and mainly in my opinion Brendon Rodgers who stamped his feet and threatened to pull out if everything was not done his way. So personally I blame Rodgers for the fact that my memories of Adam Lallana are tainted. So when he pops us saying we should have welcomed them back with more respect I laugh, its none of his business how we treat ex players, he moans the club made no mention of them in the programme, perhaps they should have, but then again perhaps they wanted to take the focus off of the events of last summer, they wanted to keep the focus on the game itself, again perhaps there wil be a time when the club will speak warmly of them (Never Lovren I feel) but yesterday was not that day. Of course Brendon wanted the focus on it, well perhaps not on the players but the one man he really cares about and that is himself. So that is what it is all about at the end of the day Brendon Rodgers a man who is fast propelling himself from obscurity to become one of the most despised and ridiculed managers, Tony Puls, Ian Holloway, Sam Allardyce et all must be quaking in their boots here comes the most narcissistic man in football. So Brendon next season we might welcome Adam Lallana back to St mary's with Liverpool, but will we welcome you I very much doubt it, in the words of thosewho live around you on Merseyside "Do One" Photo: Action Images Please report offensive, libellous or inappropriate posts by using the links provided.
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