In the summer of 2014 Brendan Rodgers was not a popular man in Southampton with his relentless pursuit of key players, but ironically it was Saints who were the catalyst that sparked change at Anfield.
When Rodgers arrogantly said about Saints in August 2014.
"I have absolutely no sympathy for Southampton,”
"They have a choice as a club. They don’t have to sell. They had that choice. Maybe Southampton’s objectives have changed. They were on course to be a ÂChampions League club, I believe, but, obviously, that has changed. "
He propelled himself up to the higher echelons of those that Saints fans love to hate and only his full demise would satisfy the blood-lust for not only that outburst but the way in which he had gone about recruiting our players in such an underhand way.
OK I was joking when I said he spent much of that summer in a tree overlooking the Staplewood training ground, such was his arrogance by now he would have insisted on a helicopter anyway.
So it was sweet that it should be Saints who set the wheels in motion that would lead to his sacking.
When the final whistle went at Stamford Bridge, the watching World thought that it would be another arrogant man who would get the sack for this result and certainly Jose Mourinho was already fighting his corner in a weird post match rant.
But the real drama was starting in Boston in the USA, once the Fenway Sports Group saw reports that Chelsea might well sack Mourinho and turn their attention to Klopp, FSG became very concerned that as the situation at Anfield deteriotated, that it might get worse if the man they had targeted to replace Deluded Brendan was snaffled from under their noses.
So when Graziano Pelle fired in that 3rd goal he was putting the first hammer into the final nail in Rodger's coffin.
FSG acted fast and they had time given that in Beantown they were six hours behind us, they decided that Rodgers would go straight after the Everton game whatever the result, and that would give them breathing space with International week coming up.
It could well be that they had maintained a dialogue with Klopp over the summer, it could well be that that dialogue had increased in intensity over the last week or so, certainly Liverpool were content to move at a slow pace believing that it was now only a question of timing for both the club and the former Dortmund manager who was clearly relishing a break from the game for a short while, but the Saints win at Chelsea changed everything and sent it into overdrive.
So Saints have now had full closure on an odious arrogant man who clearly had forgotten his humble roots and that in his own mind he was now a cut above what his actual record as a manager was.
So bye bye Brendan, Im glad that in some small way we hastened your demise, just as you once tried to hasten ours !