its specifically the neglect of the back situation rather than the overall budget that is the question. replacing them may not be easy but it it doable. quite simply if we had spent L15mm for two defenders last summer we could have sold boyata for L10. thats net 5. very reasonable and very doable. the two americans are at least a year away from getting regular game time.
last 32 in europe? no. the europa league isnt an analogy. the money is 20 percent of CL money..belief starts at the top. if you dont invest the players can see through that. and finally, you cannot succeed in europe with a patchwork defense...we like to go forward and you get killed doing that if your backs arent sufficiently high calibre.....rodgers tried to play an offensive game in europe and time and again our hard work would be negated by easy goals scored against us.....
what we are doing is not good enough.
Your doing the hindsight thing again.
Problems with solving the cb issue in summer was Rodgers was playing a game of Im off soon behind peoples backs and it came out, allegedly. If thats true the reason club didnt back him is he had no future at club.
Hendry and Compper were his signings if not why pretend they were?
I agree we needed btter defenders but they were meant to be the better players.
The reason the club had 87 million op costs was down to rodgers, and im askingwas that not enough ambition to earn 105 million with 4 qualifiers to get past.
But this selective memory thing and hindsight is not a great way to be ambitious.
To get better defenders in the club must have a max level wage. Was it breached? Was Rodgers record at buying value adde players worth the risk whe he potentially doing the off at anytime he can?
The board rae being accused of not backing Rodgers and im asking for evidense that the board have not been ambitious enough within context of the income they were hoping to acheive?
We needed better defenders but Rdogers blew his budget for wages giving pay rises to keep certain players which seems to have annoyed at least some of the players enougfh to down tools and then he even went out his way to block decent opportunity incomes and hold Boyata who was vying for change of scene and he was blocking dembele. until he became a problem.
The board backed him well IMO and IMO it was rodgers who sucked at getting value for the enormous wealth risk he was gievn, so many rodgers signing for ecent money are not getting game time.
Would you trust him to buy better defenders for eevmn more money when he seems to be quite poor at assessing potential. Seems quite goodat training players but his value added off field was so bad he was winning but despite champuions league money club mostly made money from selling players he inherited, but did make better.
Coaching very good
Wins things in Scotland if you throw enough money at him
But outside scotland he was gash
especially when youcponsider the wage budget he had.
And despite winning evry trophy he entered in scotland he was more than quadrupling the expnese of every other team and in some cases 20 times over budget of teams who were running him into tiippy tappy nowhere.
In fact that should be Rodgers official style in games
Tippy tappy nowhere.
Bore the oppostion into making mistakes