1. The Anfield Wrap
“These are my memories. If you were doing 13-14 right, you’ll have your own, your own photographs, your own stories, your own moments. (If you weren’t doing 13-14 right, you’ll probably be wondering when I’m going to mention defending). You’ll know immediately the ones I mean and you’ll be able to substitute in your own. You’ll have everything and you’ll know that those days couldn’t have happened without Brendan Rodgers.”
Neil Atkinson focuses on the good times in a reflective piece on Rodgers’ reign.
2. The Guardian
“It is, of course, never a sign of good health for a club to be sacking a manager, especially when the leaves on the autumn trees are barely yellow at the edges, and Fenway Sports Group’s early dispatch of Brendan Rodgers from Liverpool denotes a club beset by a strange muddle of contradictions. These go right through the great grumbling club, from the uncertain transfer activity, the abrupt change of heart over Rodgers’ tenure, even in that huge roof truss erected with such ceremony in the summer, and up to the remote regime of FSG itself.”
David Conn looks behind the scenes at Anfield.
3. The Telegraph
“Rodgers familiarised, thrived and then wilted. He departs a club which must ask itself if changing the manager really solves their problems or does little more than present them to someone else.
“We should head back to July 2012 and Rodgers’ first day in office and identify the signs the ‘perfect fit’ was never what it seemed.”
Chris Bascombe suggests Liverpool’s problems may not all be down to Brendan Rodgers.
4. The Daily Mail
“I always thought of sacking someone so early in the season as something clubs like Newcastle or Tottenham do — so I don’t like that — but there was a sense of inevitability about it in the end.
“Rodgers had four very winnable home games recently — newly promoted Norwich, League Two Carlisle, relegation battlers Aston Villa and Swiss side Sion — and he only won one. There were boos after three of them and the decision was probably taken because of that poor run.”
Writing for The Daily Mail, Jamie Carragher sees the logic behind sacking Brendan Rodgers.
5. The Mirror
“So Liverpool’s mysterious transfer committee has finally suffered its first casualty.
“Although it says it all about FSG’s strategy that one of the six members has only gone because they have sacked Brendan Rodgers.
“The committee was responsible for turning FSG’s misguided ‘Moneyball’ theory into practice in the transfer market.”
The Mirror’s David Anderson suggests that the transfer committee in general, and not just Brendan Rodgers, are to blame for Liverpool’s current woes.
6. The Liverpool Echo
“He wasn’t sacked in the morning. It was closer to afternoon tea-time when Goodison Park had long since emptied.
“But while it was heaving to the rafters not once did the atmospheric old stadium reverberate to the strains of that doom laden anthem.
“And when fans of your fiercest rivals don’t even suggest you may be sacked in the morning, you know a managerial axeing has come as a shock.”
Dave Prentice of The Liverpool Echo questions the timing of Rodgers’ sacking.
