I was considering this more at the weekend. What was sold as "Rodgers has been backed" by the owners originally now looks very different to what their motives were.
A backroom staff is absolutely essential. Managing is a hard job, and a loyal and trustworthy backroom team is the minimum anyone needs to succeed in the job. It looks to me, that they were trying to push him out by making his position untenable as opposed to backing him.
For Liverpool it's the worst possible result. Their fanbase and the club needed a coherent way forward this summer as a minimum. Either moving Rodgers on, or a firm backing of him. At present you have got neither of those things. Those who want Rodgers in are going to call for fans to get behind the team for the new season, those who want him out will be emboldened and continue with their pressure into the new season.
They want to sign top players, but who in their right mind would go their now? How much control is Rodgers going to have over Sterling, or Skirtl when they know he could be gone in 6 months?
I said he has done a Moyes, in many ways it is even worse than Moyes. To his credit when Moyes went to United he took his backroom team with him. They all culpably failed but at least he didn't put himself before them. Likewise when he was sacked he didn't try and offer up Neville, or Round instead of himself.
Rodgers is too thick and too arrogant to see the writing on the wall. By making him sack his backroom staff they probably thought if they made him sack his best mate he'd never do it and have to resign. They used a similar strategy for Dalglish who at least had the dignity to walk.
If he'd had walked this summer he could have got another PL job. I think now clubs are going to be reluctant to take him on, and staff will not want to work with him, as they know he will throw them under the bridge to save himself. His lack of authority will be Hodgson like and if they don't start well they are in big trouble.
