Brendan Rodgers is under fire following Liverpool’s insipid start but who is to blame and how much time does the manager have to turn things around?Certainly in the eyes of Liverpool supporters,if not the owners, who resisted calls to sack the manager at the conclude of last season, or overlooked the claims of an out-of-work Bundesliga winner and backed Rodgers with another overhaul of the playing staff plus his backroom team in the summer. Since 22 March,when Liverpool hosted Manchester United at Anfield with designs on qualifying for the Champions League at the expense of Louis van Gaal’s team, only to lose 2-1 and collectively nosedive, and their record reads: played 18,won five, drawn five and lost eight. Those five victories have reach against Newcastle, and QPR,Stoke City and Bournemouth in the Premier League, and Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup. By any stretch it is a record that invites pressure on a manager. At a club with Liverpool’s ambitions it is nowhere near reliable enough.
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Source: theguardian.com