Baseline81 wrote:I'm curious, HIF, do you feel the players have tuned out Rodgers?
It's something that a lot of fans are saying but No, I don't.
We've been plagued by injuries to everyone and especially important players and senior players and the entire defence, on top of that we've played a lot of matches with our Europa games and league cup progression. To make things worse 3 of the 4 players we signed in the summer have been incredible flops. Vestergaard Can't get in the team even though we have no CBs, Bertrand has been totally useless and his injury is simply a blessing in that we can't play him even if we wanted to. Soumaré looks like a Rolls Royce but needs half an hour to realise what is going on around him. Only Daka has shown his worth, though physically he's not up to playing 2 games a week as he's being asked to do now.
In Defence we've had fofana out all season, Evans out most of the season, Ricardo out most of the season, JJ has just returned after 11 months out and Castagne has missed more than half of the season (and still out). This is on top of defensive leaders Wes Morgan and Christian Fuchs retiring in the summer. We've had a different RB almost every other match, including Marc Albrighton and Dan Amartey, we've got a 20 year old playing at LB who has been great but he's still learning without any leader at the back to help him. and of course we have Soyuncu who has gone from prem team of the year to a headless panicker, he's now been dropped in preference to two CMs, he needs a wise head next to him and he's lost all confidence.
We actually have great midfielders, however Maddison started the season out of form and now he's firing on all cylinders Youri Tielemans has disappeared completely. Soumaré was played a lot but really underwhelmed though thankfully he's now benched in favour of academy product KDH who is playing really well and will develop into a very good player.
Our attack has been really efficient Vardy was unbelievable until he got injured (and continued to play) he's now been out for weeks and won't be back for weeks - what a difference he would've made last night against that very high Liverpool back line. Daka is performing well but still learning about the prem and looked tired last night. Nacho is performing well but really needs to be in a 2 attacker team, he doesn't have the speed for the way Brendan wants us to play. Perez played a lot at the beginning of the season, thankfully he's been benched for a while. Barnes is a terrifying attacker still coming back from a long lay-off and Lookman looks better and better each week.
I think they believe in Brendan but they are too injured, too inconsistent and too inexperienced. We need a couple of wise heads in the team and we need a consistent lineup for a few games. In fact I think they believe in Brendan more than we fans do. He's made some poor buys, he insists on 3 atb when all it does is invite attack after attack and he makes some bad substitutions. Having said that he won the FA cup with this team. we've never done that before. Of course a loss to Randers next week and even his Massive contract may not save him from the chop. The season is a failure but we're still a top half team who should be challenging for Europa league again next season.
Good enough answer or not?