Complacency was the main reason we were relegated. Rodgers cut his nose off to spite his face with his quarrel with Soyuncu. He was probably our best defender but Rodgers had some beef with him so wouldn’t pick him. He’d play Amartey, who I watched through my fingers, or Ndidi, who was one of the leagues best CDM players, playing out of position, which meant we didn’t have him operating in his best position. Add to that Tielemans had pretty much downed tools after scoring the winner in the cup final and was a shadow of the player he was in his first couple of season but Rodgers persisted in playing him. Top’s inexperience and naivety running a club meant he didn’t have the balls to sack Rodgers sooner than he did, if he’d got rid of him in October, like his dad would, a new manager would have had plenty of time to come in and get that group of players performing to an acceptable level. We were so close to being a top club, the squad was capable of beating anyone, yet mismanagement on just about every level blew it apart.
