The thing is success & fame can have a profound affect on individuals particularly those who have not been exposed to it previously. Managers like Rafa, the King and Houllier are cut from different cloth to Rodgers. They had experienced success (in different forms) before they took over the management of this Club.
They are all very confident in their ability. Rodgers on the other hand was given this job on the basis that he was a Moneyball manager who could improve into a world class one.
He has always enjoyed the attention that comes with being a Liverpool manager. You can tell that he thrives on the attention. One season of relative success (i don't consider coming in 2nd as a success though) and he makes wholesale changes to his personal life (And i am not talking about his sparkling white teeth either). Its not my place to question someone's life choices. But you really have to wonder what type of a weasal someone is when he ditches his "old" car for a new one just after a minor (and short) success.
I strongly believe that Rodgers believes his own press. And he loves talking to the press.
He sounds so f**king pompous in interviews (just check out what he had to say about southampton's amibition when we raided their awesome players or the other one about chelsea, man city and tottenham spending $100M so they have to compete for the league...etc), its so ridiculous. No sane manager will give out these type of interviews as they know these words can blow back in their faces when $hit hits the fan.
Even when we were on that winning run at the tail end of last season, any farsighted and competant manager would have realised the fact that the way we defended would not have been sustainable in the long-run. At that time, i gave him the benefit of Doubt. I thought he was just hesitant in making changes to a winning team and will eventually rectify the problem in the following season.
Then he drops the mother of all bombs. The reason why our defence has been so cr#ppy is because the existing CBs were not vocal enough. So Sign someone who is vocal and has leadership qualities and the defence issues of the last season are solved immediately....
People who defend Rodgers keep mentioning that the relative success of last season came too fast for us. So our expectations are too high now. My take.... I don't consider coming in 2nd with early eliminations in the cup competitions as success.
And if success came early for someone....its Rodgers. He basically believed he is the sole reason for our league campaign last season. He believes he can coach any potential players into classy ones. He believes he does not need a DOF. He believes his in-competant assistants & coaches are good enough.
And we are paying the price. FSG extended his contract 6 months ago. Now its gonna cost them.