I suspect that Rodgers is no more than Brain Kidd type - i.e. a decent assistant, nothing more.
I'd like to see someone like Roy Evans behind the scenes - in a reestablished bootroom.
Add to that a great bloke like John Aldridge. These are people of immense experience, who are not being used.
As for a Director of Football - never been my thing, Tes.
But like you, I feel the change has to start at the top. And as I have predicted so many times since the summer, if FSG are not careful, by April and May, the fans at Anfield, will not merely be calling for the Rodger's head, they will be calling for FSG to go.
Times are not good.
I'd love to know who 'supposedly' has been advising FSG, or is that something they've just put about to deflect the heat and responsibility for the absolute cluster f&ck they've made of every senior appointment.
I think one of the problems lies in their attitude to football and sport in general. American sports are franchises that have no roots in or commitment to the place and area that bears the name of the franchise. If one place doesn't suit they're transplanted elsewhere - it's a very shallow attitude.
Also, each sports franchise in each sport is set up to to make money for the ownership whilst providing entertainment, a leisure activity and a day out for the family. The sporting aspect is secondary despite the huge fuss made of schlorships at junior levels. Again, it's all about certain components making money. The result is almost of no importance, as long as a good day's entertainment was had by all and the tills continued ringing throughout the day.
Then there's the sport itself - soccer. Americans on the whole have total disregard for non-American sports. Ice Hockey is probably the least liked by neutrals as it wasn't an American invention.
They even want American football as an Olympic sport such is the distorted view they have of their own three main sports.
So soccer first of all isn't an American sport and despite it being a truly worldwide sport, they still disregard it as their idea of the world is also stilted.
Soccer is seen as a past time for Mums to get involved with their children and is more popular amongst women, both playing and supporting in some way. So then it's not even seen as a proper sport, a man's sport - Alpha male derides again.
The owners simply have no interest in 'footie' and then you factor in an owner's approach and view of what sport is about in America and then you start to see where the owners are approaching this from.
It's typical that they though a bloke who was successful in baseball (one of 'their' sports) would know sufficent to ask the advice of and take when appointing Comolli. If he's successful in baseball and as it's only soccer, he's therefore bound to know what he's on about, how hard can it be to understand a non-American sport. They're not real sports afterall so there can't be much to it.
No one in their right mind would have appointed Comolli as a DOF after the things Wenger had to say about him and his failed stint at Spurs and impotent effect at St Etienne, or least anyone who had knowledge of such.
But Billy Beane's a baseball person with a passing interest in soccerball. How would he know of such things? I bet he can barely name the Spurs team and he supposedly supports them.
But they're arrogant and disrespecting enough to think he would.
Outside of Billy Beane I've never heard of any other names whispered as who might be helping them. I don't why, it's just a feeling I can't shake, but I'd not be the least bit shocked if Purslow's advice had ever been sort.
Look at the totally flawed appointment of Hodgeson and the case the media made for it and the signing of Joe Cole, good player, ignore the injuries and the complete lack of form for the previous two seasons and you've got a 'great' player available on a free. They're sort of obvious choices to someone who thinks they know about football when really they are clueless.
So appoint Dalglish, he's a Liverpool legend, won the double as a player manager, that's bound to work. Totally flawed logic (ignores all the years out of the game, the f@ck ups at Celtic and Newcastle) he's a Liverpool legend. Likewise Rodgers. Young manager, talks a good game, has a newly promoted team playing pretty (for a newly promoted team) if non effective football (conveniently ignore that bit and the fact they shipped more goals than they scored) and you have a manager who on the surface espouses Liverpool style football, so appoint him.
Dalglish and Rodgers appointments have the same flawed logic as the Hodgeson appointment and the Cole signing. On the surface you could see the idea, look below the surface and it's madness but the image part of it would seem to fit the requirement.
That's my conspiracy theory and I'm sticking to it.
