Brendan is the man

Liverpool FC – a big club with a big history behind them. 18 times as English Champions and 5 times European Champions does not really reflect on their current status.

They have been struggling in the league and have not qualified for the Champions League for a while but why everyone is still talking about them?

It’s because of their successful History and nothing more.

Brendan Rodgers are now have been given the mandate by the owners to emulate the previous successful managers. He surely has a big task to bring Liverpool FC back to their glory days. As fans around the world, old and young have been deprived from successful stories or achievement from such a great team. We no longer want to listen to what Liverpool FC had achieved. We want to see, experience and celebrate the new success of Liverpool FC.

The question now, can Brendan successfully guide Liverpool back to the top? Will he be the right man? Can he stand the pressure of being the Manger for Liverpool FC?

I’m a huge fan of Kenny Dalglish. I grew up watching Liverpool dominated the English league and Europe. Kenny was the manager then. Rush, Barnes, Beardsley were my heroes. Then after 1990, Liverpool never had the same impact. We struggled. I still continued to support LFC. McManaman, Fowler, Owen were my heroes.

2005 was another story. We won the Champions League for the 5^th time and a couple of seasons later we nearly won the 19^th league title. It was great but we never really get there and the team just simply lost their momentum.

When Kenny came back I dreamt that maybe he can instantly guide Liverpool back to the top. But that was not the case. Yes, he was supposed to know how Alex Ferguson thinks. After all, he was used to beat Sir Alex back then. But he was gone for far too long. Furthermore, the situation was never the same. There were the likes of Chelsea, City, Arsenal and Spurs. It was never easy for Dalglish.

Coming back to Brendan Rodgers, I had doubts. But after 1 full season I can say he is the right man. He’s young, he’s ambitious, he has the knowledge maybe not the experience yet but he will learn and grow together with the team. With one condition though, as long as he gets the support from the owners too.

He got rid of the dead wood and brought in new young and interesting players. Well an exception for Kolo Toure but a free transfer and impressive resume behind him, I’d say Kolo is a good addition.

The other challenge for Brendan now is to convince good players out there to come to Liverpool. Any player that he thinks that is suitable to be there I’m sure he will go for it. The only hurdle is Liverpool does not have European football.

It’s difficult to get big players to come to Liverpool because big players will want to play in big competitions.

Plan B has to be executed. He needs to get potential young players and groom them. It will take a while, but once everything is in place these players will lead Liverpool FC back to the top.

We need to forget or hope that Liverpool will have players like Messi or Neymar. We can’t even convince players like Huntelaar or maybe Willian. I think what Rodgers is looking at players, good players who are willing to fight for Liverpool. Sturridge and Coutinho are two good examples and we also have the like of Agger and Lucas; the existing players that I think will be with us for a long time.

The advantage of other teams against us is that they are way above us in terms of league position and maybe money. But Brendan can still build success without these two factors. Basically we have time in our side. If we are patience enough our league standing will improve. And once we improve that the money will also come in.

I’m sure we do not have to wait that long before we see Liverpool back to where they were.