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IS BRENDAN GETTING RODGERED

GARETH ROBERTS on more baffling boardroom battles at Anfield

IT WAS supposed to be the wind of change that Liverpool needed to compete. Kenny Dalglish was never the man Fenway Sports Group wanted to lead Liverpool long term – even the Scot himself knew that if John Henry’s soundbite on the Fox Sports documentary Being Liverpool is to be believed.

They wanted a younger man, a modern-day coach – a man with a philosophy. So they got Brendan Rodgers. Very much their man.
And yet just three Premier League games into his tenure at Anfield, it seemed the gloves were off.
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