29 Aug 2014 16:09:07
This post may seem negative or aggressive, like something one of the doom and gloomers would write, but I feel it has to be said.

The sale of Peterson greatly, greatly disappointed me. Here was a player who was said to have enormous talent, 3 years of hard work and coaching and money used on him, who shone in pre season and who's chance was long overdue. Instead he was sold without even a raised hand.

I have seen Ed001 and Ed002 talk about this recently, and I had spotted it about halfway through last season, but was sort of in denial it was happening.

But the fact is, the treatment of our youngsters and fringe players, and overall organisation of the team, is getting completely out of hand.

First of all, brendan rodgers claims to give youngsters a chance. So far, I have only seen sterling, suso and wisdom introduced in his first season, and that was as a result of having a piss poor squad with departures and injuries. All 3 of them shone and played excellent.

Fast forward a few years and despite none of them doing anything wrong, sterling seems to
be used as the poster boy of brendan's 'give
youth a chance' policy, suso has had a season on loan to 'gain experience' which went just about as well as it could of, yet has been screwed over with the aquisitions of alberto, lallana and markovic, and wisdom has also had a season on loan, played well, worked hard, yet apparently 'isnt good enough'- what I was personally told by a Liverpool coach/scout a while back.

It is, quite frankly, ridiculous. It just seems that Rodgers doesn't have the balls to take a chance on these players, promises them chances after their loans, but it never comes. These players are more than good enough and deserve to be given a crack of the whip with us.But thanks to piss poor squad planning, which seems to be in the middle of a tug of war between the transfer commitee and Rodgers, the players are suffering.

Then, there are his fringe players, whether he has brought them in or not. Martin Kelly, so I was told, was given a year off to fully recover from his nightmare injuries, and would be used this season. I saw no reason why he couldnt, as he is a good player and local lad. Instead, he is sold to palace for a fee of 1 million. Players rodgers has bought, such as borini, allen, assaidi etc, seem to have been bought with no consideration or vision for the role they will have in the squad. Borini and assaidi have been loaned out to get experience supposedly, but return to face being sold, despite both performing well. Ilori has been loaned out again, and may face the same next year, same for alberto. Rodgers just seems to be buying players with no planning, and then doesn't have the balls to integrate them. It is costing us milions and the wage bill and debt is rising. Him and the transfer committee need to grow a pair and sort this mess out and work out what to do with these players. Ibe and teixiera have long been tipped to be future stars of our club, but after facing the dreaded Liverpool loan themselves, who knows what will happen to them!

In short, rodgers needs to sort this mess out and work out how to integrate our youngsters and fringe players, and if he doesnt, then don't buy them at all! Its costing us a lot of money and the players a lot of misery, we have so much talent yet brendan doesn't know what to do with it, and when these players are sold, everyone just smiles and says 'oh well, good luck in the future!'. It needs to be sorted out.