Rodgers Mindset and The Three Points We Needed

First of all I am a Liverpool fan, just to clarify, the start to the season we've had it becoming hard to bare. A club of Liverpool’s stature should not be 11^th we should be 6^th at the very minimum. A lot of players in the team just simply aren't pulling their weight in the team but I genuinely can’t put my finger on why that is so ill leave that thought to settle for time being. Anyway, Rodgers obviously hasn't set out to buy a world class proven quality team hes building for the future, at the moment he’s trying to create a new era at Liverpool something we haven’t established for a long time, a team that as well as having top quality players like Coutinho and Sturridge is full of youth and can become a force in the Premier league for seasons to come. The reason for this is that Rodgers knows he isn't going to get £100 million every season so, he has to create his own quality players, you can see this by bringing in young fresh talent like Emre Can and Lazar Markovic as well as Moreno.

Rickie Lambert isn't going to be the figurehead at Anfield for the next 10 years but he’s certainly the present especially while Sturridge is out injured, he certainly wasn't a player bought for his youthfulness and potential but he was bought as a back up striker able to use his experience over his magnificent career and rise in talent. Ballotelli was also meant to be the present, so was Iago Aspas so it makes you think whether he’s constantly changing his mind each season as to what type of player he wants to bring in. He’s looking for a mixture of Ballotelli and Aspas, a strong and quick powerful striker with a keen eye for goal, you know like the striker we've got on loan at another club, so I can see a why he paid £10 million for Divock Origi who Liverpool fans will be expecting big things from this time next season.

The match against stoke was a really scrappy game, we got extremely lucky. Stoke hit the post and the bar at either ends of the pitch, and we never truly looked threatening. That being said we were much better defensively and our players looked more committed than what we've seen from previous games. Johnson actually earned his £120,000 a week for a change, that goal may be the most important we've had at the club this season, it may just kick start our season… Unlikely but at least it’s another three points that we desperately needed. Mignolet even looked more in control and confident he demonstrated this at the end of the match where he came out during the dying embers of the match and actually caught the fucking ball, like literally in his fucking hands, it wouldn't of typically been out of the question for him to miss the ball, the defence completely fail to clear and the opposition tap it home. The decision to drop Stevie especially given that it was his 16 year anniversary since his debut was a brave move from Brendan (even if he didn't actually know till arriving at Anfield) but sticking to his selected team paid off as Stevie looked refreshed when he came on notably closing down Shawcross in stoppage time like he used to do all over the field at one time or another.

The three points will do us a world of good and will keep these plastic fans calling for Brendan’s head quiet until the next match at least. Hopefully another 3 points will be picked up Tuesday and another on Saturday to build some confidence for the Last chance saloon fixture against Basel where only a win will see us through to the Knock out rounds.