by Agent Balti »
19 May 2009 12:00
It seems that Rodgers (or Buck, if we must...) ticks all the relevant boxes that we should be looking at in a manager and even appeases those that seems to clamor for a link to the club, it's not a view I have ever thought 'works' but hey ho...
He's young and talented, as has been mentioned if Mourinho head-hunted him and still thinks that he's a very, very good coach then that's more than fine by me. Only if you had a severe blinkered view of Mourinho would you think that this wasn't a sparkling endorsement.
He's actually done well with Watford considering what he's actually got as a playing squad. (If their best player is Tommy Smith...well...) Even when we beat them 4-0 at our place (goals...remember them?) they actually looked a very decent unit, just had no teeth up front. He clearly is more than your average manager from what has also been mentioned by people who have actually dealt with him. He has his beliefs, his own standards and knows how he wants football to be played and won't stand for it not being played in the way he sees fit. That's something which I haven't seen since the days of McGhee (but even then that could be RTG's on my front.)
If he did come here, then obviously this job is the one he's wanted ever since he moved into coaching. Obviously since he's currently with Watford he's not going to extol his love for Reading FC, but I don't think even he could imagine a better time to take the job here. Clean slate, a squad primed for change, parachute payment still in force, a time to build on recent failure(s), plenty of reasons to see that now would be the right time. Not quite the right time for Watford, but if the board are willing to pay Watford for his services, I doubt that they could stand in his way - if Rodgers really wants it.
Not really a question of why...but why not? OK, we'll be a work in progress for quite possibly a few seasons, but I'd much rather than that than the denial of a decline.
(And Cookie, seriously, drop it...nobody in their right mind would employ Parkinson over Rodgers.)