Shows how lucky Liverpool were in appointing Rodgers. Relatively new manager persuades current top striker in the world to stay in preference to joining a club that was clearly looking for the title this season. Of course the huge salary helped but Arsenal would have matched whatever was...
If there is/was any truth in that then I bet EFC are breathing a collective sigh of relief. They definitely dodged a bullet there and have ended up with one of the best managers in English football.
It was a shame. We were the form team looking confident. Had Poyet remained focused for 2 more games we'd have been happy and his reputation would have been enhanced - feeding that ego of his.
He is now in danger of following Paul Ince and the likes of Holloway down the road of mediocre...
So we had Poyet linked with the Reading job which quite clearly didn't go ahead. Then, some suspect, he was approached by Sunderland, screwed up our promotion chances and was suspended leaving Sunderland stuck with PDC while Poyet's legal matters with us were ongoing. If the latter is true then...
There will always be a club that will take him on in the belief that 'this time he will be a good fit and we'll enjoy success with him in charge'. Leeds next? Maybe. That will be interesting because during his spell there as assistant manager the Leeds fans turned on him (and the rest of that...
I think his next Premier League job will only come via a promotion because he has been found out quite quickly. As others have said, he has had long enough to keep them up but has failed. He had been lucky with that cup run, it kept the natives from getting restless. He doesn't have that...