Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers comments on Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino and Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp.
Suarez was superb for Liverpool during the 2013-14 campaign and was the best player in the Reds’ challenge for the Premier League title.
Following the departure of the Uruguay international striker in the summer of 2014, the Merseyside outfit failed to replicate that success and Rodgers parted company with the club in October 2015.
Rodgers, now in charge of Scottish Premiership side Celtic, has suggested that it is unfair that Suarez is given a lot of the credit for Liverpool’s success in 2013-14, and has compared his situation at Anfield with that of Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino and current Reds manager Jurgen Klopp.
“People said, ‘Well, he had Luis Suarez’,” Rodgers told The Daily Mail. “I thought that was very discourteous, mainly to the rest of the players, because we had created a team and we had one team and it had one brain.
“Luis was the focal point of it but he will tell you himself that he couldn’t have done that without the adjustments of the others.
“If you equate what was said about me with what might be said about a foreign coach, then as an example Mauricio Pochettino has done a great job at Tottenham but they probably wouldn’t say, ‘It’s down to Harry Kane’.
“And it is the same with Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool with the contribution of Mo Salah. But for a British coach, there always has to be a catch.”
Understandable
One can understand Rodgers’s frustration. Although Suarez was the best player for Liverpool that season, there were other players in the team who played well.
Moreover, Rodgers should also be given credit. After all, the former Swansea City boss was the Liverpool manager at the time.
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