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26th September 2015
01:05pm BST

"After that season, they finished second. If they'd won the league, could they have kept hold of Brendan Rodgers?" he said. "They would have tried everything - and they did. He signed a new contract after that.
"All of a sudden, he doesn't turn into a bad manager, it's fine margins. We might have seen him at Real Madrid.
"Why wouldn't we have seen him there? He'd have won the English Premier League with a team who hasn't won it for God knows how many years.
"He would have been the hottest property in football. A week is a long time in this game, let alone a year. Because they got so close, it intensifies the pressure. He's paying the price for overachieving a couple of seasons ago."
Rodgers is a better manager than the #RodgersOut hashtag would lead you to believe but having him at the helm of the Bernabeu might be a bridge too far.
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