Rodgers has said he's not going anywhere and loves managing the club, I think it's fair to say he is still unhappy with how our transfer dealings have been going though. The fans are as well! I completely understand it's not easy and that it's about trying to get quality at the right price......but there comes a point where we need to strengthen the depth as well.
We lost to Hearts on Saturday, because we seem to REALLY struggle against physical, well organised teams that Craig Levein puts out. I mean they should have had Naismith sent off for kicking out at the injured Johnny Hayes but regardless of that we were not good enough to win the game. Rodgers made a number of changes to the team.
Simunovic, Kouassi, Griffiths, Sinclair and Hayes all came in to the team with Forrest, Ntcham, Ajer, Edouard and Rogic all on the bench.
Was Rodgers just resting key players ahead of the AEK Athens game on Tuesday night or was it a subtle message to the board that the strength in depth at the club isn't good enough for the SPFL????
Kouassi was poor but then what can you expect from a player who barely gets a game? Simunovic and Hendry couldn't deal with the big Hearts striker (Ajer or Boyata probably would have though) and Griffiths was just getting no service up front. Hayes didn't see much of the ball, Sinclair didn't do enough with it although I did see him attempt to run at players a little more. It looks like he's just lost his speed and it's draining his confidence because he can't go by players like he used to!
We need an injection of something to make everyone else raise their game. Things need freshened up and we need to learn how to play more direct and more physical!