Liverpool manager Brendon Rodgers has been very vocal in criticising both Southampton Football Club and its supporters for their treatment of his now Ex Saints players, bluntly it's none of his business.

Brendon Rodgers is not a man with a great reputation as a human being or a man, indeed amongst football fans he has a reputation of a sneaky underhand dealer who cares little about anyone else apart from Brendan Rodgers, perhaps he will become respected for his managerial career but he will never be liked.

Ask the Watford Supporters Trust who said Rodgers' reputation was "severely damaged" in the eyes of the supporters after he left them for Reading barely six months after he was given his first managerial role in football.

His reign at Reading lasted only another six months before he left by "Mutual Consent" with Reading just one place off the relegation places.

Rodgers was cast into the football wilderness until July 2010 when Swansea Appointed him manager he lead them to promotion and then kept them in the Premier league and Swansea fans were delighted when he signed a three year deal to stay at the club, however that meant nothing when Liverpool came in for him in the summer of 2012 and he was soon off to Anfield with allegedly a gentlemans agreement in place that as part of Swansea not standing in his way he would not poach any players for 12 months.

Did Rodgers keep to this, of course he didnt, within weeks he was back and had tempted Joe Allen to Merseyside angering his former employers and the Swansea faithful who lost all respect for him as an honourable man.

Next up was the controversy that he had left his wife for a former LFC employee which of course he denied until the pictures proved otherwise, but the main picture was here was a man who having spent a lifetime in obscurity was not forgetting his roots especially the wife who for over 20 years had faithfully supported him.

Some sympathy was felt for him in the summer of 2013 as he cried about the way that Luis Suarez was being courted by Arsenal and how they were using underhand tactics, Swansea fans must have felt a touch of irony here.

A year later and he was doing exactly the same at Southampton, not just in the way he made overtones to take Lambert, Lallana and Lovren to Anfield, after all that is football, but the way he conducted himself, Adam lallana was being offered a dream move, yet Rodgers was threatening to call it all off if the player didnt sign before he went off to the World Cup, Lallana panicked and tried to force the move through but his behaviour cost him a place in the England starting line up in Brazil that is for sure.

So for Rodgers to slate saints and their supporters for the way they welcomed back both Lambert and Lallana is a bit rum that is for sure, in fairness Saints fans have not said a bad word abourt Lambert, of course there were some who did on message boards, but the Saints support at Anfield back in August chanted his name and rightly so.

With Adam Lallana it was slightly different, hopefully in the future Adam will be welcomed back to St Mary's, but the time is not right yet, I think most Saints fans recognise that Lallana deserved a move to a big club and of course the money was more than he was worth, but wrongly or rightly they blame the player for the way the move fathomed out, personally I think wrongly in that all parties could have conducted themselves better, the player, Saints and mainly in my opinion Brendon Rodgers who stamped his feet and threatened to pull out if everything was not done his way.

So personally I blame Rodgers for the fact that my memories of Adam Lallana are tainted.

So when he pops us saying we should have welcomed them back with more respect I laugh, its none of his business how we treat ex players, he moans the club made no mention of them in the programme, perhaps they should have, but then again perhaps they wanted to take the focus off of the events of last summer, they wanted to keep the focus on the game itself, again perhaps there wil be a time when the club will speak warmly of them (Never Lovren I feel) but yesterday was not that day.

Of course Brendon wanted the focus on it, well perhaps not on the players but the one man he really cares about and that is himself.

So that is what it is all about at the end of the day Brendon Rodgers a man who is fast propelling himself from obscurity to become one of the most despised and ridiculed managers, Tony Puls, Ian Holloway, Sam Allardyce et all must be quaking in their boots here comes the most narcissistic man in football.

So Brendon next season we might welcome Adam Lallana back to St mary's with Liverpool, but will we welcome you I very much doubt it, in the words of thosewho live around you on Merseyside "Do One"

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Stephen added 12:33 - Feb 23 Lallana did not deserve a move to a big club. He should have stayed here and helped the Saints grow. Please don't start going soft on us!
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SanMarco added 13:11 - Feb 23 Good little piece in the Guardian's "10 things we learned this weekend" knocking Rodgers for this petty piece of nonsense.
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SaintNick added 15:04 - Feb 23 Stephen, I disagree that he deserved a big move, yes he could have stayed and helped us grow but a player who gives 6/7 years service to Saints as he did perhaps deserves it more than those that stay a season or two then go. Lallana remained loyal when we went down to League One, Im not pointing a finger at you here, I dont know you, but there are 10,000 saints fans every week at St mary's who didnt show the same loyalty as he showed back then, so do those people have the right to criticise Lallana for loyalty

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Jesus_02 added 15:16 - Feb 23 I don’t think that anything less than an full apology from Adam would soften fans attitude towards him. Yes, you can say that he was manipulated by Rogers (and even Roy Hodgeson) to make his move but everything about the way the deal unfolded was wrong. Can you imagine how Liverpool fans would have reacted if Gerrard had left during a world cup year after saying how every time he walked out onto the Stamford Bridge turf the hairs stood up on the back of his neck! I can only assume that Rogers took the opportunity to deflect the fact that Liverpool where down right lucky to get any sort of result yesterday with some misplaced, crass and totally inaccurate words.

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131153 added 16:49 - Feb 23 The article is pretty much spot on. The ony one I would add is perhaps it is best to ignore the bleatings of a delusional half-wit like Rodgers.
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SaintNick50 added 21:07 - Feb 23 I don't think there was any need to boo Lallana after 14 years service to Saints FC, even though his move to Liverpool was handled poorly.
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perazi added 21:50 - Feb 23 Good character assessment of a thoroughly dis-likeable person. The only point of difference I have is that Brenda does in his private life is not our business and to pass some judgement on the breakdown of his marriage is moralising without knowing the context and circumstances.
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bstokesaint added 22:07 - Feb 23 Had Adam actually come across as a player who genuinely loved the club then I'd show him some respect, however he certainly never gave that impression from his actions, and as captain. If some fans feel let down it's perfectly unacceptable. The best way to get around this problem is not to say lots of things you don't mean. It's fairly simple really. As for the booing galvanising Lallana and Lovren what a load of nonsense. Adam was next to non-existent and Lovren was a different player to last season. He was poor. We can skirt around the impact of the fans' reactions all day long, but the simple fact is there was nothing we could have changed to impact what happened on the pitch. A combination of limp wristed officiating and a reluctance from our players to shoot saw to that.

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cheltenhamsaint added 09:59 - Feb 24 Now that Redknapp has gone from the PL scene, hopefully for good, Rodgers has taken over the mantle as being the biggest tosser (can I use that word on here? - edit I don't care). I'm am normally indifferent about these things but his comments on the programme are astonishingly childish and as you say, none of his business. Mind you Sherwood is going to give him a good run for the tosser title if he continues with the "experience is over rated" comments. Both have massive egos and I enjoy seeing this type of person get their dues with failure that is inevitable at some point

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saintsnutcase added 12:01 - Feb 24 Nick -- I completely agree with you about Rodgers. He is awful, one of the most obnoxious managers in football. I am sorry that Lambert and Lallana ever got involved with him - Lovren, however, deserves everything he gets!
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saintsnutcase added 12:04 - Feb 24 Also, can we please stop all this "big club" garbage. What has Liverpool done in the last decade? If we keep thinking we are a small club, that is what we will be.
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HoveSaint added 15:53 - Feb 24 I am reminded of the likes of Ferguson here with Rodgers, when he was in full wind up mode he would find all sorts of reasons to pick on the team that he considered to be a threat, and we still are big time. Talking up what was not in the programme is about distracting and creating disharmony and nothing to do with disrespecting past players.
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IanRC added 12:48 - Feb 25 Rodgers is scum pure and simple.
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