In a report by the Daily Mail, it claims that Brendan Rodgers was desperate to sign Swansea City defender Ashley Williams last summer, although Liverpool’s ‘transfer committee’ didn’t allow the Rodgers to go in for him.

It is said that the Reds’ committee would only allow Rodgers to sign players under the age of 24, but at the same time its rules are that Rodgers could have the last say on any transfer.

Of course, Williams, 31, falls significantly over the 24-year-old limit and with that Liverpool didn’t go into any transfer negotiations with Swansea.

It was the same situation when Rodgers wanted to sign left-back Ryan Bertrand, but he wasn’t allowed as the Southampton man is 26-years-old. Instead of signing Bertrand, the former-Swansea boss was forced to settle for Charlton’s 18-year-old Joe Gomez.

When the goings on behind the scenes at Anfield appear like this, you can’t blame Rodgers for his pretty disappointing tenure as Liverpool manager. He had next to no say in his transfers, and he couldn’t form a team that he had envisioned. It was somebody else’s team that Rodgers just had to get the best out of them on the weekend.

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