If the summer transfers are as predicted (i.e. we bring in Benteke, Clyne and Ings as well as Milner), this is going to be a disaster of a season, up there with the misery we endured under Hodgson.
It will quickly become apparent that Benteke is a vastly more expensive Rickie Lambert, whose lack of pace and mobility will prevent us from playing the way we have been when at our best under Rodgers. As a consequence, there will be more chopping and changing of formations and selections as Rodgers struggles to come up with a solution to what will continue to be a chronic lack of goals. Danny Ings will be woefully short of the required quality and will prove to be more mediocrity bought to pad out the squad. Origi's confidence, already fragile after a rough season at Lille, will never recover from the barracking he gets from the Anfield crowd after missing a couple of chances against some mid-table fodder in a game we subsequently draw or lose. Sturridge will continue to suffer injury problems and will be in and out of the team. Milner's "commitment" and "effort" will be lost in a team which frequently find itself looking bereft of confidence or inspiration, and there will be a distinct lack of leadership on the pitch.
Rodgers, already undermined by the enforced sacking of his coaching staff in the summer and with an increasing amount of the fanbase against him, will be a dead man walking by Hallowe'en after a series of draws and defeats to mid-table teams and relegation candidates, and one or two heavy beatings by the top sides. He will eventually be sacked when we are languishing just above the relegation zone as Christmas approaches. A new manager, whose name is not Juergen Klopp, will go "back to basics" and bring in a more direct style, built around Benteke's strengths, to guide us to a mid-table finish and another summer of recriminations and doubt.
