Harry Kewell feels Brendan Rodgers is doing ‘a wonderful job’ at Liverpool and deserves to be given time to bring trophies to the club.
Rodgers will hold talks with chairman Tom Werner and other Anfield executives this week as they review the past season, although it is understood the manager’s position is not in any doubt.
Liverpool finished sixth in the Premier League but Rodgers came in for some stern criticism, initially for the poor form of his summer transfer signings and more recently when Liverpool finished their season with a 6-1 defeat at Stoke City.
That final-day thrashing was their worst loss since a 7-2 defeat to Tottenham in April 1963 but despite the nature of the result, Kewell – who made 139 appearances for the club in a five-year spell – feels Liverpool should show the same faith in Rodgers that Manchester United did with Sir Alex Ferguson during his early years in charge.
“Everyone is getting bigger, everyone is getting better and everyone is getting better players,” Kewell told Sky Sports News HQ.
“Everyone is criticising Liverpool at the moment, the way that they are playing, the way they are not scoring, not buying the right people. This, that and the other.
“You have got to give it time. Brendan Rodgers is a good manager, I think he is doing a wonderful job. I think you just have to give him time. It takes time to win titles.
“If you want to go back look at Alex Ferguson, he had a terrible time at the start of his career when he went to United but look what happened when he got stood by, look at what he achieved.
“I think it is easy to criticise managers straight away, saying if it’s not working let’s get rid of them and bring someone else in, but you need to be able to work with someone for a while to get them to understand your philosophy of football.”
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