Liverpool fans will likely lose all respect for Brendan Rodgers if he joins Manchester United as manager, with the Daily Star claiming he is the front runner to land the Old Trafford role after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
It seems inevitable that Ole will eventually get the sack, with his side underperforming hugely despite re-signing Cristiano Ronaldo and recruiting Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane.
However, as Rodgers said himself when he was fired as Liverpool manager, once you become head coach at Anfield, you can never manage United. Yet he has been named as the favourite to take over in Manchester regardless.
When asked in October 2015 whether he’d consider managing United, he replied: “When you manage Liverpool, you know the Manchester United job is gone.”
While things ended on a sour note as results weren’t going Rodgers’ way and recruitment wasn’t at the level it has been under Klopp, many fans still like the Northern Irishman and wish him the best.
However, if he were to succeed Solskjaer, I’m confident that most fans would disown him entirely and there would be no coming back.
It would be just as bad as Michael Owen joining the Red Devils and it would not surprise me if Rodgers, who is on £10m a year with Leicester, took the job.
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