Liverpool manager, Brendan Rodgers, has admitted that he feared the sack after a poor start to the 2014/2015 campaign.
After narrowly missing out on the Premier League last season, Liverpool failed to start the new campaign well and were quickly eliminated from the Champions League after failing to qualify out of their group.
The Reds were falling way behind their top-four rivals, but similar to last season, they have gone on a spectacular run which has seen them right in the mix for a top-four finish, and Rodgers has admitted that he changed his approach after a slow first-half of the season.
Speaking ahead of their home game against Burnley this evening, Rodgers admitted that he was under pressure and feared for his job, but his attitude turned things back into his favour.
“I certainly wasn’t going to roll over and die,” he said. “I have always been that way and always will fight for my life. I love it here and I want to be successful here.
“It was not working. We had a huge challenge, probably the biggest I have had as a coach or manager, at a club the size of this one.
“We had no identity and everyone could see it. We just weren’t the team I had built over a couple of years, certainly in terms of the identity and the way we played.
“You try to give everyone a chance but it just wasn’t happening for us and of course that can eat away at you. Every manager will tell you the same: you’re thinking of the game all the time, when you’re locking yourself in a room and analysing and looking at ways to make the team function.
“I knew I had to do something radical because I had seen enough of the players to know we were not going to be able to shape up and work and play as we had done for the previous couple of years with what we had got.
“That’s what I am, an innovative coach, and I needed to find a way to make us play better.”
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt – @AlexsArticles
