The Brendan Rodgers era at Liverpool was very up and down.

The Northern Irish coach had incredible success during his second season at Anfield as the Reds went very close to the Premier League title during the 2013/14 campaign.

The Uruguayan was always going to be impossible to replace but that task was failed miserably by the Merseyside club.

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One decision resulted in Jamie Redknapp going on a passionate rant during the season as the pundit could not make sense of what Rodgers was thinking.

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With Suarez gone, Liverpool decided to bring Mario Balotelli to Anfield as part of a £16m deal with AC Milan.

However, that was not to be as the forward flopped at Liverpool and after a 3-0 defeat to Real Madrid in the Champions League in 2014, the performance of Balotelli set Redknapp into a rant.

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“I don’t blame Mario Balotelli.

I blame Brendan Rodgers for bringing him here,” Redknapp said on Sky Sports.

The sole blame could not be placed on Rodgers as many people would have been involved in the decision but Redknapp was right in saying the Premier League giants should have just left him alone.



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With 27 games left in the Premier League season, the former Man City striker would feature in just seven of them, scoring just one goal for the Reds.

The signing of Balotelli will go down as one of the worst in Liverpool’s history but lucky for them, the £16m man did not cost them a fortune.