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Mourinho backs Liverpool’s decision to install old friend Rodgers as new boss
Baku, June 2 (AZERTAC). Jose Mourinho has backed Brendan Rodgers, his former colleague at Chelsea, to succeed as Liverpool's next manager.
The Real Madrid boss gave a shining endorsement to the 39-year-old as he takes the reins from Kenny Dalglish at Anfield.
Mourinho expressed his joy at Rodgers' appointment and explained the coach's willingness to come up with new ideas.
‘I am very happy with his appointment, especially because he did it as a consequence of all his amazing work at Swansea,' Mourinho told The Sun.
He continued: 'Brendan is a good man, a family guy and a friend.
'When he joined us at Chelsea he was a young coach with lots of desire to learn.
'But he was also a coach with ideas, who was ready not just to listen but also to communicate and share.'
Liverpool are set to unveil Swansea boss Brendan Rodgers as their manager and he is believed to be considering a bid for the Welsh club’s young midfielder Joe Allen.
Rodgers has agreed a three-year deal to succeed Kenny Dalglish, although negotiations looked set to be held up by a wrangle over compensation. However, the Carling Cup winners have agreed to pay the £5million that was in Rodgers’ contract.
He has been told he can spend this summer and Sportsmail can reveal that, as well as attempting to hijack Swansea’s £6.8m move for Hoffenheim’s Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson, Rodgers wants his old club’s highly-rated Wales playmaker Allen, whom he sees as the type of player he needs to transfer his pass-and-move style of football to Anfield.
That will cast doubts on the futures of Liverpool midfielders such as Charlie Adam.
Allen, 22 and a product of the Swansea youth system, is known as a creative midfielder player and played 44 times last season. With three years left on his contract, Rodgers may have to pay in excess of £10m to sign him.