by Our Sports Desk

Brendan Rodgers’s ex-Swansea colleague Neil Taylor does not envy young British managers following the sacking of the Liverpool boss, he said yesterday.

Taylor worked with Rodgers as the Northern Irishman won promotion with Swansea from the Championship and established them in the Premier League before he moved on to Liverpool in 2012.

The Wales defender considers Rodgers a fine manager and believes he will soon find another job following his departure from Anfield on Sunday evening.

But he feels Liverpool’s decision to sack Rodgers and probably go foreign, with Jurgen Klopp and Carlo Ancelotti among the early front-runners, paints a bleak picture for ambitious British managers.

“This is modern football and I don’t envy young British managers coming through,” Taylor said.

“I am shocked because it seemed like they had a long-term plan at that football club.

“Brendan is a good manager and whether they changed their train of thought that they needed to bring someone in to have immediate success I don’t know.

“They gave him money to spend this summer and maybe they felt they haven’t started well enough this year.

“But the key for young managers is they’ve got to be given time to build their own team.”

But Liverpool failed to hit those heights again after Suarez’s departure to Barcelona and Rodgers came under increasing scrutiny before his three-year reign was ended in the wake of Sunday’s 1-1 draw away to Merseyside rivals Everton.

“I think it all goes back to the year they didn’t win the title,” Taylor said.

“They were very close to it and if they’d won it then maybe Suarez and Raheem Sterling stay and it’s a different story.

“Daniel Sturridge has had some long injures as well and any football club losing those players would be in quite a lot of trouble.

“When you lose three players like that what are you supposed to do as a manager?”