If you believe the media stories yes, the team is still most of the team that was top 5 twice. He has gravely mismanaged the squad, many players taken out of the picture for unknown reasons, horrible injury record, he threw away many leads in games due to panicky defensive substitutions, also many of his press conferences sent out the wrong message, and he cant read games well so often gets out maneuvured by the opposing manager. He also seems to have issues when at a club for a long time.
Liverpool fans I know have said similar.
He has left the team utterly lost in confidence. I also expect Kasper left as he likely had a disagreement with Rodgers on how the team was been managed. I expect Kasper was holding things together as captain.
