Taylor – Brendan Deserves To Be Manager Of The Year

Neil Taylor says that Brendan Rodgers deserved to be crowned manager of the year

The Swans boss has been instilled as favourite to win the LMA manager of the year title and having been asked the question on whether it was deserved, Taylor told Sky Sports “Yes, definitely.

He added “I don’t think you have ever seen a team come and try to play the way we have done in the Premier League for years. People compared us to Blackpool at the start of the season and now they are comparing us to Barcelona.

“He is a brilliant man manager. People talk about how good Harry Redknapp is at getting the best out of players, and he (Rodgers) has done the same with our boys, and he has done it on a minimal budget.

“If you speak to any of the Chelsea boys who had him when he was there – people like John Terry – they speak really highly of him.

“I think he is destined for a top-four job

“Hopefully we can hold on to him but he has done really, really well. That’s why he gets linked with clubs like Tottenham.

“The season will not peter out,” he said. “We are not that type of squad. Last time we lost two games we went on and won the three after it, and that’s what we will look to do again.

“On another day if things had gone our way we could have beaten Tottenham.”