The Swansea City manager will join forces in the summer with his Coventry City counterpart but not before he has completed an equally difficult climb as he hopes to lift the Swans into the Premier League.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth him and I are climbing Kilimanjaro this summer, it will be a long climb but there\u2019s many more challenges before that,\u201d Rodgers told the Western Mail<\/p>\n
“We have been busy so we haven’t spoken about it yet but I’m sure we will be touching base about it after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure we will chat about it on the way up but we will probably find it tough when we are fighting through the blizzards,\u201d laughed Rodgers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAidy won\u2019t be too concerned about that. I\u2019m sure he will be concerned about winning games, how you arrive there is irrelevant.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Aidy quite well and he is a terrific young manager. He did an outstanding job at Watford. When I went in there afterwards I realised the job he did there.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe took a club that was on its knees and got them promoted to the Premier League<\/p>\n
“Then he went to Colchester and stabilised them before getting his chance in this league again.<\/p>\n
“He is like myself, we are up and coming and trying to establish ourselves in the game for many years.<\/p>\n
“He has a philosophy on football, I have my own but we both like to win games.<\/p>\n
“There is no right or wrong and that’s the beauty of football.<\/p>\n
“I don’t say what we do is the best.\u00a0 All I know is we have a philosophy here which is a fantastic model to work with and play.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great comfort knowing you can go to any arena, any jungle, in this league and win games. It gives you great hope as a manager.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople probably look at the Middlesbrough result as even better now after they went to Millwall and won 3-2.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor us to go there and score four goals shows the level of performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom our perspective it\u2019s very simple, we have the ability to win games home and away<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though we haven\u2019t always picked up the results our performances away from home have normally been good.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said at the beginning that if we kept our performance level I would be very happy because it was just a few tweaks to the structure that would turn those losses into wins.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe controlled a lot of games. We are right up in there in terms of teams who have won away from home. There\u2019s only one other team (Cardiff) who sit equal with us in terms of away games won.<\/p>\n
“Coventry is a very important game for us after an outstanding performance at the weekend.<\/p>\n
“We got that feeling a couple of days ago and we want to keep it.\u00a0 They will want to win their home games, they will be motivated to get back winning and playing well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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