Brendan Rodgers became Swansea City manager in July 2010 and in his first season in charge led them to promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs. Swansea have enjoyed a great season in the top flight, which ended with a 1-0 win against Liverpool, meaning they finished in a creditable 11th place.
Rodgers has emerged as a candidate in the Next Liverpool Manager Betting.
Rodgers' playing career was cut short at the age of just 20 due to a leg injury he sustained while at Reading. He chose to stay on at the club and gained valuable experience as a coach, until moving onto Chelsea and working under Jose Mourinho as the reserve team manager.
Rogders has had a relatively short managerial career having only started in 2008. The Northern Irishman's first job as manager came at Championship club Watford, but he was only there for six months as he chose to join Reading in the summer of 2009 after leading the Hornets to a 13th place finish in the league.
He didn't last much longer at Reading, and after a dissapointing string of results he left by mutual consent in December 2009.
Rodgers joined Swansea in July 2010 and at the first time of asking he led the club to promotion to the Premier League. Swansea finished 3rd in the league and beat Nottingham Forest 3-1 on aggregate to set up a play-off final with his old club Reading. In a thrilling final at Wembley, Swansea's Scott Sinclair scored a hat-trick as the club came out 4-2 winners as they became the first Welsh club to win promotion to the Premier League.
He led Swansea to 11th in their first season in the Premier League.
At the moment Brendon Rodgers is a hero at Swansea. They were the favourites for the drop at the start of the season but Rodgers and his side have proved everybody wrong with fantastic displays of high-tempo and attractive football. Staying in the league was the main aim and they have done this meaning they will be playing top flight football once again next season. Swansea's success has put the spotlight on Rodgers and he has recently been linked with a number of high profile jobs.
