Brendan Rodgers has been manager of Liverpool.
He has managed a top club in Celtic and during his tenure there the club won the Scottish Premiership,Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup.
At Leicester he won the FA Cup and in his full seasons at the club they finished 5th twice and 8th.

I suspect he is not interested in taking on a challenge at our club.
In actual fact, speaking to a W.Ham supporter recently his view was "Rodgers to W.Ham and Moyes to Palace" !

As far as I can tell, the job description is essentially as follows:

Essential:

-Able to keep us up without any drama.
-Willing and able to work within our financial constraints.
-Able to make good use of the existing squad (i.e your tactics and formation must suit the players we have - we will not sign players to suit your system).
-Willing to work with a DoF. He will sign and sell players, not you.

Desirable:

-Able to push for a top half of the table finish.
-Able to integrate and develop inexperienced young players.
-Appreciate the importance of a Cup run.
-Play some decent football sometimes.

That might not necessarily filter out all foreign coaches but probably lends itself to someone who knows the league. It may well mean we aren't interested in an 'ideologue' type of coach, who has a 'philosophy' he sticks to unless his methods happen to dovetail with our existing squad.

Part of me prefers that we got relegated and chose a manager with the desirable qualities.

-Able to push for a top half of the table finish. [I guarantee Preston/Blackburn would swap places with us]
-Able to integrate and develop inexperienced young players. [who we'd lose as soon as someone like West Ham were interested]
-Appreciate the importance of a Cup run [we'd have a far weaker team, and be playing 46 league games]
-Play some decent football sometimes. [the standard in the Championship is crap, it's really awful to watch in comparison to the PL].

I can never understand fans who think relegation is good. It means watching worse players, against worse players, with a far greater likelihood that you lose the odd good player against your will, all with the aim of getting back to where we currently are!

Agree - last time in the Championship we became a feeder club for Wigan! One Size, Moses, Watson and Boyce etc. Do we really want that again? Not to mention 2 administrations!!

I've always thought that when assessing what you want most in life the answer should always be to wish for things to be far worse so you then want what you had initially in the first place...

I remember the relief when we used to get relegated after a solitary season. Things were a lot simpler back then. Administrations and existential threats just coincidence.