Rodgers talking about his contract negotiations to the press, numerous ex LFC types (including paid employees of the club) slagging him off on a daily basis for months, allegedly leaking details of private conversations to make him look bad.
Sterling did the interview (partly in response to the slagging he was getting), Ward did an interview and then nothing until this week.
Ex players jumped in when it started to get messy so don't kid yourselves into thinking this all happened before the bbc interview when it started to get out of hand. And Rodgers only mentioned that talks were ongoing and spoke highly of Sterling. Go and do your research. He never once criticized Sterling