29 Sep 2015 21:02:11
Fellow, reds, just wanted to say about FSG and the manager situation. imo man utd were in the same position as us when fergie left a huge club lost there best manager in years. like us when BR came in the say it a transitional period, 18 months later Utd have new manager spent £200 + million, now at top of league and should finish in top 4 and back in champs league. and 3 years later under same manager we are not in champs league he's spent £250 million and won't finish in top 4. why does it always take us (LFC) so long to sort these problem out . i do struggle to understand.
29 Sep 2015 21:43:55
It's time to start questioning the owners mate. Sell our best players and don't replace them with equal quality. Lose to Stoke 6-1 and give the manager another £100 million ?
29 Sep 2015 22:11:32
How did we do during Rodgers second year?
29 Sep 2015 22:58:21
Bristheman, we came second, and that was purely because of the tenacity of one player. I certainly don't think it was Rodgers tactics otherwise we would have been finishing higher in the table since then
What's annoying me is that Benitez was hounded out for spending less money, yet at least under his management we challenged the likes of Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea and these teams feared coming to Anfield.
Last week most of the posts I read from Liverpool fans were whether we could beat Norwich. that for me shows how far our expectations have dropped.
29 Sep 2015 23:04:38
Why are we having a go at the owners for the failings on the pitch?
A famous manager once said the chairman is there to sign the cheques and keep quiet. As far as I can tell, FSG are doing that.
Bless them they are doing their best. They dug us out of a very deep hole in the Purslow era.Since then they have started upgrading the stadium, something which had been talked about in the 90's but only FSG made any progress.
They have been losing millions a week since taking over.
They quickly binned Hodgson off and rightly so. He was making a right dogs dinner of the job. They gave Kenny a chance after his fantastic job taking over from Hodgson.
The people they employed then made a right royal cock up of the Suarez-Evra incident and let the owners down badly. The owners dealt with it ruthlessly. They looked for a manager they thought could rebuild the club. They've given him every chance and so far he's had one great season.
The next step they take is crucial. From my observations they are treading with care instead of acting first and thinking later.
I can't understand the beef some people have with the owners. It's quite simple who is to blame for on the pitch failings - manager, coaches, players.
29 Sep 2015 23:34:50
I think some on here need a reality check. How can we sell our best players and replace them with equal quality when the very best players won't come to the club? It's just a ludicrous statement. We all need to realise right now that the best players will go where they will be paid the best money.
That is not us at the moment which is why our best players leave. For the time being we will be stuck buying from the second tier of players and hope some of them become the best. If they do then one day we might be able to compete financially with Chelsea, City and Utd but at the moment we just can't. We are constantly told how much we are overspending already!
29 Sep 2015 23:25:21
absolute common sense . tactics my backside , when attacking we all attack when defending we all defend. .simples
29 Sep 2015 23:40:53
They were the ones who kept BR against the many wishes of the fans and he is now subjecting us to utter dross on the pitch as well as abject comedy and laughter off it. Hence, they are as much to blame as BR is for the state of our club. N btw, the "they saved us" crap no longer works anymore because per Ed02, if FSG didn't come in, there were other suitors ready to step in. So questioning them is valid, I'm afraid.
30 Sep 2015 07:02:12
As i have said before Ron if you don't get it right at the top then you will have a ripple effect right thru the club. Dalglish, Commoli, Rodgers etc etc. Its like building a house on sand and it has cost millions as you say. Although they will still walk away with a healthy profit. Pretty difficult to have much sympathy for them really. The owners are not exempt from any blame. What i will say is that their intentions were/are good. They just didn't have much of a clue about football.
30 Sep 2015 07:20:21
The problem is the fans don't have the full picture.
It's all very well sacking the manager but if there's no-one suitable ready to step in then it can be a backward step. Plus the owners shift responsibility to the people who run the club day to day.
I'm not blaming FSG for what goes on on the pitch, it's unfair and I dare say a bit petulant.
30 Sep 2015 07:48:38
The owners have backed us with the money.
The only point of concern is the team management and tactics, which BR is responsible for and has not improved from previous lessons, even when we finished second which we lost ground because of leaking goals.
In my job, if I under perform and don't improve I expect to be sacked!!
30 Sep 2015 14:07:09
You only get the sack if your bosses are actually interested in if you do quality work or not. That is not the case with FSG and BR. They are not well-versed in footie hence, they think BR is fine provided the commercial part of the club is doing better which is not a very high bar compared to other big clubs. They think he`s doing quality work or not too bad a job hence, he`s kept for now until maybe CA is ready to step in.