LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers has insisted that he, and he alone, will have the final say on any potential signings for the club.
Liverpool’s owners, Fenway Sports Group, were leaning towards a director of football sharing transfer responsibilities with Rodgers but these plans have now been scrapped, instead opting for a committee-style setup, with Head of Recruitment Dave Fallows, Chief Scout Barry Hunter and Head of Analysis Michael Edwards.
Though their primary aim is to provide Rodgers with suitable transfer targets, Rodgers stressed that they will have no part in making the final decision and Rodgers will make the decision individually – subject to FSG financial backing, according to The Daily Mail.
The owners’ financial authority came into play last season, when they refused to shell out what they thought was an exorbitant amount of money for Fulham’s Clint Dempsey – who subsequently departed for Spurs and left Liverpool with a limited amount of striking options.
Rodgers said to The Liverpool Echo: ”There is absolutely no way a player will come in here if I don’t want him, I will always be the first person it comes to. That’s not being arrogant, that’s how we operate here and how it works in this country.
“Abroad it works differently where you have a coach and the club will bring in the players. The coach then works with the players he’s given.
“We have a number of people, scouting staff and analysts, who will look for targets who fit the profile of the players that we want. Then I will sit down with those guys, look at those targets and make a shortlist from that.
“I know the club will go and do the best it can to get the players we want. But it’s very clear that anyone we sign will be because I want him here.”
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its obvious after the disastrous waste of 35 m last summer by Rodgers – that FSG dont trust Rodgers anymore with money
The transfer committee signed Sturridge and Coutinho but Rodgers is too arrogant to admit it .
Personally Im happy Rodgers no longer has control , we dont want anymore Allen or Borinis
spot on mate …. no more x swans pls
D best should b injected into d team either bought by transfer committee or rodger they should have winning mentality like coutiho nd sturidge
I tink rodger shuld be given da chances in so many ways especialy nw da luiz is suspended cos he has help da team alot.
Rodgers does not gave final say. It is common knowledge thst Assaidi and Sturridge were bought against his wishes
Rodgers is just a fsg stooge
I don’t believe BR . He is waffling as usual
Fsg shuld buy player 4 us,we nid gud player nw
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Rodgers is a dead man walking . FSG dont trust him. And who could blame them after the money he threw away last summer ?
Rodgers will be sacked before January
Hope so
Yes . Hope so . He should be sacked now though
So many people here claim to know what FSG are thinking and pretend to be in the know, lol its so sad and deluded to think you actually have any knowledge what goes on behind the scenes. Wake up.