Yesterday’s phone-in with Liverpool co-owners John W Henry and Tom Werner was a great opportunity for fans to find out some telling answers about the future direction of Liverpool Football Club. Although I believe it was right to some extent to show that the majority of Reds fans are unhappy about manager Roy Hodgson and it was a good thing to let the owners know about how many of us feel, I kind of felt it was a missed opportunity to really go into detail about their long term plans for the club. There was some short-term thinking in some of the question posed, not in all of them, and I hoped to learn a bit more about what Henry and Co’s long term plans were.
For sure, we found out that ground-sharing is a “non-starter” if fans don’t want it, and we also found out that King Kenny will hopefully have a more “substantive” role at the club in the future, but what are the club’s long term goals? This is the question I would have asked Henry and Werner. They outlined that they have a 3-5 year plan for success but what does success entail? Of course, the promise of returning to the summit of English football was made but how were we going to get there? Here are a few pertinent issues I would have liked the pair to have spoken on:
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Very good set of questions couldn’t agree more myself
What is this obsession with keeping Reina and Torres. Reina is only third choice for Spain so he is definitely not the best goalie in the world. Selling Reina would raise 20 million which could be spent on a goalie and an outfield player. Selling Torres would probably raise 50 million. Torres has lost his explosive pace and because of his injuries this will not return. Premiership teams know how to deal with him. This 50 million could be used to buy Edin Dzeko for 35 million and Andy Carroll for 15 million. Merging Kirkby and Melwood is all very well, but the problem with the youth setup is that the players up to the age of 18 are told that winning games while welcomed is not imperative as long as the players perform to a so called acceptable level, this leads to a loser mentality among the young players. The youth players also tend to be physically very small and weak.
Science and it’s approach does not count for heart and guts. So I hope the new owners realise this sooner rather than later because this club is built on heart and guts. Yes science is now important but less not forget the basics. King Kenny is right and the fans or the majority of are right and the new owners should listen. I hope they do.
that wasn’t one question…
kenny your talking such rubbish,
torres is in the bracket of players that he wa sso easy to get he would have gone by now,,, do you see how your comments are just so poor.
barca, city, chelsea, utd, inter, ac, arsenal in fact all big super clubs would take torres if they had the funds.
city, barca & real are about the only clubs that can and might just do that one day.
Liverpool is about winning things, and you do not do that buy letting your best playesr get fed up because as a club we refuse to take that next step.
Do you know what that next step is? you clearly do not, its not about spending millions like city, it would help but its not the tried and tested way, look at real, out of the last 7 years, they have been not reached the last stage of the champions league, after spending on average 20 odd million per head.
I ask you to take a look around, spurs are my best example, the dont really sell alot, why because they go after good solid pros and they get it right, they got van der vaart, they buy so much quality, if we cant mactch them then we are done for.
over the years spurs have seen very good investment pay of, they have four good frontmen, they have a couple of good wide players, and so on…
if liverpool are to sell reina, torres, and etc now, what message do you think that send out, and buy the way reina is not 3rd choice for spain, he is second behined that over rated bloke form madrid, i know people in spain and they think pepe is the best keeper they have.
players like conetrao, solid left back.
ahsley youn while not world class but is much better than what we have had for years. and a striket is what we need, along with a center half and a left windeman too, this is going to cost, but why not? other teams who want to win things pay out, why should we……
WAKE UP ITS TIME WE INVEST IN PROVEN PLAYERS AND FOR AROUND 70 – 100 MILLION LIVERPOOL COULD BE A WORLD FORCE, THATA ALOT LESS THAN SPURS OUTLEY OF OVER 148 MILL IN UNDER 3 YEARS, AND LOT LESS THAN CITYS SPEND OF OVER 300 MILLION IN UNDER 2 YEARS…..