- Do you believe, that like Barcelona, Liverpool should have a specific style of play, formation and football philosophy they should stick to no matter who is manager? If so, could Kenny play a key role in substantiating the “Liverpool Way”?
- How do you plan to increase revenues in the next three to five years so the prospect of a Premier League title is realisable? Do you have set financial goals for the next one/two years etc to ensure the Reds can compete financially with the best in the league?
- The Boston Red Sox have the second highest wage bill in the MLB, will you be looking to take the same approach with Liverpool once increased revenues are in place or will you focus on youth as you’ve said in the past?
- What are the plans for Liverpool’s academy? Liverpool players and Damien Comolli have stated they would like Melwood and Kirkby to be merged? Do you believe this is essential to the future youth policy of the club?
- Have you set any parameters in regards to transfer targets? Will you spend money on players over 25 or will you instruct Comolli and Hodgson to look for young players who will be investments for the future?
- How do you plan to keep the likes of Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina if your plans sacrifice short term success for long term goals? Can you convince them to stay if there is no guaranteed of instant improvements in the playing squad both in January and in the summer?
For me, these questions and issues would have made for a more interesting phone-in with the Liverpool owners yesterday. Too much time was focused on ensuring that Henry and Werner understand the fans’ grievances over Hodgson, and I hope the pair will do a programme again in the not too distant future where such questions as the ones above are put to them
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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…..