Suarez’s departure was a major blow and showed that Liverpool can’t hold on to their best players
FSG need to use the summer to back the club. Buy the players to make a difference. I’m not saying try to buy Barcelona’s trio (although I do miss Suarez). Make clubs an offer they can refuse but one that tempts them. Get headlines which underline real ambition. Have ambition.. go and get someone who makes a real serious immediate difference. Don’t be embarrassed by genuinely trying, paying the money and going out to get the best.
At present, Liverpool probably need two £40 million strikers. Players who will make fans sit up. Avoid Lambert-esque stupid left field punts. You are LFC, not West Ham or Burnley.
Burnley’s Ings, when he finally arrives, may have a place somewhere in the squad.. once all the strikers who are over 20 years old (and not called Sturidge) have left. Balotelli didn’t get a real chance and it’s unlikely he will, so best of luck to the enigma. Fans will wish him well. In my opinion it seems obvious that Borini and Mario need to go for their own careers, as Rodgers would clearly rather play no striker, than either of them.
Borini decided to give it one more year and fans respected his self belief when offers for him were accepted. He dug his heels in but now he must wish he’d packed his bags a little earlier.
In my opinion, if Borini is still an LFC player next season it’s not because of ambition, it’s because he’s happy taking money and not playing. Mario’s photographic statement seems to suggest he will be back better next season. Or, at least that’s his opinion. Maybe Mr Rodgers has made a promise. I highly doubt it, though.
If Mr Rodgers is not backed properly this summer, if LFC don’t buy well and spend real money (no, not on young English potential such as Andy Carroll); if net spend is poor, then in my opinion it’s FSG who deserve the sack and not Mr Rodgers. In which case, in my opinion, the business ‘FSG’ will have no business being shabby custodians of LFC.
No one has forgotten Liverpool FC nearly went into administration, and that the Fenway Sports Group basically saved us from that, but I for one am acutely aware LFC are not moving forward.
Arsenal have reportedly bid £30 million for Gonzalo Higuain, while we’ve offered Ings a contract and a tribunal will insist we give Burnley between £5-8 million. Why don’t LFC offer Napoli the £36 million they want, and just have done with it? If the club fail to get Higuain then at least they’ve helped Arsenal spend more of their budget, so next time they both want a player they have less in the transfer kitty.
While the club should be chasing the likes of Higuain or Benzema, we’ve ended up with Balotelli and Lambert
Higuain would be a huge improvement on Balotelli and his sale would offset the cost. Surely LFC must get close to the £16 million they paid for Balotelli. He is still a decorated, proven, young (ish) Italian international. Last time I checked he was, at least.
Falcao is reportedly getting attention from Chelsea as his Man Utd loan experience comes to an end. Why don’t LFC have an interest? He’s not a real Manchester United player, he’s not ‘one of them’. He never got started there but that’s not stopped Jose showing an interest. Is he not better a better option than Christian Benteke?
Elsewhere, Karim Benzema is reportedly linked to Manchester United and Arsenal, why don’t LFC offer £45+ million for him? Go and get this outstanding proven goal scorer. Better yet, get him in addition to Huguain! What a line up that would be. Isn’t that the sort of squad LFC should be aiming for?
At some point, the club’s transfer process has got to change. Buying low and young while selling high, as players just reach their peak just isn’t working out.
It is also, in my opinion, what makes Liverpool FC a feeder club. A club who facilitate the winning of trophies for other clubs. Are FSG trying to turn us in to a feeder club?
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I have been saying this all season, the worst thing happened to Liverpool is being owned by the previous and the current non ambitious money grabbing Americans!!
Yes United spent millions on recognised players but both were shit.
Unfortunately most of the people moaning about LFC not signing superstars are the same idiots who have never watched a game live and are basing their own transfer policy on Chsmp Manager or FIFA video games.
The real fans stand by their team and support even in the trying of times
Heaven Bless you real big for this post….. I see players we are being linked to and it reeks of mediocrity, A Cech is available(an upgrade on Mignolet) and we are being linked to Bodgan( a bench warmer at Bolton)….. This is Liverpool not an Aston Villa or a Sunderland(with all due respect), IMO….. FSG are just after the money, the should just start thinking big, its time we start competing for trophies again(not Carling cups now) + I’m available for writing n this Blog…. I’d love nothing more than that if given the chance #YNWA#
FSG will sell up once the stadium is complete,they will then get at least a £500 MILLION POUNDS profit.There not interested in making Liverpool compete as the signings show,and keeping that 2nd rate mediocre Rodgers at the club is disgraceful…
FSG Ayre Rodgers Transfer committee and Scouting network ALL NEED TO GO NOW !!!
Most clubs are ‘feeder clubs’ to some extent. Liverpool just decided to have the worst of both worlds, whereby the club spent big but hasn’t brought in players ready to deliver.
Players very rarely deliver consistently until they hit 22/23. Players rarely want to spend +5 years at a club at which they held no affinity, and isn’t competing for trophies. LFC could have easily focused on 23 year olds, that could be sold for a profit after delivering on the pitch throughout their LFC contracts (a la Suarez, Torres, Alonso etc), rather than continued to speculate on players that are yet to prove their pedigree
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ARTICLE!!! My sentiments exactly, i agree wholeheartedly! This guy knows his stuff, GOOD JOB SIR!!!
Thanks fella. Really appreciate the support. I’m one of the most frustrated Liverpool fans on the planet. We’re being short changed, pure and simple.
I agree with most of the comments made. Last summers signings stirred hope rather than high expectation. In a poor premiership Liverpool’s season was hugely disappointing and erased almost all hope created in the previous campaign. The loss of an icon, backroom dismissals and contract wrangling don’t provide confidence going forward. Yes please if there is a star available who can provide the encouragement and ability to compete at the top of the table.
I fail to see how Man United got such a great return on the almost £80 million they paid for Falcao and Di Maria. Did they have 5 goals between them? Sorry I hope Liverpool and FSG do not spend like that….however keep it up Man U !
It’s about ambition. They’ve done us in the league. May be its lifting the squad by buying big names. Rooney didn’t moan or try to scarper.
I think the main problem is us the Liverpool fc fans,we’re too docile especially those in Liveool City,we’re not practical!why not protest?all we do is just discussion forums.Lets learn from the Man U fans and the David Moyes experience,Liverpool will never succeed under American ownership,we never seem to learn!Gillett and Hicks messed it up and now it’s the so called FSG!Lets kick them out guys!!!!it’s time for Henry and his cronies to go!!!!!
Heaven Bless you real big for this post….. I see players we are being linked to and it reeks of mediocrity, A Cech is available(an upgrade on Mignolet) and we are being linked to Bodgan( a bench warmer at Bolton)….. This is Liverpool not an Aston Villa or a Sunderland(with all due respect)….. IMO,
FSG are just after the money, the should just start thinking big, its time we start competing for trophies again(not Carling cup now) + I’m available for writing n this Blog…. I’d love nothing more than that if given the chance #YNWA#
Liverpool is not a small team managed in F.S.G bedroom. Its a big team which reach out as far as the ghettos of Africa Asian & America. l have been supporting Liver for as long as I was 5yrs. F.S.G and Rogers out or as supporters true supporters of liverpool for true change we will withdraw out our liver account on Facebook and Twitter up to wen we see proper change we then normalise things.If they don’t want to make things change we wil make things change. Realize how can we understand stand 6-1lose after that the coach says if am fired I will understand. F.S.G then don’t understand to fire.
I think for a bunch of geesers coming from a country where they play their “Football” with their hands, yes i think FSG have absolutely no idea about football, real football much less an institution such as LFC.
I mean these guys do not even bother to show up for our Captain Marvel last home game, so why should they care ?
FSG primarily reason is to profit from us, these guys have no love for our club. Apart from buying out their fellow American cowboys, what have they really done for us really ?
And now they are keeping a conman in his job
The rot started with Moores, whilst handing our club over to Tom and Jerry Dubai International could have bank rolled us into a new 70,000+ stadium and paid top dollar for top players. The uncertainty over the years have stagnated us into an also ran club. LFC need a complete clear out from the top downwards. Klopp in Rodgers and Ayre certainly out for the good and for the future of LFC.
Totally agree with the entire piece and with the fans who want the Americans out. They may have saved the club from going under but almost 5 years on from that, the gratitude is waring pretty thin with most. They may have reinvested from player sales but we are in desperate need of quality and experience. Our net spend has been peanuts compared to how other clubs, not just in England but in Europe’s other top leagues have spent. We also know we are not a City or Chelsea plaything but didn’t Werner state in 2012 that Liverpool could compete with anyone? I believe the time has come for them to seriously consider selling the club before they end up doing something that will leave us with permanent mediocrity.
The new stand development is only a loan as some fans seem to forget and defend them by saying they are giving us a new stand. Liverpool Football Club via us as fans will be making the repayments on that. They are profiting on the name of our proud club and the sooner we take back what means so much to us, the better it will be before it is too late. I feel we are becoming the sequel to the Newcastle United saga.
I will back the team with everything that I am, but will not be backing the actions of some naive, absent and muted so called custodians of our great institute.
YNWA.
Brilliant article, I have to totally agree with every word. Truth be told is that FSG is only in it for the money and profits and as I said before LFC and American owners just don’t gel well together, we the fans deserve trophies and better than this. We support this club through the high and lows and lets be honest mostly lows in the season that passed. We need to show more ambition and drive and start getting the big name players we even missed out on Ayew that we were linked with as he is now gone to Swansea, we need a new recruitment policy or we will be a mid tam table for years to come.
In short , no! The evidence so far is that they sold Suarez, who wanted to leave, and every club in England is a feeder club for Barca and madrid, especially Latin players. Look at De gea now at Man U. Feeder club? Not really. Just reality.
They made a big mistake appointing brendan and they have realised it. Sacking the first team coach and his assistant was designed to provoke a response . Any manager in the country won’t stand for that and resign…except BR! A miscalculation. The man wants his compensation.
The mistakes have been in the transfer market. People don’t want to live in Liv? How about Bony at swansea? And countless others going in small clubs?
FSG spent 120 million pounds. Author, stop this “net spend ” nonsense. There were 120 million to spend and replace Suarez. More than enough. Mr BR chose to give 50 million to southampton for 3 players and waste the rest.
Not all is lost. The team is underperformaning. Can played out of position , and defensively, can’t defend as a unit. You can buy another 5 top defenders but by the time brendan has brendanised them, they won’t know whether they are coming or going. That’s a fact. Can’t tell me Moreno who was superb for Sevilla has become an amateour? Same can be said for others.
FSG don’t know what they are doing, granted but feeder club, we are not.
Final say goes on Rahim Stirling. Another easily replaced player. Get rid asap for a good price and invest carefully.
Juventus sold Zidane and won the league the following season. Atl madrid replaced aguero, Torres , Costa, they aren’t suffering. Same goes for napoli replacing Cavani with Higuain.
Lazy article
I can’t really agree with you on the feeder club part Erin, but your part on BR is nail on. Having coned FSG into giving him a job was his biggest achievement in his career and this is as far as he would go, so no BR would not give this up easily not even the sacking of his trusted former lieutenants would do the trick. BR is too spineless to respond and his non reaction tells us the kind of person we are dealing with here. Absolutely disgusting. FSG has to admit their mistake and deal with it.
On Raheem, yes please sell him for a good price and let the S*** Bag and his agent rot in the reserves of MC, RM or whatever club for all i care. Just make sure we get 50 mill for this D*** bag.
Good article , I agree totally and glad to see fans speak the truth . I posted a similar comment on the offical website and got blasted by ” so called fans ” I got called a plastic fan and told to f##k off and support Chelsea or the manc’s for merely stating that the club / owners lack ambition with the signings we’ve made under their reign . Andy Carroll signing was a knee jerk reaction in the last day of that transfer window after losing Torres on dead line day . Suarez who was possibly if not the best signing in the last 20 years was a master stroke . Coutinho and Sturridge were also great signings but I seriously think they were flukes that panned out. We came agonisingly close to winning the league and look at the shambolic transfer window . It was an embarrassment to the club going after 3 Southhampton players and barely finishing above them in the league . I’m hate to say it but there’s big problems at lfc at the moment and there needs to be big changes. If we don’t make any marquee signings this year for example replacing Suarez , Gerrard , sterling with quality signings it’s going to be yet another disaster and predict a huge backlash from the fans at fsg and rightly so .
I’m sick of hearing all the dross that we can’t compete with the top 4 anymore ! Again total bs .
We’re still one of the most followed clubs around the world so why can’t we compete ? Simple the owners won’t properly back us to sign big players but are happy to sell our best and then replace them with bargain basement type players that struggle with the expectations of playing for a big club. Bit of a rant from a lifelong fan ( p****d off fan)