Have to excuse me but I've really only just seen this, the basis of your comment is that FSG having tried throwing money at the business and contrary to all the factors that say the procedure should have done the trick - the result was actually a reversal of that premise.
How can this be I hear you ask?
FSG with their extraordinary successful business ethic which almost guarantees every asset they take on turns to gold, also had a representative on the front end of the operation in the form of Damien Comolli who was charged with monitoring the managerial role of Kenny Dalglish.
The upshot of the arrangement was as extraordinary successful for the company as any of their previous dealings:
1/ FSG succeed in gaining complete control of managerial appointment with the supporters/club choice completely discredited with the help of Comolli.
2/ Comolli played a major roll in signing Adams, Carroll and Downing and in spite of his performance being under scrutiny as well, was allowed to continue hurling spanners at the mechanism.
3/ Kenny Dalglish is summoned to Boston and unceremoniously sacked.
4/ Comolli is weighed in for wrongful dismissal (out of club funds of course).
5/ FSG can now appoint a manager of their choice, as we all know Brendan has enjoyed the most amazing, incredible success which has surprised everyone, none more than the owners apparently. The shock is still affecting the owners who apparently have developed a commercial amnesia and are neglecting to bolster their asset, they also forget about speculating to accumulate.
Without doubt the hiccup experienced with Carroll et al has eventually benefitted the owners in that the getting your fingers burnt scenario has enabled them to be ultra-economic, holding on to their money with even whiter knuckles.
Ain't that strange?
EDIT: sh*t I answered that previously, that's what you get for thinking too hard at uncivilised hours in the morning.
Some different aspects to the reply anyway.
This really is an extraordinary post of supposition piled on paranoia, piled on more supposition, all without a single shred of proof.
had a representative on the front end of the operation in the form of Damien Comolli who was charged with monitoring the managerial role of Kenny Dalglish.
As you well know, Comolli was recommended on the advice of people consulted throughout the English game, chief amongst them was Brian Barwick.
I suppose you're going to try and tell me that Barwick was in on this devious plot as well.
Fact KK named the players he wanted, Comolli went out and bought them, and bought badly, for which he was sacked.
1/ FSG succeed in gaining complete control of managerial appointment with the supporters/club choice completely discredited with the help of Comolli.
FSG have control of whatever the F**k they want to do. They sacked Hodgson, and then brought in Comolli and then KK. The idea that this was some long term plan to discredit Dalglish is not only ludicrous, it's deluded, as is the idea that Comolli was paid to do it, and that his sacking and was part of some evil masterplan to discredit KK, who they didn't even have to hire in the first place.
2/ Comolli played a major roll in signing Adams, Carroll and Downing and in spite of his performance being under scrutiny as well, was allowed to continue hurling spanners at the mechanism.
KK wanted all these players. He is on record as saying so. He is also on record as saying that his was the final word in any signing.
Comolli fu**ed up by overpaying (or not depending on your point of view), but these were all players he had been instructed by the manager to go out and buy. In other words, 2/ is another load of paranoid, made up bullshit.
3/ Kenny Dalglish is summoned to Boston and unceremoniously sacked.
Wow, something that might very well be true. The problem is that neither you nor anyone else knows the ins and outs of KK's sacking.
He "parted ways" as manager, is all we know. Again, anything else is pure speculation.
4/ Comolli is weighed in for wrongful dismissal (out of club funds of course).
So, let me get this straight, the owners, with the help of Comolli, devise a cunning plan to discredit a man they had not yet hired and sack him at some indeterminate point in the future, and then reward Comolli by losing a case of wrongful dismissal?
That's actually pretty funny it's so bizarre.
5/ FSG can now appoint a manager of their choice, as we all know Brendan has enjoyed the most amazing, incredible success which has surprised everyone, none more than the owners apparently. The shock is still affecting the owners who apparently have developed a commercial amnesia and are neglecting to bolster their asset, they also forget about speculating to accumulate.
FSG can appoint a manager of their choice any F***ing time they choose. They own the club, they are in charge, they do the hiring and firing.
Quite why they would jump through all these hoops is beyond me, and the reasoning (and the made up stuff) is frankly, pretty bizarre.
BR's success hasn't done anything except put us ahead of his own plan by a year. You know, the plan in the dossier that he showed to FSG when they interviewed him nand played a major part in impressing them so much they offered him the job.
The transfer window isn't open yet, but already they are not bothering to "bolster their asset" as you put it?
They also didn't forget to "speculate to accumulate". They stated very, very clearly that the club would spend only the funds it generated itself, which is why they have worked so hard on securing new partnerships and sponsorship deals.
Taken all in all, I think I can safely agree with the other poster who called this a conspiracy theory.
Not a shred of proof, mis-representation all the way, facts twisted or altered to suit the agenda, and an under current of total paranoia lavishly interspersed with dollops of bullshit.
Yes, that sounds like quite a few of the conspiracy theories I've come across.
