I can see the statue being erected to FSG when they leave with the proud inscription "FSG they were not as bad as Hicks and Gillette".
Its like choosing between dying of a heart attack or Cancer in the end the result is the same. The Liverpool we all knew the winning machine that despite not winning the league continued to put silverware in the trophy room has one league cup since 2006. the culture of winning has almost gone and in not replacing the likes Suarez, carragher and Gerrard the vital element of a winning mentality is sadly missing. If you put those three players in this team at their peak we would challenge in every game we play.
We're paying the price for Moore's running the club like a corner shop while arch-rivals United signed sponsorship deals left, right and centre. And, of course, the destruction caused by Hicks and Gillett is still a wound that is to be fully healed.
I think if FSG were our owners back in 1990, then they would have had the foresight and nous to increase our revenue streams, and we would have been rivalling Man Utd for profitability (and therefore be competitive in the transfer market). Of the three of owners since 1990, FSG are by far the best.
That's really not saying much however, considering how incompetent Moores was, and how fraudulent Hicks and Gillett were. But the simple fact is, if they don't have the capability to compete in the transfer market, then questions really do have to be asked. At the minute, we are balancing the books and cutting the wage budget, and every summer seems to be an overhaul of squad players who are not good enough. Judging by the book 'Soccernomics', our league positions correspond with the levels of spending - and currently five clubs spend more than us.
I don't know how FSG plan to take us into the big time again. We have the right manager I have no doubt, but it says a lot about Liverpool when the only household name associated with the whole club is the manager. There's no talisman figure in our squad anymore, no household name - surely the first time since the fifties it's been like this.
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