The owners have supported every manager, just like Mr Bumbles supported Oliver.
Since 2012 every season has started with us week in one area or the other. You look at our team and see players starting for us who are not good enough. They would never start for any of our competitor and when you look at our competitors bench you see players who would be regulars for us.
Every January is the same we all know the side needs improvement, but nothing happens. We watch teams with a lot less money identify weakness and try to rectify it. You see teams like Stoke, Everton and Bournemouth finding money and buying player they believe will make a difference.
Yet if the Red Sox needed a player JH and his cohorts would make sure they got someone. They would go out there way to ensure the baseball team has the best chances. In the same way John Moore used to go out of his way to make sure we had the player we needed.
The simple truth is the owners don’t care. We are nothing but an investment opportunity and there only real concern is the bank balance
Why do people use the terminology ''Bank Balance''? it doesn't make sense.
Their concern is the well being of the club on and off the pitch, and they've done very well off the pitch too. I've been reading lots of conspiracies on here for the past few years on how FSG takes out cash out of the club for their own pocket & how they only care about ''yes'' men (which was debunked with Rodgers & now Klopp).
The facts are there, look at the income statement & balance sheet. It's easy to understand. There are no ''second books'' or ''money taken under the table'', it's not the 1920s. There are systems & regulations that does not allow these things to happen in first world countries and it's called governance.
Klopp has stated since the summer he has the money and the owners back him, even some journos like Pearce and Barrett stated that Klopp has the final say on all transfers and has the money at his disposal to sign the players he chooses. If the manager values a player at 15m but the player's club want 20m and Klopp doesn't agree, then it's the owners' fault?
First half of a season, not a sniff and no word on the owners and now because we are in a blip, some posters come in here and blame the owners for something they aren't responsible in. It's never a win-win situation for them.
Why compare the Redsox to Liverpool? you know the transfer system in baseball is different than in football. So your analogy is quite irrelevant. However, Let's say we take your argument true, didn't FSG sanction the purchase of Benteke, even though he was valued by Liverpool less than his release clause, which was 32.5m? Also, Southampton rejected our first bid for Lallana, but Rodgers was adamant to get his man and FSG allowed him to pay over the odds, didn't they not? This whole idea that ''the managers don't get the backing'' and they ''don't pay over the odds'' is quite silly and dishonest. You can criticize the scouting department for buying overvalued decent players.
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