Brian Reade: Liverpool's Owners Should Heed Souness Warning

Why Liverpool's owners should heed Souey's warning

By Brian Reade 12/12/09

Graeme Souness has been rightly derided for some of his TV couch criticism of Liverpool.

When you brought Torben Piechnick, Istvan Kozma, Julian Dicks, Nicky Tanner, Paul Stewart, Mark Walters and Stig Inge Bjornebye to Anfield, attacking Rafa Benitez for making bad signings, is a bit like Jordan calling the Queen an old slapper.

But I hope the men pretending to run Liverpool take note of his view that if their team don't finish in the top four this season they could face meltdown.

Mainly because if Manchester City do, Champions League status allied to limitless wealth means they will attract the best players in the world and become very hard to budge.

The owners clearly don't care what a slide to mediocrity would mean to Liverpool fans, but maybe they should think about what it means to them. No middle-Eastern sugar daddy prepared to give them the massive profit they believe their highway robbery merits, just bankers sending the bailiffs in.

It's why everyone at the top of the shambles that currently passes for Liverpool FC needs to face a very harsh reality. If Benitez is given no money to spend next month it will be the third transfer window in a row that he's operated on a budget of nothing, and has yet to replace Robbie Keane who he sold 12 months ago.

Meaning they have one out-and-out quality striker in Fernando Torres. Failure to let Benitez spend the £12 million he brought in for Keane on a replacement, could mean the difference, come May, between big-club status and meltdown.

And if the latter happens, not since Mike Ashley will owners have so richly deserved it.


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Just read it myself was going to post it, I like Brian Reade he is a good journalist and doesn't hide the fact he is obviously a Liverpool fan.

Listening to David Fairclough there a few minutes ago he said some things should come to light with the owners in the New Year.

Bang on, Mr Reade.

Love how he highlights Souness's failings in the transfer market, how ever I don't think the owners need to heed Souness's advice at all, as I'M %100 sure the only person H&G need to listen to is Rafa Benitez and I am of the opinion Rafa will have made his feelings plain and clear.

I read this earlier in the paper.

He's bang right through, and a few mentioned the very same on here.

Benitez is right to question the credentials and the records of the two people questioning his.

But with regards to how the club is being ran, something needs to change. And it isn't the manager.

i think alot needs to change
1 the owners
2 the manager needs to change tactics  cause they not working
3 give the kids a chance  because what rafa brought in aint doing jack sh*t

I think alot needs to change
1 the owners
2 the manager needs to change tactics  cause they not working
3 give the kids a chance  because what rafa brought in aint doing jack sh*t

what a very constructive post..

just wondering did you question our tactics when we beat Man U?

I like Brian Reade from what I've seen of him on LFC TV, talks sense.  That's a decent article too.  Puts into words what I think a lot of us fear could happen.

The clowns really need to take note that this could happen:

The owners clearly don't care what a slide to mediocrity would mean to Liverpool fans, but maybe they should think about what it means to them. No middle-Eastern sugar daddy prepared to give them the massive profit they believe their highway robbery merits, just bankers sending the bailiffs in.

It's why everyone at the top of the shambles that currently passes for Liverpool FC needs to face a very harsh reality. If Benitez is given no money to spend next month it will be the third transfer window in a row that he's operated on a budget of nothing, and has yet to replace Robbie Keane who he sold 12 months ago.

Meaning they have one out-and-out quality striker in Fernando Torres. Failure to let Benitez spend the £12 million he brought in for Keane on a replacement, could mean the difference, come May, between big-club status and meltdown.

And if the latter happens, not since Mike Ashley will owners have so richly deserved it.

They need to realise that Liverpool FC is NOT a cash cow, and even if they don't give two shits about the club they have to realise that they need to nurture their investment by errrr actually investing and not just bleeding it dry.  Because they if they don't we could end up like Newcastle, worth F**k all in big club terms.  And what good would that do them or us and the club?

What will it take to make them see that?

F***ing wankers.