John Henry and FSG have come under fire of late as Liverpool’s fortunes on the pitch dwindled in stark comparison to the incredible heights of the prior campaign.
Living up to a season that nearly delivered a historic quadruple haul of silverware was always going to be a titanic challenge, however, few expected a collapse so significant as that which followed in 2022/23.
The scale of investment required to build on what Jurgen Klopp’s men are beginning to salvage from the wreckage has since become clear, though the Reds’ principal owner appeared to wave away the prospect of a mammoth transfer kitty being granted this summer.
“We continue building at Liverpool Football Club in a responsible manner,” the Boston Globe owner exlusively revealed to the Liverpool Echo.
“We’ve seen many football clubs (including LFC previously) go down unsustainable paths. We have and will continue to focus our attention on investing wisely in the transfer market and we remain incredibly proud of our squad.
“At the same time we continue investing in our training facilities, our main stand and currently the Anfield Road stand. These are all physical reflections of our resolve and how very seriously Fenway Sports Group takes its responsibilities for this great club.”
Historically, we have relied to a great extent on the revenue the club makes, be it from commercial income or player sales, investing sustainably with the help of analytics and the nous of negotiating experts like Michael Edwards and Julian Ward.
With there being only a few examples in the current squad who could yield genuine value for us – with Caoimhin Kelleher standing out as a prime option – however, we must beg the question as to HOW top target Jude Bellingham, and any other additions, will be funded.
There’s value in the suggestion that unchecked spending, for instance a la Chelsea, can hinder rather than transform a season, though it’s likewise critical we spend appropriately on targets we need to ensure we don’t get left behind by our less frugal rivals.
typical response – yet again the management does not give two hoots towards signings. Liverpool was fortunate MAN U never turned up for the last game and no doubt it will be a nil-nil draw against Bournemouth, and Wolves and another loss to Leeds. FSG management is more focused on their US team – time they let Liverpool be sold
United turned up but like Liverpool have done on occasions, they thought it was going to be a walkover and minutes after half time they were shellshocked. Don’t pull LFC down because you’re mad at the owners.
FGS -MR Henry and co don’t have a clue how to run a professional football club, also they are only interested in Lining up their own pockets WITHOUT HAVING TO SPEND PROPER MONEY TO REPLACE AN AGEING SQUAD, AND THEY WANT SOME OUTSIDE INVESTORS TO PUMP MONEY IN TO THE CLUB, QUESTION IS NO ONE WILL BE FOOLISH TO PART WITH STUPID AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR MEASLY SHARE OF THE PROFIT PIE, JUST SHOWS HOW DELUDED J W HENRY AND CO ARE, ANOTHER QUESTION IF HE DOES NOT PROPERLY INVEST IN THE TEAM AND THE TEAM IS NOT SUCCESSFUL ON THE PITCH, NO ONE WILL BE INTERESTED IN BEING A EITHER FULL BUY OUT OR EVEN BE A MINORITY SHARE HOLDER, JUST SHOWS HOW SORRY TO SAY FGS ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY CHECK.
This is the issue. Clubs owned by entire countries like PSG and ManCity have completely warped supporter’s mindset. FSG, objectively, has done a lot for the club and garnered every trophy available. Three Champ’s league finals in seven years? Any club would die for that opportunity. Yet, unless a club is owned by a sheik and spends gobs of money on players, it’s crap. Go support PSG or ManCity you undeserving sot.
Agreed, the only problem of their making was not funding one new experienced midfielder a few years younger than Thiago.
Fsg are very clever people. Somehow they have convinced the ordinary fan that dealing with the clubs finances the way they have is for the good of the supporters. Now we have fans proud of having a club without debt! I ask the question WHY? Having no debt means we don’t buy top players ready to move in and kick on straight away thus lining the bank accounts of FSG. How fickle we all are. Here we have Henry actually early warning us that Bellingham is defo not for Liverpool. More of that stuff to come.
Sorry to tell you John but Liverpool are in debt a lot before Covid hit we owed the banks 60 million but since Covid Liverpool are in debt to the huge sum of 180 million but that is kept very quiet I thought myself that LFC where debt free but we are not and that’s FSG for you and you would think after buying LFC for 300 million that they would sell the club when they can get up 4 billion.
YNWA
I really don’t get the hatred for FSG. These guys replaced Hicks and Gillett, they gave us Klopp, they gave us Salah, Mane, Firmino, Van Dijk, Alisson, etc. They have taken Anfield from 43,000 to 61,000 capacity. Sure they have screwed up several times, they are after all business people looking for profit, but they seem to have genuinely tried to correct errors. I’m really struggling to understand what some fans and particularly some of the noisy fan groups actually want? Do you want a leveraged Glazer model? Do you want a dodgy billionaire in charge (it could actually have been Peter Lim), do we want a dodgy Middle Eastern petro state in charge? What, seriously, what?
For me, perhaps I’m a bit of a romantic, we have achieved incredible success by playing and beating financially doped opposition, by winning as a team brought together intelligently and with sound reasoning. WTF do people actually want. We’ve won the league for the first time in 30 years, we’ve been to the CL final 3 times in 5 years and become World Champions for the first time in our incredible history. We’ve done it all, against the odds, manager, team and fans uniting to create something greater than the sum of its parts, with the worlds best players looking on enviously. For heaven’s sake we’ve just slaughtered Man Utd 7 fucking Nil (and they were lucky to get nil).
Not convinced, okay then, Jurgen Klopp has consistently said that he is very happy with the support he gets from the ownership group. For me, if Kloppo is happy, I don’t need to hear anything else.
Be a fan and not a follower. Otherwise why not just go and support Man City, Newcastle or PSG.
YNWA.
Spot on!
Same sh#t again FSG will never put there hand in there pocket to buy a player it’s all about selling players or out of our Net profit. The FSG board members take a lot of money out of the Club in wages but they are never willing to invest money from their own pockets on a player just say Bellingham they will never do that and there is a lot of buzz going around that we will get Bellingham this summer I can’t see FSG investing in a player that cost that much and then his wages on top of that. Liverpool fans think there is a Big budget to spend on players this summer but we won’t get it and that’s us needing 3 midfielders 1 Centre Back and a Right Back as well.
Exactly 💯
If they would have just replaced Gini and added 1 more midfielder last summer we would have been good plus rotate more tsimikas no game time Robbo is tired..Thiago wasn’t a good buy
As somone said earlier, three Champions League finals plus every Domestic trophy isn’t a bad return so far. They’ll need to put there hand in their own pockets this summer for the funds Klopp needs and until we see what happens then, I’ll not criticise them.
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