Mike Gordon of the transfer committee

[kalasoma]

Or is Ayre telling them it's nothing to do with him?

 

Or taking the spotlight off Rodgers?

[Coro]

Yet another press story using the same quotes about the same senior official who is on the transfer committee and yet no-one, not Pearce, not Bascombe, has asked what this 'knowledgeable' football man actually 'knows' about actual football.

 

Enough already.

 

To be fair Howie's stated that his hockey team are doing well so, yanno, fingers crossed.

[s(k)aturation]

Scott of the Antarctic.

Lawrence of Arabia.

Gordon of the Transfer Committee.

[dennis tooth]

We could have Bob Paisley in charge right now and it wouldnt matter, cos this spincter and Ian are taking decisions on transfers. As you can tell by the shit players we have signed.

 

Take a bow son, Mike Gordon, rich american man with no medals.

 

No accountability for these decisions means spinning in circles like communist Russia.Im not Rodgers biggest fan but he's not signing players, so its not fair, lets give him full control of transfers and sack him for signing Ashley Williams as and when, cos the lack of identifiable accountability is whats killing us.

Much as I would like to point the cadbury finger at Brendan, its not him we send the shop for jaffa cakes, like I say we could have Bob Paisley back but if Mike Gordon is buying lemon puffs its not gonna work is it? Or Just sack Paisley and rinse and repeat.

Timed and dated.

Its good to welcome you all to the future of dennis tooths past warnings. Again.

[dennis tooth]

Christian purslow

Damien commolli

Mike gordon

 

 

Stop playing fm with my club you clueless fucks. Ta

[AngryOfTuebrook]

To be fair it looks to me like they're just doing their bit to put his name out there so we start asking questions. Up until now he's had a free ride because none of knew who he was or what he did. They're not going to write a hatchet piece about him, but read between the lines. They list all the things he's done, what his qualifications are etc, but there's no mention of anything footy related as they're leaving it to us to join the dots.

You could be on to something.

 

When I was reading that article, I was thinking "a hedge-fund manager? In charge of our transfers? What could possibly go wrong?"

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Gordon of Kharmittee

 

[SammyAftershave]

[Section_31]

Gordon's a peacetime commissioner, this is war.

[ratcatcher]

 

Mike Gordon FSG profile: The man with Brendan Rodgers' Liverpool FC life in his hands

 

20:42, 26 MAY 2015

BY JAMES PEARCE

 

Just who is the man who will decide Brendan Rodgers' fate at Liverpool FC?

 

He's the man who has Brendan Rodgers’ future in his hands.

 

Mike Gordon is tasked with leading the end of season review which will determine whether Rodgers continues as manager following a disastrous campaign for Liverpool.

 

The 50-year-old American has become an increasingly important figure at Anfield over the past three years but most Kopites wouldn’t know him if they bumped into him.

 

He doesn’t give interviews. He doesn’t have a public profile and that’s how he likes it - out of the limelight.

 

Gordon is essentially responsible, alongside chief executive Ian Ayre, for the day to day running of Liverpool. However, his role extends way beyond simply reporting back to Boston-based principal owner John W Henry and chairman Tom Werner.

 

He is Fenway Sports Group’s second largest shareholder with around 12%. Only Henry (around 40%) holds a bigger stake in an organisation which has the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool among its lucrative business interests.

 

Gordon, who grew up in Milwaukee but moved to Boston as a student, is married with four children. He enjoyed a hugely successful career in finance prior to getting involved with FSG.

 

He worked for American multinational financial services corporation Fidelity in the 90s before founding the hedge fund Vinik Asset Management with Jeffrey Vinik in 1996. When they shut it down in 2013 it had assets in excess of $6billion.

 

Gordon, who had started out selling popcorn at Milwaukee Brewers matches, always had a passion for baseball and in 2002 he joined up with FSG when they purchased the Red Sox.

 

For years he was a limited partner but that changed following FSG’s takeover of Liverpool in October 2010.

 

Gordon was installed on the club’s board of directors and since 2012, when he increased his stake in FSG, he has spent more and more of his time on this side of the Atlantic.

 

A year ago Henry and Werner recognised that increased influence by giving him the title of FSG president.

 

Gordon is the most senior member of the club’s much maligned transfer committee and has been heavily involved in the Main Stand redevelopment. He is also a trustee of the Liverpool FC Foundation.

 

“Mike is well known among professional investors as being one of the brightest financial minds in the country,” Henry told the Boston Globe back in March.

 

“So he is involved in virtually all of our important financial discussions and decisions.

 

“He spent his career essentially buying businesses through choosing stocks. He understands present value, all of the financial issues that exist in an organization as wide and diverse as this is.

 

“He is by far FSG America’s most knowledgeable person with regard to soccer and is involved on the football side daily in constant communication with the members of our football committee and our manager. He took a lead role just about the same time as we brought in Brendan Rodgers.”

 

Former business partner Vinik, who now owns Tampa Bay Lightning ice hockey team, added: “Mike Gordon is one of the best human beings you could possibly meet.

 

“He’s very smart, very thoughtful and really outstanding at solving problems and finding solutions to difficult issues.”

 

What happens over the coming weeks and months will put that glowing tribute to the test.

 

At the end of a torrid season, Liverpool are in a mess and Gordon is tasked with putting plans in place to sort it out.

 

He’s the man Rodgers must convince that he deserves the opportunity to put right what’s gone horribly wrong.

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mike-gordon-fsg-profile-man-9336112

 

 

I dont have a problem with a successful 'businessman' being involved with running the club. To an extent.

 

Its what we all want isnt it? For the club to have loads of money to be able to spend it wisely in the transfer market. And that's the key, spending the money wisely.

 

I would have a problem if this gordon character had the ultimate veto on our transfer targets or, dictated to the manager which players he can not sign.

 

But even that is tempered to a degree because these threads are awash with people saying no manager at any club has ultimate say in who is signed and they all work under some control to a greater or lesser degree.

 

As I said, its whether the control is towards the greater end or not.

[dennis tooth]

You think we spend wisely?

[ratcatcher]

You think we spend wisely?

 

What Im suggesttng is, if we spend wisely, I dont really care who signs the cheques.

 

There's been some very good deals, some very bad deals and the rest falling somewhere in between.

[dennis tooth]

What Im suggesttng is, if we spend wisely, I dont really care who signs the cheques.

 

There's been some very good deals, some very bad deals and the rest falling somewhere in between.

You say you dont mind mike gordon if we spend wisely? Since hes been here three years becoming Increasingly influential. Do you think we've spent wisely?

 

Cos that looks to me like you are saying yes, you think we've spent wisely.

[ratcatcher]

You say you dont mind mike gordon if we spend wisely? Since hes been here three years becoming Increasingly influential. Do you think we've spent wisely?

 

Cos that looks to me like you are saying yes, you think we've spent wisely.

 

Then you're being selective. And wrong.

[dennis tooth]

Then you're being selective. And wrong.

At best you are being dismissive of whether we have spent wisely while saying thats the thing that matters. I may be wrong but its due to the above confusing mumbling.

[ratcatcher]

At best you are being dismissive of whether we have spent wisely while saying thats the thing that matters. I may be wrong but its due to the above confusing mumbling.

 

You can accuse all you want, just as you misread all you want. Still doesnt make you right.

 

As for confusing ramblings, irony alert.

[dennis tooth]

You can accuse all you want, just as you misread all you want. Still doesnt make you right.

 

As for confusing ramblings, irony alert.

So have we spent wisely?

[Dr. J]

I heard one of the lads on TAW say that Gordon and Rodgers were very close, that Gordon was a big Rodgers supporter. If that's the case then they must have been in agreement on the transfer committee, in which case I'd expect Rodgers to be staying.

[Brigant Moloch]

I heard one of the lads on TAW say that Gordon and Rodgers were very close, that Gordon was a big Rodgers supporter. 

 

that's horseshit

[ritchie]

that's horseshit

Tony Barrett has said they're close.

[Anubis]

Dave Usher has also said they are close.

[Jairzinho]

Dave Usher has also said they are close.

 

Who's side of the argument are you taking here?

[Tony Moanero]

My right and left bollocks are close.

[Anubis]

You need to untwist them Tony. No wonder people say you moan a lot - the pain must be fucking excruciating. 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

I heard one of the lads on TAW say that Gordon and Rodgers were very close, that Gordon was a big Rodgers supporter. If that's the case then they must have been in agreement on the transfer committee, in which case I'd expect Rodgers to be staying.

Bumchums?