FSG and Ayre can f**k right off

[Guest ShoePiss]

Spesh judging by his use of the English language.

[KMD7]

Dicko this is bad. i read this morning about the fly on the wall doc to be shown on channel 4 and the states equivalent mid september that was filmed end of last season and start of this season. we lost in all and its cameras in the dressing room! I could on mate but we will all see on the tv. What happened to Liverpool I was brought up with. I quote the KGB & Nunnary....you know the saying once bitten twice shy! are we been fucked by a couple of cowbows again?! G

 

Are you Redshadow?

[STARDELTA]

HAHAHAHHA, I HEAR YA!

[Mascherano]

It is what it is!

 

I'd rather do nothing than panic buy. Rodgers is unproven. Lets not forget he categorically rejected a D of F, so we are where are, and it's down to Brendan.

 

There are signs he knows what he's doing and he has the balls to stand by his ideas.

 

So I'm OK with it. Give him time and don't blame FSG.

 

You stupid cocksucker.

[STARDELTA]

thought you would be out being american, campaigning for some vet!

[mighty sweater]

 

Still, I do agree with the sense of disappointment over not bringing another striker in as we are short up top. The defence and the midfield looks excellent to me though.

 

I'll go along with that "looks". However, where was our strength last year - the defence and our weakness - lack of goals. The game is still about scoring more than you concede. So how can we be certain we're in any better position until we see how we play?

[STARDELTA]

shoepiss, hows the presedential campaign going?

[Guest ShoePiss]

shoepiss, hows the presedential campaign going?

 

I think I'm going to win.

[STARDELTA]

carlsberg mate!

[STARDELTA]

are you going to find the O in O'Bama?

[JoeyJones65]

“I would say we certainly have the resources to compete with anybody in football,”

 

Tom Werner April 12. - LIE

 

At Rodgers’s unveiling in June, a club statement went even further, suggesting the high spending of the previous management regime would not impact on the new coach’s transfer plans.

 

It read: “The owners are always willing to provide funds where necessary to strengthen the squad. - LIE

 

“There will be no requirement to sell players this summer in order to fund new purchases.” - LIE

 

I don't trust FSG as far as I could throw them anymore, what with the blatant lies they have come out with, that and the distant lack of movement on the stadium. For me FSG can go fuck right off!

[Guest ShoePiss]

are you going to find the O in O'Bama?

 

English clearly isn't your first language, where are you from?

[SCOUSE TAPAS]

Indeed.

And he was also powerless to stop players being shipped out according to the same article.

 

Brendan Rodgers having full control over footballing matters seems to be a slight over egging of the pudding.

 

And by that I mean a huge steaming pile of fucking wank.

Utterly predictable.

I can never thank the owners enough for buying us and getting rid of Cunt and Aids before they killed us.

 

Up until fairly recently well more when Suarez was getting hammered by everyone,my opinion on the owners became more clearer and less hazed by blindness.

 

When they bought us we were told part of the criteria for anybody wanting us was the stadium issue.

 

Approaching two years(oct) since they bought us we are as close to sorting out the stadium issue as we were back in 92.

 

Oh sorry we have got/getting a tent so they can entertain there friends in it when they decide to show up for the odd game.

 

Now dont get me wrong about this and I am certain there not doing what Cunt and Aids were doing and robbing us blind.

 

What I will say is they could be twins in there saying there doing one thing when infact there doing nothing or the opposite.

 

People say Rafa was undermined by Cunt and Aids well maybe he was,but nowere near as much as these owners are doing to Rodgers.

 

They have made him out as a liar and a total idiot in front of everybody on more than one occassion.

 

I leaving it at that because it is so fucking annoying just how fucking stupid these owners are in things they have done.

[STARDELTA]

portland, Origin

[STARDELTA]

English clearly isn't your first language, where are you from?

portland origin! You not like the current american president?!

[zigackly]

Someone put the poor thing out of it's misery.

[Guest ShoePiss]

WHO IS CALLING THE SHOTS AT LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB? // The Anfield Wrap

 

By Sam Jones

 

LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB is in the midst of a crisis. Not the crisis you think I mean, not the deadline day debacle that is consuming the energy of most. This is a different sort of crisis, an enduring, ongoing crisis. Deadline day is part of it, yes, but it’s just the latest instalment, dating back for quite some time.

 

I’m talking about a crisis of leadership. Ever since Christian Purslow was rightly shown the door there has been a distinct lack of clarity about who was in charge. The manager has been in a position to pick the team, sure, but issues off the pitch have been far more problematic than even the mixed results on it.

 

John Henry, and to a lesser extent, Tom Werner are the people considered to have the final say, but if that’s the case, where are they? Where is the leadership? And if they don’t have the final say, if in fact, that rests with the man on the ground then where is Ian Ayre?

 

He’s at the front for photos, that we know, whether that’s collecting trophies or demonstrating his impeccable sartorial credentials during the signing of Nuri Sahin, but when it all kicks off? Where is he then?

 

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

When it all goes wrong Ian Ayre is nowhere to be seen. Henry likewise. The controversy surrounding Luis Suarez last year wasn’t a football problem. The issue wasn’t hitting the post, or complaining at referees, it was an allegation of racism. It was a massive PR issue for one of the world’s most famous football clubs. It threatened the “brand”. Sponsors. Revenues. It was a business problem.

 

And where was Ian Ayre? Kenny Dalglish was there, trying to support his player and guide the club through it, but that didn’t seem to have a strategy. It was a series of dealings with the media that weren’t joined up. But that wasn’t his job, it was Ayre’s.

 

There should have been a plan. We shouldn’t have presented all and sundry with such an easy target, from the widespread but incorrect reporting of the word “Negrito”, to the t shirts, to the absence of an appeal, the whole thing was mishandled. Not by Dalglish. He did what he could, but someone, someone in charge, should have sat down at the start and dictated the plan.

 

Maybe they did, but if that was the plan it speaks volumes for Ayre’s competence as well as his leadership. His complete absence of visibility throughout the whole saga.

 

I may be doing Ayre a disservice. Maybe this isn’t his remit, maybe he isn’t allowed to control these issues, but if that’s the case, who is? Henry? Werner? From Boston?

 

And regardless of who is in charge, where is the strategy? Managerial appointments have been either thrust upon them, with Dalglish, or handled bafflingly, in Rodgers. Not the choice, which may well prove to be right, but the process.

 

The public courting of so many managers, the indecision on a Director of Football. No strategy, no plan. No clue, it would seem. And throughout their tenure, the transfer strategy has been a mess. Not Ayre’s fault? Not Henry’s? If not, who appointed Comolli? The man whose statistical approach gave us Charlie Adam, and thought 35 million was a fair price to pay for Andy Carroll. More than Atletico Madrid paid for Falcao.

 

When you look at the value we found in the market this year, Allen at 15 million for example, what could we have done with the 55 million we spent on Carroll and Downing? One’s on loan, the other not a guaranteed starter, what would our current squad look like bolstered by 55 million?

 

Football decisions, yes, but football decisions made by men appointed by people who weren’t qualified to make those appointments. Men who make these decisions from the other side of the Atlantic.

 

And so, to this summer. Andy Carroll gets to go on loan. Brendan Rodgers says he would be “crazy” to let him go with no replacement. And yet there is no replacement. Is Rodgers crazy then, or just the latest manager to be let down by the club’s leadership, allowing their manager to take a public position that doesn’t transpire. For Rodger’s missing striker see Dalglish’s apology, for things he said and did during the Suarez saga that should have been handled by someone else. The club’s absent leaders.

 

And if today’s rumours are true, that Rodgers didn’t know his budget until the last day of the window, then where is the communication? Where is the leadership?

 

This isn’t about money, balance sheets, any of those things. It’s about the quality of leadership. It’s the thing that puts Willie Walsh in front of the cameras when British Airways have a problem, it’s the late Steve Jobs taking his business to the top with a vision that his whole organisation could buy into.

 

Liverpool have no one who does any of those things, and it’s costing us dear. It’s costing us opportunities, and we’re no further forward than they day they took over.

 

Ultimately the person who fills that role needs to be at the club. Every day. The owners are just shareholders. They aren’t in a position, unless they relocate, to perform that role. So we need someone who can. That someone isn’t Ian Ayre.

 

If you’re in any doubt about the importance of that job ask yourself this: would a Manchester United fan swap FSG for the Glazers? I guarantee they would, in a heartbeat. But would they swap David Gill for Ian Ayre? I think you know the answer.

[xerxes]

The Sam Jones article tells it how it is, a third rate MD running a first rate football club- it doesn't work.

[Major Tom]

The Sam Jones article tells it how it is, a third rate MD running a first rate football club- it doesn't work.

 

Beat another drum, xerxes.

 

We get it.

[xerxes]

When they bought us we were told part of the criteria for anybody wanting us was the stadium issue.

 

Approaching two years(oct) since they bought us we are as close to sorting out the stadium issue as we were back in 92.

 

This is not true.

 

They are reducing the competitiveness of the team so that a 44,500 capacity is plenty , no new stadium or extension of Anfield required - job done!

[Lee909]

Jesus Christ

 

Some shit spouting here

[Major Tom]

Jesus Christ

 

Some shit spouting here

 

Yep. Folk peddling their agendas like there ain't going to be a tomorrow.

 

Ayre, FSG, Rodgers, Kenny, Commoli, Jack Ruby are all to blame for Friday's fiasco, depending on who your particular gripe is with.

 

Ridiculous.

[Guest San Don]

WHO IS CALLING THE SHOTS AT LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB? // The Anfield Wrap

 

By Sam Jones

 

LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB is in the midst of a crisis. Not the crisis you think I mean, not the deadline day debacle that is consuming the energy of most. This is a different sort of crisis, an enduring, ongoing crisis. Deadline day is part of it, yes, but it’s just the latest instalment, dating back for quite some time.

 

If you’re in any doubt about the importance of that job ask yourself this: would a Manchester United fan swap FSG for the Glazers? I guarantee they would, in a heartbeat. But would they swap David Gill for Ian Ayre? I think you know the answer.

 

A thought provoking article. Dont agree with the last paragraph though. Im not convince united fans would swap the glazers for FSG 'in a heartbeat.'

[xerxes]

Yep. Folk peddling their agendas like there ain't going to be a tomorrow.Ayre, FSG, Rodgers, Kenny, Commoli, Jack Ruby are all to blame for Friday's fiasco, depending on who your particular gripe is with.

Ridiculous.

And some still swallow the company line, doff their hat, and say "yes sir."

[Major Tom]

And some still swallow the company line, doff their hat, and say "yes sir."

 

Yep, they are no doubt here as well.

 

But keep peddling though, xerxes. Saying the same thing over and over and over and over definitely makes it true.