NEIL ATKINSON is joined in the tower on this week’s City Talk show by John Gibbons, Rob Gutmann and Andy Heaton to discuss whether Liverpool are ambitious enough, and whether they are doing all they can to give themselves a platform to succeed.
They are also preview the MUST WIN Chelsea fixture against Chelsea with Times journalist Rory Smith.
So Daniel Sturridge has been injured all along. Someone needs to call out the manager and/or the club on this. They’ve been slurring a committed, professional athlete’s character for around a year now. Appalling behaviour.
It feels as though this ‘crushing new injury set back/hopeful of return’ cycle we’ve all been getting strung along on has spanned generations, which surely cannot be right because he’s only been here a couple of years. Will this season ever be over?
I think FSG wants success for the club but they just don’t wanna pay loads or work ways hard for it
Like a teenage kid with huge dreams and huge talk but shit application and shirks the issue in critical moments
The club is worth a lot more than they paid for it, and that value is increasing with new TV deals and a stadium issue being addressed. FSG can borrow against the equity increase to buy further businesses to add to their portfolio.
Even if they don’t sell the club, they can leverage the hell out of it for completely unrelated investments without impacting LFC (unless they fuck up and the bank comes calling).
I think much of the discussion about the level of engagement and commitment from the owners misses the mark, and is based on unrealistic expectations of the owners could or should be doing to improve the chances of success for the club.
LFC have a Liverpool based CEO who we should expect has the authority to run the club day to day. Much of the supporter base seems to think that CEO, Ian Ayre, is an idiot who can’t be trusted to do his job, but FSG clearly have a different view having promoted him from MD to CEO.
FSG don’t seem to just leave the CEO to his own devices, and Henry name checks Mike Gordon as the member of the ownership group spends a lot of time on LFC business working with Ayre, Amazingly in this modern age it is possible for Mike Gordon to work with Ayre without the need for him to jump on a plane every week.
It might make us feel that the owners are more committed if they are in the ground more often, (perhaps in a club shirt a la Mike Ashley?) but it wouldn’t make any real difference to the club’s chance of success.
Rodger’s bingo anyone?
‘Character’
‘Willingness’
‘Outstanding’
‘Respect’
‘Togetherness’
‘Almost won the league’
‘We’ll keep going’
Technician
Like I say
Goodbye