Reg » Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:52 am wrote:Eds as usual you get the wrong end of the stick, usually the end that's covered in pooh.
'The 'Yanks' as you call them bought a business and pay a management team in Liverpool to run it. They have an agreed business plan and a budget. Within the framework of that business plan, the management are free to do what they want and in the case of buyers, buy and sell who they want as long as the profile and value conforms to the agreed plan.
So, to clarify for your end of the stick, Ayres (another one you love, and of course Parry before him) and BR have agreed to the business plan and are accountable for it's implementation and success. If it becomes obvious the business plan is not working then as with any other business, the management can go back to the owners and present their case for changing the strategy. So the problem right now is the Liverpool management's inability to implement the agreed strategy, which is not 'the yanks' fault. If you had written 'The problem is that having been given the green light by the owners to spend 120 million, BR went out and bought a load of sh!te' then I would have agreed with you. But you prefer an 'Us and Them' scenario to deflect the blame onto 'the owners' - a kind of anti authority thing eh?
Accountability and responsibility is 100% in Liverpool mate, not in the States.
cardiff-red » Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:55 am wrote:Interesting stats... (should be noted Rafa didn't have 200 million to spend either)
Reg » Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:49 pm wrote:Eds, let me clarify what you said. The CEO and the team manager (effectively the general manager of the team side of the business as opposed to the commercial side of the club) have no input on the business plan and strategy to achieve those targets.
If you honestly believe that mate then no wonder the world's in economic crisis.
Beam me up Scottie.
ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Nov 24, 2014 1:32 pm wrote:I wish people would stop saying we wasted the money, I don't think we have, I'm convinced the likes of Moreno, Manquillo, Can, Markovic, Origi, Ilorri etc will be very, very good players by the time they get into their mid 20's, in fact some of them are more than decent now at 19/20, it's not them who are letting us down it's the old guard.
With hindsight though after going so close last year and losing Suarez we probably needed to buy players who were closer to becoming the finished product as opposed to potential.
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