Kharhaz wrote:yckatbjywtbiastkamb wrote:that article is saying the owners have left the situation to ayre and dalglish and thats fair enough but i dont buy that they didnt know what was going on.
for me the critical point for this whole saga was that day when the players warmed up with suarez t shirts on and the club issued a strong statement.
the t shirts and the statement were the things that sent a `this could be a bit of a cultural missunderstanding` issue into a LFC v the press and the rest of the planet public relations war.
i dont blame the players for wanting to show suarez they were backing him, thats a natural thing for team mates to do but all big companies have chairmen and chief executives who can see where certain situations can lead. that is their job, to set the direction and the tone for the company.
you cant tell me that over an issue as serious as this that our owners werent informed of the stance the club was going to take.
that was the point were the senior management should have said, no everyone calm down and we`ll release a statement to take the heat out of the situation.
thats what management is there for in business.
for the senior management of the club to back our beligerent stance but then when the storm erupts to allow kenny and luis to take all the blame is out of order imo.
i doubt kenny and luis were the ones behind the beligerent statement.
Take into account everything this club has gone through with Hicks and Gillett. When they took over they also had to suffer them idiots before they took control. During the time FSG took over they have gone out of their way to understand the club, the supporters and the city.
In the process of doing so, they have done wonders to give the fans what they want. Supporters to represent the club, money to spend and indeed appointing our hero to manage the club. THIS speaks volumes to me. They understand what we want.
They also understand that not all supporters share the same view as others. Take for example the SOS. Some supporters couldn't praise them enough, others thought ill of them. So they took all this into account when forming the LFC Supporters Committee (which incidentally I think the initial statement came from, with legal advise of course).
They knew what was going on, they knew the stance of others at the club, but they also knew that to speak to the media in this country, whatever they say will be twisted to make them look like bigots.
the owners have been good up to now but to have kenny dalglish in a situation were he has to make an apology for just doing what he has always done - stick up for this club and it`s players is a monumental p.r f##k up.
kenny is a f##king winner, he never rolled over infront of anyone in his whole life, for him to swallow his pride and offer a grovelling apology to the likes of sky, the press, manchester united and more importantly ferguson must have broke his heart, but the man did it because he loves this club.
i didnt like the tone in the echo tonight either, suggesting suarez might be more trouble than he`s worth, the day this club gets told what to do by the same press and media who have lambasted this city for decades and the day this club gets told what to do by alex ferguson then quite frankly as far as i am concerned LFC doesnt exist anymore, at least the one i used to know.
off with the owners and there dealings with this . Can i ask any of our american brothers if the Owners would let the yankees shaft the red sox like this ?
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