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patience mate, thats all. we'll bag at least a striker in January, I'm sure of it. then it'll be a run up to summer for BR to spot where he needs to strengthen. But they wont throw £100 million into the pot this January. it'll be done in small steps but have faith... we will get there!

redno7 » Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:37 pm wrote:small steps...

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redno7 » Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:59 am wrote:patience mate, thats all. we'll bag at least a striker in January, I'm sure of it. then it'll be a run up to summer for BR to spot where he needs to strengthen. But they wont throw £100 million into the pot this January. it'll be done in small steps but have faith... we will get there!

I'll be dead and buried at this rate.

Boxscarf » Sun Dec 09, 2012 5:02 pm wrote:

redno7 » Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:59 am wrote:patience mate, thats all. we'll bag at least a striker in January, I'm sure of it. then it'll be a run up to summer for BR to spot where he needs to strengthen. But they wont throw £100 million into the pot this January. it'll be done in small steps but have faith... we will get there!

I'll be dead and buried at this rate.

That wouldn't be a bad thing.

Kenny Kan » Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:32 am wrote:

Boxscarf » Sun Dec 09, 2012 5:02 pm wrote:

redno7 » Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:59 am wrote:patience mate, thats all. we'll bag at least a striker in January, I'm sure of it. then it'll be a run up to summer for BR to spot where he needs to strengthen. But they wont throw £100 million into the pot this January. it'll be done in small steps but have faith... we will get there!

I'll be dead and buried at this rate.

That wouldn't be a bad thing.

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You not keen on him either. 

Not a peep for a while now from these boys on the team or the stadium issues.

With an impending apocolypse they may be hiding in their bunker until Friday at least,
and if the prophecy is false get back down there in January if they dont start opening
their wallets to give us our mighty reds back.

The first thing they need to do is replace Ayre with a competent CEO before the January transfer window. God knows how the bloke has kept a job for so long.

Fenway Sports Group will eventually need to sit down and decide whether they'll sell the Red Sox and keep Liverpool or keep the Red Sox and sell Liverpool because they sure as hell cannot manage both. Red Sox fans are unhappy with the state of their baseball club, they are facing the same sort of problems that this club faces under the FSG ownership.

Robert Kraft was intelligent enough not to pursue our club back in the day because he knew a club like Liverpool needs a lot of investment and that he wasn't prepared to invest his own money into the club. That's the reality that FSG face, in order for the club to get greater revenue stream increases, they'll need to help out the manager by dipping into their own pockets for the time being, until Liverpool starts getting money from CL football and until someone comes in aid us in the expansion of Anfield.

We don't need a Sugar Daddy, but we do need owners with the willingness and the determination to do anything possible to improve this club, FSG have done nothing but help develop us into a mid-table side. If Rodgers isn't backed in the transfer market in Jan or next summer, then I think a lot of our players will be questioning whether or not it will be good for their careers to remain at such an ambitionless club.

How are FSG seen not to be backing their managers when we have outspent the likes of Spurs, Arsenal, Newcastle and Everton on both gross and net spend since they’ve been at the club. I just don’t get it. Rodgers and Ayre were given a budget this summer (again greater than those teams mentioned) and we spent the majority of it on Allen and Borini. If we didn’t have enough left over from the allotted budget for Dempsey it’s not FSG’s fault.

I'm not sure if we outspent all those teams but I bet none of them got rid of as many attacking players in one transfer window as we did, and saved a couple of million quid a month in wages. If they'd have replaced them with 2 or 3 players like Dempsey, Sturridge, Walcott, Sigurdsson like they intended our squad would now be a lot stronger. I'm not blaming anyone as I think that was the intention but it was early days and for whatever reason things didn't go to plan.

Let's hope we've had time to sort things out, perhaps identify improved targets and get things moving early in the January window. Hopefully they're plannning further ahead and looking at targets for next summer as well. You can't rebuild a squad in one transfer window, they need 3 or 4 windows to show us that they mean business. If we're still struggling then it might be time to start asking questions but not yet.

In fairness to FSG they backed Kenny Dalglish and he squandered the money on the wrong players, but they haven't really backed Brendan Rodgers this season. They want a top four finish off the back of £30m being allocated to the manager when we have more holes in our squad than a block of emmental cheese.

A club operating on such a small budget with such holes in their squad cannot hope to achieve such a jump from 4th to 8th. It's near enough impossible, especially when you only have one striker capable of delivering the goods. I reckon we would have been a lot better off this season had we kept the trio of Bellamy, Kuyt and Maxi. All three players had the ability to come off the bench and make an impact. Kuyt and Maxi scored some vital goals for us last season and their presence is missed within our squad. We don't really have anyone who can come off the bench and make such an impact.

What is a large investment to NESV is not nearly enough to get Liverpool back amongst
the best sides in the country.

I think they are doing what they can and you cant expect people to throw money in they
dont have as that would be a recipe for disaster, its just I get frustrated when people like
these buy in and promise so much but deliver nothing at all.

They havent done anything really have they, hire and fire is their legacy to this point.

Boxscarf » Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:24 pm wrote:I reckon we would have been a lot better off this season had we kept the trio of Bellamy, Kuyt and Maxi.

Agree 100%, all 3 of those players could have made draws turn into wins for us. They may have had high wages but compared to our current struggler's I'd have them any day of the week.

I've said before, I thank them for clearing our debts and from administration 2 years ago and that's where my gratitude to them ends. After all that, they haven't done enough to get us back to be among the elites. The 120 million that Kenny wasted was mostly from sale of outgoing players not from their pockets. If they're not going to back BR with at least 50 million which Arsene W. is going to get in the next window BTW, they MUST LEAVE.