lakes10 wrote:the bottom line is mane that the owners only care about the money, if they canmake money without us winning anything then they donrt care, if we dont make money and have not won anything then they will make the change,
right now its more like Rafa walking ftom the club than him getting sacked.
its down to who acts first, Rafa walking to the owners sacking him, if we get a big tv final and make a bit of money for the owners then they might change there mind for a bit...untill they look at what Rafa might ask for the next year.
See I think in this current climate Lakes, they aren't going to "make" any money, and I think they are well aware of the fact. The best they can hope for right now is to stay afloat, not have the banks nick it back off of them and hold out until the world economy picks up (all only my opinion of course).
Until Liverpool FC gets a new stadium (which they can't afford), competing financially with Chelsea, Man Utd or Man City is a pipedream, as is "making money". In reality, even WINNING the Premiership might be a dream too, certainly on anything like a consistent basis.
I think the owners aren't idiots, and realise this. Given that fact, their best bet as I say is to hold on, not lob any more money than they absolutely have to into what is effectively a bottomless pit, and hope against hope that somebody far richer and far less concerned about balancing the books comes along and takes the thing off their hands, hopefully for a tidy profit.
Given all of that, they aren't too concerned about a genuine title challenge. They aren't too concerned about Carling Cups, FA Cups and the like, just so long as we are in Europe (preferably the Champions League obviously) and punching our wieght, which we are and no doubt will continue to do under Rafa. As I've said a couple of times, things as they are suit them just fine.
If you were to ask them if they think spending 16 million quid paying Rafa off, getting a new manager in who would want his own players and backroom staff with the added expense of all that was a good idea, what do you think they'd say? I think they'd say "feck right off". There's absolutely no guarantee that a new manager would make the club worth any more in pound notes than it currently is (its even concieveable that he could make it worth less), and Rafa has been tamed as far as his interviews are concerned. Why change, spend a shedload of cash and risk the wrath of the vocal matchgoer?
Doesn't matter wich way you look at it, Rafa suits them down to the ground.
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