Further to my thread on foreign ownership yesterday yet another football manager has bitten the dust with Steve Kean likely to follow in a few days. Whether you agree with the sacking of Kenny Dalgleish or not is irrelevant because I believe it's all down to the lack of support managers receive from their overseas bosses who clearly don't understand the ways of the game. They sit on their foreign thrones and dictate to their chosen leaders at the the sharp end raising criticism and scorn at every attempt rather than understanding what is needed to sort out the problem. Was I imagining the recently created policies that dictated that foreign owneship is OK, if they are determined to be of upstanding character or is it just a case of smoke and mirrors again? Surely it's time to revisit the rules that are so clearly out of whack when we allow this type of investment in the sport and a review of the clubs in some kind of turmoil only highlights the point further. Are we so blind that we can't come up with a set of rules that demands that the monies used to purchase clubs has to be lodged in a British bank so that when things go sideways the businesses who supply goods and services and staff are protected and not left high and dry by some kind of getout on behalf of the owners? Doesn't anybody at the top management level of the sport realise that these so called investors are only interested in their own egos and will never have the interest of the game anywhere in their mindset? One of the first rules of business investment, and football is no different, is to have a complete understanding and conducting a full survey of where your money is going and how best to make sure it works correctly. I truly don't believe that many, if any, of these new monied investors have a clue about our game despite waving the proverbial flag and making commitments to the frustrated supporters who hope that the new order will lead them to success. Sure you can use Man City as a guidepost but their success has been brought at a tremendous cost and they end up with really commited players dedicated to bringing a good feeling back to the Etihad (I rest my case on that score) such as Balotelli and Tevez, both of whom will get back on the plane soon because they can't get 500K a week. The world of finance has been turned on it's head in the last 10 years but surely if finacial accountability is what the league wants then they need to keep the ownership issue closer to home because that's where the heart of this game resides.
Not really true Mike. The Liverpool board backed Kenny in the transfer market, and all he has done is spend 35 million on Carol and loads on Henderson plus a few others. For what a Carling Cup which ended in a penalty shoot out with Cardiff, who I thought matched Liverpool in every dept! You can say the FA cup as runners up, but at the end of the day they lost. Plus falling down the premiership. No I think they backed him, but unfortunately they are falling fast behind the other teams in that league
if theres one true saying its never go back, dalglish, with the very best of intentions, made that mistake and now hes paid the price, perhaps he showed misguided loyalty to the wrong players,
Did you see the Liverpool fan interviewed on SSN? Fan: "The problem with Kenny was, you should never go back." Reporter: "Who do you want next?" Fan: "Rafa."
The Suarez saga was very damaging to Dalglish - the Americans (and sponsors) were not impressed. I'm not sure they wanted to appoint him in the first place
