In recent years Liverpool Football club has been in the news for good or bad reasons. The management of Liverpool have made some good and bad decisions. Which of the following decision you think Liverpool had made that are good for the club?. 1. Seeing off of Tom and George. 2. John Henry buying the club 3.Appointing Brendan Rodgers as manager. 4 Refusal to sell Luis Suarez. Vote:
None of the other decisions could have happened without getting rid of the muppet ownership. I doubt Suarez would have wanted to be part of LFC with that mess going on. We'd be in a spiraling debt- death loop. If Rodgers were appointed- his hands would be tied up. Booting H&G is the event that enabled the other three to happen. The other three couldn't have happened without them gone- and/or wouldn't have been as effective. Hicks And Gillett would have made Liverpool a non-challenger (perhaps a non Premier League club) on a long-term basis.
Ffs sake dribbles they all needed to happen in the order you posted for us to be in the position we are now. So only for the reason I've said it has to be number 1, they almost bankrupted us and if we hadn't manage to escape their clutches we'd problaby have been at the least relegated a division due to administration or liquidated and now playing in the blue square league under a different name.
You can only ever look past getting rid of Hicks & Gillette. The others are great but the above nearly destroyed the club, and the court decision paved the way for the new guys, new boss, new players and being 1st in the League. Lets not forget how **** it was only 3/4 so years ago.
Number two as proved to be good IMO, very happy with him as principal owner and FSG as a whole. They are doing exactly what I wished for when the previous yanks were here. Number three is proving very good at the moment. He wasn't my pick but he's had my 100% backing since it was announced and impressed me no end in his first year in post. I think he has done equally well this season and should he achieve the inthinkable (at the start of the season) then I'd agree with Carragher in it being our greatest achievement to date. Number four is undoubtedly a master stroke for this season. IMO, there is no way we'd be where we are now had he not been forced to stay. Although he is a ****, he IS our **** and I love the **** to bits too. However, I purposely left number one until last. Without doubt in my mind, this is the best thing the club has done, not just recently but in my lifetime! Those pair of planks were taking the club I love to a early grave. they needed to go and none of the other three points would have happened had they still been at the club for another three months, never mind until now!
Are 1 & 2 even decisions the club made? H&G's lack of money & pressure from the banks forced them to sell. And John Henry & FSG were the only real credible bidders from what I remember.
I understand what you're getting at but of course they were decisions made by the club. A decision had to be passed by our board, fortunately for us the previous yanks were stupid enough to pass over the controlling stake and Purslow, Ayre and Broughton made the right call Perhaps one and two were really just one decision though?
Very true but despite their powers being forcibly moved to others, the club and its employees with new found powers still made a decision.
If the thread title was "Best decision for Liverpool in recent years?" which way would you vote. I'd still vote 1....then 2....then 3....then 4
Number 2 is crucial is because they have redeveloped the club by taking a risk with a fresh young manager, committed to redeveloping the stadium, investing in the squad and doing it in a self sustainable way. Number 1 is obviously very good but we could have ended up with another set of cowboys. Either way - FSG play a big part in all 4 of those decisions.
