Ian Ayre Interview

Rodgers is inexperienced? Really guys come on, hes been in the game how long now? Who has he worked with/under?

Glen Driscoll - head of performance at Anfield - was also a coach at Stamford Bridge under the London club's two most successful recent managers.

We need to focus on the truth here - not the current media spin of “Liverpool are heading in the right direction”etc

Champions League winners, 2006 FA Cup winners, 2007 Champions League RUp, 2009 Premier League RUp. We were not that far away back in 2009 but had owners that forced a proven Premier League manager to “sell-to-buy”
We will never know whether a couple of good strategic purchases that summer would have resulted in Premier League success…. But sadly we now all know that we are a long way away from the level of the 2009 team.

What is for sure is that nothing has really changed - to succeed at the highest level in the Premier League and in Europe, serious investment is needed. That has not really happened yet.

I think our owners purchased an investment. They bought Liverpool FC as a global brand with the promise of Financial Fair Play rules being implemented to control the excesses of certain clubs. They thought that if they did what they did in Boston and inserted a hungry young manager and team that success would follow. But we do not have the American Baseball handicapping system that can shift the balance of teams to ensure different teams have success. A quick look at the MLB site - http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp - shows Boston at the bottom of their league.

We, and they are now caught in a vicious circle. To maximise on the global brand – European success is needed – and we are currently unlikely to even qualify for Europe. That gets me to the next worrying point. We have always been able to raise ourselves for the Premier League ‘big boys’ but with our young inexperienced manager we are getting no points against them….. He is on a steep learning curve and when we do finally qualify for Europe, he will be on another learning curve……

I doom agree gloom the doom manager gloom and doom the gloom board doom must gloom all doom step gloom down!

FFS!!!!!

We need to be practical and buy a few players for the here and now to fill in for a few years until the U21 players mature. We cannot promote any more youngsters, it would be suicidal, 3 young players is enough in the first team.

We need to be practical and buy a few players for the here and now to fill in for a few years until the U21 players mature. We cannot promote any more youngsters, it would be suicidal, 3 young players is enough in the first team.

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But instead we are looking at bringing in Tom Ince

Midtable is where it's at for us now.

It was an interesting article that seems quite clear in showing the direction the owners want to take the club. Painful as the next season or two may be, if the plan all comes together it could work well for us.

Every one I would imagine is in agreement that only going into the season with 2 strikers (not one as a lot of people claim) was a mistake. Would we really have been happy however, if we had 3 strikers and one was Carroll?

Most of the criticism I can detect relates to the owners not spending at the same level as clubs at the top end of the table. Is that really what most people are unhappy about? that the club doesn;t generate the same money as the big earners (which FSG appear to have done a decent job in addressing), and that the owners arent investing tems of millions of their own money?

Every one I would imagine is in agreement that only going into the season with 2 strikers (not one as a lot of people claim) was a mistake.

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In the OP I said a recognised senior striker.

Borini is 22 years old and played 4 games for Chelsea and less than 25 games for Roma. It's dubious whether he could qualify as being a senior player.

I did notice you used the word 'senior'. I wasn;t necessarily directing that comment at you. But my point there was that alot of people seem to discount Borini for whatever reason.

Er. Can we have owners like Chelsea, City and Utd please. They seem to know what works....

I.E: A F£$£load of wedge, decent scouts etc.

Jaywalkerpunkrawker

Err - no thanks. Build a team over years with a great youth policy = exciting. Go and buy the ready made player and buy success = boring - no thanks