It's not a franchise. With 50+1 it is the club and Ismaik fighting over club policy for the last 6 years and 80 million investments down the drain
870201216621580288 is not a valid tweet id Ian Ayre possible the only guy with balls in this whole club
Good interview with Peter Moore ... http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40115067 New Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore says he has been eavesdropping on fans' pub conversations to get their views on the club - before they recognise him. The Liverpool-born 62-year-old, a former EA Sports executive, starts his new role on Thursday, succeeding Ian Ayre, who left in February after 10 years at the club. "I wandered down the road looking for a pint on Sunday and I just sat in the pub listening to three guys on the next table dissecting every position for 45 minutes. It was compelling," he said. "They didn't have a clue who I was." But Moore told BBC Sport any transfer targets the fans had in mind would be unlikely to influence the club's policy as those responsible for buying players - manager Jurgen Klopp and sporting director Michael Edwards - were "trusted implicitly". "There's two Peter Moores," he said. "There's the fan who has his own opinions about what needs to happen and that Peter Moore stays in a box somewhere. "And then there's the Peter Moore that trusts implicitly what Michael Edwards and Jurgen Klopp and their staff are doing right now. We've got that well under control." Liverpool 'part of my DNA' Liverpool-born Moore, who is currently based in the United States, will move back to the city this month to take up his new role. He has 40 years of experience working for large companies and has held various positions at Electronic Arts over the past 10 years. But Moore still remembers his first game in 1959 and says he can empathise with those who go to Anfield. "It's part of my DNA. I can still feel being on The Kop in the old days and moving 15 steps up and down depending on what was going on on the pitch. "We're in this together, we are a collective. The socialist beliefs that are core to this club all pulling together here. It's very unique and very different. "If you grew up here in the sixties as a kid and a family these were tough times. There were very few things you had to hang on to or look forward to - for all of us it was three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon at Anfield." Moore says fans will drive his decision-making. "When I think about what we need to do here there's a mentality that I have that I will call fan first, which is when we make decisions 'what does this mean for the fan?'" he said. For Moore, fans are not limited to those attending matches, but those global fans "sitting at 4am in San Francisco with my red shirt on and living and dying with every kick from 5,200 miles away". How much will Liverpool spend this summer? Liverpool have already begun their transfer business, agreeing to sign 19-year-old Chelsea striker Dominic Solanke for a fee of around £3m. But Moore would not be drawn on the club's spending plans for this transfer window: "Who do we need to buy? That's not how it works around here. "There's a constant process of identifying talent, looking at the opportunities, and like any good business what you do is you say 'we've got a weakness here or we need to invest there build for the future'." Will being in Champions League again help? Liverpool secured their return to Champions League football for the 2017-18 season with victory over Middlesbrough on the final day of the season. Klopp's side finished fourth in the final Premier League table and will have to negotiate Champions League qualifying at the start of next season. "We have deserved to get back and that is building a better platform for us to be more attractive to players," said Moore. "It's obviously worth money, and that's public, but we become more of an attractive club again. "Players who want to play in Champions League - let's not forget this is a World Cup season at the end of next year and players want their national team managers to see them on the big stages."
Bugger: Michael Edwards - Liverpool's sporting director behind signing Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, Sadio Mane, Alisson and selling Philippe Coutinho for £142m - 'tells bosses he's leaving and will step down next summer' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...-Edwards-tells-bosses-hes-leaving-summer.html
At this end of the game, it’s a business and not a game so LFC, like all efficiently run businesses, will (should) have a line of succession. You can bet they have an always updated top 5 to replace Klopp. No doubting it’s better to have Edwards than not, but I’d be reasonably optimistic about the man supposedly ready to take over, Julian Ward.
the Echo says it's not decided yet ..... Liverpool are continuing attempts to convince Michael Edwards to extend his stay at the club. A report in the Athletic has claimed Edwards has informed the Reds of his desire to leave at the end of the current campaign. The ECHO understands the sporting director’s current contract expires next summer, with Liverpool keen for him to remain in the position.
my concerns if he does leave are (a) where he goes and (b) what kind of inside info on our current players, target players, negotiation approach etc. he could share with his new club.
The timing of this news of Edwards wanting to leave is interesting to me. Still has one year remaining on his contract and this info release comes out just as the window is closing .Also at a time when the club has done very little business. A coincidence?
Perhaps , I dunno , Sam . It just seems a bit suspect that with a year left on his deal why does this come out right at the end of a transfer window ?
assuming there isn't a "no compete" clause in his contract, which there very likely is... I doubt he'd be able to walk out and immediately take up a job with a competitor (at least one hopes).
yeah I get that but non-competes don't last forever. plus I've no clue how prevalent they are in the footie world, where managers get fired one month and get a new job a short time later. (and "gardening leave" is for people who lose their job i.e. get paid to go away - not people who quit.)
quite prevalent I would guess. when we hired the city scout several years ago they had a 6month or 1year non-compete.
Yes he would. LFC will have a clause in his employment contract which stipulates how long he’ll have to sit out. He’ll be getting paid, but won’t be allowed work in a certain period - usually a year or 18 months, sometimes longer - unless the club agree to it. Assuming it’s in the same business. If he wants to go with Elon Musk and shuttle off to space, there’s nothing the club can do; if he wants to rock up at the Emirates to help Mikel, then LFC will enforce the gardening leave.
Completely, absolutely and 100% not true. No matter how you exit a company - quit, fired, laid off by merger - you’re subject to the gardening leave clauses of your original contract. Unless you’ve specifically negotiated them down or out (very unusual), in which case your total comp is lower, a lot lower.
you're saying don't agree with me? tbh I'd never heard the expression "gardening leave" up until about 2 years ago. I sit corrected.
My guess is that Edwards would be on a 1 year non-compete, maybe 18 months. Once you start going into the 2 year (and plus) timelines, employment law tends to take a dim view, i.e. restraint of trade, pension contributions, viability in the marketplace, etc. But if you’re compensated well enough, you might take a 2 year deal. But in this case it’s unlikely. Edwards’ value would be hugely diminished with 2 years on the sidelines. A lot less so with 1 and even 18 months would be palatable.