You wish you could play against Manure every week - OTT 50 [R]

Oldie, but a goodie:

 

It’s not just the manager, as the comms have finally gotten through their heads after the sh!tshow transfer season this last summer. The entire upper management/recruitment of that team is incompetent. It is clear the Glazers have no F’ing idea what they are doing, even after owning the team for close to 20 years. They walked into a cash cow and have treated it like that ever since. While Rednose was in charge things were fine. But he was really running the show, and there was no one around him who actually knew what they were doing. Had the Glazers actually been interested in understanding what it took to run a top Premiere club they should have learned as much as they could while he was still there, but they were only interested in raking in the money. Now they are screwed and will likely watch their investment continue to depreciate. The only way I see this changing is with a buy out that clears house. But that would take an investment team that actually knows what they are doing and has a shadow management team ready to come in and take over - and even then it will take 3-4 years to weed out and clear out the current players that need to go, and there is no guarantee they get it right. In my view the Glazers came in and basically ruined what was a footballing firmament through inattention.

In some respects I’m glad that Liverpool weren’t in as good shape when H&G took over. It meant when things started going off the rails that they couldn’t be papered over as long. We got a set of engaged owners, that after a few years of learning the ropes, figured out who they needed in key management/recruitment positions. Do I wish we had owners with a larger market cap wealth? Sure, but the ones we got seem to be shrewd operators and interested in growing the team the right way. What will be big is eventually lining up a replacement for Klopp, who was an inspired coaching choice. One hopes we can manage that transition better than ManU have…

 

I’m not sure what the fans demand matters anymore…