Topic: FSG discussion thread

[clinical]

Something has had to cause the mass resignation. Either new onwers are close (I doubt it) or there's been some major disagreements.

[Solomon Grundy]

The Saudi minister put it as "Private Sector" mate. 

Aaaahhhh...O.k...Sure...Private sector.

[Hazell]

Aaaahhhh...O.k...Sure...Private sector.

If we have 'legally binding assurances', then I'm sure it's all above board.

[TwitterJayy]

Wool shout.

Tbf to him there’s loads of scousers that would take them.
I don’t think we will get anyone from the Middle East anyway.

[McSquared]

They have a large following in Manchester and Greater Manchester. That cannot be denied. Yes, the Etihad was far too big for them but I believe they're reducing the capacity, which should lead to fewer empty seats on show.

I lived in manchester for 10 years from 96-06. Outside of gorton and fallowfield there was nobody. Saw more liverpool shirts knocking round than city ones. Where i worked there were 3 city fans

[Son of Spion]

Look at his post count. They all piled in when the news first broke but got shouted down and went quiet. Now they're all rushing back in again.

Just because we might walk away from the club doesn't mean we're walking away from this forum, so if they think they're going to turn RAWK into their personal playground, they're on a hiding to nothing.

I know, but just thought I'd give the benefit of the doubt by asking him straight.

It's a poor attitude if genuinely held. It's all a bit, fuck that Shankly guy off. Paisley too. Old arses. And the fans that have been there solidly through triumph, disaster and mediocrity. The fans that made the Spion Kop what it is/was. The fans that made the club what it was/is. Yes, just fuck them all off, the miserable twats who won't welcome despotic tyrants.

I tell you, on the one hand I wish men like Shankly were still around but, on the other, I'm glad they aren't anymore, because seeing football today would break their hearts. Same with so many of the Spion Kop regulars who made that terrace the most famous in the world to this day. They'd be turning in their graves if they heard fellow Reds begging for a murdering despot to take over our club.

But yes, fuck off with your tradition, your principles, your history and your morals. Let's just grab ourselves a despot so we can brag about being fuckin' rich. 


I hope anyone off here who does walk away from the game still continues to post. I know I will. There are too many quality people here for me to bin RAWK off.

[Red Beret]

I know, but just thought I'd give the benefit of the doubt by asking him straight.

It's a poor attitude if genuinely held. It's all a bit, fuck that Shankly guy off. Paisley too. Old arses. And the fans that have been there solidly through triumph, disaster and mediocrity. The fans that made the Spion Kop what it is/was. The fans that made the club what it was/is. Yes, just fuck them all off, the miserable twats who won't welcome despotic tyrants.

I tell you, on the one hand I wish men like Shankly were still around but, on the other, I'm glad they aren't anymore, because seeing football today would break their hearts. Same with so many of the Spion Kop regulars who made that terrace the most famous in the world to this day. They'd be turning in their graves if they heard fellow Reds begging for a murdering despot to take over our club.

But yes, fuck off with your tradition, your principles, your history and your morals. Let's just grab ourselves a despot so we can brag about being fuckin' rich. 

I hope anyone off here who does walk away from the game still continues to post. I know I will. There are too many quality people here for me to bin RAWK off.

Aye. It's clear that the modern "fan" sees us as dinosaurs who stand in the way of progress, and will gleefully see us fucked off because the only thing that matters anymore is spending hundreds of millions and winning trophies. Not unity, not heart, not community - just "give us the fucking silverware and how high do you want us to jump?"

I don't know if there are many in the city itself who hold those views, but there's plenty of Liverpool fans who have never set foot in the city who could tell them a thing or two about the core values of our club and what it means to support it.

[Chakan]

End of a cycle for us - get the Saudis in, they’ll have the squad refreshed in no time - people who don’t like them have already told us they hardly watch football anymore, so no collateral damage 😂😂

Jesus christ.

I mean...

Wow. Loss for words really.

[MD1990]

Cant really see us signing anyone in January now with FSG looking to sell & our Sporting Director leaving next summer.

[Son of Spion]

Aye. It's clear that the modern "fan" sees us as dinosaurs who stand in the way of progress, and will gleefully see us fucked off because the only thing that matters anymore is spending hundreds of millions and winning trophies. Not unity, not heart, not community - just "give us the fucking silverware and how high do you want us to jump?"

I don't know if there are many in the city itself who hold those views, but there's plenty of Liverpool fans who have never set foot in the city who could tell them a thing or two about the core values of our club and what it means to support it.

They say Thatcherism never won in the end, but I think it did.

Community. Society. Unity. Solidarity. Authenticity. Morality. Human decency. Fuck them, just give me your money. Do what you want to me, but just show me the cash.

[Mighty_Red]

I wouldn't read too much into those Saudi quotes, just looking for attention.

Honestly more worried about our structure now, 1 guy leaving doesn't make a big difference but several doesn't bode well. Pretty sure Edwards was well handled way in advance, with a successor already lined up. Ward may he working his notice but I'd have to question his commintment. Not sure why you'd quit the top job so soon after getting it.

Changing the pieces so quickly will lead to mistakes being made. It puts more pressure on Jurgen to not only lead the team but to lead the rest of the sporting side as well.

[killer-heels]

I wouldn't read too much into those Saudi quotes, just looking for attention.

Honestly more worried about our structure now, 1 guy leaving doesn't make a big difference but several doesn't bode well. Pretty sure Edwards was well handled way in advance, with a successor already lined up. Ward may he working his notice but I'd have to question his commintment. Not sure why you'd quit the top job so soon after getting it.

Changing the pieces so quickly will lead to mistakes being made. It puts more pressure on Jurgen to not only lead the team but to lead the rest of the sporting side as well.

Thing is what buys us some time is that Klopp is in place as is the footballing structure, plus we have a lot of top players at the club. Where it could cost us in the short term could be us giving contracts out to players who shouldn’t get them, on account of maybe the manager being loyal to one or two of them.

Also god knows what happens now with transfers. I don’t see how the owners want out and so does the sporting director and we just sign who we want.

[surfer. Fuck you generator.]

This is how empires / businesses arrive at an inflection point - when a significant number of the main decision-makers leave, for whatever reason and you have to pick the next batch / model of operations.

No drama or sense of theatre, but in practice, this is more important than any champions league final or league title deciding game.

The club's at a decisive point in in its modern history imo, taking into account the potential sale to a buyer of unknown pedigree, the change in the top execs and potential quality or otherwise of what's to follow there, the boon or bane of the added responsibilities for Klopp going forward.

[Red Beret]

They say Thatcherism never won in the end, but I think it did.

Community. Society. Unity. Solidarity. Authenticity. Morality. Human decency. Fuck them, just give me your money. Do what you want to me, but just show me the cash.

People will go full Purge soon. Selling themselves for a packet to be murdered.

I wouldn't read too much into those Saudi quotes, just looking for attention.

No, it's very calculated. The Saudis want to see which set of fans jump and how high. They're testing the waters. I feel this is an endgame move in a long war of attrition we could never hope to win.

As for Jurgen, he's found himself in Rafa's position. He won't quit, because he knows what the club means to the fans - like Rafa, he epitomises the spirit of the club. If he walked away, he'd feel he was abandoning us. But after his contract is up, he'll be done.

[richmiller1]

Losing Edward's, Ward and Graham in the space of 12 months is pretty seismic. I struggle to believe it is unrelated to the ownership question.

When the people at the top of a structure have one foot out of the door it inevitably spreads across the internal culture. I've seen it play out with CEOs and business owners in the run up to retirement or sale repeatedly in my professional life. Obviously football is a very different environment given the pre-eminence of the manager and FSG will hopefully be wise to the risks of a leadership void and avoidance of big decisions, and the knock on effect on the valuation of the club. Nonetheless we really need the ownership question settled swiftly, who knows what decay will set in if this drags on into next season.

[Fruity]

Something has had to cause the mass resignation. Either new onwers are close (I doubt it) or there's been some major disagreements.

None of this news is good really. Either we are close to a sale which I think is unlikely or there is a lot of negative shit going on behind the scenes. All a bit shit if you ask me.

[killer-heels]

None of this news is good really. Either we are close to a sale which I think is unlikely or there is a lot of negative shit going on behind the scenes. All a bit shit if you ask me.

We still have an amazing manager and a great team, which does need some more work, but a lot going for it. It can’t just all fall apart considering the football side is still all in tact. It does give us some continuity whilst everything in the background gets sorted.

The only issue I think will be transfers. Reckon many of those deals could be fucked.

[PeterTheRed ...]

Well, I wouldn't be shocked if Jurgen has got bigger power over transfers as part of his new deal ...

[thejbs]

Wool shout.

Nah, cretin shout. I'm a wool and I'd be done the minute we announce a Saudi takeover.

[Chakan]

Nah, cretin shout. I'm a wool and I'd be done the minute we announce a Saudi takeover.

[Egyptian36]

Did any of the journalists talk about why Graham is leaving and if his team will follow him or stay ?

[Fruity]

We still have an amazing manager and a great team, which does need some more work, but a lot going for it. It can’t just all fall apart considering the football side is still all in tact. It does give us some continuity whilst everything in the background gets sorted.

The only issue I think will be transfers. Reckon many of those deals could be fucked.

Yes we still have Klopp but seems a bit odd why a few senior people are looking to leave especially at the same time as FSG announcing they are looking to sell. What do they know that we don't.

[killer-heels]

Yes we still have Klopp but seems a bit odd why a few senior people are looking to leave especially at the same time as FSG announcing they are looking to sell. What do they know that we don't.

They could have just been approached by our rivals and other clubs? Rather than wait to see what happens to their jobs under new owners, maybe they got offers to work under a more settled structure?

Could indicate that they know a full sale is on the cards.

[Caps4444]

Unfortunately if an Oil state buys United, then they will blow everyone out of the water…..

[Avens]

Unfortunately if an Oil state buys United, then they will blow everyone out of the water…..

Will they start spending obscene amounts of money in the transfer market?

[MBL?]

No idea the source but united fans getting giddy about apple seems like absolute bollocks. Why on earth would a money making machine like them want to put money into a football club that you might get back in 10 years? It’s not like they need the exposure?

[touchlineban]

I think its pretty much nailed on we're getting sold lock, stock and barrel.  It'll probably happen before the end of the year too.  Oil state or not, football is nackered.

Man. United up for sale, oil state buying them (this is supposition on my part).  Given their scumbag owners, it's an oil state.

The incompetents that should have stopped Abramovich from buying Chelsea has put football on the slippery slope.

We get an oil state, anyone fancy car pooling from Liverpool to Tranmere to save on the tunnel fare?

[MPowerYNWA]

I know, but just thought I'd give the benefit of the doubt by asking him straight.

It's a poor attitude if genuinely held. It's all a bit, fuck that Shankly guy off. Paisley too. Old arses. And the fans that have been there solidly through triumph, disaster and mediocrity. The fans that made the Spion Kop what it is/was. The fans that made the club what it was/is. Yes, just fuck them all off, the miserable twats who won't welcome despotic tyrants.

I tell you, on the one hand I wish men like Shankly were still around but, on the other, I'm glad they aren't anymore, because seeing football today would break their hearts. Same with so many of the Spion Kop regulars who made that terrace the most famous in the world to this day. They'd be turning in their graves if they heard fellow Reds begging for a murdering despot to take over our club.

But yes, fuck off with your tradition, your principles, your history and your morals. Let's just grab ourselves a despot so we can brag about being fuckin' rich. 


I hope anyone off here who does walk away from the game still continues to post. I know I will. There are too many ŵquality people here for me to bin RAWK off.

It’s just funny how people on here keep threatening to stop supporting the club because they have some owners they don’t like.  It’s all attention seeking nonsense - we all know that none of them would walk away from the club, it is too much a part of their life.

Worst still we know it’s all virtue signalling - people on here saying such things reek of hypocrisy. Throwing around words like sportswashing, like they even have a clue about what’s going on in the world.  Somehow trying to feel superior.

It was only at the start of the millennium that the UK armed forces even allowed openly gay people to be in its services - where were these people then with their protests of human rights ? 

If people genuinely feel that resentful of human rights abuses to the point they would stop supporting a club ingrained in their DNA, I would expect that passionate defence of human rights to exist in most basic aspects of their lives but they don’t. 

The problem with people in the main is they jump on bandwagons with a very shallow understanding. Remember green fell, clap for the NHS etc. People soon forgot once the media stopped talking about it.  It gets tedious to keep seeing the virtue signalling and melodramatic actions of posters in response.

I’m sure people on here will twist my words, that’s just what forums do, but spend 2 mins now researching where Nike replica shirts come from, and then come back and talk to me about how passionate you really all are about human rights.

All BS and only being mentioned because the media have spoon fed you to say it.

[jepovic]

No idea the source but united fans getting giddy about apple seems like absolute bollocks. Why on earth would a money making machine like them want to put money into a football club that you might get back in 10 years? It’s not like they need the exposure?

If only there was a way for companies to get exposure in football without buying a whole club. 

[MonsLibpool]

Something has had to cause the mass resignation. Either new onwers are close (I doubt it) or there's been some major disagreements.

It normally happens when new owners are coming in. The deal is more advanced than reports suggest.

[Sharado]

It’s just funny how people on here keep threatening to stop supporting the club because they have some owners they don’t like.  It’s all attention seeking nonsense - we all know that none of them would walk away from the club, it is too much a part of their life.

Worst still we know it’s all virtue signalling - people on here saying such things reek of hypocrisy. Throwing around words like sportswashing, like they even have a clue about what’s going on in the world.  Somehow trying to feel superior.

It was only at the start of the millennium that the UK armed forces even allowed openly gay people to be in its services - where were these people then with their protests of human rights ? 

If people genuinely feel that resentful of human rights abuses to the point they would stop supporting a club ingrained in their DNA, I would expect that passionate defence of human rights to exist in most basic aspects of their lives but they don’t. 

The problem with people in the main is they jump on bandwagons with a very shallow understanding. Remember green fell, clap for the NHS etc. People soon forgot once the media stopped talking about it.  It gets tedious to keep seeing the virtue signalling and melodramatic actions of posters in response.

I’m sure people on here will twist my words, that’s just what forums do, but spend 2 mins now researching where Nike replica shirts come from, and then come back and talk to me about how passionate you really all are about human rights.

All BS and only being mentioned because the media have spoon fed you to say it.

That's a full house on my bullshit bingo card!

[MonsLibpool]

Will they start spending obscene amounts of money in the transfer market?

They are already doing that, aren't they?

[Samie]

This Saudi Minister has also given Sky News an interview and said the same thing. It's a coordinated effort this.

https://twitter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1595863824955019264

Saudi Arabia says it wants its investors to take over Manchester United and Liverpool.

Sports minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal revealed the country's latest sporting ambitions in an interview with Sky News.

[Sharado]

Pretty sure Edwards was well handled way in advance, with a successor already lined up.

I think Edwards, though disappointing and perhaps a little unexpected felt like it was handled in about the right way. Succession plan in place, one man leaving. To have two people jumping ship so soon after suggests something a bit more chaotic going on. And that's the troubling bit.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

It’s just funny how people on here keep threatening to stop supporting the club because they have some owners they don’t like.  It’s all attention seeking nonsense - we all know that none of them would walk away from the club, it is too much a part of their life.

Worst still we know it’s all virtue signalling - people on here saying such things reek of hypocrisy. Throwing around words like sportswashing, like they even have a clue about what’s going on in the world.  Somehow trying to feel superior.

It was only at the start of the millennium that the UK armed forces even allowed openly gay people to be in its services - where were these people then with their protests of human rights ? 

If people genuinely feel that resentful of human rights abuses to the point they would stop supporting a club ingrained in their DNA, I would expect that passionate defence of human rights to exist in most basic aspects of their lives but they don’t. 

The problem with people in the main is they jump on bandwagons with a very shallow understanding. Remember green fell, clap for the NHS etc. People soon forgot once the media stopped talking about it.  It gets tedious to keep seeing the virtue signalling and melodramatic actions of posters in response.

I’m sure people on here will twist my words, that’s just what forums do, but spend 2 mins now researching where Nike replica shirts come from, and then come back and talk to me about how passionate you really all are about human rights.

All BS and only being mentioned because the media have spoon fed you to say it.

Absolutely incredible. Lost for words. You're not even worth insulting - I actually feel sorry for you.

[MPowerYNWA]

Absolutely incredible. Lost for words. You're not even worth insulting - I actually feel sorry for you.

Yeah I bet you do - keep regurgitating what the media tell you.

[Qston]

It’s just funny how people on here keep threatening to stop supporting the club because they have some owners they don’t like.  It’s all attention seeking nonsense - we all know that none of them would walk away from the club, it is too much a part of their life.

Worst still we know it’s all virtue signalling - people on here saying such things reek of hypocrisy. Throwing around words like sportswashing, like they even have a clue about what’s going on in the world.  Somehow trying to feel superior.

It was only at the start of the millennium that the UK armed forces even allowed openly gay people to be in its services - where were these people then with their protests of human rights ? 

If people genuinely feel that resentful of human rights abuses to the point they would stop supporting a club ingrained in their DNA, I would expect that passionate defence of human rights to exist in most basic aspects of their lives but they don’t. 

The problem with people in the main is they jump on bandwagons with a very shallow understanding. Remember green fell, clap for the NHS etc. People soon forgot once the media stopped talking about it.  It gets tedious to keep seeing the virtue signalling and melodramatic actions of posters in response.

I’m sure people on here will twist my words, that’s just what forums do, but spend 2 mins now researching where Nike replica shirts come from, and then come back and talk to me about how passionate you really all are about human rights.

All BS and only being mentioned because the media have spoon fed you to say it.

I think you will find a lot of us on here and the wider support know exactly what it means to take a stand on issues

Stop being deliberately provocative and condescending

[G Richards]

I’ve got a slight hunch and it is giving me a concern about Lijnders.

Just speculating, but I suspect a bit of a power struggle has taken place behind the scenes, and at stake is who gets the manager’s ear.

On the one side, the stattos. On the other, it feels like Lijnders is starting to exert more influence. Possibly not just in recruitment, but also in tactics as well.

Might be barking up the wrong tree, but I wonder if the fallout is due to a department not being respected enough in terms of having the manager’s ear.

As for potential new owners, let’s see what happens. It is premature to fall out over Saudi owners, or whatever, as we don’t know what is happening. On a personal note, while I will make up my own mind as every red should, I will be watching Jurgen’s reaction closely, as he knows the score on the inner workings, and his moral compass seems in tune with the best scouse traditions of the club. 

[NaivetyinBlack]

Yep, giving personal quotes to BBC and Sky, something which Saudi minister is weirdly doing. (If it is not state backed, how would he know that "private sector" bids will come?)

Just my opinion, but I think there is a good chance the Saudis do bid for us. Will be very interesting to see what FSG do, if the sale is not in it's last stages already.

[red mongoose]

That's a full house on my bullshit bingo card!

No doubt. That's a blatant troll job if I've ever seen one. Not even trying to disguise it.