But it may take that to waken the sleeping masses. Read most of the deluded threads on the main board. I know most don't go to games but even at games there's an ignorance of how dire it all is. Although to be fair the distributing of those leaflets last week helped.
Part of me wants us to fail miserably just to hurt the owners and potentially get them out - lack of success will quickly focus supporters. However there's also a part that fears losing what good players we have like Torres, Gerrard, etc.
However I think they could go anyway even if we won something this season as their value would help the owners next yr to fund their debt charges.
So fuck it, I'm leaning towards a wank season if it puts pressure on the owners.
Mate, I'm sympathetic to your position. As you know.
The time has come to make a stand for the sake of preserving our Club's future.
But, its increasingly apparent to me, we need to know exactly what our endgame actually is.
Until a year ago, the obvious nirvana was the departure of the broke lying conmen, replaced by someone wishing to run the club along the lines we really want.. proper business sense, profits upped, investment back in to the manager, stadium (or hopelessly idealistic.. increased Anfield capacity), but most importantly working to our long held principles. But by owners with REAL money for the occasional rainy day that comes along at times.
Well that ship has sailed for the immediate future.
So, with all of us with any wit agreeing we need these tools out to what they do best, causing misery and ruination (but to others not us), what will we do if we can somehow make their position untenable?? If we could get the fuckers out tomorrow, what will happen then? Its a serious issue here. I'm all for what SOS do, and the rest of us who seemingly care, ie personal decisions about merchandise etc., and even boycotts. I'm all for it. But even if we could orchestrate mass boycotts, of say a big CL match... are we turkeys voting for Christmas?
What would happen if the banks got sufficiently agitated that they told the 2 floating jobbies to cough up pronto, or they get out?
We need to think this through.
We need to have a viable Plan B to put in place in the event we can force this pair out.
If we do, then lets make their tenure impossible.
But what is Plan B? Share Liverpool in its current guise is unworkable.
What if we could get a smaller number of wealthy supporters to raise a percentage of what we now owe... and enter a medium term agreement with the banks to take control of a proportion? Is that an option? Would Al-Ansari, and some of our current big bucks box owners at Anfield be prepared to form a group valued at 50-100 million between a dozen or so, with the long term idea that we could adopt, as supporters, the Barcelona model??
I don't know the answer. But I think the endgame is getting closer. But laudable as the actions of SoS etc are, considerable thought needs to be given to the future model of ownership. I believe there are big changes possible in the next 12 months, but we must not then get in a vacuum where administration is the likeliest outcome.
