Thing is.... I remember during the H&G Firesale and almost everyone to a man was saying the same thing. "We donīt want sugar daddy owners..... give us someone who reinvest the profit into the club and give us money from the player sales and that will do".
So I find it very hard, if not impossible, to criticise FSG from a financial point of view. I think theyīve given us what we all asked for and a little more.
What I would like is for them to talk less. I think from a supporters point of view we would all like that. Thankfully Henry seems to have stopped twitting his opinions on everything LFC. The problem is that I think Liverpoolīs name has taken a bit of a hammering and they feel they need a "PR Offensive" to fix it. For us supporters itīs not a problem. We couldnīt care less if everyone hates us. However I imagine commercially itīs easier to ask for larger sums when your rep is squeaky clean. So I can understand that, even though I donīt like it.
Iīm also very encouraged by the last transfer window and Royhendo had an excellent thread about this before it was killed by the Ayres arguements. The old saying "Rome wasnīt build in a day" very much applies to us at the moment. We have to many problems to fix them all at once but we seem to have laid some good foundations this summer. Lucas, Allen, Sahin, Henderson and Shelvey all look a solid, versatile and youthful midfield platform to attack from. I also think weīll now see Gerrard more as an attacker following the failure to sign another forward where I believe he will thrive.
Looking in isolation, signing Allen, Yesil, Borini and Assaidi is the right sort of transfers for a club to bemaking. Boriniīs fee seems more or less reasonable and I think heīll prove an excellent player... just that it will take a few months to find his feet and start scoring. However, Allen, Assaidi and Yesil all look like bargains. Regardless of the unknown status of the later two for a combined Ģ3.5m fee it represents almost 0 risk. However given germanys pedrigree for producing attacking talent at the moment, signing their star striker from the U18 group could save us Ģ20m in the coming seasons. Likewise, if Assaidi is even half as good as youtube seems to suggest, he could be our very own Georgi Kinkladze. Some complete unknown who can waltze through opponents defences with ease.
With Rodgers, there has to be some question marks about his experience but there is little I can fault him for so far. Itīs safe to assume the failure to add another attacker falls far from his shoulders. Also his handling of Raheem has been superb. He grounded him, got his attitude in check, then rewards him with time on the pitch. He also now has some kids to point at in Morgan and Sterling to say to our reserves "that is what happens if you follow our instruction". Hopefully it acts as the kick up the arse Suso is rumoured to need. Do what we ask and youīll be rooming with your mate Sterling on the away trips with the seniors instead of sitting at home on your laptop complaining on twitter of the unfairness of the world.
While all the above is fairly positive, there are of course several concerns that still remain unanswered. Our structure. The stadium. Most worrying is I understand it took a little over 3 years to make any decision on Fenway. We just cannot afford to sit around doing nothing until 2014.
However, I think with any owners we would have things we are happy about. Things we arenīt. Balancing everything up Iīm still fairly positive about their time here and I do see signs we are going in the right direction. For most of the things I donīt like, I at least understand and accept the reasoning behind it. So Iīm going to cut them the slack they ask for. Or maybe itīs giving them enough rope to hang themselves. Only time will tell.
