The Owners

[red g]

Plus we'll have to pay off (hopefully) two managers

although paying off Roy now would involve saving money as I am pretty sure that the £3million paid would pay off by the end of the season based on 750k a place i think

[Vermilion]

We are in the much improved position of not haemoraging £40mil a year on interest repayments. In relatively short time that change should provide greatly increased cash for players, but it has only been a few months from a position with a zero balance and it will be the end of the season before we get the biggest installments of annual income from TV/Prizemoney and then season ticket sales. So in terms of cash in the bank, we are a bit short still for a few months.

Which we never had when we started this hunt for new owners anyway, that's my point, all this ****e we went through so we could challenge the top clubs..and still we are no further along, we can still only spend what we make as a club, because we did'nt end up with a super wealthy owner was more what i was alluding to.

The only plus is that after all that ****e we have a more business savvy ownership than Moores, but we still can't really challenge the top clubs for the top transfers, which i thought was the main aim of regime change all that time ago, it just seemed to me that this journey has been ****ty..and we never really got what we wanted in the end.

[BillobShaisley]

oh right sorry, Moores search for new owners rather than Broughtons.

I never realy had any problem with Moores, he was a great chairman IMO, he just needed to sack Parry and hire the guys from Man U that the Glaziers sacked. I've posted a few times about the sky generation and bitching for a sugar daddy etc but that's a different story. I guess the moral of the story is to be carefull what you wish for, you just might get it. All the more reason to have a thought out plan of what happens the second after Roy is sacked before leaping into what appears to be superficially obvious.

[Baracus]

So do people still hate the owners?

[Craig_H]

This 'hate' thing again I sometimes think people on here are 12 or something, if something goes against what you want, you must therefore 'hate' the protagonist

I'm delighted with the decision but it still should've been made about 8 weeks ago.

[Mostar]

This 'hate' thing again I sometimes think people on here are 12 or something, if something goes against what you want, you must therefore 'hate' the protagonist

I'm delighted with the decision but it still should've been made about 8 weeks ago.

Same here. I'm ecstatic that they made the decision to let him go but it was long time over due. Still better late than never.

Little Dave may be right about these guys..

[little dave hedgehog]

[Craig_H]

Early days yet. Recognising that Hodgson was **** and that appointing a legend would be popular, was hardly rocket surgey.

[sean_lfc]

In my books I think they've made up a little bit, if only a few per cent, on getting that cunt sacked and gone before the Mancs game. I was SO disappointed and felt so down after Blackburn, it feels like they understood that and made it happen at an unlikely time, just in time for the big games coming up, so for that, kudos to them!

[Mostar]

Early days yet. Recognising that Hodgson was **** and that appointing a legend would be popular, was hardly rocket surgey.

Yes but they could have kept the unpopular choice in charge until summer as many posters assumed and clearly they didn't.

On that basis alone they do deserve some credit.

[little dave hedgehog]

i still think that they probably wanted to, and that kenny will probably be moved back upstairs in june.

[Craig_H]

Yes but they could have kept the unpopular choice in charge until summer as many posters assumed and clearly they didn't.

On that basis alone they do deserve some credit.

I'm not entirely sure how much 'credit' they deserve for NOT making an absolutely appallingly bad decision. It should've been a gimme from the off.

As it is, the woeful ineptitude of Hodgson eventually made the decision for them.

[JHP]

I think the owners had hoped to let Hodgson see the season through whilst they learnt and assessed their options for the longer term. I don't believe they ever saw Hodgson as the long term answer but wanted to avoid knee jerk reactions and to behave fairly to Hodgson.

They would have heard comments from past LFC players saying to support Hodgson and give him time. Even Dalglish said publicly only a couple of weeks ago that people should get behind Hodgson. Therefore they were getting advice from people who know considerably more about professional football than posters on here to stick with Hodgson - in line with their preferred approach.

However when results went the way they did over recent weeks it became untenable and they had to act. They recognised this and did the right thing.

It's easy for posters on here to state they should have acted earlier. However given that they needed to be sure they were doing the right (or least bad) thing and they needed to sort out the logistics of the change I think they acted appropriately and timely. They did it behind closed doors and respectfully.

For me they have ticked all the boxes.

[sean_lfc]

I'm not entirely sure how much 'credit' they deserve for NOT making an absolutely appallingly bad decision. It should've been a gimme from the off.

As it is, the woeful ineptitude of Hodgson eventually made the decision for them.

I think in retrospect they know that they might have made a mistake with regards to the timing, hence their timing being one of the fans' most unexpected - namely today. However I feel they also believe that they cannot - as the owners and captains of this club - be seen as weak in their assertiveness as to who's boss. It's like a dog man, if the dog barks and gives you **** while you're having your dinner, you tell him to shut the **** up, because you're the alpha and they're number 2. If you don't do that, the next time the dog comes back to the table, after you've given him a little slice of the sausage first time round, he'll assume more of a leader quality than you. And this will make you weaker. And you cannot submit to the dog, because the dog's the ****ing dog and that's the end of that. As harsh as it sounds, it's for the best. Because the dog needs to know his place.
[Sorry about the dog analogies, but I had dog training today ]

So I'm not saying we as fans are the dogs and that's not what I'm implying, but early in the tenure of the Americans they cannot just bow to the fans' will. It just cannot happen. Because otherwise the dog will feel that such behaviour in the future will lead to similar successes, ie. the owner submitting to the will of the dog. This in turn will lead to all sorts of ****ing problems when you take the dog outside of the house into the fields, where there's a lot of different dogs around and he might become out-of-hand.

[sean_lfc]

I think the owners had hoped to let Hodgson see the season through whilst they learnt and assessed their options for the longer term. I don't believe they ever saw Hodgson as the long term answer but wanted to avoid knee jerk reactions and to behave fairly to Hodgson.

They would have heard comments from past LFC players saying to support Hodgson and give him time. Even Dalglish said publicly only a couple of weeks ago that people should get behind Hodgson. Therefore they were getting advice from people who know considerably more about professional football than posters on here to stick with Hodgson - in line with their preferred approach.

However when results went the way they did over recent weeks it became untenable and they had to act. They recognised this and did the right thing.

It's easy for posters on here to state they should have acted earlier. However given that they needed to be sure they were doing the right (or least bad) thing and they needed to sort out the logistics of the change I think they acted appropriately and timely. They did it behind closed doors and respectfully.

For me they have ticked all the boxes.

Fully agree, although I was myself hugely (egotistically) disappointed at theirs not acting quicker, in hindsight and with a knowledge 'that it's all over', one can see exactly the motives of their handling of the situation.