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I've seen the references to John Barnes in this thread as reasons why top players don't necessarily become top managers, and I'm surprised no one (especially someone like Stanley Park) hasn't mentioned Kenny Dalglish in the same category of European Cup winner but average manager of a big club. The best managers tend to have made their names as managers, not as players - Fergusson, Mourinho, Benitez.


I agree that other clubs will spend more than us again this summer. I do think that when people see us in 8th they immediately think the wrong thing. The important thing is actually the points gap to 3rd, because that is what we need to address rather than our rivalries or relative strengths against the clubs fighting for the same place. We finished 18 points behind Arsenal, either 6 more losses need to become wins, or 9 draws need upgrading. That is a significant demand. We're more likely to get some of each if we're playing better, but either way we need to improve the results of roughly 25% of our games. That means our squad must either become stronger or must learn to play together at a far higher level than this season.

Fortunately one can look at the 11 points referees cost us this season and understand that the squad is probably close to being good enough if Lucas can play 30 games rather than 12, so 30m (+some minor sales) is probably plenty enough to buy the missing links. But our squad is also rather small and needs fleshing out if we're to compete in 4 competitions without throwing too many youth players to the wolves, so we're likely to fall short unless the manager is excellent. For all their "good results with bad teams", there is nothing to suggest that managers of clubs on the cusp of promotion/relegation are any better than some of the managers sacked this season (eg Steve Bruce who did better with Wigan than Martinez has).

One thing that has become blatantly obvious is the eturn of "the liverpool way". Info has been very hard to come by and info that has been leaked has come from other parties eg.Dave Whelan. FSG have been extremely tight lipped and any potential signings and appoinments will only be known once the other side leaks the info.

Are you guys happy about the way FSG is running the business without leaking information?

I know may will say that info has been available, bu if you think about it, the only nfo we have recieved is what other parties involved have leaked, there has been very little from FSG and LFC themselves. Previous engagemens of FSg do show a tendency to run a very tight ship when it comes to transfers and ppointments. When they were dealing with red sox acquisitions, fans did not know anything about potential signings until the players had actually been signed.

What are your thoughts?

FSG did not succumb to fan pressure re KK, who was on a trial period and did very well. Chelsea would wonder how things would have gone had they not gone with AVB.