KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum John Henry, an open letter to LFC fans.

Of course you are right if I owned LFC I would be in it for the money and any of us saying otherwise is lying. Unless you were so rich it did not matter like these oil rich arabs to whom a billion is spare change.

and for me, i prefer businessmen like FSG than any mafia wankers like that chelsea [oops] or city arab


edit: its just strange we get this kind of outrage cause owners dont throw around with money, and they get blamed for ripping us of. no one seems to think about sensible business.

It's not sensible business to leave a club with only 2 strikers. 1 of which is yet to prove himself (Borini) and the other who lacks a killer instinct in front of goal (Suarez)

They talk about increasing revenue etc through additional marketing deals, fair enough. But when they talk about considering selling the Anfield Name they are bang out of order!

What the hell is going on? The Stadium fiasco needed sorting years ago, Been round Anfield lately? or any time in the past 5 years? It's near enough a Ghost town!

If FSG sort that mess out, Then I'll be first inline to say "I got them wrong"

But what happened in this tranfer window was nothing more than a cost cutting excercise.

That PR spiel just re-enforces what I've been thinking. They are cutting back in any area they can. From the Firesale which happened it does indeed look like they are going to sell.

Anyone got £500 million lying around? Fancy putting a bid in?

Which is why we are strugglung to get mid table and both those teams are going for the prem. Money talks in football whatever you think is irrelevant.

with FFP coming in, it won't matter that much anymore, right ? most important will be club revenues. thats what fsg is working on(i think)

Club revenue will significantly increase with a stadium without which all the sponsorship deals in the planet won't cover up for

The big clubs will continue to spend big, City and Chelsea are confident that FFP will not work.

If they thought it would work do you think they would continue to spend like they have?

They obviously know something, perhaps a court will overturn any FFP system in place?

FSG are banking on FFP to work and hope that within a couple of years things will level out... I seriously doubt it will work like it says...

The sponsor money will go down if the BIG clubs are ejected from the competition.

FFP will not work in it's current guise, The EPL need to have a wage cap.

All the lower leagues do, So the EPL should follow suit.

But they wont as they want the big teams to have the biggest names in world football.

We are not a big club anymore and haven't been since 2008.

Fair point but its where you start from. Our starting point will be lower than had a rich russian or arab come in when moores sold out the club would have won the prem and champions league several times over and would now be unassailable. Its silly to say you don’t want to buy your way to the top Liverpool in the 1960’s and 70’s bought their way to the top and generally had bigger budgets than the other teams. Dalglish was a big money signing at the time.

yh but i still wouldn't want a rich mafioso or oil guy. just my ethics.
i really believe FSG are doing the right then, only time will tell! maybe we'll end 9th in the league but win the uefa cup.
it wont be good, but a way forward.

where is the hope in your heart mate

its all akin to Turkeys voting for Christmas really. Platini genuinely means well and has real purpose about this. However the big clubs will just form their own league if the so called ffp rules were implemented as they stand - I expect a watered down version, and after seeing Man City, PSG , Chelsea this summer splash the cash so do they. None of them come any where near the proposed rules