Surely if one of the franchises under the FSG is in trouble we all are as we are all part of the same consortium, its a bit like the debt the club had, it has not miraculously disapeared, its just been transfered to another part of the organisation we are part of.
You haven't got a grasp on how these things work mate. The debt, was largely paid off, with capital, not by transferring the debt, they wouldn't just transfer all of that debt onto another part of the 'organisation' as you call it, cause 1. That would be a very stupid idea, and 2. they can't just do that at the drop of a hat.
Also his trading company isn't a franchise if thats what you were talking about. And just because he is getting out of what is essentially the hedge fund game (a lot of people are doing this because people are trusting 'investment bankers' less and less and opting for the bigger older institutions) doesn't mean all the pies he has fingers in are in trouble.
What this does mean, is that a large source of income (large compared to what I and probably you earn, not necessarily relative to the income to the pot that Liverpool FC draws from) has been lost. Might that mean there is less money floating about for Liverpool? Yes it could. But, and it is difficult for me to factually check this but, I'd be very very surprised if all the different facets Henry is involved with are interlinked in such a way. He hasn't bought us and run us in the sugar daddy way, he isn't buying us players from one big pot of cash that he buys and runs all his businesses with, he isn't drawing on personal wealth (to a certain extent) or a communal pot to buy us players. The various arms including LFC are somewhat distanced from one another, although obviously profits etc made from their endevours were used to buy Liverpool and give us that bit of investment we've had.
When they bought Liverpool, they would have had to decide how they were going to finance it, and this trading arm hasn't been strong since 2006, they would have had at least a 3 year plan to get more return while the goings good then pull out, it won't have been tied to Liverpool.
