The advice will be genuine becAuse I doubt the glazers have a personal agenda against LFC like Fergie does. Also they approached Ivan Gazidis from Arsenal too. They are just gathering knowledge and comparing approaches. I think it shows they are interested in the long term and that they want what is best for LFC. They would not be doing this if they didn't want to be here long term, as I have said all along.
Those of you who think it's a huge embarrassment asking for advice, remember, we are not asking united or arsenal for help, but rather the glazers and GAzidis to compare their business models to ours. The fact that papers come with a headline that might as well read "Liverpool beg united for help" means nothing. It's rubbish...sensationalism.
It said it before, FSG is completely lost and I could not understand their business plan because probably it doesn't make sense. There is no 10 ways, if they want to get Manure type return they will need to invest and invest big, not 40m of their own money over 3 years. They need to invest in a big stadium, get a proven trophy winner as manager and give him funds to buy players and wait for us to start winning things.
It's not rocket science, however, I don't think that investing in a football club is a good investment. Kraft who was one of the first investors Rick Parry approached more than a decade ago wanted to have a wage cap introduced, but he understood that he will not win much trophies with this and LFC value would go down.
Arsenal has a good model to make money in the long time, but they were lucky to have Wenger and Highbury was quite valuable being in London. Despite this they won nothing for a decade and are not spending on players, they have a wage cap as well. Don't think I would be happy with such a model and with modern football, without trophies, very lucrative sponsorship deals will be difficult to sign. With City and Chelsea having owners who spend big, top 4 will not be easy as Manure and Arsenal will have more revenues than us.
FSG has one bet and it is FFP. They will find out soon if it was a good bet or not. Now, we could make money by not spending loads as we do have currently a decent revenue base, but, this would be called milking the cow and is not a long term strategy. If they don't find a buyer, they might choose this strategy and recoup the 340m invested in 10 years (Arsenal would have made such profits I think in the last 10 yrs if the finance charges regarding the stadium is excluded, but then they have a 60k seater with the most expensive ticket price which we don't have), not sure if realistic.
It's fair to say that FSG is in [oops] and LFC with them. Hopefully they find a rich Arab looking to buy pride.
