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Liverpool finally taken over
- Thread starter sir albion
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Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
The fans won't be laughing when the new owners rename them the Merseyside Red Sox!
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
The fans will pay more, and in some cases, a lot more. (You'll need a mortgage officer standing by to buy a pint.)
But the team will be well run. The NESV are businessmen who happen to own sports teams.
Based on Boston experience, if the Reds go The NESV Way:
-- They will not overpay for talent, especially aged talent -- they'll let it walk first. (Hi, Mr. Gerrard
) The Sox have lost players to free agency because they've offered three-year deals when the player's wanted four, let fans weep though they may.
-- They will not go into the transfer market as a first resort -- expect an emphasis on the home-grown product. The Sox have developed home-grown MVP-level talent.
-- When they do go in they will pay based on what a player can expect to, and not what they've already done. Poaching aging stars for a quick fix is definitely not on. And they will go anywhere to find talent. Sometimes that's been a mixed bag (Daisuke Matsuzaka).... LFC are likely to be full to the gunwales with players you've never heard of in ten month's time.
Cheap? Sometimes. Better than foolish, though....
(Been a Reds fan since the early '80's and a Red Sox fan since the womb. I am happy.)
But the team will be well run. The NESV are businessmen who happen to own sports teams.
Based on Boston experience, if the Reds go The NESV Way:
-- They will not overpay for talent, especially aged talent -- they'll let it walk first. (Hi, Mr. Gerrard
) The Sox have lost players to free agency because they've offered three-year deals when the player's wanted four, let fans weep though they may.-- They will not go into the transfer market as a first resort -- expect an emphasis on the home-grown product. The Sox have developed home-grown MVP-level talent.
-- When they do go in they will pay based on what a player can expect to, and not what they've already done. Poaching aging stars for a quick fix is definitely not on. And they will go anywhere to find talent. Sometimes that's been a mixed bag (Daisuke Matsuzaka).... LFC are likely to be full to the gunwales with players you've never heard of in ten month's time.
Cheap? Sometimes. Better than foolish, though....
(Been a Reds fan since the early '80's and a Red Sox fan since the womb. I am happy.)
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Guerrero
New member
Tough luck all you arseholes who should have known better than to kick a club being run by tossers.
Liverpool will emerge bigger and stronger than ever.
Now watch Manure try to emulate what Liverpool have done......Again.
Liverpool will emerge bigger and stronger than ever.
Now watch Manure try to emulate what Liverpool have done......Again.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,641
Tough luck all you arseholes who should have known better than to kick a club being run by tossers.
Liverpool will emerge bigger and stronger than ever.
Now watch Manure try to emulate what Liverpool have done......Again.
Count me in as an arsehole then, as I for one couldn't give a flying fook who owns Liverpool nor what they do with the club. Utterly bored of the whole saga.
Because I'm an Albion fan and this is an Albion forum.
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
Cut a little slack for some of us, Edna. Until the coming of the internet, following BHA abroad was a matter of month-old 442's, and week-old Guardians. The nice man reading the results on BBC World Service while everyone checked their pools coupons: "Brighton Hove Albion 1, Comfortable Chesterfield nil' might be BHA news for the week. Liverpool, for the Boston Oirish of those days, was footie.
Guerrero
New member
When Albion were having the whole Archer/Stanley thing,supporters from many clubs were sympathetic.REMEMBER
?Liverpool supporters were among them.
You have a short memory.......Alzheimers?
tonymgc
Banned
I'm glad its over its tedious & boring.
BadFish
Huge Member
- Oct 19, 2003
- 18,222
Henry's done well for them though. He's well and truly lifted the Curse of the Bambino and the Sox have been real contenders in the last decade. He's only got 20 years of failure to overcome with Liverpool, so that should be a piece of cake.
ILIKECANDLES
Banned
- Sep 1, 2010
- 1,854
I'm pleased for them. However they are a business and will be run on business lines. No man city or Chelsea style spending. Steady the ship and build. Hodgson is the man for that. Dull growth. Benitez was shit.
Fred Oliver - Legend
Well-known member
rcf0712
Out Here In The Perimeter
Personally, I'm pleased they seem to have got a good solution - we all bang on about tradition on here a lot, well for the majority of us Liverpool at or near the top is tradition and long may it continue....
Imagine how you'd feel if having gone through Hillsborough you saw your beloved club used and abused by that odious pair of Americans, Brighton fans of all people should have sympathy for them surely.
Imagine how you'd feel if having gone through Hillsborough you saw your beloved club used and abused by that odious pair of Americans, Brighton fans of all people should have sympathy for them surely.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,366
The fans will pay more, and in some cases, a lot more. (You'll need a mortgage officer standing by to buy a pint.)
But the team will be well run. The NESV are businessmen who happen to own sports teams.
Based on Boston experience, if the Reds go The NESV Way:
-- They will not overpay for talent, especially aged talent -- they'll let it walk first. (Hi, Mr. Gerrard
-- They will not go into the transfer market as a first resort -- expect an emphasis on the home-grown product. The Sox have developed home-grown MVP-level talent.
-- When they do go in they will pay based on what a player can expect to, and not what they've already done. Poaching aging stars for a quick fix is definitely not on. And they will go anywhere to find talent. Sometimes that's been a mixed bag (Daisuke Matsuzaka).... LFC are likely to be full to the gunwales with players you've never heard of in ten month's time.
Cheap? Sometimes. Better than foolish, though....
(Been a Reds fan since the early '80's and a Red Sox fan since the womb. I am happy.)
Can't see that what might have worked for the Red Sox will work for Liverpool. It's all about quick fixes in the Premier League, unless Liverpool fancy spending a bit of time in the lower Leagues rebuilding from the bottom up. And that's highly unlikely to happen.
tonymgc
Banned
Based on Boston experience, if the Reds go The NESV Way:
-- They will not overpay for talent, especially aged talent -- they'll let it walk first. (Hi, Mr. Gerrard
-- They will not go into the transfer market as a first resort -- expect an emphasis on the home-grown product. The Sox have developed home-grown MVP-level talent.
-- When they do go in they will pay based on what a player can expect to, and not what they've already done. Poaching aging stars for a quick fix is definitely not on. And they will go anywhere to find talent. Sometimes that's been a mixed bag (Daisuke Matsuzaka).... LFC are likely to be full to the gunwales with players you've never heard of in ten month's time.
Cheap? Sometimes. Better than foolish, though....
(Been a Reds fan since the early '80's and a Red Sox fan since the womb. I am happy.)
It sounds very much like The Red Sox business model is similar to Arsenal if you were to use a football club for comparison?
Has anyone else seen the interview with Tom Hicks on SSN where he's playing the victim card?
Domsdad
brother of Patch
We didn't need to feel sympathy for Liverpool fans because we all knew that things would work out well for them in a very short time. Its not the same as Liverpool or any other team's fans supporting us through our years of need because we really did face the prospect of being wiped out.
So, yes, I was hoping they'd get 9 points deducted and hoping they'd get relegated this year but it would only ever have been a temporary bit of entertainment.
So, yes, I was hoping they'd get 9 points deducted and hoping they'd get relegated this year but it would only ever have been a temporary bit of entertainment.