The Owners - FSG

[lfc.8]

Just waffle really.

[Notasuperfan]

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I wonder how much is FSG looking for 10% to 20%? Is it that reported 2B, John?

[rab]

Oh. I tried looking and couldn’t find anything. Can’t be that prominent a group.

[Limiescouse]

@Notasuperfan

Once the season ends, we cannot be starting the legwork of multiple transfers after 28th May

We wont. Ward leaving at the end of the season may change the way his input in weighted, or even change his approach to the internal discussions, but we dont need a replacement lined up and announced to understand who we’re going to be going after in the summer. The analysis and decision making process is simply a much longer term one than will be undermined by Ward’s departure.

[Commando]

Is it just me? Or is “Remains stronger than ever” correct wording?

I would expect ‘Remains ‘as strong’ as ever’ or ‘Is stronger than ever’, but that wording doesn’t make sense to me?

[lfc.8]

Agreed.

Much of the legwork will take place before seasons end. Sounding out players and agents. Evaluating players. Potential costs. Building a framework for the window.

Bellingham whether he’s signed or not is by the by, but there is a bit of noise around him, and has been for months. Simply no way a deal like that would be on the back burner, as an example so to say. Would be surprised nonetheless.

[Dutch]

Uhm, I’m not a native speaker perhaps you should ask somebody else. Could give you advice in Dutch though …

[Mascot]

@Notasuperfan

I stand to be corrected in the timing of FSG’s recent PR releases.

To be fair, FSG might feel that they didn’t have to Do the PR stuff if a small proportion of our online fanbase didn’t act like pricks.

[Limiescouse]

@lfc.8

Much of the legwork will take place before seasons end. Sounding out players and agents. Evaluating players. Potential costs. Building a framework for the window.

Unless something remarkable happens, everyone we go for this summer will have been lined up under Edwards’s tenure such is the length of our evaluation process and the scope of our planning.

It is not insignificant to have that role be open for next year, especially under the circumstances in which Ward announced his exit, but it does ot mean what the naysayers are doommongering about.

[Commando]

Sorry @Dutch, I wasn’t asking you specifically. It just seems odd wording to me? It’s no biggie, but it just sounded wrong to me.

[Prolix]

@Commando

Is it just me? Or is “Remains stronger than ever” correct wording?

I would expect ‘Remains ‘as strong’ as ever’ or ‘Is stronger than ever’, but that wording doesn’t make sense to me?

I thought about saying this too, but didn’t want to be branded the new @cynicaloldgit.

[sandsoftime]

I thought it sounded okay because the word commitment that was used before * stronger than ever *… to me is an open-ended word… As such, it is something that has an ever increasing potential.

As strong as ever… to me, would only remain the same amount

[Noo_Noo]

@Notasuperfan

What I think LFC will get is a bunch of backups to replace the departures and FSG to tell the press they have backed Klopp fully in terms of numbers. Any drop in standards will not be FSG’s problem.

Why do that? The club thrives on CL football both financially and in a football sense. It would be madness to put that at risk by refusing to get the squad right

[SBYM]

@Notasuperfan

What I think LFC will get is a bunch of backups to replace the departures and FSG to tell the press they have backed Klopp fully in terms of numbers. Any drop in standards will not be FSG’s problem.

IMAGINE MY SHOCK 1 long hour Paul Joseph Watson

[JohnBarnes10]

So another 29m plus sales this summer. The greedy bastards.

[Commando]

You could change your username to cynicalnewgit?

[GermanRed]

@Notasuperfan

What I think LFC will get is a bunch of backups to replace the departures and FSG to tell the press they have backed Klopp fully in terms of numbers. Any drop in standards will not be FSG’s problem.

Alisson = backup for Mignolet/Karius

Konate = backup for Lovren

Tsimikas = backup for Moreno

Fabinho = backup for Emre Can

Keita = backup for Lallana

Thiago = backup for Wijnaldum

Jota = backup for Brewster

Diaz = backup for Solanke

Nunez = backup for Minamino

Gakpo = backup for Origi

[Prolix]

@Notasuperfan

Looking at the spends that LFC has over each season, we have never spent more than 100 million at one season’s transfer windows( both summer and winter) without multiple departures that has recouped a significant amount of cash back and/or a huge single departure with a huge transfer fee.

This is a totally arbitrary number that has no correlation to anything.

[PaulRoJo]

@GermanRed

Keita = backup for Lallana

This one is fair, to be honest

[legalalien]

“Will continue to spend in a responsible manner … we have and will continue to focus our attention on investing wisely in the transfer market.”

Ignoring the dodgy grammar there, it doesn’t seem like FSG are likely to spend the kind of money that many would like to see them spend. So instead of Bellingham and Gvardiol it could be the pair of Portugeezers from Benfica that we’re being linked with.

No mention of new investors putting into the club. Yes, the announcement reaffirms their intention to continue as owners, but it also smacks of tempering expectations.