I want to apologise to all the fans and supporters of Liverpool Football Club for the disruption I caused over the past 48 hours.
It goes without saying but should be said that the project put forward was never going to stand without the support of the fans. No-one ever thought differently in England. Over these 48 hours you were very clear that it would not stand. We heard you. I heard you.
And I want to apologise to Jürgen, to Billy, to the players and to everyone who works so hard at LFC to make our fans proud. They have absolutely no responsibility for this disruption. They were the most disrupted and unfairly so. This is what hurts most. They love your club and work to make you proud every single day.
I know the entire LFC team has the expertise, leadership and passion necessary to rebuild trust and help us move forward. More than a decade ago when we signed up for the challenges associated with football, we dreamed of what you dreamed of. And we’ve worked hard to improve your club. Our work isn’t done. And I hope you’ll understand that even when we make mistakes, we’re trying to work in your club’s best interests. In this endeavour I’ve let you down.
Again, I’m sorry, and I alone am responsible for the unnecessary negativity brought forward over the past couple of days. It’s something I won’t forget. And shows the power the fans have today and will rightly continue to have.
If there’s one thing this horrible pandemic has clearly shown, it’s how crucial fans are to our sport and to every sport. It’s shown in every empty stadium. It’s been an incredibly tough year for all of us; virtually no-one unaffected. It’s important that the Liverpool football family remains intact, vital and committed to what we’ve seen from you globally, with local gestures of kindness and support. I can promise you I will do whatever I can to further that.
Thanks for listening.
Ok, that’s it for me, and what I wanted from him. We regroup, and move on.
Fair enough and happy with that. Lesson learnt I hope and they will continue the good things they have been doing. Unity is the key which has got us till here and hope that continues.
Also, I think it was @redfanman who pointed that they will come with a better apology, we really need to be patient. I mean, that’s one thing we all are most known for!
Also @Quicksand loved your post yesterday… nice prediction/ reimposition of how the world actually is!
We need not make them heroes again as well. Except the fans and few involved like Klopp, Kenny, Hendo, Milly perhaps, not everyone is that associated with this club - for many it is and will be business, a job, and so on. Torres helped me understand that very nicely indeed.
Yes, he’s taken full responsibility. Taken the pressure off everyone else at the club. Better late than never.
What I don’t understand with FSG is how, after 11 years at the club, they consistently fail to read the room when it comes to the fanbase and the city the club represents. If it’s not ticket prices, furlough or even bloody flags they drop the most horrendous bollocks, piss everybody off and inevitably have to backtrack. They hate bad PR and yet they generate so much of it.
John Henry has finally taken sole responsibility for this and apologised. The hate and abuse from within our fan base needs to stop now, we’re going to experience enough of that at every game next season, if fans are allowed back in stadiums.
Remove the banners from outside the stadium and let’s move on…please.
They were badly handled and the reaction was inevitable. Being the first club bar Tottenham to try to furlough staff ? Yeah that was always going to go down well in the most ardently socialist city in the country. Please stop trying to defend things even the owners themselves have admitted were wrong. They fucked up. They admitted it.
The state paying to support employees to remain in jobs that may otherwise be lost sounds pretty left wing to me. The club always made clear the money would have been repaid, and as a payer of taxes in the UK was entitled to access this support.
This wasn’t the same support Trump offered in the states that was taken by big companies at the expense of the little guy.
We regroup, and move on.