hsfkush
Well-Known Member
This is for all Football(soccer ¬_¬) lovers and the main topic of debate is Liverpool FC.
Liverpool and their history are well documented. Winning 18 top tier league titles, 7 FA Cups, 8 League Cups 5 Champions League trophies and 3 Europa League trophies, this being the list of the more known trophies that Liverpool "collected" from the 70's to the present day.
In February 2007, then owner of Liverpool FC sold the club to American businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillette, this is when it all went horribly wrong for Liverpool. The owners intention was the upgrade the stadium to a new facility increasing the capacity from 45,326 to 60,000. The stadium design was released and I quote:
However, in deaths way stood 2 men, a man named John W Henry the owner of Boston Red Sox and New England Sports Ventures(NESV) who later rebranded to Fenway Sports Group(FSG) and Christian Purslow a self confessed Chelsea supporter was appointed chairman to see the sale through. This is when the "Epic Swindle" occurred. Purslow put an injunction onto Hicks and Gillette in order to stop them from having a say on who bought the club and the club was sold for £300million. Hicks and Gillette opened court preceedings and eventually failed in their bid to block the sale.
Ever since October 15th 2010 Liverpool has been in a transitional period. However in December 2010, following the worst run of results for 50 years, Roy Hodgson was sacked and Liverpool legend "King" Kenny Dalglish was appointed as an interm manager until the end of the season. For the rest of the 2010/11 season, Liverpool FC played some of the most attractive and exciting football that had been seen in the Barclays Premier League history. Players such as Maxi Rodriguez were really starting to come into their own and Liverpool were scoring for fun, especially Maxi, who scored 7 goals in 3 games, including two hattricks in two games(against Birmingham and Fulham) where Liverpool scored 12 goals in 3 games. At the end of that season, Kenny Dalglish was given a 3 year contract and because of his 6 month interim spell and how devastating Liverpool were in attack, most predicted big things for Liverpool. But again, disaster... The then director of football who handled the transfers, decided to throw away £35million on Andy Carroll, £16million of Jordan Henderson, £20million of Stewart Downing and £8million of Charlie Adam. None of these players made an impact and it was considered one of the biggest spending flops in world football. Spending almost £200million on players in 18months and failed to produce the goods. Liverpool did however reach two cup finals winning one. Dalglish was sacked at the end of the season due to bad results, off field PR disasters and wasting money.
Now we see another new manager in Brendan Rodgers. A promising young Northern Irish manager who had a successful spell at Swansea, guiding them to Premier League promotion and Survived the dreaded first season in the Premier League. A man with a "Spanish" philosophy when it comes to football. Although results having been swinging Liverpool's way, can you see them becoming a force in the coming years again?
I would prefer if people kept this clean, especially rival supporters of Liverpool. Regardless of what you think of them or any other team, this is just for debate, nothing more.
Liverpool and their history are well documented. Winning 18 top tier league titles, 7 FA Cups, 8 League Cups 5 Champions League trophies and 3 Europa League trophies, this being the list of the more known trophies that Liverpool "collected" from the 70's to the present day.
In February 2007, then owner of Liverpool FC sold the club to American businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillette, this is when it all went horribly wrong for Liverpool. The owners intention was the upgrade the stadium to a new facility increasing the capacity from 45,326 to 60,000. The stadium design was released and I quote:
Well that never happened but what did happen was the slow decline of Liverpool FC. The owners Hicks and Gillette almost reduced the club to rubble, running up a debt of over £300million($500m approx). in the 2009/10 season, Rafael Benitez the manager of Liverpool was sacked following a poor showing in the league and early exit in the champions league and Roy Hodgson was appointed and things did not improve. Things didn't improve off the pitch either with Hicks and Gillette looking to sell the club for an unrealistic £800million($1billion approx), considering the monumental debt.
However, in deaths way stood 2 men, a man named John W Henry the owner of Boston Red Sox and New England Sports Ventures(NESV) who later rebranded to Fenway Sports Group(FSG) and Christian Purslow a self confessed Chelsea supporter was appointed chairman to see the sale through. This is when the "Epic Swindle" occurred. Purslow put an injunction onto Hicks and Gillette in order to stop them from having a say on who bought the club and the club was sold for £300million. Hicks and Gillette opened court preceedings and eventually failed in their bid to block the sale.
Ever since October 15th 2010 Liverpool has been in a transitional period. However in December 2010, following the worst run of results for 50 years, Roy Hodgson was sacked and Liverpool legend "King" Kenny Dalglish was appointed as an interm manager until the end of the season. For the rest of the 2010/11 season, Liverpool FC played some of the most attractive and exciting football that had been seen in the Barclays Premier League history. Players such as Maxi Rodriguez were really starting to come into their own and Liverpool were scoring for fun, especially Maxi, who scored 7 goals in 3 games, including two hattricks in two games(against Birmingham and Fulham) where Liverpool scored 12 goals in 3 games. At the end of that season, Kenny Dalglish was given a 3 year contract and because of his 6 month interim spell and how devastating Liverpool were in attack, most predicted big things for Liverpool. But again, disaster... The then director of football who handled the transfers, decided to throw away £35million on Andy Carroll, £16million of Jordan Henderson, £20million of Stewart Downing and £8million of Charlie Adam. None of these players made an impact and it was considered one of the biggest spending flops in world football. Spending almost £200million on players in 18months and failed to produce the goods. Liverpool did however reach two cup finals winning one. Dalglish was sacked at the end of the season due to bad results, off field PR disasters and wasting money.
Now we see another new manager in Brendan Rodgers. A promising young Northern Irish manager who had a successful spell at Swansea, guiding them to Premier League promotion and Survived the dreaded first season in the Premier League. A man with a "Spanish" philosophy when it comes to football. Although results having been swinging Liverpool's way, can you see them becoming a force in the coming years again?
I would prefer if people kept this clean, especially rival supporters of Liverpool. Regardless of what you think of them or any other team, this is just for debate, nothing more.
