..... I beg to differ. Committee isn't even that much of a big deal. Just how different is it from how it usually works in most clubs, exactly? Manager identifies the type of player, scouting dept finds 20 of them, manager takes 5 names off the top and needs to sell the idea to business people. Sure, they don't actually vote on stuff and ****, but its not actually THAT different of a process to expect it to yield drastically worse results.
In principle. But more often than not, he's apparently been left to pick (they claim nobody is ultimately signed without his say so) from a shortlist that doesn't include his original targets. By all accounts he's gotten FAR more transfers than not railroaded onto him rather than the players he actually wanted. But it's hard to really know anything for sure as there's been absolutely no transparency from the club on this at all. Even beat guys like Barrett (very approachable guy. In person or via whatever form of media) will admit their only getting part sides of whatever either side divulges.
When non-football men like Ayre are at the forefront of deciding the players given to the manager outside of what he wants, then you have BIG problems.
That said, he knackered things up for himself the first window (when he was in full control) with the money he blew. That on top of the big money failures Kenny had gone through was really the catalyst for FSG to step in with the ridiculous committee.
Liverpool's problem right now is they can't secure targets. Its simple as that.
They've secured their targets. The problem has been the standard and price bracket of player they've been targeting.
FSG are slowly learning that their version of money ball just does not fly at the top end of modern day football.
Rodger's not it, and he will never be it, the way things are going. No young player will want to risk his career, signing 5-year contracts and commiting himself to what's shaping up to be a decade of mediocrity. They won't sign up for a project they have no faith for.
That was another of the major problems with Benitez and his megalomaniac want for control over EVERYTHING at the football club. The way he sat in on contracts and readily handed out ludicrous 5 year deals for ridiculous amounts of money. That then left us with hefty guaranteed contracts on sub-standard players we couldn't shift as they refused to take a pay cut and we wanted a decent slice of the initial fee back. So we had to let contracts run right down before they left on frees to great financial expense to ourselves.
**** no to lengthy deals like that again for new signings thank you.
