pretty decent fan letter to FSG
Dear FSG, members of the board,
Never before was the support for a Liverpool manager at such a low point as it currently is with Brendan Rodgers. Not even Roy Hodgson, whom you dispatched within minutes after taking over, had so little support as `the Brodge`. And Roy was never given 300 million to build a team, nor was the lack of support of him anything but emotional.
Back on topic, we Liverpool supporters have a reputation of giving everyone who signs for the club a fair chance to succeed. We´ll stick by you as long as we believe your heart is in the right place, even if your feet don´t follow. Erik Meijer, Lucas Leiva and Titi Camara are perfect examples of this. If you will fight for us, we will fight for you. To us, you´ll never walk alone is not a song or a motto. It´s not a sign we touch on our way onto the pitch (although given the chance we all would). It´s what we believe and what we stand for. When giving your all for Liverpool FC, we will be right beside you every step of the way.
With that great support comes great responsibility though. We expect you to be responsible with leading, managing or playing for our great club, our family. We don´t consider ever turning our back on you, win or lose, so we expect the very same in return. That´s where the line is.
When Rodgers last summer sacrificed his assistants after selling our best player, spending 125 million pounds in the summer and being humiliated by Stoke, he crossed that line for a lot of us. Including myself. Nothing against the new assistants at the club, o'Driscoll is a knowledgeable man, Gary Mac forever a club legend and Pep Lijnders a very talented coach, but that is not the Liverpool way. When we fail, we fail together and we don't throw people under the bus to save our own skin. We expect our manager to be responsible and take ownership and not to make a half arsed plea to stay in his job by saying he will leave if he is asked. If you deserve to manage Liverpool FC, you don't need to be asked.
Rodgers lost a lot of support that day not because of the results but of the way he chose to deal with it. Yet true to form, some people still felt that he should get another summer to prove he could sign the right players. Another season to prove he could make it work, often using the season before last to back up that claim. We're six games into the season and now those people are gone too. They have also had enough, their brilliant loyalty has been tested one too many times. Enough is enough.
This Liverpool supporter expects you to be responsible now. To protect your investment as well as our great club and the stature it has spent over a century to acquire. This morning's news that Origi may be sent out on loan shows once again how there is so much wrong at Anfield right now, it's beyond repair. It shows this manager is part of the problem so he cannot be part of the solution.
This cannot continue. We cannot end another season in seventh place or possibly lower. Over the last two summers we have sold or let go our best three players. In Sterling, Suarez and Gerrard we had players who could attract other big players to the club but the consistent wasting of transfer funds made players like Toni Kroos and Willian conclude that he would not be able to complete for the highest honours at Liverpool FC. And clearly, Suarez and Sterling were convinced he was right. We're in a downward spiral and we're dropping faster and faster. If rumours are true and other clubs will come in for Coutinho, there will be nothing left for us but rock bottom. If you choose to hesitate even the length of this season, that is exactly where we will end up.
As much as I believe that you care about this club, at the end of the day it is still an investment to you and in the interest of your investment, you need to know that it is your fanbase that make you commercially interesting. Back when I was a six year old, Liverpool jerseys were all you could see in the streets. Nowadays they're a rarity. Only our sons, who have been taught well, still walk around in them. We stood unchallenged the world over at one point in the ever becoming more distant past. Nowadays, even in the new markets you obviously aim for, we are challenged by not only other Premier League clubs but clubs from Spain and Italy as well.
You know this, I won't pretend I'm telling you something new here. You know all of this. So stop dragging your feet and do something now. You're the only ones who can turn things around and that starts with a new manager. We'll be with you every step of the way.
Thank you.
