John Aldridge:
A MASTER chef can bake the perfect meal, but only if he is given the right ingredients.
Don’t worry, I haven’t gone mad with my culinary reference to start this column, so let me explain where this is going.
This Premier League season has been a story of big clubs being run by owners who are making an absolute mess of it – and you only need to look at the table to see the clubs I’m talking about.
Let’s start with Everton, who have been run by completely incompetent owners for a long time
Then you look at Chelsea, where Todd Boehly has overseen the biggest shambles at a top club in recent memory.
this guy has bought the club for crazy money and thought he could buy his way to quick success.
He has spent £600million on new players, fired two managers, made the ridiculous decision to bring Frank Lampard back as interim boss. if I’m being honest, it has been hilarious to watch!
Tottenham: levy hires and fires managers at a rapid rate, blames them or the players for failure, but maybe there comes a point where he has to accept he is the problem.
If I was Harry Kane, I would be looking to get out of that club because they look a million miles away from winning trophies –
If I was Harry Kane, I would be looking to get out of that club because they look a million miles away from winning trophies –
while I describe Chelsea and Man City as ‘plastic’ as their success is manufactured by mega-wealthy owners, Spurs are a top club.
They have a big fan base, history in the game and could go places if they had the right people leading them from the top, but they don’t have that right now.
There has been plenty of criticism of Liverpool’s American owners – Fenway Sports Group – in recent months, and I’m among those frustrated by the lack of finances that seem to be available to manager Jurgen Klopp.
After a challenging season that has seen Liverpool fall dramatically from where they were a year ago, it’s clear that big money needs to be spent to get the team back on track.
Well, the market has moved on since Liverpool signed Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker for big money, using the cash from the sale of Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona in 2018.
Liverpool will need to spend £250m on new signings this summer – and they won’t get that from player sales, so FSG would be wise to look at what is happening at Everton, Chelsea and Spurs to see what happens if a manager is not given the right backing.
If FSG don’t get it right now and give him some new ingredients this summer, Liverpool could join the growing ranks of Premier League underachievers for a long time to come.
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