Yeah, it's stuff like the 180 page report that stretches the patience.
lol, i seem to just roll my eyes up to heaven at so much LFC related
these days - Ayre, Rodgers, Enrique, Carragher, Spearing, Adam, Downing,
the dreadful style of football played during pre-season.
It's certainly frustrating and tests the patience, no doubt.
What we're seeing is the culmination of 20 years of poor management, lack of vision, and very poor financial planning and decision making.
As frustrating as it is FSG is right in one respect that we can't keep adding to the payroll without removing those from it who are unlikely to make a contribution, (hopefully that's what they're doing). It will take two or three windows, maybe even more to rid ourselves of everyone but the most frustrating part of it is that in letting certain older players go who may be earning higher salaries, we're not appearing to strike the right balance between lowering the payroll and not lowering the quality of the squad in the process.
Also the players (reportedly targetted) are hardly much of an upgrade on those let go or those still here and the fees don't warrent the slight quality increase.
Our manager needs to learn the media handling side and how differently it works at a big club. Hopefully he will learn this with experience.
As yet I'm still a long way off being convinced that Rodgers was the right choice at this time but sooner or later we've got to decide to stick with someone, give them 3-5 years to re-organise everything, and not pull the trigger if things go wrong for a period.
I don't expect us to challenge for or get fourth this season. However, if he can make real headway re-shaping the squad so that there is very obvious and noticeable improvement in the quality of it, make real progress in making our football 'effective', secure fifth, more points ahead of sixth than we are behind fourth, and put up a challenge for all three cups that we can actually be proud of, then I will settle for that, only because wanting more than that this season would be to set myself up for major disappointment.
As with everything, it doesn't take long to dismantle something and much, much longer to build or create something.
We have to arrest our slide before we can start an ascent. At present (up to last season) we were still in 'decline' mode. That's the first issue that has to be addressed and we need to see real evidence of such by the end of the season.
Ed, it's these current 'dark days' that will make any future success all the more sweeter.