catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
The local reds are now facing a final battle for the soul of their club. They seem to have out of owners attacking them, calling them out and shaming them for saying anything critical about the idea that people from all over the world should descend on a football stadium, drive prices up and mean local fans can't afford to get in.
The problem they have is they can't just sack of the out of town support. Without that they become another Sunderland, Manchester City (before success) West Ham etc. Their attendance would be a fraction of ours.
Sooner or later the penny is going to drop. The merseyside area will in essence be a Liverpool FC free zone and they will be the side marketed to the global customers. It's not a bad thing by any means objectively speaking. They may well be successful but for the local reds it will require them to shut up, accept the utter nonsense that goes on and be the unfortunate water carriers of the football club. The tacky bit that the yanks want to cover up and hide, not place centrally.
They can either be a big club but a known joke for local people. Or they can be a localised club with traditions (a bit like Everton) but in all likelihood fall well below where we currently are. In the end they can't have both.
You're not going to get day trippers from Asia/America really caring whether lads from Breck Road or Huyton can afford to watch the match. In the same way English tourists don't care if the local Orlando population can afford to go to Disneyworld when they go on holiday. Or care about the local traditions that might be getting desicrated in the process.
For a long time they've managed to delude themselves into a faux pas unity by keeping the warring factions apart. Success and then a common enemy has united them. That front is already shattering now. Put simply they have sold out to the highest bidder for many years (and mocked us for not doing so) and now the monster they've created is coming back to bite them. They have too many fans for seats. Who should get the seats? Local fans or those with the most money? They will struggle to argue it shouldn't be those with the most money as they've given that layer of the fancies too much influence.
I do have some sympathy. It's only tempered by the fact that they were too thick to realise what was going on and would happily boast about how little international appeal we had. We still have a club thats routed in the community.
The problem they have is they can't just sack of the out of town support. Without that they become another Sunderland, Manchester City (before success) West Ham etc. Their attendance would be a fraction of ours.
Sooner or later the penny is going to drop. The merseyside area will in essence be a Liverpool FC free zone and they will be the side marketed to the global customers. It's not a bad thing by any means objectively speaking. They may well be successful but for the local reds it will require them to shut up, accept the utter nonsense that goes on and be the unfortunate water carriers of the football club. The tacky bit that the yanks want to cover up and hide, not place centrally.
They can either be a big club but a known joke for local people. Or they can be a localised club with traditions (a bit like Everton) but in all likelihood fall well below where we currently are. In the end they can't have both.
You're not going to get day trippers from Asia/America really caring whether lads from Breck Road or Huyton can afford to watch the match. In the same way English tourists don't care if the local Orlando population can afford to go to Disneyworld when they go on holiday. Or care about the local traditions that might be getting desicrated in the process.
For a long time they've managed to delude themselves into a faux pas unity by keeping the warring factions apart. Success and then a common enemy has united them. That front is already shattering now. Put simply they have sold out to the highest bidder for many years (and mocked us for not doing so) and now the monster they've created is coming back to bite them. They have too many fans for seats. Who should get the seats? Local fans or those with the most money? They will struggle to argue it shouldn't be those with the most money as they've given that layer of the fancies too much influence.
I do have some sympathy. It's only tempered by the fact that they were too thick to realise what was going on and would happily boast about how little international appeal we had. We still have a club thats routed in the community.
Haha that's got to be a wum!! If not I bet that sent out a real message... To his missus and pet dog sitting on the other couch..
