Khaldoon's End of Season Interview

Psychedelic Casual said:
The thing is he still never even mentioned one word about the main detractors; the media.

The name of our club is dragged through the mud by the media far more than it is by Tebas, the Glazers or John Henry. But he never said a word about that.

While it raised a smirk from me for him to talk about these people derogatorily, he still just told us to ignore them and just be concerned about facts.

The most interesting parts of the interview was that it appears he - and Sheikh Mansour - are here for the long haul and that he, and the club, are pro-Safe Standing.

I would have liked more detail on that and the long term plans of the site as a whole. We didn’t get it, but they don’t tend to work like that anyway and only release information on that side of the business when it’s set in stone.
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He was never going to take on the media head on,instead he went for the sources of the story,other clubs and high profile people to be taken down like that is amazing,with the stadium stuff every step is subject to reglelations so the plans might not translate into reality,that's probably why he doesn't promise anything concrete,we have always known they are going nowhere
 
Sorry if already posted but is there a full transcript of part 1 anywhere please.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Williams enticed Shankly to leave First Division Huddersfield to go to Second Division Liverpool with the carrot of having more money to spend than Huddersfield had ambition to.

Shankly bought 24 players in one Summer to gain promotion.

Liverpool failed to go up.

“Shareholder John Moores felt the club needed to spend more money on players to be successful and encouraged chairman T. V. Williams to do so.”
From Williams, John (2010). Reds: Liverpool Football Club – The Biography.

Shankly signed Ian St John for a club record and the second highest fee paid for any player in Europe that Summer. As well as other signings.

They gained promotion. Signed more players. Then Liverpool won the league title and FA Cup.

They were a languishing Second Division club and without Moores’ funding they would have remained so.

Liverpool then went 6 years without winning anything so went on a spending spree never seen before in English football. They broke their club transfer record a number of times, the record ever spent on a teenager or a record spent on a player in a certain position numerous times... they never looked back.

That’s when Liverpool went on to dominate the next two decades.
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Spot on.

Everton were the biggest and best supported club in Liverpool. Shankley was manager of Huddersfield Town when he sold us Denis Law for a record fee. If I recall, he applied to be City manager as we were a top club. He was big mates with Busby, Mercer and other pre-war players who went into management with new approaches. The move to Liverpool appeared strange until they started splashing the cash first to catch up Everton and then to dominate.

Their success required massive injections of capital and was the start of the Liverpool fans sense of entitlement and that they could sign anyone they wanted.
 
karen7 said:
He was never going to take on the media head on,instead he went for the sources of the story,other clubs and high profile people to be taken down like that is amazing,with the stadium stuff every step is subject to reglelations so the plans might not translate into reality,that's probably why he doesn't promise anything concrete,we have always known they are going nowhere
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Oh I agree with you and glad he didn’t mention the media. I just don’t think that was the most important part of the interview for what I’m interested in and he just wasn’t asked and didn’t go into as much detail on the things I was interested in hearing that much and wasn’t asked and never mentioned ticketing.
 
I'm glad he didn't say anything about the media and just treated them with the contempt they deserve, they are invisible to us. Or should be. Our best line of defence against them has been just quietly and successfully getting on with playing the game on the pitch.

Great interviews, I would buy the man a meal.............. not that I've ever got nearer than shaking his hand!!
 
spiny said:
Littlewoods backing started around the time Shankley joined Liverpool so 1959/1960. They were a run down 2nd division club who then started to buy some of the best players around. This was done by huge investment not organic growth. It continued until their period of domination when part of their philosophy is to buy the best players of other clubs to weaken them even though they would play in the reserves. Some did make it to the 1st team.

Liverpool were lucky that this coincided with the abolition of the maximum wage when winning meant more gate and prize money so once established few could compete. Apart from football pools and on course betting on horses, gambling was largely illegal. Most households had a flutter on the pools as it was at a time of post war austerity, it was the only chance of a dream win. Think of the betting industry and lotteries now to understand the relative wealth of the Moores family with Littlewoods the largest with Liverpool based Vernons a poor second in size. They had wealth and could offer wages and transfer fees few if any others could match. No FFP or scrutiny of accounts at that time.

Ironic how this has been airbrushed and how Everton changed from the Millionnaires Club to the self proclaimed Peoples Club, their decline in line with losing pool money support.
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I was just doing a bit of research and looking at some of the signings Liverpool made over the 5 year period 1967-72:

Ray Clemence £18,000 (1967)
Emlyn Hughes £67,000 (1967)
Tony Hateley £96,000 (1967)
Alec Lindsay £67,000 (1969)
Larry Lloyd £50,000 (1969)
Alun Evans £110,000 (1968 - British record for a teenager).
John Toshack £111,000 (1970)
Jack Whitham £57,000 ((1970)
Kevin Keegan £35,000 (1971)
Peter Cormack £110,000 (1972).

That's a real significant and sustained investment by the standards of that time and laid the platform for their success in the 70s.
 
Eccles Blue said:
I'm glad he didn't say anything about the media and just treated them with the contempt they deserve, they are invisible to us. Or should be. Our best line of defence against them has been just quietly and successfully getting on with playing the game on the pitch.

Great interviews, I would buy the man a meal.............. not that I've ever got nearer than shaking his hand!!
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You have shaken his hand? i'm jealous! i have only got about 10 ft away from him,that was enough to swoon lol
 
I wonder if the press will give their verdict on this interview and try their usual negative spin, just for the sake of it?... Wait no I don't wonder at all, the "rats" are so predictable and pathetic. We already know what they are going to do before they do, they hate anything positive towards City.
 
laserblue said:
I've tried linking a David Conn article on Liverpool from the Guardian in 2006 but haven't been able to do so. However, the salient part is "At Liverpool the fans are monumentally sentimental, but they know their history and understand that money talks. The Shankly reawakening came only with the help of some Moores money in the 1960s."
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They can't help but put a positive spin on all things Liverpool can they? How was it a reawakening in the 1960s? They had no claim to be the "biggest club in the world la" before the 70s, as someone said already, they were catching up to Everton in the 60s if anything after languishing in div2.
 
Metalartin said:
They can't help but put a positive spin on all things Liverpool can they? How was it a reawakening in the 1960s? They had no claim to be the "biggest club in the world la" before the 70s, as someone said already, they were catching up to Everton in the 60s if anything after languishing in div2.
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What many north west football fans don't realise is that for most of the 50s and very early 60s the Lancashire clubs in the 1st Division were City, United, Everton, Blackpool, Preston, Blackburn, Bolton and Burnley. Liverpool were floundering in the 2nd division for 8 years before getting promoted on the back of the Moores money in 1962.
 
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