Re: Liverpools dream replacement for "King" Kenny says NO....
We are witnessing the ongoing decline of a once great football club play out in front of our eyes.
Have NESV got the stomach for the fight? I suspect the answer to that question at the moment is yes, but not for much longer imo.
Anyone who has been to Anfield in the last few years will attest to the fact that the stadium looks old and tired. There is little or no evidence that Liverpool City Council are showing any meaningful desire to realise the club's ambitions to increase its capacity by whatever means necessary, which is vital if they are to even contemplate competing at the top table ever again.
I suspect that Henry et al are finding the locals a little less charming and quaint now that they have had to endure their capacity to moan like no other fans in football and I see no reason why that relationship is going to do anything other than deteriorate in the months ahead.
Add into the mix the Americans obvious bafflement at the vagaries of football's transfer set up and their hopelessly naive, and quite frankly arrogant assumption that they could teach us Limey simpletons how it's done via the moneyball system and you have a cocktail which I reckon will conspire to make them cut their losses and run within twelve months.
Henry isn't the first businessman to buy a declining brand without realising the size of the task required to turn it round. And like so many clever and single-minded men before him as soon as he realises this, he will cut and run before you can say 'istree. He will come to recognise fairly soon that he has taken on something that he is totally unequipped to deal with and things could get very interesting from that point onwards.
Still, I'm sure it'll still be united's biggest game whatever happens.
