I really really fail to see how this can be put on the owners. We won plenty of titles in the first many years after they took over the club, which of course was down to us having the best Manager in the world. When SAF retired he was allowed to pick his own replacement and we the fans supported that. When that turned out to be a total disaster, we the fans demanded that he was replaced, and he was. Then came LVG, a manager picked from the top shelf with a CV to match a club like United. He failed and we demanded him fired and he got fired. Then came Mourinho. He was, and will never be, someone that the whole fan base gets behind, but he delivered some good results. At the end however player power took over, the results went from bad to worse, we demanded him fired and so he was.
Then came Ole as interim Manager. He clearly took over a well drilled squad, who just needed someone happy and smiley on the bench, because the team was suddenly playing the best we had seen since SAF.
Everybody from the fans, to the reporters , pundits, class of 92 etc demanded that OGS was made permanent manager, and at the end he was.
Of course it didn’t work out. OGS never had it in him. When the honeymoon from taking over from Mourinho was over, and Ole was left with building up his own team, and the players had forgotten Mourinho and was no more pleased with just a friendly and smiling Manager, things started to fall apart again. We demanded for Ole to be sacked and so he was.
Now the top management seem to have learned something, and in stead of rushing out and take whoever is available on the market mid-season, they decide to take in a person who has a reputation of being able to build up a club and develop a football strategy. He has not delivered the expected results but he is also only interim as a manager. Hopefully he will be able to see what this club needs to get back on top. What sort of Manager is the right fit, what players need to go, because they are either too bad or most important because they don’t have the right attitude, and what players should we bring in.
I don’t particularly like the Glazers, but I don’t blame them. To me they are just silent partners. Could they have done more ? Probably. But I don’t think that anyone around the club ever said to them “Why don’t we hire that Pep guy or Klopp“ and they then replied “ no, too expensive “ or “too Spanish” or “I don’t like his white teeth”. There is not a club in the world that do not wish they could turn back time and offer any one of those two whatever they asked for, and we would not have had this conversation today.
You don’t hear Liverpool fans complaining about their owners, but one day Klopp will leave and they will demand that Gerrard takes over, and 5 years later they will call for a demonstration.