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Fans and pundits are calling for heads to roll in club ownership. Jamie Carragher is calling for ownership changes at Liverpool.
Listen I loved Carra as a player but he spouts loads of nonsense as a pundit. This is the same Jamie Carragher that did nothing but collect his paycheck when Tom Hicks and George Gillette were running the club towards administration. He has a lot of fortitude to get all high and mighty now.
Beyond that who does he suppose they should sell too? FSG are probably the best of the lot in terms of running the club in a sustainable manner without putting excess debt on it to fund much of anything to do with the club. There's no guarantee that any similar ownership group would operate the same way and that would just have the pitchforks and torches out for them. The only realistic alternative is megarich sports-washing regime whether that be the Saudis (who're allegedly back in for Newcastle) or our very own Oligarch, etc. If Liverpool have ownership like that then isn't all the moral outrage for nothing?
Disagree a bit on the relevant part, just a few years ago Leichester City (who?), won the EPL, i agree it doesn't happen as often as I like, but it does happen (unexpected lower tier team surprises)....
People keep using Leicester City's fairytale run as some sort of proof of concept. That was the exception not the rule, more often than not the mega-rich clubs that can afford to essentially have 2 squads of players are going to be in for thing major trophies year in and year out. The only reason players really leave PSG is because the french league is a joke so they want the prestige of playing for one of the Spanish giants, in the Premier league, or sometimes for Bayern Munich and maybe Juve.