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Liverpool: The Anfield Wrap’s Kev Walsh slams FSG

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Liverpool owners FSG have been urged to support Jurgen Klopp in the transfer market, with The Anfield Wrap panellist Kev Walsh claiming now ‘should be the time’ when they ‘back the manager’.

Speaking on a recent episode of The Anfield Wrap podcast, regular Walsh discussed how the upcoming transfer window may play out given the impact of the recent global pandemic and made no secret of his feelings regarding how he believes the ownership should be supporting Klopp.

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He said: “I don’t like them personally, we’ve won the league, we’ve won the European Cup, and they’ve given everything that we needed to do that. But the problem is, now we’re at a point where they bought a club for £300m or whatever it was, that was going into administration. The club’s probably worth £2.5bn, so they’ve made £2bn on that when they eventually sell, and they’ve made no bones about the fact that they will eventually sell.

“This, for me, should be the time where they say: ‘okay, we’ll mortgage some of that £2bn and we’ll back the manager now.’

“For us to turn someone like Timo Werner down for £50m because we don’t know when fans are going to be back in the ground says to me they’re trying to run the club on a total shoestring [budget].”

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The Reds were recently crowned as champions for the first time in 30 years and for now, remain the reigning European champions, but Walsh has taken issue with the club’s reported stance with regards to improving the squad further this summer.

He made reference to their decision to pull out of the race to sign Timo Werner from RB Leipzig, paving the way for him to join their Premier League rivals, Chelsea. It’s clear from Walsh’s comments he feels that if the owners really wanted to, they could find a way of raising extra funds and that it is time they invested back into the club given that he believes they stand to make a huge profit.

FSG purchased the club in 2010, and whilst they have spent vast amounts of money on the likes of Virgil van Dijk, Alisson Becker and Naby Keita, according to a report published last month, for every £100m they have spent since the 2015/16 season, they have recuperated £79.1m from player sales. In our view, the way in which they wish to do business has always been clear and therefore, if they decide not to invest this summer it should come as no huge surprise to anybody.

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