Mark Lawrenson has suggested that FSG could ‘sell’ Liverpool after they watched Todd Boehly complete a £4.25bn takeover of Chelsea, as he told Off the Ball.
The Anfield legend added that if things ‘start to go array’ at Anfield, then given how much Chelsea have just been sold for, then FSG might ‘walk away’ from Liverpool.
On the field of play, the era under Liverpool’s American owners has been one of their most successful, including winning the Premier League title after three decades of wait.
Whilst it’s the likes of John W Henry sitting at the top of the tree, if it wasn’t for Jurgen Klopp, then the Reds might not even be in such a situation.
Nonetheless, this is what Lawrenson had to say about Liverpool’s owners when discussing the futures of Sadio Mane and Mo Salah.
“In fairness, the football club is run absolutely brilliantly,” said Lawrenson.
“The number of players they have bought from the kind of £30-40m region has been quality. Klopp has made them into world-class players.
“There is a bigger thing here and that’s the future of the football club (re handing big deals to the likes of Salah and Mane).
“The Americans, they must be looking at it, what was it four and a quarter billion that Chelsea have been bought for? The Americans must be thinking if this starts to go array, then we could sell it and walk away.
“They have been brilliant with the manager. They realise what they have got. They don’t trouble him and hardly even speak because they don’t need to.”
LIVERPOOL HAVE A BIG CALL TO MAKE WITH SALAH AND MANE
Come next summer, Liverpool may well be in a position when both Salah and Mane are no longer at the club.
With Mane, regardless of contract talks, it seems as though he wants to experience a new chapter in his life and he may well head to Bayern Munich this summer.
But, with Salah, he has made it clear on a number of occasions that he wants to stay on Merseyside.
So, do those in the Anfield boardroom push the boat out to keep their star man? Or stick to the wage structure they have already set?
Either way, it’s a big call and one that will divide opinion, but of course, the most popular call of them all would be to put the money Salah wants on the table.
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