in place, these actions left us with no scouting setup over the early summer transfer window. * FSG claim that they didn't offer the manager's job to Roberto Martnez when it was clear to all the world that they did. They then vow to put in place a continental-style management structure with a head coach working underneath a technical director (Segura) and a sporting director (supposedly, Louis van Gaal or similar), then abandon this at the insistence of a 39 year-old manager with one Premier League season at a newly promoted club behind him. This decision ultimately sees Segura leave, at more contractual expense to the club. * FSG publicly state that LFC would be able to compete with any club in the world in the transfer market. They then proceed to instruct their newly appointed manager that players would have to be sold, before new ones could come in, primarily to reduce the club's vast wage bill. They then refuse funding for Rodgers to bring in his first and primary target Sigurdsson, on the notion that his wage demands were too high. Rodgers then proceeds to lower the wage bill as instructed, and is allowed to specualte on the relatively low deal costings of Borini & Allen, but is ultimately forced to let one of three senior strikers at the club leave on loan 27 hours before the transfer deadline, on the promise of being able to sign an adequate replacement, before then being advised of FSG's refusal to