A poster targeting Trent Alexander-Arnold last season
“It is called Liverpool Football Club, but only a few people who represent it at the most significant levels are either from the city or live there. Owners Fenway Sports Group is American and its main leaders are based out of Boston and Los Angeles. In 2014, it expanded its business operation by opening a bureau in London to help grow what had started on Merseyside. Meanwhile, the organisation’s head of football, Michael Edwards, originally from Hampshire, lives just outside Manchester and runs an office in nearby Altrincham. Edwards appointed Liverpool’s sporting director, Richard Hughes, a Scot who usually travels north for a couple of working days a week from his home on the south coast of England. …”
NY Times/The Athletic
Many of Liverpool’s most important figures don’t live in Liverpool. Does it matter?
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