Liverpool owner John Henry's open letter to fans

Liverpool have not yet registered a win in EPL 2012-13 and the apprehension over Brendan Rodgers’ decision to let Andy Carroll go on loan to West Ham was confirmed after the 0-2 loss to Arsenal. Challenged with the task of reinventing a vastly underachieving top club, Rodgers has a long way to go. The owners themselves seem to be pretty practical in most matters. Following the wretched start to the season, John W Henry has written an open letter to the fans. Excerpts “I am as disappointed as anyone connected with Liverpool Football Club that we were unable to add further to our strike force in this summer transfer window, but that was not through any lack of desire or effort on the part of all of those involved. They pushed hard in the final days of the transfer window on a number of forward targets and it is unfortunate that on this occasion we were unable to conclude acceptable deals to bring those targets in. [caption id=“attachment_441538” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Following the wretched start to the season, John W Henry has written an open letter to the fans. Reuters[/caption] But a summer window which brought in three young, but significantly talented starters in Joe Allen, Nuri Sahin and Fabio Borini as well as two exciting young potential stars of the future - Samed Yesil and Oussama Assaidi - could hardly be deemed a failure as we build for the future. Nor should anyone minimise the importance of keeping our best players during this window. We successfully retained Daniel Agger, Martin Skrtel and Luis Suarez. No one should doubt our commitment to the club. In Brendan Rodgers we have a talented young manager and we have valued highly his judgement about the make-up of the squad. This is a work in progress. It will take time for Brendan to instill his philosophy into the squad and build exactly what he needs for the long term. We will never place this club in the precarious position that we found it in when we took over at Anfield. This club should never again run up debts that threaten its existence.” Read the full letter here.