Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson revealed that it would make little difference to him even if the club were to be sold now and he is given a gold chest to spend on new players, as there would be little time for him to do the necessary research on which players to spend the money on.
The takeover situation at Anfield continued to show no improvement last week when Chinese businessman Kenny Huang called off his consortium’s bid for the club. With the Liverpool board having reportedly only received two formal offers, there appears to be no end to the financial crisis enveloping what was once considered the greatest club in English football.
But Hodgson has swept away concerns that he would be discouraged by the lack of developments within the club with regards to the issue and insisted that it would have made little difference to his summer plans even with a huge injection of funds for new signings as the timeline would have been too tight to make sensible and informed decisions.
“I’d like money – if I had time to research where it could be spent wisely.” Hodgson said.
“Giving me a lot now and saying ‘go out and buy some players’ with one week of the transfer window left, would not be tremendously advantageous.
“I’ve only been here for five weeks or so and first of all I’d want to make sure I had assessed absolutely everyone at this club.
“We might have a Javier Hernandez in the academy, so I don’t want to go out and spend £50million on a Hernandez if we’ve got one already.”
Hodgson also claimed that his opposite number with Liverpool’s opponents tonight – Manchester City’s Roberto Mancini – would be able to live with the pressure the Italian faces in the Eastlands hotseat as it was also part of the job in the Serie A.
“Mancini has worked at Inter and I don’t think any English coach works under the pressure you get there.” Hodgson added.
“It’s an institution in Italy, so pressure will not be something that bothers him unduly.”
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