Liverpool FC: Lying Hicks and Gillett Ousted, But Will They "Walk Alone?"

Ex-Liverpool FC owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett (or Mills Financial anyways) have been ousted from Liverpool FC. In what could be termed as an epic battle from the fans all over the world, the much infamous owners were forced to bite the dust.

However, as Hicks still fumes having witnessed his once-termed "most profitable investment" turned to a sort of nightmare, he does leave Liverpool with what he knows best: Lies.

After the club management announced its sale to the New England Sports Ventures (NESV), Hicks all of sudden took a break from his reclusive status a few days back and went on to blame Rafa Benitez for all the failings of the club and that too after reading an article from of guess whom: "Sir Alex Ferguson".

The funny thing is that Hicks and Co. didn't just stop there.

They further went on to state that they even had agreed to pay back RBS all the debt, only for RBS to refuse it and conspire against them. Hicks further claimed that he had found buyers of the stature of Manchester City for the club, but then no one in the management cared to even listen to him.

Well, Mr. Hicks you may have been fairly correct on the net spend on the club, but then you could have been a little more careful while going through the stats of other clubs' expenditure. Rafa admittedly did make mistakes as even the Guardian points out in a slide show, but of the 11 worst signings they highlight six that came either as free or in swap deals and the rest cost around 30m GBP (app.)—compare that to the Sebastian Veron signing for United.

Just a little common sense would tell that no manager would go for free transfers when funds were available.

Anyway, moving on from this much debatable topic are the ludicrous claims that Hicks and Co. were ready to pay off the debt which they at the same time admit being "a little too much." So why didn't they pay those off before why waited so late?

By the way, Mr. Hicks, if you had such an impressive prospective buyer doing the rounds, whom, as you say, went off due the ridiculous reason that fans were demanding a more passionate owner? Why at all did you bring Mr. Broughton to the board when you were so intimate with a billionaire?

As Rory Smith put it in the telegraph a few weeks before, "As usual, things don't just add up at Liverpool FC nowadays." How true under your regime, Mr. Hicks?

No matter what you say, Mr. Hicks, your record with the promises of building a stadium, "massive fund" for the summer and a whole load more, you have lost the faith pretty unanimously from the Liverpool FC fans and all of what you say now seems no more than just damned lies—and only you are to blame for this.

However, enough said, the point of this article has not just to do with Hicks but another H. Right, it's Roy Hodgson. 

Now with a squad that clearly is far better on paper than what the much "respected" Hodgson makes it look like, with a release clause in his contract (no matter how relieved he appears in his last interview), Hodgson must be feeling the heat.

However, there are some real causes of worry in the long run under Hodgson, much like the Hicks and Gillett era. The fears have more to do with what has been in view in the brief spell under Hodgson.

Even after initially promising to reach the peak form after seven league games, all Liverpool managed under Hodgson was a defeat to the newly promoted Blackpool in their seventh encounter.

Now no one disagrees that this squad of Liverpool FC needs rebuilding, but pretty strangely Hodgson's liking has always been the 27-28-year-olds. Even when he did manage a reasonably good transfer as with Meirles, he manages to play him out of  position, thus negating his major strength as a solid, pacy midfielder.

Now with new owners, Liverpool should be clearly be able to afford more funds but certainly much lesser than a Chelsea or Manchester City, so they need to go for better buys than say a Poulsen or Konchesky. With such massive duty ahead, it seems a little dodgy whether Hodgson is up to the task.

The reason being every time an established player outside the Scandinavian, English or Portuguese player is in the media, Hodgson comes out with "never even heard of" logic. Does that make him a manager knowledgeable enough to manage a big club? He just seems to have never done proper scouting ever, which would have been fine with clubs like Fulham, but certainly not for clubs like Liverpool.

Liverpool will clearly need also to buy players who are young and have a high resale value to profit from and not just unsaleable or established stars at their prime who cannot be of sold in a few years. Of course, Liverpool will need the faithfuls like Gerrard, Carragher and Co., but then just holding on to every player would just be bad business, and as a very business-minded group, I doubt NESV will think differently.

He also has been accused of applying tactics very similar to his days at Fulham at Liverpool.

As many a pundit claim, the tact of withdrawing players into his own half when out of possession of the ball seems frustrating at best. His approach not only radically decreases the goal-scoring chances, but also frustrates the likes of Torres who is more of a marksman rather than a player who would be fighting for the ball in midfield.

These, along with many others, will be against Hodgson as his men take on Everton in an away derby at Goodison Park and Hodgson should very well know now that he has frustrated the fans enough with his boring array of strategies and if he cannot manage a sequence of wins on the trot in the coming three or four matches, his days may well be over—and for the good.

With him exiting it could well be a case of Hodgson accompanying Hicks and Co. exiting the Merseyside, thus Hicks and Gillett may still not "Walk Alone" on their way out.