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The club will be implementing an internal restructure over the coming weeks to ensure we continue to have the right leadership team off the pitch to grow our business and remain competitive in the Premier League.
Everyone at the club would like to wish Gareth well for the future, and thank him for his six years of service.
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After Liverpool’s erratic results this year, fans will worry about every game that’s left, but this is especially so with Southampton’s visit to Anfield on Sunday.
Saints have a good record against Liverpool: two wins, three draws and one defeat in their past six meetings. It isn’t hard to figure out why. Knowledge of your opponent is essential to getting the better of them, and Southampton’s advantage is that nearly half of Liverpool’s first-choice team used to play for them.
The scorers of their past three league goals at Anfield? Dejan Lovren in 2013, Nathaniel Clyne in 2014 and Sadio Mane in 2015. If Virgil van Dijk wasn’t injured, he’d certainly add his name to the list and increase Liverpool’s determination to sign him.
Southampton manager Claude Puel also has a good record against Liverpool, including his time at Lyon when they negotiated the Champions League group stage at Liverpool’s expense in 2009. With Southampton, he has drawn 0-0 at St Mary’s and won 1-0 in both EFL semifinal ties against the Reds.
Liverpool can look at it from two angles. They’ve just ended a similarly perplexing run by Tony Pulis, who was unbeaten on home soil against Liverpool until the recent 1-0 win at West Brom. Such hoodoos cannot last forever.
That said, the bizarre record of Crystal Palace at Anfield continued recently with a 2-1 win for the visitors. The bottom line is nobody knows what to expect from this Liverpool team, particularly at this late stage of the season when freak results often occur.
Despite talk of Liverpool acquiring the ability to grind out wins after recent successes, it should be pointed out that those conquests – Stoke, West Brom and Watford – had little to play for, being generally stuck in mid-table.
Which ought to make Southampton’s visit a formality, since they’ve also been drifting aimlessly towards the end of the campaign. The stark message from Jurgen Klopp’s side this season, however, has been “expect the unexpected.”
Last weekend’s results saw Liverpool take a grip on the so-called race for top four. Rivals dropped what looked to be easy points, and beating Watford appeared to give Liverpool a crucial advantage. After the Palace defeat, many were sceptical about their chances.
Since it looks like they’ll achieve top four, isn’t that the cue for this Liverpool team to ruin everything and lose? Or, since everyone now expects them to mess things up, will they win because it’s so unexpected? It’s a logical nightmare that would overheat the greatest minds in history.
Liverpool had the good fortune last week of knowing what to do after everyone else had played their matches. Although their closest rivals – Arsenal and Manchester United – start after Liverpool-Southampton this Sunday, they will face each other. One, preferably both, will drop points this weekend.
Klopp’s message will be for Liverpool to do their own job first and cease worrying about what other teams around them do. He will be aided in that by the return of Adam Lallana, although he certainly wouldn’t have wanted him to play 80 minutes in the Watford game. That came about because of an early injury to Philippe Coutinho, who is now making reassuring noises that he’ll recover in time to face Southampton.
Although widely considered as surplus to requirements nowadays, a brief glimpse of Daniel Sturridge at Watford was also welcome. It’s odd that a team should score so many league goals without a guaranteed goalscorer up front. On his day, Sturridge can be that. Even during those few minutes at Vicarage Road, he forced the best save of the night out of Heurelho Gomes. Mane has the potential to become more prolific, but his season is already over.
Divock Origi has been Klopp’s choice to replace him, but often seems unaware of what a lone striker is supposed to do. His presence also seems to cramp the style of Roberto Firmino.
Liverpool vs. Southampton at Anfield has been a close run thing ever since Saints’ promotion in 2012. They’ve also done well under three different managers and despite selling most of their stars – usually to Liverpool.
It’s testimony to how well the club is run behind the scenes, especially in the area of player recruitment. Klopp would do well to emulate them, but given the Van Dijk rumours, Liverpool will most likely keep returning to St Mary’s every summer with a big fat cheque.
Sunday gives Liverpool the chance to virtually clinch a top-four place. If they fail, they can still sit back and watch Arsenal scrap it out with United to see which club stays in the race.
Liverpool fans hope they’ll have few worries after Sunday. Their team has often stepped up whenever they knew the opposition could cause some damage. If they aren’t aware of what Southampton can do by now, Liverpool don’t really deserve to succeed.
Steven Kelly is one of ESPN FC’s Liverpool bloggers. Follow him on Twitter @SteKelly198586.
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GOAL: #MCFC U23s 3-2 #SaintsFC U23s (Charlie Oliver 79)
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The reason for his sudden departure remains unclear for now, but the Daily Echo understands it is not directly connected with a potential purchase of the club by Chinese firm Lander Holdings.
In a statement issued to the Daily Echo, the club confirmed: “Southampton Football Club can confirm that CEO Gareth Rogers will be leaving the club to pursue new opportunities.
“The club will be implementing an internal restructure over the coming weeks to ensure we continue to have the right leadership team off the pitch to grow our business and remain competitive in the Premier League.
“Everyone at the club would like to wish Gareth well for the future, and thank him for his six years of service.”
Rogers was appointed chief executive in March 2014, having held the post on an interim basis after Nicola Cortese’s departure two months earlier.
Rogers had been chief financial officer at the club since 2011, having previously worked for Deloitte.
He has been widely praised for steering Saints back towards sound financial footing after inheriting a difficult situation upon taking over the chief executive role.
The club’s latest set of accounts, released in March, revealed another profit as well as a growth in commercial revenue, while Rogers himself stressed the need to continue to lower the club’s debt levels.
Although it is believed that Rogers’ departure is not as a direct result of a potential takeover, there remains a strong possibility that Lander Holdings could complete a deal to buy an 80 per cent stake in the club from owner Katharina Liebherr for around £210m.
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Revealed: What Liverpool would save if they signed players before Southampton
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Liverpool welcome Southampton to Anfield on Sunday, which must seem a bit like taking delivery of the new Argos catalogue for them.
In recent times the Reds have come to regard shopping on the south coast as a yearly pursuit. They’ve brought in seven players from the Saints since 2003, but five of them arrived in the last three years alone.
Some of those players proved to be more successful than others, but with both Virgil van Dijk and Ryan Bertrand linked with summer moves to Jurgen Klopp’s side, it could well be that someone else ends up making that familiar journey north in the summer, no doubt for a lot more money than Southampton paid for them.
Because while the Reds like signing players from the Saints, they also like doing so at a considerable mark-up in price.
In fact, if you remove the former Wales goalkeeper Paul Jones - who moved to Anfield from the Saints on an emergency loan deal in 2003 - then Liverpool have always been forced to pay considerably more for the same signing than Southampton did. Six times.
All of which begs the question: Wouldn’t they have been better off making these signings before they’d made the move south?
Well, yes. Obviously.
Here’s how the difference stacks up.
The giant forward set a trend when he left relegated Southampton for Rafael Benitez’s European champions in 2005, and he proved a popular figure at Anfield despite only staying for three years.
The term “fairytale move” was all the rage in the summer of 2014, when Rickie Lambert managed to find his way back to his boyhood club Liverpool some 17 years after he’d been released as a teenager.
We’ll just gloss over what happened when he was there.
There can be little doubt now that Adam Lallana has been a terrific signing for Liverpool, and he’ll surely be in the running for the club’s player of the season in the current campaign.
All of which makes that compensation fee seem worth it for the Saints.
There have been more than a few times when the decision to pay £20m for Lovren looked more than a little crazy, but clearly the Croatian is a player than Jurgen Klopp likes, and he continues to be a key part of Liverpool’s Champions League-chasing defence.
Three seasons of Premier League consistency at Southampton were enough to make Clyne appeal to Brendan Rodgers, and he would prove to be one of the Northern Irishman’s final Liverpool signings when he snapped him up in the summer of 2015.
As with Lallana, you won’t find many people claiming that Liverpool overspent on Sadio Mane after his excellent first season at the club, but if they’d have spotted his talent sooner then they could have ended up saving two-thirds of what they paid for him.
Liverpool could have saved themselves a huge £78.7m if only they’d snapped up their transfer targets before Southampton got there, with the Saints paying a rather measly £23.8m for the same six players, and with Van Dijk and Bertrand possibly on the way, that number can only go up.
Players mature at different rates, of course, and it might be that Liverpool didn’t even want them when Southampton were signing them, but maybe it’d just be cheaper for the Reds to sign the Saints’ scouts instead?
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The reason for his sudden departure remains unclear for now, but the Daily Echo understands it is not directly connected with a potential purchase of the club by Chinese firm Lander Holdings.
In a statement issued to the Daily Echo, the club confirmed: “Southampton Football Club can confirm that CEO Gareth Rogers will be leaving the club to pursue new opportunities.
“The club will be implementing an internal restructure over the coming weeks to ensure we continue to have the right leadership team off the pitch to grow our business and remain competitive in the Premier League.
“Everyone at the club would like to wish Gareth well for the future, and thank him for his six years of service.”
Rogers was appointed chief executive in March 2014, having held the post on an interim basis after Nicola Cortese’s departure two months earlier.
Rogers had been chief financial officer at the club since 2011, having previously worked for Deloitte.
He has been widely praised for steering Saints back towards sound financial footing after inheriting a difficult situation upon taking over the chief executive role.
The club’s latest set of accounts, released in March, revealed another profit as well as a growth in commercial revenue, while Rogers himself stressed the need to continue to lower the club’s debt levels.
Although it is believed that Rogers’ departure is not as a direct result of a potential takeover, there remains a strong possibility that Lander Holdings could complete a deal to buy an 80 per cent stake in the club from owner Katharina Liebherr for around £210m.
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