Liverpool fans are holding Tom Hicks and George Gillett responsible for forcing Rafael Benitez to leave the club, Goal.com UK can reveal.
Supporters’ union Spirit of Shankly (SoS) said the American owners had made Benitez’s position “untenable” and urged them to sell the club immediately.
It emerged on Wednesday night that the Spaniard is in pay-off negotiations with the club after agreeing to end his six-year reign at Anfield.
“This situation shows clearly the problems created by Tom Hicks and George Gillett at our club,” SoS spokesman James McKenna told Goal.com UK.
“The position of manager has been continually undermined by those in the boardroom, and now the manager’s position is made untenable by the money men at the club.
“For the position of [Liverpool] manager, a position with such prestige in world football, to be treated in such a way, shows the lack of respect that those in the boardroom have for LFC and its history, and shows just how much they never have and never will understand the Liverpool way.
"They need to go now, before we have no club left.”
Hicks and Gillett officially put Liverpool up for sale two months ago and drafted in British Airways chairman Martin Broughton to help speed up the process.
Supporters have said they are considering a boycott of season tickets in the summer in protest at Hicks and Gillett’s ownership unless the pair sell up.
Liverpool are currently £237 million in the red. Concerns grew stronger recently with the revelation the Merseysiders registered record annual losses of £55m for the year ending July 2009 and are paying £110,000-a-day in interest payments.
Supporters’ union Spirit of Shankly (SoS) said the American owners had made Benitez’s position “untenable” and urged them to sell the club immediately.
It emerged on Wednesday night that the Spaniard is in pay-off negotiations with the club after agreeing to end his six-year reign at Anfield.
“This situation shows clearly the problems created by Tom Hicks and George Gillett at our club,” SoS spokesman James McKenna told Goal.com UK.
“The position of manager has been continually undermined by those in the boardroom, and now the manager’s position is made untenable by the money men at the club.
“For the position of [Liverpool] manager, a position with such prestige in world football, to be treated in such a way, shows the lack of respect that those in the boardroom have for LFC and its history, and shows just how much they never have and never will understand the Liverpool way.
"They need to go now, before we have no club left.”
Hicks and Gillett officially put Liverpool up for sale two months ago and drafted in British Airways chairman Martin Broughton to help speed up the process.
Supporters have said they are considering a boycott of season tickets in the summer in protest at Hicks and Gillett’s ownership unless the pair sell up.
Liverpool are currently £237 million in the red. Concerns grew stronger recently with the revelation the Merseysiders registered record annual losses of £55m for the year ending July 2009 and are paying £110,000-a-day in interest payments.
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