O Fenway Sports Group, John W Henry, Tom Werner, Michael Gordon, David Ginsberg, Michael Egan and Ian Ayre
We, the Fenway We Come Not To Pay Facebook, YouTube, Twitter page, are devoted Liverpool fans from UK and Ireland. We are a group growing day by day.

In October 6th 2010, you took over this great club from Gillett and Hicks. Some saw you as Saviours. In the early days of show voting and kissing up to the fan base, some deemed this an Ownership that would take this club back to the glory days. Not us.

We are under no illusions here. Fenway Sports Group are business men, opportunists not saviours of this club. You saw a huge club with massive potential on the brink of administration and in massive debt and you bought the club on a steal. Christian Purslow called it the “bottom of the barrel” deal.

Weeks and months into your ownership, you did your show voting and your PR stunts to win over the fans and listen to their needs. You said we could compete financial with the best of them.

In September 2012, in failing to secure the signing of Clint Dempsey, you put out an open letter to the fans, that wasn’t so open for comments back from the fans. You stated in your letter; “I can say with authority that our ownership is not about profit. Contrary to popular opinion, owners rarely get involved in sports in order to generate cash. They generally get involved with a club in order to compete and work for the benefit of their club”. No wonder you didn’t want us fans commenting about your open letter with comments like that.

What business man is not in it for the profit? Fast forward to present day and we have seen some of our senior players sold to free up the wage… very similar to the tactics used at the San Diego Padres and the Fire Sale of 1993. While you don’t have Rosanne Barr coming out and destroying “You’ll never walk alone” at Anfield… you did have Dunkin Donuts make a complete mockery of our crest and made the eternal flames of Hillsborough into coffee cups. You would have a hard time convincing San Diego Padres that you were not in it for the profit and were to work for the benefit of the club.

In May 2012, your appointment of Mr. Jen Chang as the Club's Corporate Relations and Communications Director certainly wasn’t your greatest moment either after a couple of months into his position, threatening a Liverpool fan on twitter.

John Henry, you showed further disrespect to the LFC fans with your famous tweet “oh and sign Reus”. Your sarcastic tweets are a rather smug approach to the fans of this great club. It’s clear to us that opportunists such as FSG have no real ambition to succeed in football. FSG have achieved absolutely nothing in this sport. We have failed in every attempt to bring in our top targets since FSG took over.

We also have a 91% failure rate in transfers made since FSG bought the club. We have missed out on some major signings due to a transfer policies and contract policies that clearly doesn’t work and will never work in the Premier League. This is becoming an absolute joke for a club the size of LFC. You can hide behind the smokescreen of Financial Fair Play all you like, but with the revenue from the TV deal and the many commercial and sponsorship deals you have sought after, there is absolutely no excuse.

You claim to be passionate about this club and the fans, and not in it for profit, yet how can you explain £12.7 million net spent per transfer window and especially while the clubs value has increased in the last 12 months by 41%? You claimed you can complete financially with the best of them and would not be a selling club... yet 35 players have been brought in, while 42 players left the club. You are passionate about the club yet you give us an interest free loan for the expansion of the main stand that we have to pay back to you within 5 years? Doesn’t sound right. You claim to care for the people of Liverpool and the worldwide fan base of this great club yet you have put up the prices of tickets meaning many cannot afford these costs. It doesn’t sound like you are at all passionate when you are reassuring the rest of Fenway Sports Management that Liverpool Football Club will not in any way interfere with your dealings or commitment with the Boston Red Sox. That explains why you are very rarely at Anfield.

Brendan Rodgers, an inexperienced manager was appointed by you in June 2012 and he stated that he made very clear that he would not work under a Director of Football. Yet you have a transfer committee dictating to him as to what players he can get and a contract policy that makes it next to impossible to get any of our first choice targets. You have got to speculate to accumulate, otherwise if we come up short with funds for transfer or a suitable contract, we will continue to fall short of the top 4 or 5 in the Premiership.

You can appreciate, after the trouble we had with Gillett and Hicks and their broken promises, we were always going to be wary of what owners we had next and analyse everything they said they would do and look at what they have actually done. It is our opinion that your first love are the Boston Red Sox and that we are just a short term investment that will make you a huge profit in the end. There is absolutely no structure to the club. It is a runaway train with plenty of people around it but no one really bold enough to put it on the right track.

We do not want our club run into the ground again or short changed either. This coming summer transfer window is the most important yet. We need to beef up our squad and we need marquee signings. Champions League football or not, if you pay the fee, and the wage, the players will come to this club. If you are going to back Brendan Rodgers, then get rid of the transfer committee and your policies and allow him do his job.

If you continue to go down the path you are going down, the fans worldwide, will get restless and they will be looking for people to blame and calling for people’s jobs. You can throw your managers under the bus to save yourselves but eventually the fans worldwide will be looking at you as being completely responsible for our demise.

There is a phrase that I’m sure that you have heard of and would do no harm in remembering it when thinking of your position in this club... “They messed with the wrong city”. Those who dared mess with this city, learnt the hard way and regret it to this day.

Your choices are clear. Our point has been made. Either KOP on, or sell up.

Yours sincerely
FENWAYWECOMENOTTOPAY