According to the Liverpool’s chief executive, Peter Moore, the Reds are “back on our perch” after winning the Champions League in the summer.
The Merseyside giants beat Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid in June to lift the famous European trophy and make amends for their loss in the 2018 final against Real Madrid.
Manchester United’s legendary manager Alex Ferguson famously admitted on his arrival at Old Trafford that he wanted to “knock Liverpool right off their perch” as the Anfield club then was the dominant force in English football.
Although Liverpool are still yet to win the title in the Premier League era, Moore believes that Liverpool has now usurped their old rivals Manchester United, who have struggled since Ferguson’s retirement in 2013, thanks to their steady growth and the work of their charismatic German boss Jurgen Klopp since his appointment in 2015.
While speaking at the World Football Summit in Madrid Moore admitted that Liverpool have gone through a few dark times but are now recognized as the most successful club in England after the change in ownership, “We lived through some dark times of a difficult ownership period, The fans stood up against those owners and said this not what we want for the way Liverpool Football Club should be run. Fenway Sports Group now, it was New England Sports Ventures, came in and acquired the club and have sat back and invested patiently and built a long-term strategy for success. They’ve rebuilt a major part of the stadium so that we can drive revenues. [They] Have eventually got Jurgen Klopp, have invested in the squad, in the backbone of the squad with Alisson in goal, with Virgil van Dijk. I would argue we have the most exciting forward line in football. All of that has come over a period of seasons.”
Moore finally concluded by saying that if Liverpool need to be at the top, proper investment needs to be made, “We’re back on our perch as we famously say and we need to have capital investment throughout the club, the squad and making sure we have a world-class training center and that’s what we will have in Kirby, starting next season.”
