10 Aug 2017 11:22:23
A question for ED002, with our poor management of players and with the tapping up of multiple players including a young 13 year old kid, our action resulting in significant hardship for the kid and his family, what steps would you suggest the club take in order to prevent such disgraceful behaviour from happening again?
Also, it almost always happens that agents overstep their boundaries, what line of action should be taken to prevent it.
Thank you.

{Ed002's Note - The club needs to clean up its act and stop behaving like this. In the case of the illegal approaches it needs to stop now. In terms of the lkids the club needs to make changes right away and bring in someone to oversee recruitment and to make sure the rules are followed.

In terms of agents/intermediaries overstepping the mark, there has been a major clampdown but you will never get riud of it completely. Most clubs can generally live with how it is. There was talk about a three strike system but that does not address the "super agent" situation. Clubs also want to self-regulate more and may get that latitude if the bahave responsibly.}

1.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 12:13:14
Ed002 do most of the clubs have someone to oversee recruitment?
And if so why haven't LFC brought in someone?
Which club would you suggest as a model club with regards to recruitment activities.
And I also think the FA should impose harsh punishments, like bans and heft fines and penalties for such behaviour, which may act as a deterrent for all the clubs in the future.

{Ed002's Note - The club Secretary at all clubs is responsible for ensure compliance with regulations (ensuing banned players are not played, ensuring the strict rules for kids are followed and ensuring that the club does not abuse transfer rules etc.). Some clubs additionally use the Director of Football or Sporting Director role to oversee all transfers across the club, others don't. I wouldn't want to call out any one particular side as being a role model for others, but if I did it would likely be a German or Dutch side.}

2.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 12:13:33
Are we allowed to name and shame these two individuals on here who brought this about? Don't want to cause any undue hassle.

{Ed002's Note - No we going to get in to that, particularly given the pending court case.}

3.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 12:15:23
i think they should start by clearing the family's debt.

{Ed002's Note - It is unfortunately not as simple as that.}

4.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 12:27:38
No problem, that's understandable but people can easily do a quick search on the good old interweb and they can see for themselves. Can I become a Tranmere fan instead? Are there surgeries that can assist me with this type of transformation? Fooook me, this has messed my head right up today ha!

5.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 12:29:18
STEP 1) stop doing it

STEP 2) don't do it again

STEP 3) repeat steps 1 and 2.

6.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 12:59:16
Enough of the witch hunts. 'Naming and shaming' why? So we can fuel more hate towards the club. Jesus Christ. As 87 red has said it's a simple process to clean up our act.

7.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 13:30:01
Cool down Swishcleaner, how would naming and shaming fuel more hate towards the CLUB? If anything it would take the emphasis off of the club and place it firmly at the feet of the INDIVIDUALS who caused this mess. We were clearly told we can't do it anyway. It's very simple, you should never be allowed to muck around with a kid's life - end of!

8.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 13:57:51
Ed I understand the club can't pay the families debts, but couldn't the premier league just fine us and that money, va the PL be then given to the parents?

{Ed002's Note - The rules don't allow for anything like that. The family are taking Liverpool to court and Liverpool are contesting it and that is increasing their debt significantly.}

9.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 15:34:45
Olrish, I think there is enough hate towards most of our playing squad, throw in FSG hate for various reasons and even some towards klopp . Do we really need to add more To that!?

10.) 10 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 18:11:53
Haters going to hate no matter what you say or do sadly.
We're not allowed to name the individuals involved, this has been made clear and not once have I attempted to do so. but just imagine if this was your life or your kid's life that these idiots messed with, wouldn't you want them removed from their roles so they couldn't repeat their actions? They would PROBABLY have to be named publicly for that to occur most likely. I understand what you're saying but are you suggesting these individuals should just get away scott-free after doing what they did without repercussions?! Where's the justice or deterrent in that? I don't wish ill on anyone but sometimes an example needs to be made of offenders who not only did what they did, they then asked the kid's family to lie for them, it's unbelievable man.