When news of Fenway Sports Group's openness to selling Liverpool became public, chairman Tom Werner quickly insisted it would still be "business as usual" at Anfield.
Despite FSG enlisting the help of two major US banks in Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to assess what could be on the table with regards to a potential sale last month, Werner told the Boston Globe: "We’re exploring a sale, but there’s no urgency, no time frame for us, and as far as I’m concerned, it’s business as usual. One outcome could be our continued stewardship for quite a while."
As news of Julian Ward's summer 2023 departure from the sporting director role was then made public alongside the impending exit of Ian Graham, the club's head of research, it was difficult to take Werner's claim of 'business as usual' in good faith.
