Having been the target of boos among some of the Boston Red Sox fans who had gathered at Fenway Park to watch the NHL Winter Classic between the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins earlier this week, the ire directed at John W. Henry and his Fenway Sports Group organisation was palpable.
FSG, owners of Liverpool, the Boston Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Penguins, among other business interests, have been feeling the heat on both sides of the Atlantic for what has been a perceived lack of investment at key times that had now led to poor performance.
Liverpool's need for midfield reinforcements to aid their vital assault on the top four and success in the Champions League had seen the calls grown for FSG to either spend or leave, while the same calls were being heard in Boston where the loss of cornerstone franchise players Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts over the past two years, and inactivity during free agency this winter, had seen Red Sox fans demand that action be taken.
