For John Henry and Fenway Sports Group one of the things that they have long been keen to try and achieve is an element of uniformity around how they go about the operations of their sports teams.
FSG, long-time owners of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool and, more recently the Pittsburgh Penguins, are an ownership group that seeks to grow the value of their teams, something that they achieve through investment in infrastructure that growth in revenue streams that helps to underpin success on the field, pitch or ice.
But their approach isn't always universally popular on either side of the Atlantic. Turning back the clock to January 2020 and the lack of transfer spend in the window as their title bid in 2020/21 fell away early doors was met with understandable criticism as the team limped through an injury-ravaged campaign with the likes of Nat Phillips and Rhys Williams holding fort at the back while Virgil van Dijk, Joel Matip and Joe Gomez were forced to watch on from the side-lines.
