Rafa Benítez: I tried signing Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey for Liverpool but we couldn’t compete with bigger teams
For all the criticism FSG are currently receiving from Liverpool fans for not signing a single player during this summer transfer window, it's easy to forget what the previous custodians were like.
Towards the end of Rafael Benítez's reign at the Reds, the Champions League winning manager was fighting more with the owners off the pitch than he was for success on the pitch.
Some of that was the fault of the manager - like deciding to replace Xabi Alonso with Gareth Barry - but most of it was down to the broken promises and lack of financial backing given to him by his employers, who almost led the Merseyside Giants into administration.
On the most recent episode of 'Stick to Football' and speaking to Gary Neville and his fellow hosts Roy Keane, Jamie Carragher, Ian Wright and Jill Scott,...