Henry faces up to `real challenge'

16 October 2010 15:00
New Liverpool owner John Henry admits there is a "real challenge" ahead but plans to start work on a strategy for improvement on Saturday. New England Sports Ventures, of which Henry is head, completed their protracted £300million takeover on Friday. NESV have a good track record in improving teams, with their significant investment in the Boston Red Sox baseball franchise after a 2001 buy-out bringing two World Series titles after a long drought. Henry has had plenty of time to make an assessment of the situation at Anfield as a sale was agreed 10 days ago but has been the subject of numerous court disputes by former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. "We're going to have to work very hard," he said. "There's a lot of work to be done to get this club to where it needs to be in the grand scheme of things. "We really, through all the work we've done over the last two months, saw the challenges and problems which exist and we've got to work to address those. "There is a great nucleus here off the field and on the field and we think we can build from that, but it's not going to be easy. We've got real challenges but we've got a very strong organisation, financially and otherwise, we have some terrific strategic thinkers and we're going to be attacking this head-on."

Source: PA