I don't think it's wise to take these stuff at face value.
Pearce and Barrett are very reliable but someone would need to leak that info to them from the inside and one should be suspicious of the motives of the leaker. We've seen before how there often appears to be conflict from within the club and conflicting leaks supporting different camps.This all has the air of someone very firmly trying to defend Rodgers and shift the blame to the "committee" or FSG.
That's not to say I think the blame should be with Rodgers, I'm not about to apportion blame myself. But certainly there are a number of points to be wary of. For one, Rodgers has clearly had some freedom to bring in his own targets and they've been pretty poor. Borini and Allen in his first season, and then this season it seems likely that Lallana and Lovren were too. Why bring up these targets that Rodgers wanted like Bony and Eriksen? If that were true, why didn't he abandon the pursuit of Lovren and spend the money on them? It's all very well speaking about all of these players that
could have been signed, but if we take that path we might as well presume that Harry Redknapp is the greatest transfer mind of all time and has been thwarted by chairmen time and again.
In addition, it's a known fallacy to simply assume that the club operates in some binary fashion, and if things aren't working to just flick the switch. Maybe the answer is not to just abandon the idea of a committee but to make sure it works in a better way. In particular, the most successful signing made by Liverpool in recent times was forced through by the committee over Rodgers. I don't think most would argue with the logic that having a group approach to transfers, taking it away from one man's responsibility and covering some of his flaws, is a sound idea.
What we can see with some confidence is that the club actual transfer negotiation is very flawed at the moment, both from these articles and prior knowledge. Perhaps if the club stopped penny pinching and dillydallying they would be able to get in a lot more preferable players.
