It's got to be a drastic change for Liverpool this summer. They've got to get rid of their transfer committee system altogether and let Brendan Rodgers do what I believe he should be doing, which is judging the players and buying the players.
He has been part of the six man committee and it's a very difficult job for him to do.
The manager should be in charge and he should be allowed to be in charge, so maybe the owners are getting a bit of sense and about to give Rodgers the tools to do the job.
He hasn't had the tools in the last two years. The Balotelli affair for example, I don't think Rodgers wanted to buy Balotelli but he was one of six and some of the others probably thought it was a good deal because they were getting £16M and he'd gone for £25M before. In business terms that would be a good deal.
Or it appeared to be a good deal. For Brendan Rodgers, it's a very difficult decision because he is one of six and when they signed Balotelli if he wanted to say 'I'm not in agreement with that, I don't want him', he cannot do that - well, he can but he would be out of a job straight away.
He had to go along with it and he went along with it because he had to go along with it. But I don't think he ever really believed that Balotelli was the man for him.
Balotelli is running out of clubs and I don't think anyone would pay £16M for him now. He went from £25M down to £16M and where does he go to?
If he goes for nothing, somebody will take a punt on him for his wages. But from Liverpool's point of view, I think they've got to let £16M go because he's doing nothing there. He's a nuisance there and it was a very bad buy because you don't buy in trouble. You sell trouble and wherever he's been, there's been trouble.
He's been trouble at AC Milan. Mourinho, who is a very good man-manager, said he was unmanageable when he was at Inter Milan and that's a few years ago.
And he has never justified the high fees with the reputation he has. When do you see a great player being sold around. Managers don't sell great players; they keep them as long as they possibly can unless they have to sell.
It's a dilemma but I think they will have to let him go because he has done nothing for Liverpool and I don't think he will.
John Giles was speaking on his Thursday Night Football slot on Off The Ball from 7.30pm every week.
Download the brand new OffTheBall App in the Play Store & App Store right now! We've got you covered!
Subscribe to OffTheBall's YouTube channel for more videos, like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for the latest sporting news and content.
