Issue No 1: Is the job too big for Roy?

LIVERPOOL’S new owner John W Henry is said to be anxious to avoid the trap of over-promising and under-delivering at Anfield, having already been hailed by the Kop as the club’s white knight, But, after watching his first match in England, he knows that is by far the least of his worries.

Henry will begin his new regime with his team sitting second bottom of the Premier League, his manager under growing pressure and his players under-performing and desperately short of confidence. So any talk of bringing back the glory days at Anfield and restoring the team to its European heyday is almost embarrassingly premature, no matter how much money is to be thrown at the project in the ensuing months.

. So the biggest decisions ahead are not over building a new stadium or which trophy to aim for – but whether to retain the manager and how many players to buy in January.