James Pearce
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466 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Sep
James Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think, you know, people pounce on the size of the transfer fee, don't they?
And they, you know, inevitably with a big fee comes big expectations.
But yeah, I think you also have to appreciate, you know, when he signed, he was 22, living away from home for the first time and adjusting to a new league.
James Horncastle, let me come to you on this.
Yeah, I think it's a far from ideal backdrop, isn't it?
To have that level of uncertainty.
Because you're right, it's not just about slot.
You look at Michael Edwards when he came back two years ago.
It was very clear at the time that crucial to luring him back, because he'd already turned down the chance to come back as sporting director, was FSG's commitment to buying a second club.
He spoke about that at the time when Liverpool put out the release that that was...
crucial.
Mike Gordon, the FSG president, emailed all club staff at the time, you know, talking about how we're going to embark on this multi-club model.
And of course, we did the story, I think, back in March about the FSG had ditched that, that Edwards and Julian Ward, who he brought back as technical director, and Pedro Marquez as well, that came in as another senior figure.
They'd put a huge amount of time and effort into kind of
trawling across Europe, put together 20, 25 different possible proposals.
They did a lot of due diligence on it.
And there was various ones that they came quite close to, Bordeaux, Getafe, Malaga.
There was even discussions about buying a stake in Monaco.
None of it came to fruition.
The FSG board didn't give the green light to any of it.
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