Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson has no problem with the club's NESV owners expressing their concerns over results.
Hodgson is demanding a much improved performance this evening against Utrecht - not least because NESV's principles John W Henry and Tom Werner will be in the crowd.
Henry's comments on a live phone-in on the club's television channel on Monday night that results this season have been 'unacceptable' could have caused an issue with some managers but Hodgson was in agreement with Liverpool's new owner.
"I have got to say the owners have talked sense all along," said Hodgson.
"Their vision for the club is spot on. People have made mileage about the current results being unacceptable but if I was on the phone, I would have been saying the same thing.
"I did not join Liverpool to be in mid-table. I came here because I believed we could be in the top four, in the Champions League and win things. That's my ambition.
"The owners have made it perfectly clear they are in it for the long term and they are going to be patient. They realise the team I am working with is not the team I put together."
