Within the reams of Brendan Rodgers' 180-page dossier outlining his Liverpool vision there will be a chapter on the difficult decisions he deems necessary to take the club forward.
The new manager's appointment has coincided with FSG's resolve to act with more prudence in the transfer market following the extravagant spending under Kenny Dalglish, and Rodgers clearly has to make sacrifices to bring in the new faces, such as Joe Allen, that he views as being essential to his plans.
Despite hinting at a willingness to allow Andy Carroll to depart, the striker's spurned move to West Ham has left Rodgers with a headache over how he can generate the funds to cover Allen's release clause and find the new right winger the Reds desperately need - Man City's interest in Daniel Agger may have presented the Liverpool boss with the perfect answer to his quandary.
No manager would be delighted to lose one of his best players, but at £20million Agger is worth more to Liverpool in cold, hard cash than he is on the pitch or in the treatment room.
Indeed, only twice has the defender made more than 23 Premier League appearances in six full seasons at Anfield and there is as much an element of risk in keeping such an injury-prone player as there is in accepting an offer that represents excellent value and offers the chance to rebuild at the right time.
There will be Liverpool supporters that oppose a move that both weakens the first team and strengthens a Premier League opponent, but the Reds are no longer rivals with Man City and have to view their challenges this season accordingly. On the back of such a dreadful campaign that signalled significant overhaul above the playing squad, Rodgers must be allowed to manoeuvre as he sees fit - Agger's departure could equip the manager with the means to progress his own plans.
The exits of Dirk Kuyt and Maxi Rodriguez, as well as Craig Bellamy's expected departure, have left Liverpool light on numbers in attack, and unless Rodgers is shrewd in his business over the next three weeks the Reds will enter their daunting early fixture list with the risk of seeing their top six aspirations immediately quashed.
Therefore at this stage the manager has to find a balance between quantity and quality and a £20million centre-back is a luxury the Reds cannot afford. It is a similar predicament to that of Everton who, despite barely having a penny to spend, intend to hold onto £12million left-back Leighton Baines.
Considering Agger's struggles with injury, Liverpool have never been able to rely on him consistently. Sebastian Coates is likely to step up this season and the fee received for the Dane can be spread over another centre-back - perhaps an offer to tempt Tottenham into selling Steven Caulker - and filling the gap on the right wing.
If FSG had been given more encouragement by their hefty investment in Carroll, Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson, there may have been more money available to gamble this summer. However, given the failure of their previous approach, they have opted for what they see as a safe bet in Rodgers - a manager who brought considerable success to Swansea in a relatively short period of time for little cost.
It will take more time for Rodgers to impress his ideas at Anfield - where he must lay the foundations of his philosophy rather than continue the work of his predecessors - and this thought was more arresting after watching the Reds' rather haphazard performance against FC Gomel.
Of course, conclusions cannot be drawn at this early stage, but with matches against last season's top three coming in the first five fixtures of the new campaign, it will be something of a baptism of fire for Rodgers, and Agger will be of relatively little use if the gaps further forward have not been plugged.
