Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has credited the board's patience ahead of Thursday's Europa League clash with Young Boys.
The Reds welcome the Swiss side to Anfield for a crucial fixture as they sit level on six points in Group A - second and third respectively - but Rodgers is confident his vision is beginning to bear fruit.
With Roberto Di Matteo shown the exit door at Chelsea on Wednesday, Rodgers believes the Liverpool board's understanding has helped him begin to turn results around.
He said: "If you believe in a manager and put him in place and give him time what has been proven in this country is that can lead to success.
"I think those early months were always going to be difficult; you are trying to instil and implement ideas initially without a great deal of success.
"Those early months could have been difficult but in terms of myself, players and staff we were very much focused on our job and there has been no change in ourselves, only improvement.
"All you can do is have an inherent belief in how you work and I believe this is the way the club wants us to work.
"As a manager, in order to fulfil what you want to over the longer term you have to take care of the short term - that was something I learned in my job at Reading.
"I was given a three-year contract and took the job in the great belief I was brought in to change the philosophy and ideas of the club and 20 games later I was out of a job. That was the harsh reality of managing a football club and from that I learned a lesson.
"I have been grateful to the board here because in order for me to come here that (support) was something which was going to be important because if we were going to keep the club moving in the right direction it was going to need some stability."
A shaky start to the season has given way to some more positive results of late despite a lack of options in attack, with Liverpool unbeaten in their last seven Premier League games.
Pompey administrator Trevor Birch of PKF confirmed the case to determine whether he can sell the club to the PST-led bid will be heard on December 13 and 14.
"It is a relief to know we will have some certainty sooner rather than later," said chairman of the Trust, Ashley Brown. "Our understanding is the matter will be resolved at this hearing as there is unlikely to be any grounds for any appeal.
"If all goes according to plan, and our legal advisers say we have a strong case, we will take control of Portsmouth FC shortly afterwards and the process of rebuilding our club can begin.
"That is why we are urging fans to fulfil their pledges or purchase shares by that date. The more working capital we can raise quickly, the more control we will have over the situation and the quicker we can get going with our plans.
"We are very encouraged by the initial response to the share offer. There is a steady stream of pledges and new purchases of shares arriving hourly, so many that we haven't been able to count them yet.
"However, fans can't relax. This share offer needs to be a success or else there is a significant chance the club will be liquidated. There is no alternative offer on the table, so we have to make this work."
Bates will be staying on as president at Elland Road following the completion of the club's takeover by Bahrain-based investment bank GFH Capital.
Bates, 80, announced on Wednesday morning that GFH Capital will complete a 100 per cent takeover of the club on December 21 and that he will remain as chairman during a transitional period until the end of the season.
GFH Capital deputy chief executive David Haigh, a lifelong Leeds fan, will take a place on the board at Elland Road immediately with three more of the Middle East consortium's representatives to join him before Christmas.
A new club chairman will be appointed by the new owners at the end of the season when Bates will become club president.
GFH Capital, who first entered into talks with Leeds in May, have already transferred money into the club and will be making further funds available to manager Neil Warnock, who will have the new owners' full support.
"We're very pleased the deal has finally been done and that six agonisingly-long months for Leeds United supporters can be put to an end," said Leeds United Supporters' Trust chairman Gary Cooper.
"GFH Capital have spoken a wonderful game and made some very ambitious statements with regards to what they want to do with the club and we're looking forward to seeing them put their plans into action.
"But there is one 'but'. Why the continued involvement with Ken Bates? We're not questioning the transitional period at all, that makes absolute sense.
"But my members are already asking me, going forward, why does the club need or want Ken Bates as president? His tenure at the club has not been one of success.
"He's like marmite, you either love him or loathe him and he's proved very divisive at this club.
"He's done his best to discredit supporters' groups, he's called fans morons and dissidents and he's sold all our best players.
"He's a hell of a character, but he's done nothing to endear himself to the supporters of Leeds United.
"GFH Capital now have the unenviable task of rebuilding the club's relationship with the fans when appearing to be hand-in-hand with Ken Bates."
Bates took control of Leeds in 2005, 18 months after he had sold his controlling shares in Chelsea to current owner Roman Abramovich.
He refused to reveal exactly who owned Leeds for the next six years, but amid mounting pressure from the game's authorities announced in April last year that he had bought 72.85% of the club's shares from Geneva-based Forward Sports Fund for an undisclosed sum.
Bates' previous allegiance to Chelsea meant he never had the full support of the majority of Leeds fans and an uneasy relationship steadily deteriorated during almost eight years in charge.
Bates' announcement ends an unsettling six-month period for the npower Championship club, who have slipped to 18th in the table after failing to win any of their last seven league matches.
He said: "I can say although the negotiations have taken a very long time, the benefit of that is that, unlike some overseas owners, who have gone in blind like a bull in a china shop and made a complete mess of the club after taking over, this six-month courtship if you like, for want of a better phrase, has given them (GFH) enough opportunities to see how Leeds United works.
"So you can look for a more Manchester United-type transition than we've seen at Blackburn, Portsmouth and other less fortunate clubs."
He added: "We've made no secret of the fact we've been looking at additional partners and investors ever since I joined the club on January 21, 2005.
"There have been a number of reasons why it hasn't succeeded before, one of them being there are so many liars, chancers and conmen attracted to football and it's been a very slow, steady, careful process in weeding out those people and not letting them anywhere near Elland Road."
Haigh said: "It gives us great pride today, to have completed the deal for Leeds United.
"We have today injected further funds into the club and now we look to the future and start the exciting journey to take Leeds United FC back into a prime position in English football once again.
"From a Leeds family myself and a supporter of the Whites since childhood, I know that football is at the very heart of the people of Leeds and the wider community.
"We want to thank all the fans in UK and around the world for their patience and support while the negotiations have been taking place. Let's now march on together, taking the club back to the Premier League as soon as possible."
A First Tier Tax Tribunal (FTTT) finally delivered its long-awaited verdict on Tuesday when they found in favour of the oldco Rangers's appeal over a bill for the use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBT).
Two of the three judges determined that only some of the payments made to players through EBTs were taxable but that many of them could be described as loans, as the club had argued.
However, Rangers still face another hurdle in the shape of a Scottish Premier League-appointed independent commission set to investigate undisclosed payments to players, which centres on EBTs.
One of the possible sanctions, should the Ibrox side be found guilty, is the stripping of titles.
The three-man panel, chaired by Lord Nimmo Smith, was due to begin hearing evidence earlier this month but the case was postponed and no new date has been set as yet.
Macmillan, secretary of the Rangers Supporters Clubs, said: "I certainly would [like to see it scrapped].
"If they do want to go ahead with it, you can be assured that we, as Rangers supporters, will back the club the whole way to fight this case with the SPL.
"I think the SPL has to have another look at this. I hope they will have another look and that common-sense will prevail at the end of the day."
Macmillan also believes Rangers are owed an apology from those who accused the club of cheating before the FTTT delivered its verdict.
He said: "We have been called cheats and that we got titles because we were paying this money illegally. Well, that has been proved to be false.
"I hope the people who made these accusations will be big enough to come out and apologise.
"The club has now been vindicated and the cries of 'cheating' and all these allegations against us have been unfounded.
"It's pleasing to know that two of the judges agreed with Rangers' viewpoint. Even in this point, Sir David Murray has been vindicated; he was always confident he would win it.
"Although it doesn't necessarily affect the newco - it wouldn't have cost them any money anyway - it has still lifted a cloud.
"We were guilty in the eyes of most of Scottish football I think.
"It vindicates us and it will maybe make these people think about the moves they took along the way to help place Rangers in this position."
Macmillan questioned whether administration and liquidation could have been avoided had the 'big tax case' been resolved before Craig Whyte's ill-fated takeover in May 2011.
But he believes supporters should focus instead on the future and backing the rebuilding job that is currently taking place under Charles Green's current Ibrox regime.
He said: "No-one knows why it took so long to get a conclusion but if this had been decided earlier, who knows what could have happened.
"If someone had come in with ?10million or ?15million behind them to buy the club and had invested some money in players at that time, without the threat of this tax case hanging over them, then it may have been a different story.
"Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
"We need to know why it took so long to reach a conclusion and I don't know if anyone would be prepared to answer that.
"To an extent it is bittersweet but it's over.
"The important thing is to look forward now, we've got to back the present owners and try to take the club forward."
