Liverpool Owners Planning Escape Route?
by YNWA on September 17th, 2009 60 commentsSigns of potential exit are good!
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Financiers acting on behalf of Tom Hicks, the Liverpool co-owner, have offered a minority stake in the club to potential investors in the Middle East.
Merrill Lynch, the investment bank, has been instructed by Hicks, who is recovering from a hip operation, to open and conduct negotiations with interested parties with a view to selling a 25 per cent share in the club at a price of £100 million as Liverpool continue attempts to reduce their levels of debt.
Although wealthy individuals and organisations in the Middle East have been sounded out about the possibility of buying into Liverpool, none have indicated that they would be willing to enter into what would become a three-way shared ownership venture featuring Hicks, George Gillett Jr, his co-owner, and a third party. (Times Online)
This is great news and hopefully could spell the possible departure of the American owners who have thus far done little to earn the respect of the club’s fans, me included. With any luck someone will come in with an offer for the 25% share of the club and in time hopefully Messrs Hicks and Gillett will back away from the club entirely.
If the club could get together some sort of fan consortium to make an offer for the stake then that would be the best fit but given the amount of money needed this could prove unlikely.
Fingers crossed!
YNWA
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jimmyk - September 17th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
yanks, please f*ck off. thanks.
desertfox - September 17th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
one of the coowners shud sell all their stakes
desertfox - September 17th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
we nid arab backing man
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
It would be great to get someone in to oust the yanks- but a fans consortium? Are you high? We need someone with drive and direction to get done what needs doing at Liverpool, not some kind of communist consortium. It would just end up being a non stop effort to placate every whining punter who has 50p in the club.
Sure, there should be some kind of communication, but just look at Newcastle to see what happens when you put fans in charge. No Thanks.
Retryboy - September 17th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Sure they offered this deal b4 the type of owner we want needs 100% of the club no one wants to work with these fools they can’t even work with each other
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
ShareLFC should be all over this!!!!!
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
get off now.fucking retard tom hick.
Jed - September 17th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
A Liverpool fan walks past a shop and sees the video “Liverpool – The Glory Years”. He goes into the shop and asks how much. “£100″ says the shopkeeper.
“That’s a bit steep, how come it’s so dear ??”
“Well its a tenner for the video and £90 for the Betamax recorder…..
Retryboy - September 17th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Not bad price for that many discs couldn’t even make a decent advert out of chelsea’s whats yours called the glory year? Or we bought the title but we can’t buy a european cup?
RaNE - September 17th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
liverpool has never been a rich club but look what we got out of it the most successfull team in the english league not to shabby as for chelsea if liverpool did have that cash we would be unbeatable and what are chelsea doing at the moment well theyve won two prems and a few other cups BUT FAILED TO BREAK EUROPE with cash amount like that id be embarresed
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
If the owners want an escape route. I’ll buy them a shovel, and a map, and tell them to start F**king digging. Pair of Bankers
lvslfc12 - September 17th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
yeeeeeeeeesssss!!!!
finally the god damn yanks are finally gettin the point!!
we dont like u!!!!
just hurry up and sell to arabs!!!
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
selling a minority stake will only strengthen their grip as it will alleviate the dept burden. don’t get too excited – they are in for the long run. totally against my wishes and yours too i guess?
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
jed – suck it.
Its not an escape route. They are here for the duration. They have acted very slowly in recent times, and realise the patience of fans is gone. Thats why they trying to force through the stadium and that is why purslow keeps havin a pop at united and saying how we will become greatest team in europe. Also why we were infomred rafa would get January funds.
I’ve been as big a critic of hickette as anyone, but i think maybe now they are going to actually move the club forward now the debts are looking slightly less scary. They definatly wont have gone by start of next season, and by then hopefully things will be looking good with better investment and a stadium looming.
The price they want for the club will not be matched as its so high, we gonna have to get used to Hicks and Gillette.
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
jed. i was walking past a shop selling a dvd ‘chelsea, the glory years’ for 1p. so i bought it. when i got home i put my feet up, and pushed play and it was a blank screen. with the message ‘ come back in 20 years then we may have won half as many as liverpools 5 euro cups and 18 league titles. do you want to borrow it? i will post it to you.
is this your address
the retard,
stamford bridge,
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
please
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
i’ll believe this when the contracts are signed, here’s hoping as we need much more investment and we won’t get it with those two clowns at the helm
Donavan Ried - September 17th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
First off Sky were saying that it was 20% of the club, which sounds more likely as they value the club in excess of £500m ….. Secondly it was to help them build Stanley Park …… Which to me would be a great move on their part
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Liverpool are wankers!!! Go fuck your mam!
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Everyone should get off their backs. We may have to settle for a few seasons of Europa football but H&G will get us there in the end. There are too many fairweather Liverpool fans on this forum, true fans would give 100% support to the yanks.
Retryboy - September 17th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Rather fuck yours jed only 29653689 ppl left then its my go again woo!
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
to the previous anonymous: u can hardly call urself a true liverpool supporter if u havent read up on these faggots. they run everythin they touch into the ground.
anonymous - September 17th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Tasty Brain’s faggots or the chutney feretting variety? I have a nice bowl of Tom Hicks Weetabix every morning & have developed a love for the Texas Rangers. I see Tom, or Hicksy as a kindly old uncle looking after his beloved Reds, not a greedy old nonce. You should be ashamed
anonymous - September 18th, 2009 at 1:12 am
i guess the multi-cultural attitude in the UK only goes so far, huh? the prejudice and hate from the comments and the writer of the artcle are astounding. what if liverpool continue to “falter” (second place in your first league doesn’t really seem like a bad result, considering that the first place team had the best player in the world…) under new ownership, (arab ownership). are you still going to have your little banners and comment on these articles that display hateful and vulgar words directed toward arabs? probably not. you’re all disgraceful and should be ashamed of yourself.
anonymous - September 18th, 2009 at 2:29 am
i love this all upset Liverpool fans talking about their problems, i think the problem you have is your fans, you say you have the loudest fans, true on a important game like against Chelsea, or Manchester United, but i watched the Liverpool vs Debreceni and i was ashamed of Liverpool, for the whole game you were i could mainly hear the Debreceni fans, and that upset me for shame.
Retryboy - September 18th, 2009 at 9:46 am
In response to the anon at 1.12 what part of the article or the comments do you find racist if you followed football then you would know that a consortium from dubai and sheikh mohammed both have been desperate to invest in liverpool for years these oil rich billionaires correct me if i am wrong are arabic and hicks and gillette were given every opportunity when they arrived given support unlike at united it is the way they have conducted themselves as owners that has stopped us calling these 2 tossers americans and referring to them as yanks if they hadn’t squabbled in public, conspired against our manager, drove us into debt and generally been money grabbing fat cats then we would still be supporting them you seem like one of these ppl that sees racism as a one way street would ask you to re-read your comments and see that you are generalising about all football fans, all liverpool fans and in fact the whole nation so in fact it is u who is a racist hate monger who knows nothing about football would suggest you take your massive chip on your shoulder and peddle your hate elsewhere you make me sick
anonymous - September 18th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
retryboy- i really don’t care who is dying to get their hands on lfc. i don’t even care if you gave the american owners EVERY possible opportunity to prove themselves (even though i remember shorty after they took over seeing banners at anfield saying “yanks out”). what i want to know is, if these owners were arabs, would you see banners and signs with anti-arab sentiments, and see comments being posted that are defamatory towards arabs. would you? i really don’t think so. and by the way, read the comments here, and especially your own. i don’t have a chip on my shoulder, just a little common sense. sorry.
Donavan Ried - September 18th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
If anyone here wishes to slang off Liverpool it is fine by me. …. After all it is your right to do so if you wish, But at least have the guts to post a name with your comments. It makes it more enjoyable to read and at least it proves that you have the guts to stand behind your comments and take the flack that comes with it in stead of hiding behind the old “anonymous” handle ……
P.s I am still refusing to read any comment post “anonymously” (Just saw the top two lines on a couple of posts)
RyanO - September 18th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
This is most certainly NOT any sort of “Escape Route”. The Yanks are not going anywhere, anytime soon. They are businessmen first and foremost and their biggest mistake thus far was trying to conceal that fact when they came in by trumpeting about the new grounds and such. The purpose of this type of investment strategy is to gain capital for the club, to actually build that ground, not to “get out”. The Yanks know what they have, they have a club that is loved around the world. They have a club that, to this point, has not had the sort of ownership that has been able to market on the scale that Liverpool so richly deserve. My belief is that they are poised to take the club to new heights in this respect. There is no reason that Liverpool cannot be the richest club in the world on the strength of Television rights, memorabilia sales and attendance figures (not too mention concessions to take advantage of the thousands of extra seats a new ground would include). I realize that many Scousers are put off at the idea of their club becoming a world wide brand, but the days of keeping OOT’ers out of the grounds and shouting to anyone that would listen that we don’t want them at Anfield are over. What we must do know is be sure that the history of the club does not fade in the new era, make sure that those OOT’ers know how important Shankly and Paisley are. Perhaps even some sort of monument park or museum inside the new park. The possibilities with Liverpool FC are endless and I believe the Yanks know this. YNWA
anonymous - September 18th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Anon 12:46, Yank is not an insult, just a slang term. So yes, if any Arab owner wasn’t running and treating the club with the respect and dignity it deserves, there would be banners saying “Arabs Out”.
And to further comment on what you said, the reason why the banners were up so soon after the take over is because they initially said that the loans they were taking out would not be placed on the club. And lo and behold, they were, albeit in a round about way.
Hicks also said in an interview in America that he, should he wish, could take money out of Liverpool and plow it into one of it other sporting ventures.
Retryboy - September 18th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Oh brave anonymous one who obviously is extremely offended by the word yank (which if u read the article is not in there by the way) comes down to what these guys personally have done since they have been at the club not where they are from and if arabic owners or chinese owners or scottish owners had bought liverpool and behaved the way these 2 have you would have had your banners against them too and your comments b4 still generalised about our country and our supporters whilst all of our angry comments were aimed squarely at 2 ppl who are quite deserving of the abuse they receive
anonymous - September 18th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
ok ok. the only reason that my comments were labled as “anonymous” was because i’m not a member, and not logged in… so, just to clarify things, my name is jeff. i’m from the south side of Detroit (and no, it is not a bad area). anything else?
anon 1:53- what’s the difference between insult and slang. it’s defamation. it’s not meant as an endearing term. I don’t know what “slang” words you have for arabs in the uk, but i highly doubt they would be on banners in the football stadiums.
retryboy- i hope now that i’m a little more respected now that i’m not hiding behind an “anonymous” title, even though i don’t get why that would matter…. anyway, the only point that i was trying to get accross is, that, i thought that such “racially” oriented signs negatively directed toward arabs would be unacceptable in the uk (as it would be here). so why not put up a banner saying “hicks/ gillette out” (hicks= not the best name for a controversial american). the banners said “yanks out”. just like the german neo-nazi’s with their “auslaender raus” banners (ok maybe not exactly but pretty close…). if you want to direct abuse toward two people, DIRECT IT TOWARD THEM! but “yanks out” is off-base, and focuses more so on their heritage than what they’ve done to your football club.
anonymous - September 18th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Well Jeff, my name’s andy (anon 1:53) and the difference between slang and insult is that slang is just a casual word. Sure, the banners could say “Citizens of the United States of America out”, but can you imagine how much canvas and paint that would cost? We’re in a recession, we have to save money where we can.
I can’t help but wonder if you’d be so concerned about this if the owners were Irish and the banners said “Paddys out”. Or indeed if the banners did say “Arabs out”, since Arab is a massive generalisation and, really, it should be narrowed down to a specific country where they’re from, i.e. “Emiraties out”
anonymous - September 18th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Jed
You chelski Rent Boy there you are with your intelligent comments again why dont you go and view your own chelski forum, you must lead a sad life. LIKE ONE OF THE POST STATES when you have the same history as liverpool come and give us some stick. Until then go where the sun dont shine. Just count yourself lucky Roman doesnt pull his money out of chelski soon then you will be in sh**.
Regards
Mike
anonymous - September 18th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Just remember you’ll never walk alone cause your parole officer will always be alongside.
anonymous - September 18th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
5.53
What a childish comment you make. your another one with great intelligent comments.
Mike
Retryboy - September 19th, 2009 at 2:08 am
Jeff- the yanks out banners are meant as derogitory will not pretend otherwise but only as derogitory towards the 2 individuals in question do agree with the point would we be brave enough to do this with arabs in charge but think u r trying to open a whole can of the worms think we would be brave enough to knowing that our comments were aimed at 2 individuals not a whole nation don’t think our government would see it that way and we would probably be arrested for inciting racial hatred or something so in a sense you are right in that political correctness only seems to apply one way i mean chris rock can start every line of a stand up routine with the white man… Doesn’t quite work the other way nor should it but sure if richard branson took over a major league baseball team obv knowing nothing about the sport and with no interest in the history of the club or its fans we would see the limeys go home banners out so really not sure what we have proven here and think you are missing how hicks and gillett have gone against everything in liverpools history by making in fighting public and warring through the media and not backing a manager we all believe in also don’t care if detroit is rich or poor makes no odds 2 the debate
AC - September 19th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
ten bucks for that dvd classic. u d know there was no money in the 80s u looserdogs. Even if u hadmoney u wud be the shit u r. Looser pool prepare to view the CHELSEA glory years u tossers.
AC - September 19th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
retry ur insults dicks it’s all about history hey. Well let’s see past= dead league that’s right 0 barcays dumbshits. present= behind City and Tottenham the (called no history clubs that”s the arrogant scouser mantra) and future the CHELSEA dynasty of supremacy.
AC - September 19th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
no money for any club in 70s and 80s. so basically we would have to go back to paying 100 000 pounds for a player for liverpool toget results, wait but the billionaires today would outpay looserfool. shame.
Retryboy - September 19th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Oh dear… What a retard
AC - September 19th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
retard my ass u ill minded dog. here boy(retry lame boy)
Donavan Ried - September 19th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
RyanO – September 18th, 2009 at 1:52 pm ……… Bravo well said ryanO …….
Donavan Ried - September 19th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
jeff. i’m from the south side of Detroit ….. Don’t be lazy man, will take you about Two minute to register and recieve a pass word ….. then you can log in come on man go for it …
Retryboy - September 19th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Ac you have won the league 3 times we have won it 18 lets hope you never win it again else you will have 2 take off your shoes and socks and reveal your hooves to the world to count to 4! 37 major trophies 43 counting uefa and super cups to chelsea’s 12 with 15 including uefa and super cups if chelsea were a horse in a race they would be put down to save further embarrassment think thats the sunshine bus outside ready for u now
Retryboy - September 19th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Your tally looks even worse considering u have won your league and fa cups since the competitions have been devalued and have never won the european cup and we have since it has been the billionaires world of the champions league knocking you mugs out on the way!
AC - September 19th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Retryboy were u born when that happened glory hunter and u know we r gonna build a dynasty for 1000 years. U scum mantras would be inevetible when CHELSEA have won so much in 20-30 years.Roman Abromovich spends because he loves the club compared to the yanks that will get u relegated. Let’s not forget how boring football was when the Juve and the Madrids were favourites every year.U see liverpool has simplynot won the Barclays PL 2 hell with that dead league.
AC - September 19th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Donovan Reid is the only liverpool supporter that seems like someone that u can have an intelligent conversation with.
Dom - September 19th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
The time has come again for the players to lace the boots and hit the battle field. For the benefit of those who are watching the game at home, or those who will have to rely on text updates, here is a link that may [ or may not ] interest you.
I hope it does, As I would like see you there.
http://www.oleole.com/blogs/the-kop-end/posts/let039s-get-interactive—vs-west-ham-in-game-discussion
anonymous - September 19th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Says the boy who calls others “dicks”, “ill minded fools” and refers to our club as Loserfool. Fuck off you wanker. Fucking Chelsea, worst fans in the world.
Dom - September 19th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
http://www.oleole.com/blogs/the-kop-end/posts/let039s-get-interactive—vs-west-ham-in-game-discussion
AC - September 19th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
anonymous don’t fuck with me. U r an amateur in my game bitch.
Retryboy - September 19th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Think we are all amateurs in the most deluded cock sucker stakes ac u r no1 in that league only one u r tho all u and the mancs go on about is premier league they just changed the name u tit its still the same league and try and say that gr8 players weren’t in the leagues then barnes performed better than ronaldo week in week out for 10 years hansen would piss all over terry from a gr8 height and dalglish and rush would score 30 goals a season if playing now and u have won the title 3 times how long has the premiership been going nearly 20 years? Fucking poo pushing, butt scuttling marmite mariner! We’ll see if u are even still the second best team in london 2moz
AC - September 20th, 2009 at 9:18 am
retryboy u really r u dum idiot hey. We rule the Present and Future. Ian Rush 2day might score 30 goals but that won’t win u the Barclays. Dead League idiots.
Retryboy - September 20th, 2009 at 10:33 am
U really r u dum idiot? U can’t even articulate a sentence never mind answer any of my points
AC - September 20th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Muthafucker that was a typing error, just 2 inform u it u really a cocksucking poo pushing, butt scuttling marmite mariner! how u like me now.
AC - September 20th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
just 2 inform u it WAS u really a cocksucking poo pushing, butt scuttling marmite mariner! how u like me now.
Retryboy - September 20th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Should be it was u who was a poo pushing, butt scuttling, marmite mariner or it is you who is… Proving my point that you are in fact fully retarded you couldn’t even think of a comeback you had to steal my sentence. Would have accepted the last mistake being down to your trotters, i mean the lack of opposeable thumbs must be a real hinderance but you have just carried on proving what a brainless in-bred moron you are. That said it does give me pleasure educating those less fortunate than myself. So feel free to continue writing on liverpool pages just think by the end of the season could have you ready to tackle that spot the dog book again.
anonymous - September 21st, 2009 at 5:47 am
Really, I would like 2 say prawn sandwich u degenerate bastard.
Retryboy - September 21st, 2009 at 10:42 am
Ooh and i would like to say grow some balls, sign in you gutless piece of shit only silver spoon here is the one up your Asshole from last nights party!