Beeb reckon £156m for the Takeover!

[kopdan]

either way, the club is going forward

[Shaggy]

I wasnt far off then

I was told Granada but its all the same ****e isnt it Shaggy

It is. It is.

Yeah what Scott said - tonight's was the 2nd part of his report. I nearly got a hard-on when he said that..."the man about to take over owns the rest of the beach". Lovely stuff.

[lfc4ever]

RC is having apoleptic fits over all the who does what between the Sheik & DIC & investement and all the Argies arriving, will he ever get over it?

Nurse, nurse, we have a patient for you!

[AFII]

The DIC will invest big in the team the first years IMO.

They must get the club to the top and stay there before they can think about making profits.

[kopdan]

much mystery surrounds where the consortium will stand on spending money. I think we can a bigger budget but it is simply a guessing game on HOW big.

Exciting though isnt it.

A slong as its just enough to piss Chelsea and Utd off I dont mind

[Red Chilli]

RC is having apoleptic fits over all the who does what between the Sheik & DIC & investement and all the Argies arriving, will he ever get over it?

Nurse, nurse, we have a patient for you!

:whatever:

[Red Chilli]

The DIC will invest big in the team the first years IMO.

They must get the club to the top and stay there before they can think about making profits.

Is this true though, really I mean?

Even with the team in it's current level we'd get big attendances.
If they loaned the money to build the new stadium, as soon as attendances generate enough money to be bigger than the loan repayments, they're making money. Then at the right time they can float the club or sell it privately.
I'm just speculating, but DIC don't have to make us all conquering to make a return on their investment, the likelihood is they will invest in the team, but Moores has done that himself.

[Red_Al_77]

But it's not the Sheikh who is investing, it's DIC. DIC aren't investing in LFC to win the premiership, they're investing in LFC to make money.

He won't make money unless we are very successful.

DIC is the Sheikh. It's merely a company name.

[Red Chilli]

He won't make money unless we are very successful.

Depends on the definition of successful, they won't make money unless attendances are high, but I think it would take a dramatic fall in the team's fortunes to see a drop in attendances and season ticket sales. See my scenario in the post above yours.

[AFII]

We will need to go to at least the QF in the CL every year for them to make a good profit and to do that they will need to invest big money in the team the first years.

You can probably earn something like £100m if you win the CL now with a big stadium.

The DIC will need to give Rafa the money he needs to sign the best young players and at the same time top class players for the first team. After a few years when the young players are coming through and plays for the first team then they will make profits but not before then.

Until that happens they will need to splash the cash to make us very attractive for the best young players to sign for us because that's the key for them to make profits in the future.

[Red Chilli]

We will need to go to the QF or longer in the CL every year for them to make a good profit and to do that they will need to invest big money in the team the first years.

Please, for the lesser enlightened of us here, could you explain the reason for that.
Do you not think they could make a profit by loaning the money for the stadium, building the stadium, getting better season ticket sales (probably at higher prices than current prices), getting more people in the ground. That way money from season ticket sales, corporate boxes and money through the turnstiles would be greater than the loan repayments on the stadium, so they are making money.
Then sell the club, complete with profit making new stadium to private investors or floating it on the stock exchange.

Why would that plan not work? We have a big enough season ticket waiting list.

[AFII]

Your plan will probably work but it depends how much profit they want and when they are planning to sell the club, if they will do that.

If they are in it for a long time then they will need to splash the cash at the beginning to build the club up again to one of the biggest in the World.

We will probably have a European Super League inside the next 10-15 years and that's were the big money will be. I can't see DIC selling the club before then.

[AFII]

To explain the thing about the at least the QF in the CL....Money and making us attractive for the best young players.

[Red Chilli]

I disagree, the reason I think there are so many BIG clubs in the premiership being taken over in recent times is that they plan to break up the Premiership sky TV deal and sell their own games. These people have no interest in the future of the English game which relies on that contract to maintain any sort of competition
That's why Glazier bought SCUM
It's different with Abramovic
That's why Villa has changed hands, Newcastle are looking likely to change hands, West Ham aren't a big club but they have been taken over too.

When / if the TV deal does get broken up, the rich successful clubs will get a hell of a lot richer. THat would be a boon time to put the club up for sale and make a fast profit.

[AFII]

I agree with you about the TV deal but they will get a better TV deal if we are one of the best clubs in the World. What I mean is that the European Super League will replace the CL.

Real Madrid got around €170m/year for the next seven years for example.

We will probably not get that h: