DIC deal not far away?

[bazza76]

It seems like Moores is going to pass on the extra money offered to him

yeah you would have to admire moores for that. I think 99% of other chairmen would take the bigest offer.

[Kopite_Colin]

It would have been nice to have had the cash available this window to strengthen the team for a real push in the league and CL, but only if the right players were available (but they aren't usually, and most of those we'd want for the CL would be cup-tied anyway), so in general I'm happy to wait. But we do need 3-4 players of genuine quality in in the summer.

[Parm]

It's been 'not far away' for weeks now.

Wish they'd just get on with it, if it's gonna happen.

I'll believe it once it is all said and done.

[red g]

It would have been nice to have had the cash available this window to strengthen the team for a real push in the league and CL, but only if the right players were available (but they aren't usually, and most of those we'd want for the CL would be cup-tied anyway), so in general I'm happy to wait. But we do need 3-4 players of genuine quality in in the summer.

If we had the money now, would like to see us buy 2 of them now, even if they didnt get straight in the team,lets say Alves and Villa. We have startedoff slowly the last 2 seasons and if we had a settled team to start the campaign we but hit the ground runnin

[Jayesh87]

Dubai outbid by Gillett but still expects to buy Liverpool
Published: Sunday, 28 January, 2007, 08:33 AM Doha Time

MONTREAL/LONDON: Dubai International Capital LLC, which has been in talks with Liverpool Football Club for almost two months, still expects to buy the soccer team even after Montreal Canadiens owner George Gillett made an approach.
“I understand he offered 5,000 pounds a share while we offered 4,500 pounds a share,’’ Dubai International’s executive chairman Sameer al-Ansari said in an interview late yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We are very confident the club will not consider the other offer.’’
After weeks of speculation, Liverpool yesterday told the London Stock Exchange it received an approach from Gillett that “may or may not lead to an offer.’’ An acquisition would cost Dubai about 150mn pounds ($294mn) and as much as 300mn pounds to finance a new stadium, according to al-Ansari. Chairman David Moores owns more than 51% of the team. Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum and US billionnaire Gillett are vying for control of a team that won the last of its record 18 English league titles in 1990.
Liverpool, which would become the seventh of 20 English Premiership clubs to be owned by a foreign investor, has been seeking a buyer for three years to try to compete better on and off the field with Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea and Malcolm Glazer’s Manchester United. A takeover would deepen Sheikh Mohammed’s bet on sports in Europe. Dubai-owned Emirates, the largest Arab airline, sponsors Paris Saint-Germain soccer club and is paying London’s Arsenal 100mn pounds for the naming rights to its stadium for 15 years.
Bruno Delorme, a sports management professor at Concordia University in Montreal, said Gillett’s motives for wanting to take over Liverpool aren’t clear. “It’s hard to know why he would bid for Liverpool, other than the fact he has a long history of being involved with sports teams,’’ Delorme said in a phone interview. Gillett has no comment, his spokesman Donald Beauchamp said. Gillett is chairman of Booth Creek Ski Holdings Inc, a closely held company based in Vail, Colorado, that owns six ski resorts in California, New Hampshire and Washington. He bought the National Hockey League’s Canadiens in 2001 and used to own the Harlem Globetrotters.
Glazer in 2005 bought Manchester United and fellow US billionnaire Randy Lerner in August took over Aston Villa. Chelsea was bought by Russia’s Abramovich in 2003.
Dubai expects a decision on its Liverpool bid “in a few weeks,’’ al-Ansari, 44, said. It would initially buy the chairman’s controlling stake and then seek to buy the remaining shares within four to six weeks, he said. The most recent Premiership team to be bought by someone from outside the U.K. was London’s West Ham, which in November agreed to an 85mn-pound offer by Iceland’s Eggert Magnusson. (Bloomberg). (AFP)

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topic...9&parent_id=29

[PLY]

Here's an interview with Ansari where he mentions Liverpool at the end and seems pretty confident without putting a timescale on things

http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vRaWgo..JL0k.asf

[AFII]

So the stadium will cost £250m-£300m.

[PLY]

That's what he says. That's probably why they're taking their time looking at the books - that sort of outlay would mean they would have to be in for the long run

[bazza76]

Here's an interview with Ansari where he mentions Liverpool at the end and seems pretty confident without putting a timescale on things
http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm...aWgo..JL0k.asf

Ive been watching that programme for the past 35 minutes still no mention.
How long is it on for?

[PLY]

Ive been watching that programme for the past 35 minutes still no mention.
How long is it on for?

Just watch the the 4.5 minute video on the link mate , it's from Friday and he tyalks about Liverpool half way through

[bazza76]

Just watch the the 4.5 minute video on the link mate , it's from Friday and he tyalks about Liverpool half way through

4.5 minute?
Ive been watching your link for 45 minutes. turned it off now lol.

[PLY]

Works OK for me

[bazza76]

Works OK for me

yah got it thanks.
I clicked on the UK bit to the right as it wasnt starting up straight away for me.
e certainly think Dubai and LFC will be a formidable partnership.