How do people feel about Gillett/Hicks

[Craig_H]

I like the Fact that they did Due Dilligence in 3 days. Made their Bid and got approval in 1 week.

Maybe things will start happening now. They dont seem to mess around

I expect Ronaldinho to be signed on 1/7/07 at 00:01 hours

[Craig_H]

lawro


It all comes under the banner of progress. Liverpool are getting a new stadium, new investment, with the potential for 60,000 people in the new stadium.

Liverpool have to keep up with the likes of Man Utd, who get 76,000 fans for their home games, and with Chelsea and, of course, with Arsenal who have just moved to their new stadium.

For Liverpool to continue in the top four in this country I think it's a necessity for the club to be sold.

Anfield has been Liverpool's home since 1891
The only concern about foreign investors is whether they've got the club at heart.

Fans don't want them to come along and, in five years time, look to sell on.

But Liverpool chairman David Moores has always been of the opinion that it has to be best for the football club. He'd never sell the football club short.

I don't think fans will be particularly bothered who owns the football club as long as they keep it as their football club.

The thing with fans is they just want a successful football team and if that means a foreign owner, it means a foreign owner.

I think the future is bright for Liverpool.

They're about to go to a brand new ground with 60,000 fans, I think there's investment and arguably better use of the brand name - and they are a worldwide brand.

This will help the manager Rafael Benitez buy even better players and help keep them up with Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea and the teams in the Champions League - if not overtake them.

We werent FORMED until 1892...does Lawro have to be wrong about EVERYTHING?

[Craig_H]

I've just watched the interview again.

It seems to me that Rafa will state who he wants, and the board will pretty much back him to the hilt.

I dont want to say there will be limitless funds in the summer, because clearly there wont be, but I think we can expect that elusive 'world class winger' and 'twenty goal a season striker'.

An interesting comment for me, was something along the lines of "We're not going to put a budget on things". Could be taken one of two ways, but despite it being somewhat non-commital, it also sounded rather 'money is no object' too.

Very interesting times ahead. You're right about the Rafa role in it, he'll pop some names down on a piece of paper and deliver it upstairs. Then he'll put his feet up and start daydreaming about possibilities and options. The big men at the top will do the wheeling and dealing.

[Craig_H]

If Hicks spend 250 million on Alex Rodriguez, then that says to me that he is willing to push the boat out for success and isnt afriad to spend big.

With all this money comes extra pressure for Rafa, if he gets the players he wants then theres no excuses, but i bet Rafa is licking his lips at the taught.

I'm not a follower of US sports. Can you put that Rodriguez deal into context for me, with regards to how it compares to other deals in the sport?

Maybe you could compare it to a potential football deal, eg similar level of player and price.

[Redlife]

Maybe you could compare it to a potential football deal, eg similar level of player and price.

It's like buying Maradona or Zidane in his prime and paying all the money in the world for him.



Gigantic. The biggest thing in the sport's history, if I'm correct?

[Joe Le Toff]

TBH im glad its all finally over, and i feel quietly optimistic with a healthy dose of apprehension that this doesnt go belly up as its obviously very early days.

Gut feeling says that the future will be bright for the club.

[Harv]

the word 'franchise' annoys me but i'm wondering whether thats just what they call sports clubs. is it a case of lost in translation rather than being something more sinister?

it is what they call sports clubs over there

I think there will be a few times when they blurt out some of the American words. I was quite impressed with how they managed to call it Football and not Soccer for the whole PC.

[Harv]

I'm not a follower of US sports. Can you put that Rodriguez deal into context for me, with regards to how it compares to other deals in the sport?

Maybe you could compare it to a potential football deal, eg similar level of player and price.

in terms of comparing the A-Rod deal to a football deal...i would have to say its in the Zidane to Madrid league. A-Rod was the best player in the league...by some margin. Hicks somehow managed to get him to sign for the Rangers, even though he wasn't that keen at first.

[Nicey]

Watched the Press conference .... I am warming to them

[Craig_H]

in terms of comparing the A-Rod deal to a football deal...i would have to say its in the Zidane to Madrid league. A-Rod was the best player in the league...by some margin. Hicks somehow managed to get him to sign for the Rangers, even though he wasn't that keen at first.

Interesting.

Sounds like some mafia involvement

[Johnny]

i feel pretty confident - neither came across as trying to be something they weren't - i.e. lifelong reds - and their first pr exercise was a match for DIC's love-in.

hicks looks like a big texan hardass and gillett looks and sounds quite gentlemanly/reserved but determined and respectful of our tradition - not bad qualities for money men backing our club. the old fashioned part of me really liked the way the see themselves as business families and were anxious to make this clear.

what would make me happier here is an end to "****in yanks, i hate em all, all 300 million of em but not as much as those ****in arabs - there's at least a billion of them and i've met everyone of them and their all nob-deep in their camels with shifty eyes and an obsession with honour despite being lying sand-monkeys but they had bottomless pockets like that mafia c/unt abramovich but i'm above all these *******s. never liked spics till rafa but he's just class - a rarity in his country unlike here where we're all honest to god hard-workin salt of the earth. it's too ****in hot in those places anyway. and their national anthems are ****e. ours is brilliant and i expect to feel just the same after my irony-transplant. hope some ****in foreign doctor doesn't do it. i want lord nigel coxley-farnworth to do it - i have much more in common with him..."

Rant over?

[Maestro]

I'm not a follower of US sports. Can you put that Rodriguez deal into context for me, with regards to how it compares to other deals in the sport?

Maybe you could compare it to a potential football deal, eg similar level of player and price.

It basically ****s all over the Beckham deal to LA. It's the biggest deal in sport(s) history.

[AFII]

I think that you could compere it with the Villa buy out fee of £99m and we would pay that for him.

It would smash the World record in the same way as it smashed the record in the MLB.

[Craig_H]

I think that you could compere it with the Villa buy out fee of £99m and we would pay that for him.

It would smash the World record in the same way as it smashed the record in the MLB.

[Maestro]

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I always wondered what happened to him.

Funny ol' world aint it

He's still acting on Broadway and recently came out as a homosexual.