Financial situation, doom & gloom reports etc

[AFII]

Yeah. I actually feel gutted for him. All things considered, he was a good Chairman IMO, who probably got a bit too much undeserved stick over the years. Having said that, he looks like he might have got the sale badly wrong though (badly advised perhaps?).

It's just a shame he didn't have his own money to keep the club competitive in the current climate.

Moores didn't exactly had the best help when he was our Chairman. Parry should stick to buying ties and not advise our owners(s).

[Slinky Skills]

It's doing my head in aswell, it's just the media trying to hype things up before our biggest game of the season. Everyone should just calm down and stop being a bunch of ****ing doomongers.

There's no facts or nothing so just get on with supporting the club for christ sake!

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Rafa will make it nigh on impossible for Punch and Judy to sack him .

[Subby]

[Biff]

Funny how these reports appear just before we face a big game....

[Neil Young]

One, two, 1-2-3-4...

I hear some people been talkin' me down,
Bring up my name, pass it 'round.
They don't mention happy times
They do their thing, I'll do mine.

Ooh baby, that's hard to change
I can't tell them how to feel.
Some get stoned, some get strange,
But sooner or later it all gets real.

Walk on, walk on,
Walk on, walk on.

I remember the good old days,
Stayed up all night gettin' crazed.
Then the money was not so good,
But we still did the best we could.

Ooh baby, that's hard to change
I can't tell them how to feel.
Some get stoned, some get strange,
But sooner or later it all gets real.

Walk on, walk on,
Walk on, walk on.

Thank you very, very much.

[Neil Young]

Funny how these reports appear just before we face a big game....

It's all a conspiracy I tell ye.

Or is it?

[Armchairkopite]

Different culture over there they aren't used to gobby employees. Also people in and around the club briefing against Benitez. He's made a few enemies as he so ****ing single-minded. Not unlike Shanks.

Appreciate the reply

So really it is down to the fans to keep Rafa in his job by the sounds of things. Imo we need to do something to rattle the Americans, they need to know they have to have more respect for the fans,the question is how do we shake them up.

We deserve better than this, i'm sick of the rumours.

[Armchairkopite]

One, two, 1-2-3-4...

I hear some people been talkin' me down,
Bring up my name, pass it 'round.
They don't mention happy times
They do their thing, I'll do mine.

Ooh baby, that's hard to change
I can't tell them how to feel.
Some get stoned, some get strange,
But sooner or later it all gets real.

Walk on, walk on,
Walk on, walk on.

I remember the good old days,
Stayed up all night gettin' crazed.
Then the money was not so good,
But we still did the best we could.

Ooh baby, that's hard to change
I can't tell them how to feel.
Some get stoned, some get strange,
But sooner or later it all gets real.

Walk on, walk on,
Walk on, walk on.

Thank you very, very much.

Cool lyrics have you got chords?

[Tom]

From The Sunday Times
December 16, 2007
Liverpool may Kop owners’ debt
Louise Armitstead

THE owners of Liverpool FC are in talks with bankers over plans to load up the football club’s balance sheet with debt.

Tom Hicks, the billionaire American investor who bought the club in February with his compatriot George Gillett, has secretly asked Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to explore restructuring options.

These are understood to include transferring up to £350m of extra debt taken on to fund the acquisition of the club and secured against the duo’s personal assets onto the club’s balance sheet.

The restructuring talks are separate from talks to arrange funding for a new stadium and are likely to shock the Merseyside club’s supporters.

Hicks, who controls the Dallas Stars ice hockey team and the Texas Rangers baseball team, bought the club with Gillett, owner of the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, through a privately controlled bid vehicle called Kop Football.

The deal was financed by £350m of debt provided largely by RBS and secured through the pair’s private assets. Hicks and Gillett could not be reached for comment.

[Tom]

Liverpool FC kops it after credit crisis

By Simon Goodley and Ben Harrington
Last Updated: 1:13am GMT 16/12/2007 Sunday Telegraph

The refinancing of a loan worth about £300m taken out by American businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillett to buy Liverpool Football Club is on a knife-edge.

The pair are trying to refinance a bridging loan provided by Royal Bank of Scotland, which they used to carry out the original £219m purchase of the club.

However, it is understood that the refinancing - which is also intended to raise an extra £450m to build a new stadium - has had to be put on hold as a result of the recent turmoil in the credit markets.

Hicks and Gillett are also trying to remove their personal assets as security for the original acquisition debt. During the takeover, Liverpool chairman David Moores, who owned just over half of the club, insisted that none of its assets could be used as collateral for the loan to finance the takeover.

As a result, Hicks, who controls the Dallas Stars ice hockey team and the Texas Rangers baseball team, and Gillett, the owner of the Montreal Canadians ice hockey club, offered their own US-based assets as security instead, according to people familiar with the matter.
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It is not clear why Liverpool's new owners want to remove their own assets as security for the club's debt, although a refinancing needs to be completed by the end of February 2008, when RBS's bridge loan expires.

Wachovia, the American bank, is thought to be leading the refinancing of the RBS bridge loan.

[Marky]

Let's just wait and see. All ths doom and gloom is starting to really do my f**king head in.

All I want is for us to beat the Mancs today.

Same here pal, it's getting really ****ty.
Can't wait until this meeting Rafa has with the owners is over and done with, then we'll see what's actually happening.

[publiusscipio]

It's all a conspiracy I tell ye.

Or is it?

I have some concerns that you might be one of the conspiritors, and anxious that you might not be. What have you got to hide Neil? If anything at all that is. Tell us about your agenda, or supposing you don't have an agenda, you might choose not to say anything about it.

We want answers!

[Neil Young]

Verse:
A, Dmaj7 (repeated a few times)

Chorus:
(passing through A) C#min
(passing through C#min) F#maj
(passing through A) C#min
(passing through C#min) F#maj
(passing through A) C#min
(passing through C#min) F#maj
Emaj
Dmaj

The riff starts on Amaj barre (5th fret) then add 9 before going to D6 ((or is it D13?) 5th fret) then A14add17(which I've never even heard of before but having counted it that looks right but also very wrong) then D14, both on the 7th fret although open underneath.

I'm not very good at naming chords - my son is always telling me when I name them wrong.

[Neil Young]

I have some concerns that you might be one of the conspiritors, and anxious that you might not be. What have you got to hide Neil? If anything at all that is. Tell us about your agenda, or supposing you don't have an agenda, you might choose not to say anything about it.

We want answers!

I think it's pretty clear you're trying to bull**** everyone with all this conjecture about the speculation which threatens to unseat our coach, undermine our season and upset our fans. I have no agenda except to go for a short bike ride before the match kicks off. You however are clearly trying to unsettle the team before a crucial match (although it's only December) which just goes to show that you are a running dog imperialist lackey in the pay of the London/Manchester conspiracy which has the secret aim of denying the workers their rightful share of the fruits of their labours entirely in keeping with the globalist hegemony of the IMF and their paymasters the transnational corporations who enslave us all in their lust for profit filtered from the blood of the international proletariat...

Sorry, I think I may have wandered off the point which was that I deny all these allegations and am now going out to sea to paddle in my canoe. I may be some time...