Arabs eye £500m Liverpool buy-out

[AFII]

Well, the only way that we can win the title in the next three, four years is if someone splash the cash. The other option is that Rafa is given time until our youngsters are ready but that means no title in the next few years.

[G]

Fair play to the pair of you for admitting it.

I just wonder if the majority of people would be happy if DIC came in, hired Mourinho and then gave him a blank cheque book and won us the league?

Sure I'd be happy we won the league, but it wouldn't mean as much, would it?

Of course it would,most teams including all our great ones bought most of the players in their teams that won the title.I can't understand this bull**** of not buying the title.Everyone buys it,usually its not bought as obviously or quickly as when Chelsea bought it

[G]

Well, the only way that we can win the title in the next three, four years is if someone splash the cash. The other option is that Rafa is given time until our youngsters are ready but that means no title in the next few years.

Even if the youngster do it we still bought most of them,hence still bought the title,and it'd still be needed to buy other players to play with them.

[Kopite_Colin]

Fair play to the pair of you for admitting it.

I just wonder if the majority of people would be happy if DIC came in, hired Mourinho and then gave him a blank cheque book and won us the league?

Sure I'd be happy we won the league, but it wouldn't mean as much, would it?

It would mean a hell of a lot to me after a 20 year wait. As long as we had a long term investment plan (as I alluded to above) to follow on from "buying the title" I'd be happy.


To some extent we've bought the title in the past (broken British transfer records for Dalglish, Beardsley, significant investment in Barnes etc.) - no team wins without buying the best players - especially not in the modern era.

I don't want to be snobby about how we won it - let's win the ****ing thing first and then argue about it.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

It would mean a hell of a lot to me after a 20 year wait. As long as we had a long term investment plan (as I alluded to above) to follow on from "buying the title" I'd be happy.


To some extent we've bought the title in the past (broken British transfer records for Dalglish, Beardsley, significant investment in Barnes etc.) - no team wins without buying the best players - especially not in the modern era.

I don't want to be snobby about how we won it - let's win the ****ing thing first and then argue about it.

Good point re what we did in the late 80's, but then again we were already top dogs when we were doing that.

It seems the easy way out to me, instead of relying on the skill of businessmen and your management and playing staff we're relying on some sugar daddy's cash.

In all honesty I wish Dave had never sold the club. But that's another discussion.

[G]

It would mean a hell of a lot to me after a 20 year wait. As long as we had a long term investment plan (as I alluded to above) to follow on from "buying the title" I'd be happy.


To some extent we've bought the title in the past (broken British transfer records for Dalglish, Beardsley, significant investment in Barnes etc.) - no team wins without buying the best players - especially not in the modern era.

I don't want to be snobby about how we won it - let's win the ****ing thing first and then argue about it.

We bought it in the60's, 70's and early 80's too,St John,Yeats Dalglish,Hansen,Keegan,Clemence,Neal,Rush,Ray and Alan Kennedy,Steve Nicol etc. The list goes on

[Gray]

Summary please

Well, let's see: First the earth cooled. And, then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil. And, then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And, Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it, he took her best summer dress out of the closet, and put it on, and went to town.

[AFII]

Even if the youngster do it we still bought most of them,hence still bought the title,and it'd still be needed to buy other players to play with them.

and we wouldn't be able to buy the Torres class until the stadium is finished.

Have a chance to win the title in the next few years means, splash the cash. That means DIC instead of G&H IMO.

I really don't care if they would sell us after seven years. To be able to get the best profit they would need to build a fantastic stadium and sign players that will make us great again.

If we are in that position in seven years time from now then I would be very happy.

[Kopite_Colin]

Good point re what we did in the late 80's, but then again we were already top dogs when we were doing that.

It seems the easy way out to me, instead of relying on the skill of businessmen and your management and playing staff we're relying on some sugar daddy's cash.

In all honesty I wish Dave had never sold the club. But that's another discussion.

I agree - it is the easy way out. But we no longer have time to stop the ****ers down the road overtaking us. We've had that time - it's called the last 18 years. And I really, really don;t want that to happen. It's getting close to **** or bust.

That's why I said i wanted a long-term investment plan in place as well - at least that's some sort of compromise so that we CAN rely on the skill of businessmen and your management and playing staff in the future.

I'm interested as to why you wish Moores had never sold the club.

[G]

and we wouldn't be able to buy the Torres class until the stadium is finished.

Have a chance to win the title in the next few years means, splash the cash. That means DIC instead of G&H IMO.

I really don't care if they would sell us after seven years. To be able to get the best profit they would need to build a fantastic stadium and sign players that will make us great again.

If we are in that position in seven years time from now then I would be very happy.

So would I.If they were to sell us there'd be any number of rich blokes queueing up to own us if we were number one on the field winning trophies for fun

[Darth Marty]

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Originally Posted by Kopite_Colin View Post
I admit it - I want DIC to come in and throw money at us. If we buy our way to the title intially I don't care - I'll gladly argue with prople in the pub when we're Premiership champions.

1) Anything that stops a nigh on 20 year wait for the title
2) Anything that stops the Scum from down the road overtaking our 18 leagues

I'm not proud - I just still want us to be the best. Once we've won it though I'd like to see a long term investment plan in place to make sure we give ourselves the best chance of staying at the top and competing every year, anddeveloping our own (and hopefully local) talent.

If we've going to stop Utd taking over our English titles mantel we need money now - not in 3-5 years time.


quote : I just don't care how, I just want the title for the first time in my lifetime.





Whilst not the ideal way if its the only way then im in. I genuinley dont care how we do it I just want to be top of the tree again.

[CJ]

i am not sure that they splash the cash as such with godolphin

i am sure the stud fees they collect mean that it is a very good investment for them

i really really doubt that an investment company would not want to see some form of return.

and there is no guarantee that they would run the club better.

[Rafa Shankly]

Good point re what we did in the late 80's, but then again we were already top dogs when we were doing that.

It seems the easy way out to me, instead of relying on the skill of businessmen and your management and playing staff we're relying on some sugar daddy's cash.

In all honesty I wish Dave had never sold the club. But that's another discussion.

its not gonna happen though without cash charlie,its that simple,i keep saying it,the yanks are loaded,but it seems they are not loaded enough.

if anything,they have proved you need someone with a serious amount of money behind them to achieve what we wanna achieve.

were honestly living in a fairytale if we think were gonna do it in any other way than having money thrown at us.

new stadium + constant team building = plenty of cash.

all this "it wont be the same" is a load of crap.
every record we have ever set is in serious threat of been taking over,we need a **** load of money,and we need now.

[Vermilion]

You're thinking of rich Arabs of 1988 not 2008, they are much more financially astute now-a-days.

Financially astute yes, just the sort of owners we want, wont mean they wont speculate to accumulate, we all know a successful Liverpool FC would be reward for any investor, a world wide licence to print money handled correctly. I just worry certain people want too big a slice of the cake in turn affecting the chances of the club to attain that initial successful push. Would Dic be prepared to invest enough in the squad immediately to let us add 3 or 4 players like Torres to lift us truly to another level i dont know, but i do admit to expecting that off G&h when they came, i could'nt think of any other reason to piss off DIC who would have made us instantly one of the richest clubs in the world, owner wise. I always had a belief that DIC would run the club properly too but totally accepted H&G when they won, it's what's happened since that has put me off them totally. Rafa should be thinking of nothing but football but as we know he's not, i blame them for this noone else, it's affecting the whole club now i believe. oh **** it i'll be here all night, i've had my say & i'm pissed off, we started the season so bloody well with so much promise.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

I'm interested as to why you wish Moores had never sold the club.

We've lost our identity.

Now we're owned by Americans, there's virtually no scousers/Liverpool people in the coaching or playing staff anymore.

The only connections left with the LFC I grew up with are Anfield, and even that's changed a lot, and will eventually go, us as a fan group and Stevie G and Carra, apart from that we're just any other ****in club.

We're hanging onto a thread what makes us special as a club.