Arabs eye £500m Liverpool buy-out

[desertscouser]

has anyone else had the mnisfortune to work with arabs? well i tell you one of my clients are the largest private real estate developers in Middle East and they looked after the property on all of the above photos.....they are as tight as ****!!! if anyone thinks the DIC will come in and send like a drunken sailor are off there heads. They are more likely to come in and use our good name to profit off, take all the profits and do one...imo of course.

What a ridiculous generalisation. I work with 'Arabs' on a daily basis and they all differ from each other. And one thing they're not, is 'tight as ****'.

[red g]

i know sod all about DIC

i'd ideally want someone who had money to finance us who was a Liverpool fan. That way, I'd feel more confident that they'd be more focussed on making us great than turning a profit at our expense.

steve morgan?

[AFII]

The Sheik donated $10 billion to education.

I don't exactly think that is called tight as ****.

[Dhav]

What a ridiculous generalisation. I work with 'Arabs' on a daily basis and they all differ from each other. And one thing they're not, is 'tight as ****'.

We acted once on a hotel purchase for a client who was buying it from an Arab seller. The only thing I would say is that they would get extremely impatient when they hadn't heard from us for a day or two. In the end they lost their patience with us all together and out of the blue sold the hotel to someone else! I wonder if that bears any similarity to what happened between the club and DIC?

[Roboklopp]

Have to say UI live in Scumland & work with the ****ers. THe very idea of their overtaking our 18 makes me physically sick & keeps me up at night right now.

I'd take our owners chucking £100m at the squad aye I' m afraid I would now. THat's what the scum & Chavs have been doing for years & like it or not it is a very large part of what has made them succesful. THe gonners have much less so but Wenger has has years to develop his youth & with the staduim they are only gonna get richer & richer.

I'd like to see what RAfa could do with that sort of money before even thinking about anyone else to manage though.

[Iceman]

DIC is the investment arm of the government of Dubai

The government of Dubai is effectively the El Maktoum family

Sheik Mohamed is the head of the family

Sheik Mohamed is one of the few people on this planet who could refer to Roman Abramovitch as being " reasonably well off"


its probably all a load of bollocks but i so want this to happen

[sonsofthedesert]

DIC is an investment company designed to make money and that is it. The own normal companies such as Travel lodge and Madam Tussords (spelling?), they are not going to buy the club for over the odds and spunk money all over it. They may buy t at a reasonable price and try to develop the club quickly so it is financially n a similar footing to utd and tak profit every year from that but that is all. They will not want to make a loss on it. Also can someone please explain how in AFII's mind spunking money over LFC will drive tourism and building in Dubai as it would have no link. Them owning the club will not effect the number of people travelling there.

[Iceman]

with respect............. it is the prestige of having the Liverpool brand associated with Dubai that appeals to them

It also increases their profile.................. last year my mate went for a holiday in Dubai and admitted that he had never thought of it as a holiday destination until they showed an interest in us

[red g]

with respect............. it is the prestige of having the Liverpool brand associated with Dubai that appeals to them

It also increases their profile.................. last year my mate went for a holiday in Dubai and admitted that he had never thought of it as a holiday destination until they showed an interest in us

which is why they want to be associated with our name and the history with it, they wouldnt give 2 ****s about how they left it after using it .

[red g]

DIC is the investment arm of the government of Dubai

The government of Dubai is effectively the El Maktoum family

Sheik Mohamed is the head of the family

Sheik Mohamed is one of the few people on this planet who could refer to Roman Abramovitch as being " reasonably well off"


its probably all a load of bollocks but i so want this to happen

this is 'the company' you want to buy us......i prefer to be in the hands of individuals rather than a 'corporation '

Dubai International Capital Global Equities sources, executes and manages investments in public securities listed on international stock exchanges throughout the world, primarily through a dedicated US$2 billion fund - Global Strategic Equities Fund LP (‘GSEF’). The fund aims to make structured investments in Fortune 500 global companies and seeks to become a leading investor in pre-eminent large global capitalisation stocks. GSEF’s investments to date include a substantial stake in HSBC and a 3.12% stake in EADS, the parent company of Airbus.

Global Strategic Equities Fund (GSEF)

In October 2006, Dubai International Capital launched the Global Strategic Equities Fund LP (‘GSEF’) and commitments at first closing totalled US$1 billion. A final closing at a minimum of US$2 billion is planned for early 2008.

The GSEF aims to generate attractive target returns by building a concentrated portfolio of structured equity and equity-related investments representing substantial, strategic holdings in leading Fortune 500 businesses. GSEF has a global mandate and a management friendly orientation. The fund invests on a long-term horizon and makes substantial use of derivative products offering downside protection and embedding a significant degree of leverage features. Seeking out undervalued large capitalisation stocks, the GSEF team applies an extensive and fundamental investment selection process much akin to the private equity approach to investing.

Whilst Dubai International Capital is the cornerstone investor in GSEF, the fund has been able to garner substantial demand from other investors including government investment arms, ultra high net-worth individuals, key institutions in the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as well as bulge bracket investment banks.

GSEF is a closed-ended limited partnership denominated in US Dollars and NewDawn Global Strategic Equities Asset Management Limited, the General Partner for GSEF, is a Dubai International Financial Centre incorporated and Dubai Financial Services Authority regulated entity.

[AFII]

with respect............. it is the prestige of having the Liverpool brand associated with Dubai that appeals to them

It also increases their profile.................. last year my mate went for a holiday in Dubai and admitted that he had never thought of it as a holiday destination until they showed an interest in us

The Sheikh can afford without any problem at all to "waste" £1 billion on us if he want to. Royal families isn't mentioned on Forbes but I would guess that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum probably is the richest man in the world.

I don't know what his motives would be if he bought us. He could buy us to have some fun or to use us as an investment and run it as a business.

[Iceman]

using the same argument.............. the more successful we are the higher their profile


The more succesful we are the more they can make out of marketing etc.

its self serving bring back the glory days and the country gets a higher profile

you only have to look at Godolphin

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

this is 'the company' you want to buy us......i prefer to be in the hands of individuals rather than a 'corporation '

Dubai International Capital Global Equities sources, executes and manages investments in public securities listed on international stock exchanges throughout the world, primarily through a dedicated US$2 billion fund - Global Strategic Equities Fund LP (‘GSEF’). The fund aims to make structured investments in Fortune 500 global companies and seeks to become a leading investor in pre-eminent large global capitalisation stocks. GSEF’s investments to date include a substantial stake in HSBC and a 3.12% stake in EADS, the parent company of Airbus.

Global Strategic Equities Fund (GSEF)

In October 2006, Dubai International Capital launched the Global Strategic Equities Fund LP (‘GSEF’) and commitments at first closing totalled US$1 billion. A final closing at a minimum of US$2 billion is planned for early 2008.

The GSEF aims to generate attractive target returns by building a concentrated portfolio of structured equity and equity-related investments representing substantial, strategic holdings in leading Fortune 500 businesses. GSEF has a global mandate and a management friendly orientation. The fund invests on a long-term horizon and makes substantial use of derivative products offering downside protection and embedding a significant degree of leverage features. Seeking out undervalued large capitalisation stocks, the GSEF team applies an extensive and fundamental investment selection process much akin to the private equity approach to investing.

Whilst Dubai International Capital is the cornerstone investor in GSEF, the fund has been able to garner substantial demand from other investors including government investment arms, ultra high net-worth individuals, key institutions in the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as well as bulge bracket investment banks.

GSEF is a closed-ended limited partnership denominated in US Dollars and NewDawn Global Strategic Equities Asset Management Limited, the General Partner for GSEF, is a Dubai International Financial Centre incorporated and Dubai Financial Services Authority regulated entity.

No I'd have preferred that the club was still owned by one of our own.

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

This thread (and its title) would be a whole lot more comical if it was Japanese businessmen looking to invest heavily in LFC.

[Alpha]

This thread (and its title) would be a whole lot more comical if it was Japanese businessmen looking to invest heavily in LFC.