Liverpool debt dispute forces Americans to consider sale

[AFII]

Not good enough. According to this, Gillett is pissed off at basically the PR gaff of Hicks announcing to the press that they negotiated with Klinsmann. If he had any integrity, he would be ashamed that they went behind the incumbent's back and offered his job to an inexperienced no mark. But of course, these ******s think they did nothing wrong there

Gillett is no better than Hicks IMO. He is at very least complicit in all this. He needs to **** off out of our club along with Hicks.

[AFII]

The article Tribal quoted.....

Liverpool anger as Hicks reveals secret approach to Klinsmann


Andy Hunter
Wednesday January 16, 2008
The Guardian

Tom Hicks's admission that Jürgen Klinsmann was approached to succeed Rafael Benítez has spread internal division at Liverpool into the boardroom, with the other co-chairman, George Gillett, and the chief executive, Rick Parry, enraged by the public revelations which have undermined the Spanish manager and exposed the Americans' ownership to ridicule.

Hicks had intended to draw a line under the uncertainty about Benítez's future - at least until the end of the season - by saying that although he had spoken to Klinsmann last November he now backed Liverpool's current manager after the club qualified for the Champions League knockout stages. Instead the Texan has fuelled the infighting at Anfield as well as damaging Benítez's long-term prospects at the club.

Gillett is understood to be livid with his business partner at the embarrassment the Klinsmann revelations have caused and the fury it has provoked against their reign among the Liverpool support. It is not the meeting with the former Germany national team coach which has irked Gillett, however, because he himself was present at Hicks's Californian retreat when the Liverpool owners tried to secure their "insurance policy" against Benítez's rumoured departure. Klinsmann has since accepted an offer to coach Bayern Munich from July 1 and Gillett had intended the clandestine meeting to remain private.

The falling-out comes at a sensitive time for the Liverpool co-chairmen, given that they have six weeks to secure a £350m loan that would refinance their purchase of the club and enable work on a revised stadium project to commence. Failure to finalise a deal with the Royal Bank of Scotland and the US investment bank Wachovia, which rests on personal guarantees from the American pair, would heighten problems for Gillett and Hicks and increase the prospect of Dubai International Capital launching a fresh takeover bid. Sources close to the owners, however, are adamant the loan will be in place within the next few weeks.

Benítez could sue Hicks for constructive dismissal after this week's comments but he would have to resign from a job he cherishes before taking legal action and he is not considering that option at present. He would also risk losing a £6m pay-off should he walk away from Anfield.

Liverpool's former manager Kenny Dalglish yesterday insisted Benítez did not deserve to be treated so poorly for his public outburst against the Americans' transfer policy last November and said instability at the club had begun to affect the playing staff. "I think it's a disappointing phase when Liverpool, who have never washed the dirty linen in public, have contributed over the past two or three months to a lot of headlines which really you had never seen before," he said.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_...241433,00.html

[AFII]

Hicks' statement had reverberated all day around Anfield where there is a feeling of bafflement at the highest level as to why Hicks had elected to go public on his California meeting with Klinsmann. The banners at the Anfield Road End expressed the fans' feelings: "Dubai SOS, Yanks Out" read one, a plea which might conceivably be answered if the Dubai Investment Company's daily conversations with Anfield yield results.

http://sport.independent.co.uk/footb...cle3342277.ece

[disco]

Mate, stop posting articles which say EXACTLY the same thing

[AFII]

Mate, stop posting articles which say EXACTLY the same thing

I only posted the last one because it says that we are in daily contact with DIC.

[disco]

I only posted the last one because it says that we are in daily contact with DIC.

Fair enough, I'll give you that one

I think we get the point though - there's rumours DIC might buy the club.

[bobbyfallon]

I only posted the last one because it says that we are in daily contact with DIC.

thanks for taking the time to find these articles

[tomasjj]

thanks for taking the time to find these articles

I second that.

AFII gets much stick, but he is a very valuable contributor to EST.

[Skillz]

The downfall of the USA is a small price to pay to reclaim our club

Insignificent. Some would say a bonus.

n.b. not necessarily me! but possibly

[Darkon]

thanks for taking the time to find these articles

True, imagine the amount of time the rest of us would have to spend searching, now we have our own little www.afII.google.com, with main priority on LFC - as far as we know...

AFII: you could however up your service by doing resumes

[Skillz]

I second that.

AFII gets much stick, but he is a very valuable contributor to EST.

Seconded

Adds much comedic value to the forum aswell

[Rocket]

I second that.

AFII gets much stick, but he is a very valuable contributor to EST.

no comment

[Jayesh87]

A DIC spokeswoman said: "We can only say 'no comment' at this stage."


I like them already

They already have Ian Cotton on board

[Tee]

I second that.

AFII gets much stick, but he is a very valuable contributor to EST.

[Pacman]

no comment