Dubai International to make bid for Liverpool FC

[sonsofthedesert]

Totally irrelevant to the direction of this thread but i've had this recurring vision of Hicks slating us as fans, saying we didn't deserve his input into the club, that we didn't give him the chance, and that he's sorry we couldn't make it work, in a farewell interview in a newspaper.

Anyway I probably just sound like a big wierdo now with my visions, but there you go, felt i had to share with everyone.

If he does go in the coming months I fully expect that interview to take place in America. Everything you have put will be said.

[ronniedrew]

With each passing day, the tide turns a little more against the Americans.

1.) Rift between themselves.
2.) Opposition from the support and the press.
3.) Stock market fall.
4.) Refinancing difficulty.
4.) League position.
5.) Suffering team morale.
5.) PR disasters.

They might hold all the cards, but those cards aren't exactly aces.

they still own the club, dont they, therefore they can do pretty much what they want with it, its totally up to them and yes, as you say, they do hold all of the cards, when you hold all of the cards, aces are generally included

[Morph]

they still own the club, dont they, therefore they can do pretty much what they want with it, its totally up to them

yes but they aren't stupid they won't want to lose any money, generally speaking what will be good for them money wise should hopefully be good for us as well

[ronniedrew]

yes but they aren't stupid they won't want to lose any money, generally speaking what will be good for them money wise should hopefully be good for us as well

no doubt morph, but re-read my post above re valuation etc

[kurtangle01]

Get out of our club, get out of our cluuub, take Parry with you, get out of our club. Was another one sang tonight.

[Morph]

no doubt morph, but re-read my post above re valuation etc

ah I see, the main thing for me is I don't think they can see the building of a stadium through, lets not forget here this initial loan is only to cover the club and the summer signings and the starting costs of the stadium, there's gonna be another 300 odd million costs for the stadium, that'll be around £600 mil debt on the club, I don't think they've got the assets to cover that, and how scary would it be to imagine the club loaded with all that

[sonsofthedesert]

ah I see, the main thing for me is I don't think they can see the building of a stadium through, lets not forget here this initial loan is only to cover the club and the summer signings and the starting costs of the stadium, there's gonna be another 300 odd million costs for the stadium, that'll be around £600 mil debt on the club, I don't think they've got the assets to cover that, and how scary would it be to imagine the club loaded with all that

Scarier woud be them starting the new ground and then finding out they can't secure the funds to complete it, I'm starting to see this as a possibility.

[disco]

Watched Charlie Wilson's War last night which made a very good point.

Sometimes something happens apparently for the best, but a few years later it's not. I'd rather have DIC than H&G, but I think we'll come to despise them sooner rather than later.

They're a Private Equity firm - they want to buy the club with huge debt, turn it around, and sell without investing that much themselves....

[rushscored4]

The protests tonight were embarrassing. RTK makes me cringe in it's incredibly crass naïvety. The Mancs and Blue****es are absolutely pissing themselves at this club and us, the fans.

Rafa has played you all brilliantly using the uncertainty behind the scenes to hide his increasingly negative tactics and baffling team selections. Is it the Yanks who keep picking Kuyt instead of Crouch? Was it them that decided to put Crouch on with only ten minutes to go? Did Hicks and Gillett play Kewell ahead of Babel? And yet the Kop continue to chant Rafa's name...

...****ing unbelievable...

[Dhav]

The protests tonight were embarrassing. RTK makes me cringe in it's incredibly crass naïvety. The Mancs and Blue****es are absolutely pissing themselves at this club and us, the fans.

Rafa has played you all brilliantly using the uncertainty behind the scenes to hide his increasingly negative tactics and baffling team selections. Is it the Yanks who keep picking Kuyt instead of Crouch? Was it them that decided to put Crouch on with only ten minutes to go? Did Hicks and Gillett play Kewell ahead of Babel? And yet the Kop continue to chant Rafa's name...

...****ing unbelievable...

[sonsofthedesert]

The protests tonight were embarrassing. RTK makes me cringe in it's incredibly crass naïvety. The Mancs and Blue****es are absolutely pissing themselves at this club and us, the fans.

Rafa has played you all brilliantly using the uncertainty behind the scenes to hide his increasingly negative tactics and baffling team selections. Is it the Yanks who keep picking Kuyt instead of Crouch? Was it them that decided to put Crouch on with only ten minutes to go? Did Hicks and Gillett play Kewell ahead of Babel? And yet the Kop continue to chant Rafa's name...

...****ing unbelievable...

Chill mate. The whole thing is about sorting 1 problem ata time, G&H need to go before anything. On the match point though I would have liked yossi to have stayed on a bit longer and someone else [cough]Kuyt[/cough] come off.

[NICKZS]

The protests tonight were embarrassing. RTK makes me cringe in it's incredibly crass naïvety. The Mancs and Blue****es are absolutely pissing themselves at this club and us, the fans.

Rafa has played you all brilliantly using the uncertainty behind the scenes to hide his increasingly negative tactics and baffling team selections. Is it the Yanks who keep picking Kuyt instead of Crouch? Was it them that decided to put Crouch on with only ten minutes to go? Did Hicks and Gillett play Kewell ahead of Babel? And yet the Kop continue to chant Rafa's name...

...****ing unbelievable...

Enjoy the match?

[kurtangle01]

The protests tonight were embarrassing. RTK makes me cringe in it's incredibly crass naïvety. The Mancs and Blue****es are absolutely pissing themselves at this club and us, the fans.

Rafa has played you all brilliantly using the uncertainty behind the scenes to hide his increasingly negative tactics and baffling team selections. Is it the Yanks who keep picking Kuyt instead of Crouch? Was it them that decided to put Crouch on with only ten minutes to go? Did Hicks and Gillett play Kewell ahead of Babel? And yet the Kop continue to chant Rafa's name...

...****ing unbelievable...

No...but it is the owners who are about to put almost £350m worth of debt against the clubs books when they said they wouldn't.

Now, I'm not going to claim to have all the facts because I don't but what they're currently propsing could potentially end up doing worse damage to the club than a dodgy team selection.

[calvoboy]

For those who couldn't make it out, there were three main songs in my bit of the Kop.

They don't care about Rafa
They don't care about fans
Liverpool Football Club
Is in the wrong hands

Get out of our club
Get out of our club
You lying *******s
Get out of our club

and,

Tom Hicks
He's got a big fat head
He's got a big fat head
He's got a big fat head

I've got mixed feelings. I'm glad that the owners will have heard the views of the fans, but on the other hand, it felt a bit odd, as if it's not the sort of thing we should really be doing. It's not very Liverpool like to have protests against the chairman on the Kop, and it's sad what they have reduced us to.

[Craig_H]

They don't care about Rafa
They don't care about fans
Liverpool Football Club
Is in the wrong hands

What tune is that to?