Dubai International to make bid for Liverpool FC

[Darth Marty]

BBC reporting that last time hicks and gillette were in a liverpool "a close family member of hick's" was overheard as saying "we can't wait to get rid of the club, we've had enough"

HAPPY DAYS



See ya....dont let the door hit ya on the way out

[Elvis]

It sounds like they had no idea what they were buying into - the tradition, the emotion, the cost - it was all new to them. They really did think they were buying Weetabix.......

[Howard_lfc]

It sounds like they had no idea what they were buying into - the tradition, the emotion, the cost - it was all new to them. They really did think they were buying Weetabix.......

We may slag them off for their lack of knowledge about our club, fans, history, tradition etc etc etc. The question that should be asked is how they were allowed to buy the club when this lack of knowledge is/was so apparent?

Moores and Parry might just as well have put us on Ebay.

[rushscored4]

I bet the Mancs and Blue****e would piss themselves laughing reading some of these comments...

[Skillz]

It sounds like they had no idea what they were buying into - the tradition, the emotion, the cost - it was all new to them. They really did think they were buying Weetabix.......

It might seem that way but if walk out of this with a profit, which seems very likely, surely the evidence suggests they did have an idea.

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[Howard_lfc]

It might seem that way but if walk out of this with a profit, which seems very likely, surely the evidence suggests they did have an idea.

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but their motives were somewhat different to what we were after at that time though.

[desertscouser]

We may slag them off for their lack of knowledge about our club, fans, history, tradition etc etc etc. The question that should be asked is how they were allowed to buy the club when this lack of knowledge is/was so apparent?

Moores and Parry might just as well have put us on Ebay.

Absolutely spot on.

They were conned and if it all goes tits up then they will go down in history as the two who sold us down the river.

[desertscouser]

It sounds like they had no idea what they were buying into - the tradition, the emotion, the cost - it was all new to them. They really did think they were buying Weetabix.......

Yet Parry was very impressed when they completed their due diligence in 3 days

[el matador]

Yet Parry was very impressed when they completed their due diligence in 3 days

that alone should have given any half decent CEO something to worry about. Due diligence simply cannot be completed in 3 days. Its nothing more than a cursory look over the books. How can you take someone seriously who has such a relaxed attitude towards the figures ?

Its not like either of them were as solvent as DIC.

[NICKZS]

We may slag them off for their lack of knowledge about our club, fans, history, tradition etc etc etc. The question that should be asked is how they were allowed to buy the club when this lack of knowledge is/was so apparent?

Moores and Parry might just as well have put us on Ebay.

What puzzles me is the fact that a simple name search on Google would have brought up numerous horror-stories and complaints from the myriad victims of Hicks/Gillett's business debacles (the same ones that appeared on forums after their interest became apparent).

Why didn't Moores and Parry anticipate what was going to happen, and what could explain their lack of vigilance in terms of very basic background research? I suppose nobody will ever really be able to get down to the bottom of all of this, I just hope it concludes favourably for the club.

[el matador]

What puzzles me is the fact that a simple name search on Google would have brought up numerous horror-stories and complaints from the myriad victims of Hicks/Gillett's business debacles (the same ones that appeared on forums after their interest became apparent).

Why didn't Moores and Parry anticipate what was going to happen, and what could explain their lack of vigilance in terms of very basic background research? I suppose nobody will ever really be able to get down to the bottom of all of this, I just hope it concludes favourably for the club.

Parry isnt my favourite person - but if reports are to be believed he actually went to DIC and admitted he was wrong which for a CEO of a large company is a very big thing. If this is true then some credit has to go to him. However, I simply cannot see him carrying on at Liverpool as a CEO after his repeated blunders.

Does anybody know of any advertised vacancies within the club ? I know they were looking for a web designer. Is it too late for him to retrain as that

[dww]

We may slag them off for their lack of knowledge about our club, fans, history, tradition etc etc etc. The question that should be asked is how they were allowed to buy the club when this lack of knowledge is/was so apparent?

Moores and Parry might just as well have put us on Ebay.

To be fair I think Gillet has learned from some initial media mis-steps and has seemed like a decent guy. He was the one originally interested and Hicks may have come across to Moores & Parry as a secondary partner who was bringing the needed extra funding.

Added to the fact that once they had spoken to G&H the only other alternative DIC threw their toys out of the pram. Nearly everyone on here and in the broader community of LFC fans wanted to see investment to the point where they thought it was necessary to move forward and compete with United/Chelsea/Arsenal. Moores is a fan too and maybe the potential seemed too good to turn down to him.

[Tomovich]

Is it possible that the announcement of Hicks that they had talked to Klinsmann was a move that was meant to attract the interest of DIC? If it is then this is a really clever business move.

But me too want these yanks out.

[Jayesh87]

I think their will be a denial from the Americans today...

[sonsofthedesert]

I was interested in what would be said on Sunday supplement so had to watch 30 mins of Kevin Keegan talk to hear 10 mins about all this. They all just took it as fact that G&H would sell and only really debated if Rafa would keep his job. Suprised to see them so confident.