fans in buy out sensation!!

[kopdan]

not sure its the right thing yet. But time will tell.

I was a bit dismayed about the lack of info on the site. Would like to have had the chance to email them some questions.

But its early days.

I may know someone that would be very interested to invest

[el matador]

I think it's a goer, it really is,there are some very, very, very serious people behind it, they're well organised and have a good plan. What's more important it it's absolutely the right thing to do for he club.

lets all give them a chance and get behind it. I admit I was a bit annoyed by the website but 1000 hits a second is unbelievable and just goes to show how substantial the fans support is for the club.

[Sarb]

I'll put your name down if you want

I'm in mate. If there is a chance of me getting a share in Liverpool I'll take it. I'll volunteer to help as well. Got a background in Finance and some knowledge so would help out any way i can. I want the Americans' out

[Slinky Skills]

I'm not going to get carried away but I'm hoping so much that these guys succed for the good of the club.

It would be brilliant for the club and for the fans. Maybe if all have a bit of belief they might...might just pull it off, stranger things have happened. It's a testament to them for having the bolloks and the ingenuity to come up with this idea.


Best of luck to shareliverpool FC.


YNWA!!

[JCase]

Flog Kuyt, Voronin, Benayoun, Aurelio and a few others. Easy

Yes, but where do we get the other 19.8m from?

[disco]

Is it really max one share per person?!

I'm struggling to see how we'd get 100,000 buyers. Presumably even if one millionaire bought shares for everyone he knew, then optimistically that might only be £1m.

Fair play for trying though.

If there was some way that people could buy a share by paying £1000 per year for 5 years I'd seriously consider it, and I think they'd have more takers.

[dawmdt]

Is it really max one share per person?!

I'm struggling to see how we'd get 100,000 buyers. Presumably even if one millionaire bought shares for everyone he knew, then optimistically that might only be £1m.

Fair play for trying though.

If there was some way that people could buy a share by paying £1000 per year for 5 years I'd seriously consider it, and I think they'd have more takers.

I don't think it would be that big a problem... there are millions of us around the globe and 100,000 people is a very small percentage... there's likely to be a very small percentage that can easily conjure up £5000...

[dawmdt]

Hehe this idea will probably get me slated but if this scheme did work and generated £500mm... then surely the best way for "Share Liverpool FC" to buy the club would be through a leveraged takeover.

It's tax efficient and the alternative investments of the takeover money could create an instant revenue stream even once the interest is paid

[WILF]

Hehe this idea will probably get me slated but if this scheme did work and generated £500mm... then surely the best way for "Share Liverpool FC" to buy the club would be through a leveraged takeover.

It's tax efficient and the alternative investments of the takeover money could create an instant revenue stream even once the interest is paid

Could you please explain in more detail how this kind of takeover could be done as I know nothing about it

[kmtl]

I posted this on another thread but perhaps but someone with better business brain can help me out here.....

Hi all,

I am not that clue up on this stuff but what if they managed to get 100,000 members (£500 M). That means we have 100,000 hardcore who are also current paying customers of Hicks & Gillett and if those two decide not to sell to us, we can then boycott their products and value of their asset will decrease.

I don't know but we might even be in position to drive a hard bargain as far as value of the club is concerned, after all what's the point of having the business that no customers wants to buy from????

Cheers

[sinbad]

I posted this on another thread but perhaps but someone with better business brain can help me out here.....

Hi all,

I am not that clue up on this stuff but what if they managed to get 100,000 members (£500 M). That means we have 100,000 hardcore who are also current paying customers of Hicks & Gillett and if those two decide not to sell to us, we can then boycott their products and value of their asset will decrease.

I don't know but we might even be in position to drive a hard bargain as far as value of the club is concerned, after all what's the point of having the business that no customers wants to buy from????

Cheers

I can see this happening. At the moment nobody really knows if DIC will make that elusive offer or not. Therefore fans are not sure about, or willing to boycott. Once Share LFC goes to the two cunts with 100k names and they refuse to sell, that's when we'll hopefully see those 100k names plus the rest of our fans doing a serious boycott to get these cunts out.

[dawmdt]

Could you please explain in more detail how this kind of takeover could be done as I know nothing about it

It's basically what G&H have done to us... instead of spending 500mm in cash you borrow it against the club.

The interest on those loans can be offset against any profits (I think, no doubt one of the accountants on here can explain) which reduces our corporation tax liability but more to the point the money can be invested usually at a higher return. eg assume the club borrowed 500mm for its takeover at 8% interest then the interest repayments would be 40mm a year. If we went to five investment banks and said "here's 100mm each, please invest on a low to medium risk basis and we are looking for 12-15% return" which more than covers the interest payments and brings in revenue to boot. This is exactly what G&H would have done (to a certain degree... basically their money is tied up in assets which probably generate more revenue than the loan costs). Once the stadium is built we can repay the principle on the loan with the cash.

Obviously it's not quite as simple as that and lots of analysis and risk assessments need to be done but that's the general gist of it.

[WILF]

It's basically what G&H have done to us... instead of spending 500mm in cash you borrow it against the club.

The interest on those loans can be offset against any profits (I think, no doubt one of the accountants on here can explain) which reduces our corporation tax liability but more to the point the money can be invested usually at a higher return. eg assume the club borrowed 500mm for its takeover at 8% interest then the interest repayments would be 40mm a year. If we went to five investment banks and said "here's 100mm each, please invest on a low to medium risk basis and we are looking for 12-15% return" which more than covers the interest payments and brings in revenue to boot. This is exactly what G&H would have done (to a certain degree... basically their money is tied up in assets which probably generate more revenue than the loan costs). Once the stadium is built we can repay the principle on the loan with the cash.

Obviously it's not quite as simple as that and lots of analysis and risk assessments need to be done but that's the general gist of it.

Ok , thanks a lot for the explanation

I really hope this scheme can work , I would be happy to put some money in and not expect anything in return.

[The_weatherman]

Bump

[MattB]

It's basically what G&H have done to us... instead of spending 500mm in cash you borrow it against the club.

The interest on those loans can be offset against any profits (I think, no doubt one of the accountants on here can explain) which reduces our corporation tax liability but more to the point the money can be invested usually at a higher return. eg assume the club borrowed 500mm for its takeover at 8% interest then the interest repayments would be 40mm a year. If we went to five investment banks and said "here's 100mm each, please invest on a low to medium risk basis and we are looking for 12-15% return" which more than covers the interest payments and brings in revenue to boot. This is exactly what G&H would have done (to a certain degree... basically their money is tied up in assets which probably generate more revenue than the loan costs). Once the stadium is built we can repay the principle on the loan with the cash.

Obviously it's not quite as simple as that and lots of analysis and risk assessments need to be done but that's the general gist of it.

But where would the money to build the stadium come from?