the barca model is a good one if you ask me but if we tried this then i still dont know how we'd go about it.......
with barca, anyone can apply to become a member. It costs 150eur per year to become a member of Barcelona and this does not include anything more than a magazine posted to you every second month and a few pointless things like a certificate etc. What it does also include though is a ticket-buying priority thingy that is best described as being similar to the liverpool PTS scheme. Barcelona currently have over 100,000 members (this figure is about 3 years old.....could be closer to 150 or 200 grand by now!!) Being a member also allows you to vote in the presidential elections every second year...
i genuinely think that if lfc had a top top team on the pitch (which we are close to having) and a top top stadium, then lfc could easily get 100,000 members - at 100stg / 150eur per year, that would generate 10m in extra revenue per year (or a dirk kuyt per annum!!!)
however, and this is the problem here, who is going to buy the club off the current owners and, as julius ceser said in the gladiator, "GIVE IT BACK TO THE PEOPLE"...... it just isnt going to happen....we would need 100,000 fans to effectively donate 5000stg of their own cash to essentially get nothing back.....not even a season ticket??? Maybe the trick would be for a group of independent fans (moores would surely have to be one of them) to set up a fund that maybe reaches 100m and effectively loan this to the fund over a 10, 15 or 20 year period. The agreement states that they own a certain % of lfc and after the set period, they get 100% of their money back and no more. The fund that generates this cash though should also look for much more minor investors in the fund with various levels of investment and once the target has been reached, then the takeover is mounted....
i would suspect that initially, the biggest investors would need to be the board members because essentially they would have the most to lose....
this model might not work for lfc though, it would mean a lot of managerial changes in my view and lfc has always been a stable club with loyalty shown to liverpool people, players and managers...... however, those yank pricks are hardly steeped in lfc tradition either now are they....
if moores was willing to be a part of this group, then fair feckin play to the guy....he would be essentially admitting that he made a major screw up in selling to those gimps in the first place.....
oh yeah and if we did own the club, we'd all get to.............SACK PARRY!!!
with barca, anyone can apply to become a member. It costs 150eur per year to become a member of Barcelona and this does not include anything more than a magazine posted to you every second month and a few pointless things like a certificate etc. What it does also include though is a ticket-buying priority thingy that is best described as being similar to the liverpool PTS scheme. Barcelona currently have over 100,000 members (this figure is about 3 years old.....could be closer to 150 or 200 grand by now!!) Being a member also allows you to vote in the presidential elections every second year...
i genuinely think that if lfc had a top top team on the pitch (which we are close to having) and a top top stadium, then lfc could easily get 100,000 members - at 100stg / 150eur per year, that would generate 10m in extra revenue per year (or a dirk kuyt per annum!!!)
however, and this is the problem here, who is going to buy the club off the current owners and, as julius ceser said in the gladiator, "GIVE IT BACK TO THE PEOPLE"...... it just isnt going to happen....we would need 100,000 fans to effectively donate 5000stg of their own cash to essentially get nothing back.....not even a season ticket??? Maybe the trick would be for a group of independent fans (moores would surely have to be one of them) to set up a fund that maybe reaches 100m and effectively loan this to the fund over a 10, 15 or 20 year period. The agreement states that they own a certain % of lfc and after the set period, they get 100% of their money back and no more. The fund that generates this cash though should also look for much more minor investors in the fund with various levels of investment and once the target has been reached, then the takeover is mounted....
i would suspect that initially, the biggest investors would need to be the board members because essentially they would have the most to lose....
this model might not work for lfc though, it would mean a lot of managerial changes in my view and lfc has always been a stable club with loyalty shown to liverpool people, players and managers...... however, those yank pricks are hardly steeped in lfc tradition either now are they....
if moores was willing to be a part of this group, then fair feckin play to the guy....he would be essentially admitting that he made a major screw up in selling to those gimps in the first place.....
oh yeah and if we did own the club, we'd all get to.............SACK PARRY!!!
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