fans in buy out sensation!!

[Lucky]

Thanks for the info mate, let's hope something can snowball from this, there are definitely better business scenarios for LFC than the one we currently face.

[The Glove]

Ive just found 13p down the couch. They can have that.

[Sarb]

Blimey. What the hell is going on~? Is this all speculation or for real...because if the fans can buy Liverpool then i want some of this. Also will be the biggest and best indication to the Yanks that we want them out

[Joe King]

This sounds good. Real fans taking over. We might have the tradition and the heritage instilled back into the club- long shot with no one from Shankly/Paisley time being involved

[Iceman]

Radio Merseyside seemed very confident.....................and they are the BBC FFS!

[Darth Marty]

so is the info in this thread the sum total knowledge of what we know about this "secret society"......****, reckon Nicey, Sean et al would be in deep **** if the illuminati take the fookin club over!!!

[Jimthered]

There is no way in hell I am paying any part of my wages to any club, not when some of the ponces we have running around the field week after week are getting paid 50,000 quid a week .

[Darth Marty]

This sounds good. Real fans taking over. We might have the tradition and the heritage instilled back into the club- long shot with no one from Shankly/Paisley time being involved

Lets start the boot room again.....Evans, Barnes, Kenny, Beardo, Fowler....

[Joe King]

Lets start the boot room again.....Evans, Barnes, Kenny, Beardo, Fowler....

[Iceman]

Radio Merseyside have just said

"and we will DEFINITELY DEFINITELY have more on this story throughout the day tomorrow"

[Sarb]

Do you think these guys will take over or is it just a PR Stunt?

[blacky]

Tom any chance of a PM? Am very curious!!

[reddragon]

Tom any chance of a PM? Am very curious!!

and me

[spiceboy]

I would be happy if the fans could own the club in some shape or form even if it limited transfer funds for a few years until the new stadium was up and running but i think it would be fantastic for the long term future of the club.
Otherwise you are just hoping for some sort of benevolent dictatorship from a deep pocketed owner who doesn't mind throwing money away.

I mean football doesn't make much sense as a business - here give me 20, no maybe 30 million I want to buy a player who might be great or might not work out at all - or he could get injured and not play for the rest of the season. Madness!! It only makes sense if you are a nutbag with more passion (and money) than sense.

[RedsFan83]

Here's what was posted over at .no

PRESS RELEASE Embargo: midnight Wed. 30th Jan ‘GROUP PROPOSES LIVERPOOL FANS’ BUY-OUT’ The ‘Share Liverpool FC’ Group will present a plan to organise a buy-out of Liverpool Football Club by 100,000 Reds fans at a Press & Media Conference in Liverpool. The model proposed will be a Barcelona-style, ‘member-share’ scheme, aimed at raising £500m to purchase the Club from its American owners and build a new stadium. Rogan Taylor said: “The time is right to offer a different solution to the rising concerns that football fans have about the patterns of ownership developing at our major football clubs. Thousands of Liverpool fans have already demonstrated their dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs. Large amounts of debt often devolves onto clubs newly purchased, but the fans know that in the end, it will be they themselves who will have to pay it off through increased ticket prices and other schemes. In such a case, why not simply buy the club yourselves? What many don’t realise is that there are other ways of financing and taking ownership of big clubs. In Germany and Spain, most top level football clubs are simply ‘Not For Sale’. They are owned by many thousands of ‘member fans’. The Champions League has been won on six occasions in the last 15yrs by clubs owned and run in such a way.” The plan will be announced at 5pm on Thursday 31st. Those involved include: Rogan Taylor, Kop season ticket holder and LFC fan for over forty years; founder member and Chair of the Football Supporters’ Association, launched in Liverpool after the Heysel Stadium Disaster. Rogan is currently the Director of the Football Industry Group at the University of Liverpool, and a well known writer and broadcaster. Phil French, former Director of Communications and Public Policy at the Premier League and now CEO of ‘Supporters Direct’, the government-backed organisation that helps fans get real stakes in their clubs. Kevin Jaquiss, of the law firm, Cobbetts; the top firm for co-operative and mutual law. Kevin was part of the group which developed the Supporters Trust concept and wrote the model constitution which is now used by over 100 ‘Fans’ Trusts’ in England, Wales and Scotland. No further details of the plan will be released prior to the Press Conference which will take place at the School of Management, Myrtle Street, University of Liverpool, at 5pm tomorrow.

I'm a PhD student in the School of History, which is next door to the Management building. So I will keep an eye out for any journos hanging around and report back on any news I hear during the day. Rogan Taylor used to work in my building; he's knows what he's talking about.