DIC latest - the largely wild speculation thread

[AFII]

Maybe.

But how certain is your source?

He has a friend close to the top of DIC. He did a work in Dubai a couple of years ago, an article about football and business in the middle east, and worked with a few business people close to the top in some clubs and companies.

[tomasjj]

He has a friend close to the top of DIC. He did a work in Dubai a couple of years ago, an article about football and business in the middle east, and worked with a few business people close to the top in some clubs and companies.

Hmmm....

Interesting. Cheers.

Lets just hope Hicks ****s off soon.

[Craig_H]

He has a friend close to the top of DIC. He did a work in Dubai a couple of years ago, an article about football and business in the middle east, and worked with a few business people close to the top in some clubs and companies.

Can you ask him to get DIC to hurry the feck up? Thanks.

[Rashid]

I am not giving Hicks a penny, I pay for the PTS whether I go or not, I have been buying 2 tickets for EVERY game this and last season and often others have gone in my place as I am skint but from now on nobody gets a ticket... Hicks gets **** all from me.

[fah-q]

I dont know if any of you remember but a few weeks back one or two of the broadsheets were reporting that Hicks was asking for certain non-related LFC terms and conditions to be met

I'm wondering whether this ties in further with this

Thats asking a lot, most people can't remember what happened yesterday let alone a few weeks ago.

Oh **** - just listening to The Game (the times) podcast, and balague is over in dubai at the moment meeting "with the people who want to buy Liverpool to find out what's going on"

The latest information coming to Marcotti was that DIC have made a final take it or leave it offer and given him till the end of the week (didn't say which day that is classed as) to accept it, and in their words "he'd better accept it this time or we're off for good"

they then speculated (as they have no one meeting anyone in the Hicks camp) that Hicks would probably just laugh at them as they said that last time so won't take them seriously.

Seems like this could be a pivotal week.

Anyone got any sources to comment on this?

Seems very genuine information from the parties involved. Alison Rudd is on there too, and she's a red.

Marcotti knows **** all, plus he is a little anti LFC

[DannyMan2006]

He want to buy Gillett's 50% and then sell the whole club at a higher price to DIC

I think Hicks may be after securing the club to get a bigger pay day in future.

I don't see how he can do it, but a bigger stadium would bring in better revenue and with that he may be able ot sell the club of in small parts to the highest bidder. He could make a fortune.

How Moores believed a Yank to care of the thoughts and hearts of football fans I don't know. Why should he care? He's a business man who isn't even a fan of the sport, never mind the club itself!

I doubt he cares even less for the fans after the abuse we have given him and his son. I suspected from the start that all Hicks (and Gillet) saw was fans who supported their club however bad things were going. The 1 million celebrating in the streets after Istanbul would have made them realise the potential fan base.

$$$$$$ signs all the way.

[DannyMan2006]

Marcotti knows **** all, plus he is a little anti LFC

Well we'll find out soon enough. I think by the end of the month the situation will be resolved one way or another.

[DannyMan2006]

Rashid and AFII, what in your opinions will happen in relation to DIC?

[Craig_H]

I reckon Rash has heard lots about DIC and he's swallowed it.

[fah-q]

I reckon Rash has heard lots about DIC and he's swallowed it.

[Kev_81]

Oliver Kay

The battle for the ownership of Liverpool escalated last night as Tom Hicks indicated that he is ready to buy out George Gillett Jr, his co-chairman, just as Dubai International Capital (DIC) sought to increase the pressure on the two American owners to accept a £400 million offer that was made to them last week.
It emerged last night that DIC, the private equity investment arm of the Dubai Government, made a formal offer to buy out Hicks and Gillett on Wednesday. The offer, which has not been rejected, was made by Amanda Staveley, a senior partner at PCP Capital Partners, who once dated Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The 34-year-old businesswoman is acting as an adviser to DIC and will be given an influential position in the Liverpool boardroom, overseeing the day-to-day running of the club, if the takeover bid is successful.
With discussions continuing behind the scenes, contrary to Hicks's frequent claims, DIC is confident that Gillett will accept its £200 million offer for his 50 per cent stake in the club, possibly even by the end of this week. But there were claims from Dallas last night that Hicks is ready to exercise his option to buy out Gillett's stake and to assume sole ownership of the club, having secured an off-market placement of his shares in Hicks Sports Group, which includes investments in the Texas Rangers baseball team and the Dallas Stars ice hockey franchise, as well as in Liverpool.
DIC remained unconvinced by the claims from Dallas last night, given that Hicks has appeared to encourage its interest in buying his stake in recent weeks. One source claimed that Hicks could be forced to sell, taking, along with Gillett, a £25million profit on his investment. But no one at Anfield is certain what will happen during a critical week in which the future of the club could finally be determined.
The king-maker is likely to be Gillett, whose partnership with Hicks has disintegrated since they arrived on Merseyside in a blaze of glory 13 months ago. Gillett is eager to put the unhappy experiment behind him and is understood to have voiced his unwillingness to sell to Hicks, given the antipathy that has developed between them, but sources in the United States have suggested that he may be forced to do so, given Hicks's considerable influence in American industry.
Gillett effectively holds the club's future in his hands, but his feelings on the matter are unclear. What is known is that his departure would be welcomed by Rafael Benítez, the manager, who views Gillett as the greatest threat to his future at Anfield.
Having sought to repair his relationship with Hicks, with whom he exchanges regular e-mails, Benítez feels more secure in his position than he did in the autumn, when the American owners tried and failed to line up Jürgen Klinsmann, the former Germany coach, as his successor.
Sources at Anfield have stated, however, that “no one knows what Tom Hicks will do if he gets his hands on the entire club”.
That is a prospect that is seen with dread by many at Anfield - perhaps not least David Moores, the former chairman, and Rick Parry, the chief executive, who feel that they were wrong to sell to Hicks and Gillett, rather than DIC, a year ago.
Parry would be unlikely to survive under Hicks, but nor is there any guarantee that he would be retained by DIC in the long term, particularly because Staveley has been identified as a central figure in the running of the club along with Sameer Al-Ansari, the group's chief executive, who is known to be a Liverpool fan. It is not clear whether Al-Ansari would be based on Merseyside in the event of a takeover, but sources close to DIC have said that it would recruit “the best football brains in the country” to work closely with the team manager.
In the meantime, sources at Anfield talk of “chaos” and a situation where “no one knows who is running the club”. DIC is confident that it will be doing so shortly, but if the whispers from Dallas last night are to be believed, Hicks is planning to tighten his grip on the club, not relinquish it.

[Kev_81]

can someone edit that properly ? sorry

[DannyMan2006]

I reckon Rash has heard lots about DIC and he's swallowed it.

I put this whole charade in a certain catergory usually reserved for political parties when it comes to voting in the General Election (England).

Backing the best of a bad bunch.

I don't for one minute think DIC are going to come in and be the perfect owners we all crave, but I do think they will be better owners than the Yanks will turn out to be.

That's why I want DIC to take over.

[jrd7]

Thats asking a lot, most people can't remember what happened yesterday let alone a few weeks ago.




Marcotti knows **** all, plus he is a little anti LFC

He was getting his info from Balague (the red) out in Dubai with "the people who want to buy Liverpool"

[carlton]

George Gillett Jr ready to trigger Liverpool bidding war
George Gillett Jr and Tom Hicks

George Gillett Jr and Tom Hicks
Oliver Kay

The battle for the ownership of Liverpool escalated last night as Tom Hicks indicated that he is ready to buy out George Gillett Jr, his co-chairman, just as Dubai International Capital (DIC) sought to increase the pressure on the two American owners to accept a £400 million offer that was made to them last week.

It emerged last night that DIC, the private equity investment arm of the Dubai Government, made a formal offer to buy out Hicks and Gillett on Wednesday. The offer, which has not been rejected, was made by Amanda Staveley, a senior partner at PCP Capital Partners, who once dated Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The 34-year-old businesswoman is acting as an adviser to DIC and will be given an influential position in the Liverpool boardroom, overseeing the day-to-day running of the club, if the takeover bid is successful.

With discussions continuing behind the scenes, contrary to Hicks's frequent claims, DIC is confident that Gillett will accept its £200 million offer for his 50 per cent stake in the club, possibly even by the end of this week. But there were claims from Dallas last night that Hicks is ready to exercise his option to buy out Gillett's stake and to assume sole ownership of the club, having secured an off-market placement of his shares in Hicks Sports Group, which includes investments in the Texas Rangers baseball team and the Dallas Stars ice hockey franchise, as well as in Liverpool.

DIC remained unconvinced by the claims from Dallas last night, given that Hicks has appeared to encourage its interest in buying his stake in recent weeks. One source claimed that Hicks could be forced to sell, taking, along with Gillett, a £25million profit on his investment. But no one at Anfield is certain what will happen during a critical week in which the future of the club could finally be determined.
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The king-maker is likely to be Gillett, whose partnership with Hicks has disintegrated since they arrived on Merseyside in a blaze of glory 13 months ago. Gillett is eager to put the unhappy experiment behind him and is understood to have voiced his unwillingness to sell to Hicks, given the antipathy that has developed between them, but sources in the United States have suggested that he may be forced to do so, given Hicks's considerable influence in American industry.

Gillett effectively holds the club's future in his hands, but his feelings on the matter are unclear. What is known is that his departure would be welcomed by Rafael Benítez, the manager, who views Gillett as the greatest threat to his future at Anfield.

Having sought to repair his relationship with Hicks, with whom he exchanges regular e-mails, Benítez feels more secure in his position than he did in the autumn, when the American owners tried and failed to line up Jürgen Klinsmann, the former Germany coach, as his successor.

Sources at Anfield have stated, however, that “no one knows what Tom Hicks will do if he gets his hands on the entire club”.

That is a prospect that is seen with dread by many at Anfield - perhaps not least David Moores, the former chairman, and Rick Parry, the chief executive, who feel that they were wrong to sell to Hicks and Gillett, rather than DIC, a year ago.

Parry would be unlikely to survive under Hicks, but nor is there any guarantee that he would be retained by DIC in the long term, particularly because Staveley has been identified as a central figure in the running of the club along with Sameer Al-Ansari, the group's chief executive, who is known to be a Liverpool fan. It is not clear whether Al-Ansari would be based on Merseyside in the event of a takeover, but sources close to DIC have said that it would recruit “the best football brains in the country” to work closely with the team manager.

In the meantime, sources at Anfield talk of “chaos” and a situation where “no one knows who is running the club”. DIC is confident that it will be doing so shortly, but if the whispers from Dallas last night are to be believed, Hicks is planning to tighten his grip on the club, not relinquish it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/liverpool/article3479591.ece