So, this 3 day board meeting....

[kev776]

Well it would hopefully mean the end of the infighting, having two owners, sacking Parry and the start of the new ground.

You may be right, but any resemblance of a family club will disappear up their collective corporate arses.

[Manofthebog]

You may be right, but any resemblance of a family club will disappear up their collective corporate arses.

That happened the day Moore sold his family jewels.

Get used to it mate, that chapter in our history is now closed.

[El Jefecito]

So did Hick and Giblett

Good point.

[Kenneth]

Sack Parry.

[pezzzer]

DIC are just a non-drinking version of Twit and ****, they are not coming to Liverpool for the love of the club, they WILL make money from us.

Frying pan and fire spring to mind.

i understand your point mate but at least the ansari family are liverpool supporters and have been for some time, and as they run dic that has to be a good thing mate.

wasnt it posted befor that even sheik mahktoum was a fan as a boy?

[pezzzer]

Sack Parry.

[Fubar]

ideals from this meeting:
parry sacked
DIC buy club
anyone gives green light for work to start next day on new stadium
funds sanctioned for villa
parry sacked

probables from this meeting:
botchit and scarper kiss and make up (for the public)
funds are sanctioned for milner (as long as we sell some more first)
they decide a ground share is preferable


*******s

[pezzzer]

ideals from this meeting:
parry sacked
DIC buy club
anyone gives green light for work to start next day on new stadium
funds sanctioned for villa
parry sacked

probables from this meeting:
botchit and scarper kiss and make up (for the public)
funds are sanctioned for milner (as long as we sell some more first)
they decide a ground share is preferable


*******s

you havin a bad day matt?

[MattB]

Or more likely, there is no meeting

[Bari]

DIC are just a non-drinking version.

If you mean non-drinking as in non-alchol drinking

[EwarWoo]

I'm still not feeling any particular love to DIC. I'm not a big fan of G&H but I don't see any vast difference in DIC really they are business men who will probably take out loans to build a new stadium the fact is that the credit crunch has almost certainly meant who ever takes control will wait to start work.

Well, the advantages in my mind of DIC:
1. Even after they were pretty much snubbed the son kept coming to matches. Clearly there is love of the club there.

2. They don't care about a credit crunch. They can loan from other parts of their own business. They're minted.

3. It's not necessarily about business. They're splashing the cash like nobodies business trying to increase their profile to get a good tourist trade for when their oil dry's up. This could be done for the publicity. In which case they'll want success and they'll not want any bad press from dodgy dealings.

4. They could have switched to another club after we snubbed them. They didn't. There must be some reason they're desperate for Liverpool and only Liverpool. I'd suggest 2 reasons:
a) Liverpool is a big worldwide brand (ergo it's publicity not business)
b) as per point 1, they do feel an attachment to the club.

Sure, It's all just guesswork, not necessarily any more right than the next guy, but I reckon DIC would be great owners.

Personally I don't think it will happen unfortunately, Laurel and Hardy are here to stay.

[kev776]

If you mean non-drinking as in non-alchol drinking

Is there any other sort of none drinking??

[Bari]

Is there any other sort of none drinking??

Nope, but I would not stated it so clearly, that they are non-drinking DIC's

[MattB]

Well, the advantages in my mind of DIC:
1. Even after they were pretty much snubbed the son kept coming to matches. Clearly there is love of the club there.

2. They don't care about a credit crunch. They can loan from other parts of their own business. They're minted.

3. It's not necessarily about business. They're splashing the cash like nobodies business trying to increase their profile to get a good tourist trade for when their oil dry's up. This could be done for the publicity. In which case they'll want success and they'll not want any bad press from dodgy dealings.

4. They could have switched to another club after we snubbed them. They didn't. There must be some reason they're desperate for Liverpool and only Liverpool. I'd suggest 2 reasons:
a) Liverpool is a big worldwide brand (ergo it's publicity not business)
b) as per point 1, they do feel an attachment to the club.

Sure, It's all just guesswork, not necessarily any more right than the next guy, but I reckon DIC would be great owners.

Personally I don't think it will happen unfortunately, Laurel and Hardy are here to stay.

Sorry, but most of that simply isn't true. Al Ansari has been coming to matches for years, long before any takeover by DIC was discussed - but I've seen no mention of the shiek's sone coming to Anfield - at least one of them is a manc anyway.

They may be minted now, but you don't stay minted by spending money like water - these are hard headed businessmen, not knights in shining armour. Not to mention the fact that there is already speculation that sovereign states like Dubia may already be overstretched in terms of their use of credit.

Is it absolutely about business. There are cheaper ways to get publicity than by spunking £400+m on a football club, especially when football fans are so partisan - might make LFC fans happy but what about the rest of the world?

They want LFC because it represents a huge potential return on any initial investment, not because making us happy makes them look good. Look at the TV money, the money to be made from a new stadium, worldwide merchanidsing etc etc. Few clubs in the world, if any, match up to the current LFC as a potential football investment (Ansari himself said as much, which should tell you all you need to know about why they want the club so much)

Love or money? I would have thought it was obvious

[Pablo]

I wish all this could be sorted out over a ciggie break, like most big decisions in large corporate companies.