Work starts on stadium

[ashey]

When Hicks quoted £1b valuation of the club to DIC, he included the value of the new stadium. DIC wouldn't match his valuation 'cause the stadium only existed on paper. Hicks has been desperate to get work under way to force the price up. I reckon he'll be open to offers negotiations from DIC once the builders are on site.

[Angryred]

what actually are enabling works? is this digging or just getting yout workers together? I suppose what I'm getting at is is this no more than permission?

Yeah, more or less to get the electrical cables, sanitary pipes, drainage etc in place before the piling & sub-structure can commence.

[wishiwasascouser]

When Hicks quoted £1b valuation of the club to DIC, he included the value of the new stadium. DIC wouldn't match his valuation 'cause the stadium only existed on paper. Hicks has been desperate to get work under way to force the price up. I reckon he'll be open to offers negotiations from DIC once the builders are on site.

That would be an ideal situation, we get a great stadium and rid of the Americans.However DIC would of had plans for their own stadium design,they were in contact with hotel chains about it (A hotel attached to the Kop,anyone?!) Once the structure starts to take shape we will see if DIC want us for the money, or the bragging rights.

[Morph]

That would mean that either DIC are stuck with the Yanks design of stadium or that work would halt as DIC tried to get planning permission for their own design.

Not too sure if DIC would be happy to keep the Yanks design.

I agree with this, I think once the stadium work starts proper you won't see DIC for dust. The stadium is one thing the Americans have got right , also they must be extremely confident of securing the rest of the money for the stadium.

Don't think DIC will care one way or the other, I seem to remember a quote that said they would have started the Parrybowl design immediately if they'd got control of the clubs instead of the yanks at first ask, and that was a ****e design that as the yanks have said was nearly something like 10yrs old.

At the end of the day if DIC see the stadium as practical and affordable, which it probably is given the refinements made to it in the last design update, then they'll be happy just to get bums on seats and get the revenue coming in.

Also there's the added bonus to them if anything goes tits up of being able to say that it was the yanks fault. I think once the works have started, even if it's just laying the foundations, which is what this sounds like to me, then we're going to see DIC back in the frame cos the yanks won't be able to fund it and a lot of the harder planning work will have already been done for DIC, thus probably pushing the profit to the yanks up a bit more

[dww]

Interesting that GIllett is now extolling the virtues of a design that reportedly no one at the club wanted but Hicks. It seems like these two are now singing from the same hymn sheet, which for those of us who want them gone does not seem like overly good news.

I don't see how it can be a bad thing for the club though. Whether someone is happy for them to stay or wants them out the only way anything at all positive is going to happen (including any potential sale to DIC in all likelihood) is if they are cooperating.

[Dhav]

I don't see how it can be a bad thing for the club though. Whether someone is happy for them to stay or wants them out the only way anything at all positive is going to happen (including any potential sale to DIC in all likelihood) is if they are cooperating.

Possibly. Well I'm no corporate governance expert, but I would have thought that if they are co-operating, it is increases the likelihood of them staying, as they'll need to work together to make any significant decisions and there will be an avoidance of a stalemate situation. On the other hand ordinarily there would be no need to co-operate on a sale if one wants to sell while the other doesn't., except in these particular circumstances, because let's face it, we're Liverpool and we **** everything up.

[VladisVictoryRoar]

A start to the new stadium - if its for real can only be good news.
Whether or not it affects the two yanks staying or going I neither know nor care, I have no reason to think that DIC will be better than them or worse either.

[wavydavy]

I kick a ball around the park with my lad most weekends and it's been pretty obvious for about 4 or 5 weeks something's been goin' on. This is no false dawn. I noticed some big **** of cables getting laid on Priory Rd this morning. Being in the Elactrical business myself theyr'e not to power a cocky's hut that's for sure. It's goin' up lads!!

[wishiwasascouser]

I hope the area will be well secured, we don't want Everton or Manc scarves in the foundations.

[wavydavy]

I hope the area will be well secured, we don't want Everton or Manc scarves in the foundations.

I wouldn't mind a few actual mancs or blues in the foundations..

[wishiwasascouser]

I wouldn't mind a few actual mancs or blues in the foundations..

[Johnny]

I agree with this, I think once the stadium work starts proper you won't see DIC for dust The stadium is one thing the Americans have got right ., also they must be extremely confident of securing the rest of the money for the stadium.

That doesn`t make sense.DIC could just buy the holding company and continue the works.

[VladisVictoryRoar]

I hope the area will be well secured, we don't want Everton or Manc scarves in the foundations.

Inevitably there will be or at least someone will claim to have put them there... beneath us as usual.

[wishiwasascouser]

That doesn`t make sense.DIC could just buy the holding company and continue the works.

The point I was trying to make is that DIC would have their own plans for their own stadium.Of course they could do what you suggest here, as I said earlier that would be an ideal situation, but in my opinion the news today means the takeover from DIC is as far away as ever, with Gillett and Hicks now seemingly singing from the same sheet.Although I hope to be proven wrong on the DIC takeover , obviously.

[redheart]

FFS will you people just let it go with DIC. We are stuck with the Yanks.

Every single fact is stretched well beyond breaking point just to allow you to delude yourselves.

GIVE IT UP!