DIC deny interest in Manchester City

[Red4Life]

patience people, patience

Mate I admire your confidence and determination to stick to your guns when everybody gives you s*** for it.

I for one really hope you are right !

[Exiled_red]

At the game at the weekend there was a girl in the pub who claimed to be mates with Echo journalists, and she was saying that a takeover was already agreed but that the Echo had been told not to report it (sounds a bit odd to me, that bit). She said it would all go through in January.

Plenty of rumours around hinting that a deal has been agreed (her, pezzer, others on rawk etc.). No smoke without fire?

Thanks for passing on what you've heard. There have been lots of rumours over the last year or so, so much so I'm not going to get my hopes up. I appreciate what people post in good faith, but it seems these things aren't straight forward, and things sometimes change. I'm hoping something does happen sooner rather than later!

[Jayesh87]

cheers for the message pezz

[Darkon]

Hope you are right on this one pezz,

and happy that you haven't been detered by the slacking you got the last time

[bysants]

Last night there was an interesting piece at the Liverpool.no web site. Very worrying. They have an interview with John Owens, one of two bosses at the youth academy. He seems to be rather outspoken about lack of investments at Kirkby. They have had plans for months, but nobody at the top will give the go ahead.

http://liverpool.no/cda/storypg.aspx...1&parentzone=0

[Resu]

Last night there was an interesting piece at the Liverpool.no web site. Very worrying. They have an interview with John Owens, one of two bosses at the youth academy. He seems to be rather outspoken about lack of investments at Kirkby. They have had plans for months, but nobody at the top will give the go ahead.

http://liverpool.no/cda/storypg.aspx...1&parentzone=0

I`ve read this as well, but after thinking about it I`m not that worried.
If G&H knows anything about making money (and that is all they care about) they will recognise the benefits a good academy can give you.
It would, of course, be better to have money for players, stadium and academy, but the only clubs with that kind of money is Chesea and perhaps the Scum. For all the big talk about the Emirates from Arsenal fans building it has hurt their transfer spending short term.

Lets just hope Pezzzer is right, and the City comments hints that things are still happening.

[anfieldanfield]

ZZZzzzzzz....

[the rev leeroy brown]

http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/0,16368,1776_4056391,00.html

Burnham to back Reds fans takeover
The Liverpool fan group who want to buy the club will receive backing for their dream from sports minister Andy Burnham.


The MP for Leigh, a life-long Everton fan, will put aside cross-city allegiances to back ShareLiverpoolFC's dream of co-operative ownership of the Anfield club, eventually ousting American co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

Burnham will speak at a meeting prior to the Champions League qualifier with Standard Liege, at the Liverpool Lighthouse pub near the stadium.

Also speaking will be officials of the Spirit of Shankly fans organisation to emphasise the solidarity of Liverpool supporters' groups behind the scheme.

ShareLiverpoolFC founder member Dr Rogan Taylor will also address the meeting, aimed at re-establishing the group publicly as the current Liverpool owners try to raise money to re-finance their own loans as well as the £400m needed to build a new stadium.

Taylor, director of the Football Industry Group at Liverpool University, said: "We want to make sure everyone realises that we are serious and intend to be around and ready whatever happens."

Taylor believes that financial pressures will soon call into question once again the Americans' ability to continue as owners and prompt more interest from Dubai-based investors, who have been waiting in the wings to mount another takeover bid.

Taylor continued: "Whoever takes over the club, they are going to need a local partnership. We are here to stay, and have people signed up to help and support the plans we have.

"We want to be around when the next roll of the dice comes, and that could be very soon."

ShareLiverpoolFC have what many observers see as a romantic, if distant, aim of running the club, but are realistic enough to know that may not be their initial involvement.

"We will be ready, we have a data-base of people willing to help and we could say, 'we want 10 per cent now' so let's talk," Taylor explained.

ShareLiverpoolFC has re-launched their website and want the 28,000 fans who had initially registered their interest, to sign up again.

The grand idea is to have 100,000 people pledging £5,000 to create a financial base to fight for control of the club.

Currently the group have 9,500 who have signed up, another 9,000 who have registered interest but cannot afford £5,000, plus a further 9,000 who want to be kept informed.

Taylor added: "There is a long way to go, but we believe we can have a genuine impact. You can't score a goal if you are not on the pitch, and we are certainly on the pitch as players."

It is believed that ShareLiverpoolFC have held exploratory meetings with possible Dubai investors and members of the previous Anfield hierarchy.