Saudi to buy 50%??

[Chris]

125m for 25% values us at 500m, more than twice what they paid, who says there is no money to be made in football.

Its all speculation, and we've had about a mllion "investors" in the box since theyve been here and nothing ever happens

[wavydavy]

More to follow

What prompted this thread anyway??

[joyno]

i know its the way our beautiful game has gone and i have to embrace the idea that we will be able to compete with the best, but a feeling of trepidation maybe because of a nostalgic love for this club stops me getting excited,
the eventual loss of anfield and the club becoming a global brand rather than a local one disturbs me greatly, but then again if we can sign villa and the likes of silva and have more money than the scum then **** it, bring it on.

[wavydavy]

i know its the way our beautiful game has gone and i have to embrace the idea that we will be able to compete with the best, but a feeling of trepidation maybe because of a nostalgic love for this club stops me getting excited,
the eventual loss of anfield and the club becoming a global brand rather than a local one disturbs me greatly, but then again if we can sign villa and the likes of silva and have more money than the scum then **** it, bring it on.

I always knew you were one of our more principled members FLMAO

[Shanks]

A Prince!!!

We want a King!!

[Vermilion]

Where did Georges snaps go of his day out with the Prince ?

All looks very.....done deal'ish, whatever THE deal is ?

[kev776]

What prompted this thread anyway??

An email from Facebook.

[Shanks]

Where did Georges snaps go of his day out with the Prince ?

I edited mine as the other pics were ere.

http://www.est1892.co.uk/forums/show...t=63949&page=2

[wavydavy]

An email from Facebook.

Do tell, please. The suspense is killing the rest of us.

[Vermilion]

7mins ago.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/Saudi-prince-keen-on-50-of-Liverpool/articleshow/5063585.cms

Says the Signing was for a sports Academy. So that wasn't him buying part of lfc in that pic.

And here..

http://in.reuters.com/article/soccer/idINLR5213920090927?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

Also, as this fella is the latest interested buyer/investor that's RUMOURED to be buying in to LFC, does anyone have the figures of his estimated wealth, not that i expect Citeh or Chavski levels of owner wealth, just curious, would he (if he buys in) see us as enjoyment, the kudos of owning part of LFC, or is he here only/mainly to MAKE money ?

[Tee]

Well, I am sure that Torres must have sealed the deal with his display yesterday.

Just hope that if he is coming on board we are not in for a 2 v 1 power struggle that could derail our season.

Fingers crossed the end of the last 2 years of instability and uncertainty is coming to an end. And that the work on the new stadium can finally begin!!

[johnly]

A Prince!!!

We want a King!!

We got a King. Kenny came home

Quite excited about this, seems there's something a brewing. We'll see how this pans out. Keeping an open mind

[Shanks]

Quite excited about this, seems there's something a brewing. We'll see how this pans out. Keeping an open mind

Yeah but he's from Saudi and we NEED someone from Dubai.. (apparently)

[johnly]

Yeah but he's from Saudi and we NEED someone from Dubai.. (apparently)

Oh yeah forgot about that To be honest, anyone but them two clowns is an improvement

[Vermilion]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/liverpool/article6851704.ece

Saudi interest comes as a surprise to
Liverpool

Neither George Gillett Jr nor Tom Hicks, the co-owners of Liverpool, is expecting imminent investment in the club from Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Saud, a member of the Saudi Royal Family, despite reports to the contrary over the weekend.

Hicks and Gillett are in ongoing talks with a number of potential third-party investors as they seek first to reduce Liverpool’s £250 million debt and second to bring in the kind of sizeable cash injection needed to finance the club’s move from Anfield to a long-planned new stadium on nearby Stanley Park.

Prince Faisal, who visited the club’s academy in Kirkby on Saturday before attending Liverpool’s home match against Hull City, is the latest potential investor to express an interest in taking a stake in the club and his public admission to this effect has come as a surprise to Hicks in particular, but also to Gillett.

According to a report in Saudi Al-Riyadh, the newspaper, Prince Faisal, who chairs Fama Group, the Saudi holding company, and the F6 Sports Investment Firm, is willing to take a stake in Liverpool of up to 50 per cent for a fee in the region of £200-350 million.
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The high-profile nature of his reported interest, which began on Friday night with a news item on television in Saudi Arabia, has taken the Liverpool hierarchy aback, particularly Gillett who invited Prince Faisal to Merseyside as his guest to open negotiations about proposed Nascar and Liverpool academy initiatives in the Middle East. Gillett is holding talks with a number of interested parties at present and, as yet, there is still to be an official approach from Prince Faisal or any other members of the Saudi Royal Family.

In the past two years, Hicks and Gillett have entertained a number of potential investors at Anfield, but a deal is yet to materialise and The Times understands that Gillett held talks with another interested party in London last night.

Gillett’s visit to Merseyside was not without controversy as members of the Spirit Of Shankly (SOS) fans group, which has long been opposed to his and Hicks’s regime, protested against the American ownership of Liverpool at the club’s Melwood training ground.

An attempt to stage a similar protest at Anfield during the Hull game was stifled when flags and banners criticising Hicks and Gillett were seized by Merseyside Police shortly after they were unfurled in the Kop stand.

Oh dear me. Round and round we go....