Liverpool receive over £800m in Premier League prize money http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor.../liverpool-receive-over-800m-premier-11385876
Liverpool is a billion pound football club for first time http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...iverpool-billion-pound-football-club-11616627
Probably reading too much into this, but could these potential deals be behind the very conservative spending we're seeing in the transfer market this summer?
Or Klopp just prefers to buy the players that are ready to become top class rather spend shedloads of ££ on the best players...
Well that depends on the debt, and the projected income over the coming years doesn't it. Depends what you buy.
Big talk about a Chinese investment for a "minority stake" - all over the papers. Scholesy - any insight here?
Liverpool hit jackpot after £800m China bid http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/liverpool-hit-jackpot-after-800m-china-bid-c3qh3zgg0
Everbright are being backed by the China Investment Corporation, whose assets are in the region of £620bn. (Paul Joyce)
I would imagine it's all speculation at this stage with the club taking the 'not for sale' stance...I suppose a few important criteria need to be achieved before the party is anything to be excited about such as are they 'fit and proper'?, will they even invest in the numbers similar to Sheikh Mansour or Roman Abramovich type figures?...will Fenway even entertain the notion of a sale or consider parting with a stake?
Fenway deny any such bid. So?????? Chinese firm 'eyes Liverpool FC stake' Last updated Aug 21, 2016, 4:49 AM PST A consortium led by a Chinese investment company is interested in buying a stake in Liverpool Football Club, according to media reports. The Financial Times said Chinese state-owned firm Everbright and private equity firm PCP Capital Partners were behind the multi-million pound bid. Other reports quoted club insiders as saying an unsolicited preliminary offer had already been submitted. But the club and owners Fenway Sports Group said they had received no bids. The FT quoted the club's chief executive, Ian Ayre, as saying, "There is no bid and we have no ongoing investment discussion of any kind with anyone."
If true (and TAW Player devoted an entire show to the story this afternoon, complete with an interview with the reporter from the Sunday Times who apparently first had the story), this sounds like the proverbial offer you can't refuse. As the folks on The Gutter noted, if FSG turns this offer down, the Chinese investors move on to buy another club--and LFC ends itself with another big-bucks club ahead of it in the Prem.
https://twitter.com/GraemeKelly1 Graeme Kelly** with some interesting tweets regarding the Chinese investment. Seems to be suggesting it isn't all that far from getting done. ** for those questioning his credibility, in the past he's been pretty much spot on which the information he gets/passes along, but as always, take it for what its worth.
Honestly can't see how they walk away from this. We need to comfortably add 50m in wages per year just to catch up with those at the top. That growth isn't going to come organically.
Someone on Twitter said something interesting about the Chinese offer. It's an offer that they almost can't refuse. If they do, the buyer will just go buy another premier league club, pushing lfc farther down the pecking order and damaging fsg's own investment. This will be interesting.
yeah - the same source probably pointed out that FSG kind of get this and that why the deal seems to be legitimately happening instead of the normal BS.