Ownership Saga: Are we sold, again? [R]

I'd just like to point out that your man Hicks hasn't even started to brake ground on this new stadium yet. I'm sorry but I think it's more a case of you letting patriotism get in the way of good judgment, rather than other people being anti American.

 

well said he sounds like a leeds supporter who paid no interest in what the board was doing

 

I'm no Hicks & Gillette sympathizer nor do I believe they are the boogymen, like some here make it out to be. As for breaking ground for the new Stadium...we shall see.

And you have no patriotism right???

By the way...how are the Stars and Habs doing these days???

ps- you still need to work on spelling ;-)

 

Handbags, ladies, handbags.

Lets fight this out on a logical front -- not on spelling, nationality, or personal animous.

 

Too right. For all the hot air and the inevitable invectives, I suspect the real differences [in opinions] are wafer-thin.

Hicks and Gilette have behaved deplorably but there is precious little evidence that DIC would be any better. Also, Hicks seems to have done what he ought to have done in the beginning; read and pass English Football 101. I still think he hasn't delivered on his promises-- not to load the club with debt or brought Snoppy Dog (was that Gilette?) and the stadium's construcion looks as far away as it was in 2005. And as Matt said, once that starts, he'll have to go back to the banks to ask for dosh. It is a poor model, very poor. Too much scope for slippages a la Leeds United. That makes me very uncomfortable.

 

Hmm, I was enjoying this for a while. It was a decent discussion with merits and good points on both sides.

But this post is just plain petulance.

 

Yeah, I read that last night and thought better of responding because I didn't want to pour gasoline on a spark. This is the LFC forum and not Chelsea's so lets steer clear of this sort of thing. We are Reds! It's O.K. to have a differing opinion but let us leave the personal stuff alone and try to show the same respect for each other as we do for the club. LFC is a family. YNWA.

 

My thinking is somewhat along these lines also.

Like I mentioned earlier, every one welcomed the "Americans" as the guys in the white hats come to save us from being owned by a Thai with dubious business and human rights practices and a bunch of oil rich A-rabs who just wanted to offset some money overseas to enhance their portfolios.

I still blame peoples gullibility when reading or watching the British tabloid press/media and the way their knees jerk in reaction to each conflicting "story."

 

Agreed.

 

See. Now, if it was me, I would have just started calling him names. To each their own.

I suppose we could get Royale Stilts out here and all three of us could "match-wits".

 

Its hard to match when I only got 1/2!

 

As for the spelling crack...read Chance's bio.

 

all right it is a self-admitted flaw but still its ad hominem not a logical arguement

 

I don't give a rip how people spell, it has no credence to our discussion (as long as I understand their point). I thought his userprofile was funny though and committed on it. Nothing more.

 

Oh, the irony.

 

See...too funny! ROFL

 

Seems the spell-check police are out in this thread so I'll keep it brief.

Some more details of the offer on the table by DIC are revealed in this article by the Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/liverpool/article3479591.ece

 

Oh I feel much better now -- the club is to be run by one of Randy Prince Andy's ex-girlfriends with the impossibly posh moniker of Amanda Stavely. Probably very familiar with cricket and fox hunting but not with the Kop.

 

She is actually a partner at a company called PCP which I thought was a banned substance!

Oh the news now is that the deal has to be done TODAY!!!!!!!

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/live...ke-400m-bid-for-liverpool-fc-100252-20554723/
and
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2261941,00.html

Although the Times say that no deadline is involved

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/liverpool/article3481138.ece

However it is now clear that the bid has been made and negotiations ARE ongoing.

All reports indicate Gillett wants out but it all hinges on what Hicks wants to do.

 

... DIC has just denied the deadline bit. Seems somebody at the Beeb has, once again, been telling porkies.

 

Yeh, I've just read on Setanta that Hicks denied talking to DIC but that DIC said that they're in negotiation with Hicks and no deadlines have been set.

Too lazy to go back and find the link..

 

i just caught up on about a week's worth of posts, so this might seem out of the blue, but i was hoping y'all could clear some things up for me: a few days ago hicks's desire to win was questioned, but it seems like he could sell, make a profit and be done with it. if he wasn't interested in winning why wouldn't he just get the devil out and not deal with the headache? why would he be raising funds to buy out gillett so he could have total control? also, i don't understand a lot of the money stuff and i don't know how the owners got their money, but i've been operating under the assumption that they are businessmen who acquired their riches through hard work and business acumen, not inheritance or the lottery. i don't know how good they are at it, but assuming the aforementioned is true i figure they're at least better than me, as they're billionaires and i'm not so much. if i'm wrong on either subject, please relieve me of my ignorance

 

Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise, far better to be ignorant, like me.

Old Beeb song...

 

you are too smart for this thread

 

No kidding.

It would take me 6 paragraphs and several bullet points to make the same point less convincingly.