Liverpool FC Forum

[Ciggy]

The forum´s gone quiet and we´re left with the great unwashed.

Thanx reg Ive just been in the bath 

[zarababe]

Judge posted this in the 'New Manager' thread (from RAWK): This will be it's rightful place (if not alreday posted):



I've been given some insight regarding the future employment of key personnel at Liverpool Football club and why the situation appears to be in a state of flux, despite a clear direction actually having been resolved a few weeks ago. Please absorb the following and use your brains to digest the following, calculate its merits and don't let any existing passionate bias for OR against Liverpool dictate your reaction – instead just think about it with a clear head
1. 8 members of the background team staff have been released to work elsewhere and replacements have been interviewed with offers pending.
2. A radical change in policy for youth team structure and development is being resolved currently with an exchange system being negotiated with a specific overseas country (haven't been told which one).
3. The ownership of the club has been resolved in terms of an offer that HAS been accepted on behalf of the existing shareholders, the deal has yet to be formally concluded in terms of exchange of money for stock – so no announcement will be publicly made until the deal is officially sealed and maximum positive publicity can be achieved.
4. Tom Hicks had been trying to influence the buyer to work with him in future projects in the buyer's native homeland and surrounding countries – totally unrelated field to that of football but he has been trying to use Liverpool as a bargaining chip to get himself into the alternative commercial environment in an alternative niche.
5. Tom Hicks holds no existing interest in building the new stadium for LFC – any suggestion otherwise is purely speculative. The original design is to be redrawn by the new bidder and a resubmission to the Council will be made by March 2011. No additional onsite work will become effective until then.
6. The manager identified by the new owner is one that some of the KEY 1st team personnel already know – non–disclosure clauses have been distributed to all personnel that know his identity and they all have been contacted to explain the sensitivity of the situation and will not be drawn on commenting in the press, to family members or members of the public!
7. The manager elect has carefully deflected attention from his position and it will NOT be Kenny Dalglish or Roy Hodgson. The debate is a convenient public distraction being played out to divert attention from the identity of the soon to be new owner and his chosen number one.
8. The club is gearing up for an announcement in July and not before and will not do so until the World Cup is concluded. It is imperative to both the commercial value of the announcement and in particular the selected manager – that the team he is currently involved with is not distracted by press questions or club business. Success in the World Cup under this manager will greatly increase the attraction of new players to LFC and significantly increase the commercial revenue stream. Carefully engineered distractions are already in place to handle identities of both buyer and manager until mid July.
9. At least 16 first team members are certain to be leaving. All player sales NET income generated will be made available to the new team along with an initial cash injection (advance allocation of commercial revenue) to build a squad now for the next 4–5 years under the new manager.
10. The 1st team will be permanently reduced from their present numbers to allow an increase in wage levels for the main squad, allowing a competitive level of salary for high gross revenue earning players to be maintained at a sustainable level. This will assist in attracting foreign players to the UK, despite the higher tax band and wages offered elsewhere, without dramatically increasing the outgoings of the club.
It has to be stressed that all of the negotiations to purchase the club and the appointment of the target manager has been done through representatives of all parties and you will NOT have seen or will see LFC board members at a hotel/bank/airport/stadia etc with identifiable individuals!! It is too sensitive a time; the process has not been and will continue NOT to be played out in any public areas.
Please note that only the select few within the club know the intimate details of the owners elect and the manager elect – this does NOT include ground staff, reserve team, youth team players or most of the first team. They have NOT been informed of any of the developments other than all will be announced mid July.

So. to summarise:
Significant non–player staff changes – Yes
New owners agreed – Yes
New Owners installed – Less than 40 days away.
New Manager Identified – Yes
New Manager installed – Only after the World Cup – actively engaged
Cash for transfers – Yes
Amount for transfers – I don't know – no point in guessing!!
Sustainable Business Model Identified – Yes
Stadium plans – To be revised and resubmitted to council next year.
Players informed – Select few only!
Media informed – OBVIOUSLY NOT UNTIL MID JULY!

I really hope the editor can find space for this post as it may help the disillusioned (both for and against LFC!) to engage in some sensible rumours or preferably facts rather than outlandished guesswork and rude criticism (this is directed at those that only come on here only to say "You have no money so it won't happen!" as that position is soon going to change so save your keyboard from unnecessary work!).

Michael Easterbrook.

[NANNY RED]

Please find the confirmed details and lineup for our Independence Day Rally on Sunday 4th July at St. George's Hall below:


http://www.spiritofshankly.com/news....on.html

OUR TIME HAS COME THOMAS AND GEORGE

[tubby]

Thanks Nan.

Zara why didn't JUdge post that here? Hope it's true though.

[fergieisawhiskeynosedtw@t]

Nicked from the Rattle . Posted By PH , and it details the real reason's why rafa was sacked.


What happened which resulted in Rafa being given a vote of no confidence from the Tory Boys!

He asked for a written document drawn up by a lawyer which stated that he had a transfer budget and proceeds from any sales. They wouldn't give it to him and would only give him a verbal/gentlemans agreement. He explained that his transfer targets who were all lined up to come, Jovetic, Silva, Upson or Turner (we all know we were gazuumped on Barry)were lost the previous summer after similar promises and he had taken the blame from the press and some fans for not getting a back up striker, a fit midfielder and another quality centre half. He explained that promises were continually broken and he couldn't take the squad any further under these circumstances. He said if the squad wasn't strenghtened because the promises never materialised he would be forced to go public at the start of the season and explain that the promises had been broken once again. Shorly after one of these 'promising meetings' with Broughton & co thats when the decision to offer him a severance deal was reached.
This was in reality a vote of no confidence from the board!
From the very people who have failed to raise the £100 million promised by April or sell the club - and have presided over a farcical managerial appointment.
I think a Vote of No Confidence in the Tory Boys is overdue!

funny, i thought he was sacked because of signing cr@p players and finishing 2 points above everton.

you just can't make it up.

latest just in.......  Liverpool fc have been purchased by Paul mcartney and at this very moment rafa is walking across water to rejoin us...

[NANNY RED]

I would of thought hed of  had WINGS if McCartney was our new owner   

[sixbuster]

Judge posted this in the 'New Manager' thread (from RAWK): This will be it's rightful place (if not alreday posted):



I've been given some insight regarding the future employment of key personnel at Liverpool Football club and why the situation appears to be in a state of flux, despite a clear direction actually having been resolved a few weeks ago. Please absorb the following and use your brains to digest the following, calculate its merits and don't let any existing passionate bias for OR against Liverpool dictate your reaction – instead just think about it with a clear head
1. 8 members of the background team staff have been released to work elsewhere and replacements have been interviewed with offers pending.
2. A radical change in policy for youth team structure and development is being resolved currently with an exchange system being negotiated with a specific overseas country (haven't been told which one).
3. The ownership of the club has been resolved in terms of an offer that HAS been accepted on behalf of the existing shareholders, the deal has yet to be formally concluded in terms of exchange of money for stock – so no announcement will be publicly made until the deal is officially sealed and maximum positive publicity can be achieved.
4. Tom Hicks had been trying to influence the buyer to work with him in future projects in the buyer's native homeland and surrounding countries – totally unrelated field to that of football but he has been trying to use Liverpool as a bargaining chip to get himself into the alternative commercial environment in an alternative niche.
5. Tom Hicks holds no existing interest in building the new stadium for LFC – any suggestion otherwise is purely speculative. The original design is to be redrawn by the new bidder and a resubmission to the Council will be made by March 2011. No additional onsite work will become effective until then.
6. The manager identified by the new owner is one that some of the KEY 1st team personnel already know – non–disclosure clauses have been distributed to all personnel that know his identity and they all have been contacted to explain the sensitivity of the situation and will not be drawn on commenting in the press, to family members or members of the public!
7. The manager elect has carefully deflected attention from his position and it will NOT be Kenny Dalglish or Roy Hodgson. The debate is a convenient public distraction being played out to divert attention from the identity of the soon to be new owner and his chosen number one.
8. The club is gearing up for an announcement in July and not before and will not do so until the World Cup is concluded. It is imperative to both the commercial value of the announcement and in particular the selected manager – that the team he is currently involved with is not distracted by press questions or club business. Success in the World Cup under this manager will greatly increase the attraction of new players to LFC and significantly increase the commercial revenue stream. Carefully engineered distractions are already in place to handle identities of both buyer and manager until mid July.
9. At least 16 first team members are certain to be leaving. All player sales NET income generated will be made available to the new team along with an initial cash injection (advance allocation of commercial revenue) to build a squad now for the next 4–5 years under the new manager.
10. The 1st team will be permanently reduced from their present numbers to allow an increase in wage levels for the main squad, allowing a competitive level of salary for high gross revenue earning players to be maintained at a sustainable level. This will assist in attracting foreign players to the UK, despite the higher tax band and wages offered elsewhere, without dramatically increasing the outgoings of the club.
It has to be stressed that all of the negotiations to purchase the club and the appointment of the target manager has been done through representatives of all parties and you will NOT have seen or will see LFC board members at a hotel/bank/airport/stadia etc with identifiable individuals!! It is too sensitive a time; the process has not been and will continue NOT to be played out in any public areas.
Please note that only the select few within the club know the intimate details of the owners elect and the manager elect – this does NOT include ground staff, reserve team, youth team players or most of the first team. They have NOT been informed of any of the developments other than all will be announced mid July.

So. to summarise:
Significant non–player staff changes – Yes
New owners agreed – Yes
New Owners installed – Less than 40 days away.
New Manager Identified – Yes
New Manager installed – Only after the World Cup – actively engaged
Cash for transfers – Yes
Amount for transfers – I don't know – no point in guessing!!
Sustainable Business Model Identified – Yes
Stadium plans – To be revised and resubmitted to council next year.
Players informed – Select few only!
Media informed – OBVIOUSLY NOT UNTIL MID JULY!

I really hope the editor can find space for this post as it may help the disillusioned (both for and against LFC!) to engage in some sensible rumours or preferably facts rather than outlandished guesswork and rude criticism (this is directed at those that only come on here only to say "You have no money so it won't happen!" as that position is soon going to change so save your keyboard from unnecessary work!).

Michael Easterbrook.

Sounds good to me, please please please let it be true

[fivecups]

Judge posted this in the 'New Manager' thread (from RAWK): This will be it's rightful place (if not alreday posted):



I've been given some insight regarding the future employment of key personnel at Liverpool Football club and why the situation appears to be in a state of flux, despite a clear direction actually having been resolved a few weeks ago. Please absorb the following and use your brains to digest the following, calculate its merits and don't let any existing passionate bias for OR against Liverpool dictate your reaction – instead just think about it with a clear head
1. 8 members of the background team staff have been released to work elsewhere and replacements have been interviewed with offers pending.
2. A radical change in policy for youth team structure and development is being resolved currently with an exchange system being negotiated with a specific overseas country (haven't been told which one).
3. The ownership of the club has been resolved in terms of an offer that HAS been accepted on behalf of the existing shareholders, the deal has yet to be formally concluded in terms of exchange of money for stock – so no announcement will be publicly made until the deal is officially sealed and maximum positive publicity can be achieved.
4. Tom Hicks had been trying to influence the buyer to work with him in future projects in the buyer's native homeland and surrounding countries – totally unrelated field to that of football but he has been trying to use Liverpool as a bargaining chip to get himself into the alternative commercial environment in an alternative niche.
5. Tom Hicks holds no existing interest in building the new stadium for LFC – any suggestion otherwise is purely speculative. The original design is to be redrawn by the new bidder and a resubmission to the Council will be made by March 2011. No additional onsite work will become effective until then.
6. The manager identified by the new owner is one that some of the KEY 1st team personnel already know – non–disclosure clauses have been distributed to all personnel that know his identity and they all have been contacted to explain the sensitivity of the situation and will not be drawn on commenting in the press, to family members or members of the public!
7. The manager elect has carefully deflected attention from his position and it will NOT be Kenny Dalglish or Roy Hodgson. The debate is a convenient public distraction being played out to divert attention from the identity of the soon to be new owner and his chosen number one.
8. The club is gearing up for an announcement in July and not before and will not do so until the World Cup is concluded. It is imperative to both the commercial value of the announcement and in particular the selected manager – that the team he is currently involved with is not distracted by press questions or club business. Success in the World Cup under this manager will greatly increase the attraction of new players to LFC and significantly increase the commercial revenue stream. Carefully engineered distractions are already in place to handle identities of both buyer and manager until mid July.
9. At least 16 first team members are certain to be leaving. All player sales NET income generated will be made available to the new team along with an initial cash injection (advance allocation of commercial revenue) to build a squad now for the next 4–5 years under the new manager.
10. The 1st team will be permanently reduced from their present numbers to allow an increase in wage levels for the main squad, allowing a competitive level of salary for high gross revenue earning players to be maintained at a sustainable level. This will assist in attracting foreign players to the UK, despite the higher tax band and wages offered elsewhere, without dramatically increasing the outgoings of the club.
It has to be stressed that all of the negotiations to purchase the club and the appointment of the target manager has been done through representatives of all parties and you will NOT have seen or will see LFC board members at a hotel/bank/airport/stadia etc with identifiable individuals!! It is too sensitive a time; the process has not been and will continue NOT to be played out in any public areas.
Please note that only the select few within the club know the intimate details of the owners elect and the manager elect – this does NOT include ground staff, reserve team, youth team players or most of the first team. They have NOT been informed of any of the developments other than all will be announced mid July.

So. to summarise:
Significant non–player staff changes – Yes
New owners agreed – Yes
New Owners installed – Less than 40 days away.
New Manager Identified – Yes
New Manager installed – Only after the World Cup – actively engaged
Cash for transfers – Yes
Amount for transfers – I don't know – no point in guessing!!
Sustainable Business Model Identified – Yes
Stadium plans – To be revised and resubmitted to council next year.
Players informed – Select few only!
Media informed – OBVIOUSLY NOT UNTIL MID JULY!

I really hope the editor can find space for this post as it may help the disillusioned (both for and against LFC!) to engage in some sensible rumours or preferably facts rather than outlandished guesswork and rude criticism (this is directed at those that only come on here only to say "You have no money so it won't happen!" as that position is soon going to change so save your keyboard from unnecessary work!).

Michael Easterbrook.

Sounds good to me, please please please let it be true

Doing the rounds for ages that - don't get to excited.

[zarababe]

Zara why didn't JUdge post that here? Hope it's true though.

Cos he's a bit 'doh' is our 'pudgey' 

[kazza]

Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has hit out at managing director Christian Purslow for the handling of his departure.

The Spanish tactician ended his six-year Anfield reign by mutual consent after failing to lead his side to qualification for next season's UEFA Champions League.

He has since become manager of Serie A champions Inter Milan following the departure of Jose Mourinho to Real Madrid.

The 50-year-old admits it was tough to leave the Merseyside club, but has hit out at Purslow, who arrived at Liverpool last June, for prompting his exit.

"It was really sad," he told Radio City.

"I was on holiday so it was a surprise that everything was going on in this way, but at the end of the day it has to be like this because Christian Purslow is now in charge and he decided to do it in this way. That is it.

"It is really sad but you have to move forwards. I said to my family that we cannot stay talking too much or complain too much, we have to move forwards.

"The people of Liverpool are fighters and I was fighting from the beginning until the end. Now I have to do the same and I have to be thinking about the future.

"I was really pleased here, the fans were amazing, but I can't stand around complaining. I have to move forward and do my best for my new club."

Liverpool are still on the lookout for a new manager, although there is still uncertainty behind the scenes at Anfield.

Changes
With American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett looking to sell the club, Benitez confirmed that there were unwelcome changes following the arrival of the men from the USA.

"It's strange. This year everything changed from the beginning," he added.

"People in the club changed and the approach to everything was different. Clearly it was a question in the beginning of controlling the money we could spend or not, and everything was different to the past.

"We were so close to winning the title the year before that everybody was expecting something more but we couldn't do it.

"We had some problems from the beginning with injuries and some performances, and there was a little bit of frustration.

"At the end the atmosphere was different and we can see now during the summer that the fans are not very happy."

[LiverpoolMadman]

IS THIS THE RIGHT MAN TO BUYOUT LIVERPOOL?

[metalhead]

In terms of investment and business growth, hell yes! his developments in Abu Dhabi says it all really. In terms of managing a football, lets just wait and see (if the takeover happens)

[dawson99]

I would of thought hed of  had WINGS if McCartney was our new owner   

[Waldo]

Get your money on Bert Van Marwyk becoming the new LFC manager.

[tubby]

Waldo mate give us some links or quotes. Have you heard something personally?