Liverpool FC Forum

[zarababe]

Broughton mae a statement last week .. that is enuff for now. Clearly things are goin on in the boardroom, that remain there and rightly so. The media speculation is daily.. the club is not obliged t make a statemtn about nothign every 5 minutes.

Lets have some faith that the right man is trying to find the right buyer.. his reputation depends on it.

For all the good of the Moores family.. the legacy left by the last has been shattering and devastating.. people's careers and reputataions hang in th ebalance on getting this sale right.. let them do there job !

[Redangel]

zarababe, I hope you're right about the right man doing the right job for Liverpool, but there are suggestions that he's let Gillette off the hook and thrown him a lifeline.

This is part of an article that was posted on RAWK from Anfieldroad.com

'Whoever leaked the exaggerated and indeed false claims knew there would be a negative reaction. They probably hoped it would lead to an angry backlash against Huang. The story was reported in good faith, breaking as Liverpool were actually on the field in their Europa League tie. Very few individuals would have been aware of any involvement from Kenyon.

Anfield Road understands that other efforts to discredit the QSL bid or to stall the process as a whole have been made by George Gillett.

Gillett is understood to have informed the banks of an imminent and credible bid from the Syrian Yahya Kirdi as soon as Kenny Huang made his initial approach for the club. The suggestion was that he was trying to block any move by Kenny Huang by revealing he had received a credible offer of his own.

However all of Kirdi’s potential credibility disappeared as claims made by him or for him would be shown to be more than a little doubtful.  He wasn’t a billionaire or part of a consortium of billionaires – he was a former pizza shop and off-licence owner. As soon as he admitted this he claimed to now be in the stadium construction business – a claim he is yet to back up with a single example of a stadium project he has been involved in.

His other claims have been discussed and dismissed previously on Anfield Road. Kirdi is now by and large a figure of fun and considered a fantasist.

Gillett’s attempts to stall the process don’t stop at trying to hoodwink the fans, the banks and board with comedians acting as investors. He is also said to be determined to discredit Huang’s bid.

Anfield Road learned that journalists in the US and Hong Kong had been approached and offered a reward to find out anything that could be used to smear Huang and his bid. That’s not to say that any negative stories relating to Huang were uncovered by journalists in Gillett’s employ, in fact the nearest any reports have been to revealing anything negative but remotely relevant about Huang didn’t come from US or Hong-Kong reporters. Not every reporter approached took the offer up.

Gillett will have been alarmed at to learn Huang was being taken seriously not only by BarCap and RBS but also by some senior officials at the club. When he realised that Huang had shown proof of funds his worst fears were starting to be realised.

Anfield Road understands that Gillett, discussing the takeover story off the record with some US-based financial reporters, claimed that certain members of the UK press were taking financial inducements to report Huang’s bid in a more favourable light than it deserved.

Gillett apparently even indicated which reporters he was referring to, perhaps not expecting those claims to make their way across the pond and back to the reporters he’d referred to.

The claims were laughed off extremely loudly and taken as a sign of the desperation that George Gillett had found himself in.

Everything about Gillett’s actions suggested he was on the ropes. Hicks wasn’t even in the ring any more having been left seeing stars when the sale of his Texas Rangers baseball franchise didn’t go his way. Finally there was a chance to deliver the knockout blow to these owners. They were all but beaten and outnumbered too.

Then Broughton bottled out. Instead of knocking them out and winning the battle for the club he let them get back up. He gave them a glimmer of hope, a chance to fight back.

He could have been a hero; he could have been the champ.

He ended up the chump.

And there’s no telling where Liverpool will end up.'


Now I have no way of knowing how credible this is but all I will say is Broughton does not exactly fill me with confidence. Having said that we have to trust that he is doing his very best for Liverpool FC and not for Gillette and Hicks because at this moment in time he's all we've got !!

[zarababe]

Thanks for posting that Redangel, but I read that with some scepticism too - gawd we are a bunch of sceptics ay - RAWK previously reported that RH would not be the manager and that the take-over would be announced on 15th July..

'Credible' reporting in the media suggests that Huang could not demonstrate funding -sustainable or otherwise' - meanwhile there are reportedly 4 other bids on the table being assessed.

Difficult for us to know who has the true interests of the club at heart now - but I hope that someone like Broughton knows the stakes are high in this deal, given the high profile of the club 'world-wide' the interest of supporters and the interest of the banks, if he screws-this-up, his onw personal rep will not recover, nopt usre he can afford that for a couple of 'cowboys' !

[Reg]

Thats a good read isnt it? ........... but its a game of 2 halves.

Kenyon knows a good deal when he sees one and though he's mercenary, he must believe Huang would succeed to become associated with the deal. He has big club experience, knows the requirements to restructure a club and has the financiers' ears. I'm sure he sees himself as LFC's next CEO. I dont see Kenyon bottling out, I think he/Kenny have punched Broughton on the nose to face the possible reality that there are no other credible offers out there and that good deals dont hang around. I suspect Broughton and Kenyon are still in touch.

The article shows GG for the little shíte that he is. A desparate man, fighting for his life. Feck him.

I dont know if the Huang deal is any good, but it was revealed to be an 800 million investment, I guess over the 5 year business plan the bidders are supposed to present. If there are penalty clauses for non-performance then it sounds a reasonable start. Kenyon fronting it adds credibility (a Manc/Chav CEO.... whatever next...??).

Hopefully theres someone even better out there, however at the end of the day I back Broughton 100% as the objective is NOT to kick T&T in the balls, its to get the BEST deal for LFC and us, the fans. If that means kicking T&T in the balls at the same time, then so be it.

[Redangel]

Absolutely agree that the most important thing is to get the best deal for LFC , however the icing on the cake would be that T&T get scr*wed at the same time and walk away with precisely zilch.

I have the feeling that there are quite  a few more twists and turns along the way before we are finally rid of them. They are hanging over the precipice clinging on with their fingertips , we just need someone to stamp on those fingertips and send them over the edge !!

[maypaxvobiscum]

Good take on things here.

http://www.mancityfans.net/mcfnet....=unread

thats a good link Jac. this bit sums up how silly the transfer season has become.


So, of course, the policy appears irrational. City have paid as much for James Milner, who had an erratic World Cup, as Real Madrid did combined for Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira of Germany, two of the revelations of the tournament.

David Silva, who could not make the Spanish team, has come in at a price not far behind David Villa, arguably the most talented striker in the world. Yaya Toure cost £24million, at a time when Inter Milan have balked at paying a similar price for a better holding midfield player - the captain of Argentina, Javier Mascherano of Liverpool.

[Reg]

I have the feeling that there are quite  a few more twists and turns along the way before we are finally rid of them.

I´m not so sure, I sense the game is basically over.

Under unsustainable financial pressure from RBS, T&T will ask Broughton to officially call Kenyon.

......and then a Manc will claim the credit for breaking the owners of LFC......

[Reg]

If nowt else the very public battering by Citeh increases the pressure on the whole club structure. Purslow and Ayres in particular must be distraught in the desire to get them out and settle the club again. Whilst its painful, it must appear to T&T that the whole house of cards is collapsing and in a perverse way, the bigger and more negative the headlines tomorrow, the better.

[Ciggy]

I´m not so sure, I sense the game is basically over.

That b@stard Hicks is trying to get a consortium together to buy out Gillett 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/au ... ding-rules

Hicks in hunt for finance

Interesting that Liverpool's co-owner Tom Hicks is on the look out for some fresh financing – $230m according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing in the US. Digger wonders what Hicks Acquisition Co II could need that sort of money for. Hicks Acquisition Co I was set up in 2007 and was at the time the biggest ever market launch of a "special purpose acquisition company" — ie one set up specifically to complete a purchase. A press releaseat the time said: "Hicks Acquisition was formed for the purpose of acquiring, or acquiring control of, through a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination, one or more businesses or assets." Might it be that, with administration potentially looming for Liverpool, Hicks is looking for co-investors to buy the club anew?

http://www.sec.gov/Archive....1za.htm

[tubby]

Can't someone just put a bullet in his head ffs. Silly thing to say I know.

[Redangel]

My God Ciggy, that's mental if it's true. Cannot believe this man is so thick skinned.

What does it take for him to get the message that he is not WELCOME here, we DON'T want him anywhere near our club , in fact we

never want to see or hear from him or his partner ever again.

Surely nobody would be mad enough to lend him any more money. Would they ?

[Reg]

Even if he achieves his aim, is he going to build a stadium or provide a squad rebuild transfer kitty? No.

He's just buying time.

[Benny The Noon]

SKy Sports are reporting that Keith Harris ,who has brokered deals before and tried to help the Kuwait guys buy us 3 years ago is saying that a deal is close with a foriegn source of between 400 and 500 million and due dilligance has already been completed but deal wont be done before end of transfer window but before october

[Benny The Noon]

New overseas buyer in frame for Reds

Renowned deal-broker Keith Harris claims an overseas buyer is considering making an offer of between £400million and £500million for Liverpool.

The former Football League chairman, who has had a hand in the sales of Aston Villa, West Ham and Manchester City in the past, said due diligence has already been done.

Harris also said the party he was representing was not one mentioned publicly before.

"The overseas buyer we represent has completed due diligence. A huge amount of work has been done," he said.

"It is none of the groups mentioned in the press. The ball is now in our client's court to make an offer.

"I do not think the deal will be done before the transfer window closes this month but the next pressure point is October when some of the RBS loan of £237million has to be repaid. It may happen then. But in the present climate these things are impossible to predict."

[ste123lfc]

Keith Harris, aint that the guy with Orville.