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lakes10 wrote:

roberto green wrote:Credit where credits due, We have all been on about Christian Purslow not doing anything and Broughton only being interested in Chelsea but they must of been cooking this up for ages waiting for the right time to strike and it would of been very calculated.

I think we have to hand it to them if they do pull it off.

or................time was running out and they called them and begged them to buy us. and this seems more like the case if you go by what the city press think.

The city press through their spokesmen - YOU - have shown over time to be proven to know nothing and talk utter sh.ite .

Broughton has being doing this for years as a chairmen and it looks like they have outmanouvered the tw@ts good and proper .

Emerald Red wrote:

dawson99 wrote:Its sad when we get new owners, and soem still moan as we wont have billions.... football has changed so much when all people want is to buy titles

Simple fact is that you need money to win titles these days, Daws. That's how it is.

Unfortunately true

Benny The Noon wrote:

LiverpoolMadman wrote:The money over there is drying out and rather rapidly - they have blown billions trying to build big buildings etc .

Yes oil is "drying out and rather rapidly" ... but they do have business and investment elsewhere ...

Indeed they do...

Artificial islands in the Gulf

Indoor ski resorts in the desert

Refrigerated beaches

Massive money spent on desalinating water to use on golf courses, lawns, fountains etc.

Yep, can't see that going sour any time soon.    [/quote]
Not only that .. they have a lot more ...[/quote]
Business have falling over in the middle east - building work is stopping , the money is drying up and quickly - they have invested so much in trying to make it the best and biggest place in the world and make it the number one holiday destination in the world but it hasnt happened .[/quote]
If Sheikh Mohammed would have bought us we would have been the biggest club in the world, make no mistake about it Dubai is fantastic and Liverpool would have been in very safe hands.
Like his Godolphin Race courses.

Benny The Noon wrote:

lakes10 wrote:

roberto green wrote:Credit where credits due, We have all been on about Christian Purslow not doing anything and Broughton only being interested in Chelsea but they must of been cooking this up for ages waiting for the right time to strike and it would of been very calculated.

I think we have to hand it to them if they do pull it off.

or................time was running out and they called them and begged them to buy us. and this seems more like the case if you go by what the city press think.

The city press through their spokesmen - YOU - have shown over time to be proven to know nothing and talk utter sh.ite .

Broughton has being doing this for years as a chairmen and it looks like they have outmanouvered the tw@ts good and proper .

well hope you are right, but only time will tell mate.

Ciggy wrote:

Benny The Noon wrote:

LiverpoolMadman wrote:The money over there is drying out and rather rapidly - they have blown billions trying to build big buildings etc .

Yes oil is "drying out and rather rapidly" ... but they do have business and investment elsewhere ...

Indeed they do...

Artificial islands in the Gulf

Indoor ski resorts in the desert

Refrigerated beaches

Massive money spent on desalinating water to use on golf courses, lawns, fountains etc.

Yep, can't see that going sour any time soon.   

Not only that .. they have a lot more ...[/quote]
Business have falling over in the middle east - building work is stopping , the money is drying up and quickly - they have invested so much in trying to make it the best and biggest place in the world and make it the number one holiday destination in the world but it hasnt happened .[/quote]
If Sheikh Mohammed would have bought us we would have been the biggest club in the world, make no mistake about it Dubai is fantastic and Liverpool would have been in very safe hands.
Like his Godolphin Race courses.[/quote]
The sheik has never been interested Lynds - he loves his horses too much - he sees massive profit from that and enjoys the thrill and buzz from it .

lakes10 wrote:

Igor Zidane wrote:What you've got to remember is that LFC is a vry profitable business . We as a club made a £40 million profit last year , only problem was it went to pay off debt . Now if the vast majority of that debt isn't there ,the profit can either be plowed back into the team or into the owners back pocket . Makes things look alot healthier in that respect.

yer only 37 mil left, thats about the norm for a big company.

yes we could clear that debt in a year.......aslong as we give up the idea of a new ground.

the only way the new ground will be built is with a loan.........dont sound good to me mate, what do you think?

Well he hasn't ruled out re-developing Anfield which would be popular with most fans. Naming rights and borrowing could pay for that . The stadium should pay for itself in theory.

Igor Zidane wrote:

lakes10 wrote:

Igor Zidane wrote:What you've got to remember is that LFC is a vry profitable business . We as a club made a £40 million profit last year , only problem was it went to pay off debt . Now if the vast majority of that debt isn't there ,the profit can either be plowed back into the team or into the owners back pocket . Makes things look alot healthier in that respect.

yer only 37 mil left, thats about the norm for a big company.

yes we could clear that debt in a year.......aslong as we give up the idea of a new ground.

the only way the new ground will be built is with a loan.........dont sound good to me mate, what do you think?

Well he hasn't ruled out re-developing Anfield which would be popular with most fans. Naming rights and borrowing could pay for that . The stadium should pay for itself in theory.

And thats exactly what they did with the Red Sox Stadium mate . It paid for itself

Reg wrote:

LiverpoolMadman wrote:

Benny The Noon wrote:

Reg wrote:

bavlondon wrote:They are going to borrow against a future cashflow to fund the stadium. We are back to square one guys...I think.

Where do you expect them to get the money from, the tooth fairy? Of course its going to have to be borrowed.

They borrowed to pay for the redevelopment of their baseball stadium - nearly 300 million and its pretty much paid for itself in the end .

Borrow ? That's very clear they have no money ...

So where do you expect 300 million to 'appear' from to pay for the stadium? Even if they had it, they'd still expect interest payments on it if they used their own money.

Abramovich is the only one who pumps money in interest free but thats unrealistic outside of Chelski where there is are business plans to meet.

The Red Sox arent a sugar daddy, I'll tell you that straight off.

Don't compare with Chelsea and Abramovich or Man City and Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan .. but how I wish we have the owner that that ... I think if we have someone like them ( who as rich as they ) who took the ownership 3 years ago , I'm sure that they have already won a lot of title and cup and most of our players are World Class Players , NOT like Lucas, Konchesky, Aurelio, Jovanovic, Maxi, Babel, Poulsen ...

LiverpoolMadman wrote:

Bad Bob wrote:

LiverpoolMadman wrote:

Benny The Noon wrote:

LiverpoolMadman wrote:

ruskiy playmaker wrote:

LiverpoolMadman wrote:I don't want another YANKS OWNER ... enough for the last 3 years with H and G ... We should learn from this ... what we need now someone like Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan or Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to clear the debt, build new stadium and money to buy new players ...

Why would you want Arab owners?  They own like half of England already.

Nothing to do with politics, race or religion ... but it seems that they are the one that got more money ...

The money over there is drying out and rather rapidly - they have blown billions trying to build big buildings etc .

Yes oil is "drying out and rather rapidly" ... but they do have business and investment elsewhere ...

Indeed they do...

Artificial islands in the Gulf

Indoor ski resorts in the desert

Refrigerated beaches

Massive money spent on desalinating water to use on golf courses, lawns, fountains etc.

Yep, can't see that going sour any time soon.   

Not only that .. they have a lot more ...

The point Bob was making is that all those things are just a mad men's ideas of luxury. They are toys. You can't expect to build those kinds of things and maintain them when the source of paying for that maintainance will eventually dry up. They are not investments that make massive amounts of money for the foreseeable.

The thing is about American business men, is that they are either very good or just very bad. We got the bad sort first time around. The kind that have f*cked the economy for everyone else. America wouldn't be the place it is today if there weren't some very good business people running it. Personally, I'd prefere we stay well clear of that side of the ocean, but if these lot come in and we start to see their plans in action soon after, I won't complain much so long as the club is returned to normallity and we look as if we're going forward. That is infinitly better than the situation we are in now.

Ciggy wrote:I am not only very cautious and sceptical about American owners but more worried about the fact we will have absentee owners once again.

This worries me more than anything. The last thing we need is our club run by emails once a fortnight like twit & tw@t done.

Going by what they have said they will look for someone who knows the game and install them as running the club - they did it with a young guy in the red sox and i have a feeling we will see a English or at least European CEO running the club for them .

Ciggy wrote:I am not only very cautious and sceptical about American owners but more worried about the fact we will have absentee owners once again.

This worries me more than anything. The last thing we need is our club run by emails once a fortnight like twit & tw@t done.

No I think this time there will be someone based over here. I think this will all be in with the contract. But I do find it hard to put my trust in them.