Liverpool FC Forum

by **Kharhaz** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:02 am

Randy in uk - missus is on

by **account deleted by request** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:04 am

"Liverpool is the most successful football club in English football history. It exists to win things for its supporters. It deserves to be in the hands of people who support it, who understand its history and legend and who share the enthusiasm and passion of its fans."
“I am sure I will be back at Anfield with my family soon to support my team, as I have done so in the last 30-plus years. In the meantime, I wish the manager, the players and everyone connected with the club the best of fortune for the challenges ahead and will make sure that I am there the day they lift the Premiership trophy.” Sameer Al Ansari, the head of DIC

You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool" - Tom Hicks

Spot the difference?

by **Kharhaz** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:06 am

“I am sure I will be back at Anfield with my family soon to support my team, as I have done so in the last 30-plus years. In the meantime, I wish the manager, the players and everyone connected with the club the best of fortune for the challenges ahead and will make sure that I am there the day they lift the Premiership trophy.” Sameer Al Ansari, the head of DIC

I thought the head of DIC was some guy named bulb, shows what I know !

by **BrownBomber** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:07 am

"Liverpool is the most successful football club in English football history. It exists to win things for its supporters. It deserves to be in the hands of people who support it, who understand its history and legend and who share the enthusiasm and passion of its fans."
“I am sure I will be back at Anfield with my family soon to support my team, as I have done so in the last 30-plus years. In the meantime, I wish the manager, the players and everyone connected with the club the best of fortune for the challenges ahead and will make sure that I am there the day they lift the Premiership trophy.” Sameer Al Ansari, the head of DIC

You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool" - Tom Hicks

Says it all mate.

This man has no business being associated with us.

by **Number 9** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:08 am

s@int wrote:"Liverpool is the most successful football club in English football history. It exists to win things for its supporters. It deserves to be in the hands of people who support it, who understand its history and legend and who share the enthusiasm and passion of its fans."
“I am sure I will be back at Anfield with my family soon to support my team, as I have done so in the last 30-plus years. In the meantime, I wish the manager, the players and everyone connected with the club the best of fortune for the challenges ahead and will make sure that I am there the day they lift the Premiership trophy.” Sameer Al Ansari, the head of DIC

You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool" - Tom Hicks

Spot the difference?

Mate i would'nt be surprised if DIC and the Hicks mob where all in it together!
Thats how billionaires work,its not who you know its what your worth!They all scratch eachothers backs when needed

The botom line is me and you,the humble fan will never know because in their eyes we are just 'the market'!

by **Number 9** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:09 am

BrownBomber wrote:His real name is Andy, but his missus calls him Randy.

She must be one funny Ho!

by **Kukilon** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:21 am

Hicks is a disgusting pig is what he is. He has taken a :censored:

on our beloved club and I honestly want to kill him for that.

by **Rush Job** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:30 am

Number 9 wrote:
s@int wrote:"Liverpool is the most successful football club in English football history. It exists to win things for its supporters. It deserves to be in the hands of people who support it, who understand its history and legend and who share the enthusiasm and passion of its fans."
“I am sure I will be back at Anfield with my family soon to support my team, as I have done so in the last 30-plus years. In the meantime, I wish the manager, the players and everyone connected with the club the best of fortune for the challenges ahead and will make sure that I am there the day they lift the Premiership trophy.” Sameer Al Ansari, the head of DIC

You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool" - Tom Hicks

Spot the difference?

Mate i would'nt be surprised if DIC and the Hicks mob where all in it together!
Thats how billionaires work,its not who you know its what your worth!They all scratch eachothers backs when needed

The botom line is me and you,the humble fan will never know because in their eyes we are just 'the market'!

What planet are you from? Hicks isnt a billionaire, thats the point he hasnt got the money he has assets but that no use to us.

by **Number 9** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:44 am

Rush Job wrote:
Number 9 wrote:
s@int wrote:"Liverpool is the most successful football club in English football history. It exists to win things for its supporters. It deserves to be in the hands of people who support it, who understand its history and legend and who share the enthusiasm and passion of its fans."
“I am sure I will be back at Anfield with my family soon to support my team, as I have done so in the last 30-plus years. In the meantime, I wish the manager, the players and everyone connected with the club the best of fortune for the challenges ahead and will make sure that I am there the day they lift the Premiership trophy.” Sameer Al Ansari, the head of DIC

You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool" - Tom Hicks

Spot the difference?

Mate i would'nt be surprised if DIC and the Hicks mob where all in it together!
Thats how billionaires work,its not who you know its what your worth!They all scratch eachothers backs when needed

The botom line is me and you,the humble fan will never know because in their eyes we are just 'the market'!

What planet are you from? Hicks isnt a billionaire, thats the point he hasnt got the money he has assets but that no use to us.

Earth mate!

I know where your coming from but thats the way it works to be a millionaire you need to be worth a million..It does not mean you have a million pounds to splash around!Likewise being a billionaire

What i am saying that Hicks has billions in assets and at his liberty he could sell part or some of what he owns to put into LFC!
The reality is he wants to make money from LFC and put it elsewhere...he can put money into us if he wants!Bottom line is LFC is just a sideline to him!I dont know what hes gonna do with all his cash anyway sure hes got 15 years left tops wrinkly cu.nt!

by **Mark 23** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:05 am

Well we seem to have :censored:

up big time - could be the next Leeds or Newcastle here, we have chased a silly dream in selling to the yanks - how do the old board justify selling to these clowns, how on earth can you turn down DIC for G&H, and then go back to DIC. Few backhanders have taken place here

by **TwelthMan** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:17 am

Rush Job wrote:
TwelthMan wrote:WE ARE At WAR WITH HICKS

Let's be under no illusions. It looks like Hicks thinks he can ride thru the storm. With the reaction of some softies within our ranks he might just manage that - i call to our fans to become Ultras in the real sense and get rid of him any which way that it takes

We dont need to be hooligans to get our point across. Ultras??? I think you must be lost this is a LFC forum and we are the best behaved supporters in the land, our weapon is noise not violence! Now p!ss of you tw@t.

No you

off and sit on your hands and let that fat cu.nt Hicks sit on yer face while he milks your money and pisses into his other teams.

by **matrix** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:20 am

Hicks planning to put Liverpool cash into US franchises
By Ian Herbert
Published: 22 January 2008
Liverpool fans' growing antipathy towards their club's co-owner Tom Hicks, who is close to strengthening his position at Anfield through refinancing the debt he incurred in buying the club, will be increased by the revelation of a US interview in which the American said that he intended to plough profits from the club into his US sports franchises.

Prospective suitor Dubai International Capital was waiting to see if the level of opposition against Hicks and his partner George Gillett before last night's home match with Aston Villa might make Gillett any keener to sell up. But the hard bargain being driven by Hicks is illustrated in a video interview with the Major League Baseball (MLB) website which deals with the fears expressed by fans of his Texas Rangers baseball and Dallas Stars ice hockey franchises, that the £218m American Anfield takeover last February would damage their own clubs.

"People are worried that I might take money away from the [Texas] Rangers [Hicks' baseball franchise] to go to Liverpool," Hicks said. "But it is just the reverse. Liverpool is going to throw off lots of extra money which, if I choose to, I can use for the Rangers or the [Dallas] Stars [ice hockey team]."

The interview was broadcast six months ago and Hicks' words were clearly aimed at pacifying American fans, but they will dismay Liverpool supporters, who turned out in numbers last night to voice distaste for the Americans, who seem almost certain to restructure their debt through a new £350m arrangement before any deal with DIC.

Despite persistent reports of an imminent formal bid from DIC, there were no developments on a potential buyout yesterday and the Arab consortium now seems to be playing a waiting game. It has not ruled out Gillett showing a willingness to sell up, thus forcing Hicks to follow suit. But sources in Liverpool suggest that the refinancing is a near certainty this week and that would make the club a far less attractive proposition to Dubai.

Contrary to reports, a meeting between DIC and Royal Bank of Scotland, with whom the Americans are restructuring their debt, has not taken place and will not do so today either.

It was revealed yesterday that Hicks intends to appear at the SoccerEx event in London in April, which hardly suggests that he is planning to move out of the sport any time soon.

The interview also provides a sense of how Hicks – whose Dallas Stars, purchased for $84m (43m), are now worth an estimated $254m – sees his sports franchises as business commodities. When he bought the Stars, he said, they were "a lousy franchise, playing in a crumbling arena... so I figured I could change all that; put them in a new arena, make them worth a lot more money and sell it and make money, because I'm a businessman. What I didn't count on was that I fell in love with hockey."

The angry Merseyside response to Hicks' revelation that he had approached Jürgen Klinsmann about the manager's job will hardly have left him "in love" with Liverpool and DIC may also find encouragement in Hicks' saying in the interview that he finds partisan Liverpool fans an alien entity. "There's a difference between American fans and not just European but UK," he tells MLB. "Liverpool football fans are on a different planet but God bless 'em they're proud of it."

The Liverpool hierarchy clearly relishes the prospect of investment by DIC, the investment arm of the Dubai government, which sources suggest is ready to issue sovereign bonds, allowing Liverpool's debt to be taken on by the Dubai state. DIC "would be welcomed by many on Merseyside," a senior Liverpool source said.

But DIC has so far failed to come close to a sum of money for Liverpool which would satisfy Hicks and Gillett, with a figure of £300m understood to have been rejected out of hand. Some financiers believe that even this represents the very top end of Liverpool's value, in view of the fact that £250m is needed for the redevelopment of the stadium.

Professor Tom Cannon, Dean of Buckingham University Business School and a long-time observer of the Merseyside football scene, said that if the costs of the stadium redevelopment, plus £50m for players, was factored in, the £300m valuation would make Liverpool more expensive than Manchester United or Arsenal and twice as expensive as Chelsea. "Liverpool have never made big profits – Manchester United have made big profits – but what is there apart from trophy cabinets?" he said "And trophy cabinets don't pay interest charges."

It is unclear whether the knock-on effect on the US stock market of the biggest fall in UK shares since 11 September may affect the Americans' position in any way. It was a bank holiday in America yesterday, but share prices on the Dow Jones seem certain to fall sharply today.

In Liverpool, the rancour felt for the Americans was voiced by the Reclaim the Kop group yesterday. "The fans want them out, unconditionally," said the group's Kevin Sampson. "The moment they confirmed our worst misgivings and admitted they'd been plotting to oust Benitez, they may as well have started saddling the horses. That's it. They are finished here

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honestly it gets worse all the time...

did anyone think things were ever going to get as bad as this...

hicks, like the reclaim group says time to saddle up and fu.ck off...

by **Kharhaz** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:23 am

TwelthMan wrote:
Rush Job wrote:
TwelthMan wrote:WE ARE At WAR WITH HICKS

Let's be under no illusions. It looks like Hicks thinks he can ride thru the storm. With the reaction of some softies within our ranks he might just manage that - i call to our fans to become Ultras in the real sense and get rid of him any which way that it takes

We dont need to be hooligans to get our point across. Ultras??? I think you must be lost this is a LFC forum and we are the best behaved supporters in the land, our weapon is noise not violence! Now p!ss of you tw@t.

No you off and sit on your hands and let that fat cu.nt Hicks sit on yer face while he milks your money and pisses into his other teams.

Our actual weapon is passion for the club. We will always support the club. The ultras idea is stupid however, violence isnt needed to show support.

by **Kharhaz** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:25 am

Id think that Gillett would have a say in where the money from LFC goes also, to fund hicks' projects? nah, wont happen.

by **Mark 23** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:26 am

Lets wave our scarfs and sing songs about the yanks - that will show them.

Money has ruined football - this club I thought would be better than that but we are no better than Chelsea or Manchester United, infact Manchester United have done it right, even Kenright across the park is better than the :censored:

we have in charge.

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