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by **I8BlueNoses** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:43 am

Please please someone end this .... :help

whats next a raffle ? sponsored walk ?

this gets worse, ffs im sick of all this :censored:

, how can things go down hill so quickly for our beloved club.

by **burjennio** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:50 am

people should catch on that this isnt a mickey mouse scheme, its one thats been used on some of the biggest and most successful clubs in the world, with the right braintrust behind it it could work wonders, shame no one came up with it A YEAR AGO!!!!!!!

by **kunilson** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:52 am

i think i read somewhere that it would be headed by a few very rich supporters and the rest of the money needed would be down to those who wanted to invest what they have in the club.....as in the select few would pick up most of the financial burden themselves.....

as long as the right decisions are made up top and liverpool have money in the transfer market to spend when needed it doesn't matter who owns us now.....anyone is better than hicks and gillette at the moment. id prefer the club to be in the hands of someone who has its best interest at heart, who better than supporters............its a nice idea, but how would it turn out?

where was all this a year ago when it might have had a chance of happening?

by **DAV** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:03 pm

even more funny this now as some people think it will happen and its in Liverpool FC best interests.
If I buy a share do i get a say in picking the team lilke at ebbesfleet

by **DAV** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:05 pm

and before anyone says it I no Ebbsfleet arnt owned by the fans they just pay to pick the team

by **jedwards** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:40 pm

I think this is a very good move towards stabilizing LFC's future, because the present position of the club is quite worrying, not knowing what will happen, I do not trust the American, they here for their money and own interest, so we have to watch it, otherwise we could find ourselves in the same trouble as Leeds FC had over the past 4-5 years ago!!!.

by **JBG** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:51 pm

Its completely unworkable.

Noble the aspirations may be, realistic it certainly is not.

by **lakes10** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:55 pm

some fans will do anything to try to keep Rafa.

by **lakes10** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:58 pm

ok so we get 500m buy the club and bulid the new ground......if it come in over budget we will be bankrupt.

anyway G&H will ask 1bil for the club.

by **Ciggy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:58 pm

lakes10 wrote:some fans will do anything to try to keep Rafa.

Its nothing to do with Rafa it about getting it back from Randolph & feckin Mortimer.

by **lakes10** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:59 pm

what will happen is that you will get a few dick head fans that feel they have the power, the club will be in div 2 before you know it.

by **lakes10** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:01 pm

this is all to take the focus off how bad we are playing and how :censored:

Rafa is.

by **JohnBull** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:02 pm

We can't even agree on this forum WTF would the boardroom be like ?

FI ! Make Lando Chairman.

by **lakes10** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:07 pm

JohnBull wrote:We can't even agree on this forum WTF would the boardroom be like ?

FI ! Make Lando Chairman.

lol most will think as the can play pc manager game they will be able to the same for real.

you have some saying " i have taken a div 3 team to the prem and won the CL, so i think i should have the final say on the team sheet"

by **Dundalk** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:21 pm

Seen this elsewere....

People are idiots. A person can be a fine, fully operational individual with positively genius ideas, but people as a mass, talked of as one entire organism, become a lumbering moron devoid of rational thought. After Mike Ashley made the mistake of becoming one of ‘the people’, he listened to mob idiocy rather than basic sense and appointed Kevin Keegan.

Now, Liverpool seem to be going one step further as fans of the club may well decide to take over the entire team. 100,000 of them. 100,000 Mike Ashley’s with £5,000 investments. Good God, the thought of it. Mark’s post on Ebbsfleet United last November pointed to some of the difficulties but also some of the excitement that can come when fans take over a club. Admittedly, the Liverpool supporters concerned will not be picking the team, and are investing far more than those involved with the Ebbsfleet project, but to me the plan sounds just as far fetched.

The people involved - football business lecturer and Liverpool fan Rogan Taylor, former director of communications at the Premier League Phil French, and lawyer Kevin Jacquiss (who is listed by the BBC as “an expert in launching co-operatives”) – all sound like reasonable individuals to start off the investment. But it all has the air of floating on the stock exchange about it. In the long term that model didn’t work for Spurs or any other club that I can think of.

Right now, it’s claimed this model would have more in common with the Barcelona system of ‘membership’ whereby everyone who pays a yearly fee gets first dibs on tickets, a membership card and a vote in the elections when a new president is being decided. Is this really the way Liverpool wants to go?

To have the club involved in Spanish style club elections where presidents make ludicrous claims of signing the biggest players in the world to sway the voting fans? The kind of tactics that has often left Barcelona in a mess (they’ve had plenty of barren years in amongst their success due to internal turmoil); the kind of politics that left Real Madrid having to be saved by the Spanish Government who bought their training ground for an insanely inflated fee?

David Moores and Rick Parry certainly have to take some blame for where the club is now – on the brink of collapse on the field; turmoil off the field and little hope of any more money coming in for signings. The two scousers spent several years trying to bring investment into the club, turning down many ‘unsuitable’ bids in the process. That’s why when they settled on Hicks and Gillett most Liverpool fans felt they were in the right hands. We had good reason. Surely after years of searching, Moores and Parry had gotten an indication that these were the men to bring the club forward. Both, I feel, are culpable for the massive mess the club now lies in.

All of this has led to this morning’s news about the fan takeover and such headlines - such absolutely outrageous unworkable ideas – show how low the club is feeling at present. At this rate, I’d stake a fair few quid on Liverpool beating United’s 27 years without winning the league. They may even hit 30. After spending the guts of a decade looking for the right fit, Moores and Parry must take a share of blame at least for setting the side back for possibly a further ten years.

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