Step forward steve morgan - Now is the time
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:33 pmDOES Steve Morgan truly appreciate the strength of his position with the Thai deal slowly sinking into the sea of Siam?
Instead of keeping a watching brief on the situation, Morgan (left) ought to be tailoring his deal to suit the requirements of the all-powerful David Moores, who found the building magnate's first approach deeply unattractive.
For starters, Morgan must produce the same amount of hard cash being offered by Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra - allegedly £63million for a third of the club.
That way Morgan would remove the reluctance of other shareholders to see their holdings diluted, and also render the Anfield directors' main plank of opposition - a perceived undervaluing of Liverpool's worth - untenable.
Another thing. Morgan must take a vow of silence when it comes to criticising the way the club is run in order to comply with President Lyndon Baines Johnson's famous old adage about being in the tent p*ssing out rather than outside the tent p*ssing in.
To me, Morgan is so far ahead of his Thai rival that there should be no way Liverpool could deny him the chance of further, fruitful talks.
But first he needs to moderate his language, understand the value of being a team player, and dig into his own considerable fortune to fund the way ahead for the club we know he holds dear.
As Union Jack Hayward's son once said to his billionaire father, as the Wolves warhorse threatened to ignore another Molineux crisis, "Dad, you can't spend your money in the cemetery, so do some good with it while you're alive for the one you love".
Morgan will understand that. After all, he has the right credentials to be a real, live Liverpool hero. He can't spend his present fortune in 10 lifetimes, so the sooner he starts filling suitcases with large denomination banknotes and jets from Jersey aboard his private plane, the better. Unless he wants Siamese fatcats to steal his cream and his birthright.
For if he fails to secure Liverpool's future and allows the club to fall to foreign mercenaries, he'll never forgive himself.
And if he wants a further harsh lesson in how horrible indecision can be let him consider the case of Paul McCartney, whose copyright on his own songs was sold by Lew Grade to Michael Jackson because the millionaire Merseyside composer jibbed at paying Grade's not unreasonable asking price.
Instead of keeping a watching brief on the situation, Morgan (left) ought to be tailoring his deal to suit the requirements of the all-powerful David Moores, who found the building magnate's first approach deeply unattractive.
For starters, Morgan must produce the same amount of hard cash being offered by Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra - allegedly £63million for a third of the club.
That way Morgan would remove the reluctance of other shareholders to see their holdings diluted, and also render the Anfield directors' main plank of opposition - a perceived undervaluing of Liverpool's worth - untenable.
Another thing. Morgan must take a vow of silence when it comes to criticising the way the club is run in order to comply with President Lyndon Baines Johnson's famous old adage about being in the tent p*ssing out rather than outside the tent p*ssing in.
To me, Morgan is so far ahead of his Thai rival that there should be no way Liverpool could deny him the chance of further, fruitful talks.
But first he needs to moderate his language, understand the value of being a team player, and dig into his own considerable fortune to fund the way ahead for the club we know he holds dear.
As Union Jack Hayward's son once said to his billionaire father, as the Wolves warhorse threatened to ignore another Molineux crisis, "Dad, you can't spend your money in the cemetery, so do some good with it while you're alive for the one you love".
Morgan will understand that. After all, he has the right credentials to be a real, live Liverpool hero. He can't spend his present fortune in 10 lifetimes, so the sooner he starts filling suitcases with large denomination banknotes and jets from Jersey aboard his private plane, the better. Unless he wants Siamese fatcats to steal his cream and his birthright.
For if he fails to secure Liverpool's future and allows the club to fall to foreign mercenaries, he'll never forgive himself.
And if he wants a further harsh lesson in how horrible indecision can be let him consider the case of Paul McCartney, whose copyright on his own songs was sold by Lew Grade to Michael Jackson because the millionaire Merseyside composer jibbed at paying Grade's not unreasonable asking price.
