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Broughton: Reds to be sold in a “few monthsâ€
Posted on Friday, 16th April 2010 by David Tully

New Liverpool chairmen Martin Broughton has stated that he expects the club to be sold to a new owner in a “few monthsâ€. A Chelsea season ticket holder, Broughton has been charged by co-owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks to oversee the sale of the club, along with Barclays Capital, who have been tasked with the responsibility of finding new investment. BA chairman Broughton said to Bloomberg TV:

“What I’m asking from Liverpool fans is a little patience. We are talking a maximum of a few months. It’s in everyone’s interests we get the right owners, therefore I’m looking for the time to complete this process.â€

As expected, both the appointment of Broughton and the hiring of Barclays Capital has allowed the current owners to get a 6 month extension to their loan from RBS and Wachovia. Broughton said it gives the club time to find prospective owners:

“What RBS has done is given us an extension which gives us time to complete the process. We didn’t want to have a situation where a bidder had negotiating leverage because we were coming against a deadline.â€

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"We are talking a maximum of a few months"
If someone bid today I would expect it to take a matter of a few months
All making me think my suspicions about Barclays were not just selected to look for someone, and acting for someone might be right. Barclays....big connections with Arabs and Amanda Staveley but why Broughton? Perhaps someone has already had dealings with H&G, or knows people that have, and just do not like the way they do business?

regards

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Maybe the story about a bid from one of the United Arab Emirates ruling families is true?

“It’s a very exciting time. Talks are ongoing with Tom Hicks and George Gillett and are at an advanced stage"

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What story? What the quote from old chap?

regards
 
From here Vlad:

Talks in “Advanced Stage†of UAE takeover of Liverpool
Posted on Friday, 16th April 2010 by David Tully

Former Celtic player Andy Lynch is heading up a consortium of wealthy Gulf-based businessmen to take over Liverpool. Former Syrian international Yahya Kirdi, now a millionaire is said to be behind the bid and has backers from one of the United Arab Emirates ruling families. Lynch, who has acting as a middle man in the deal, told the Daily Record:

“It’s a very exciting time. Talks are ongoing with Tom Hicks and George Gillett and are at an advanced stage. We’re working round the clock to try to pull it off. Everyone knows Liverpool aren’t the force they once were so this is just what they need at this time. I’ve been to Anfield on business recently and I’m acting as the go-between in the whole deal. Hopefully it’s not too much longer before it’s all done and dusted.â€

Kirdi does know both George Gillett and his son Foster and he attended a Liverpool match back in January against Stoke City. The American owners have however denied that there are any takeover talks with any group.
 
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Oh? I thought he said "it's been a great club, it continues to be a great club..."
Wasn't really paying attention though.
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You're right, Paddy is soft in the head.
 
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From here Vlad:

Talks in “Advanced Stage†of UAE takeover of Liverpool
Posted on Friday, 16th April 2010 by David Tully

Former Celtic player Andy Lynch is heading up a consortium of wealthy Gulf-based businessmen to take over Liverpool. Former Syrian international Yahya Kirdi, now a millionaire is said to be behind the bid and has backers from one of the United Arab Emirates ruling families. Lynch, who has acting as a middle man in the deal, told the Daily Record:

“It’s a very exciting time. Talks are ongoing with Tom Hicks and George Gillett and are at an advanced stage. We’re working round the clock to try to pull it off. Everyone knows Liverpool aren’t the force they once were so this is just what they need at this time. I’ve been to Anfield on business recently and I’m acting as the go-between in the whole deal. Hopefully it’s not too much longer before it’s all done and dusted.â€

Kirdi does know both George Gillett and his son Foster and he attended a Liverpool match back in January against Stoke City. The American owners have however denied that there are any takeover talks with any group.

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Oh that one, thanks Rafa. I think that is a red herring, Kirdi is interested in setting up academy's not buying us

regards
 
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Broughton: Reds to be sold in a “few monthsâ€
Posted on Friday, 16th April 2010 by David Tully

New Liverpool chairmen Martin Broughton has stated that he expects the club to be sold to a new owner in a “few monthsâ€. A Chelsea season ticket holder, Broughton has been charged by co-owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks to oversee the sale of the club, along with Barclays Capital, who have been tasked with the responsibility of finding new investment. BA chairman Broughton said to Bloomberg TV:

“What I’m asking from Liverpool fans is a little patience. We are talking a maximum of a few months. It’s in everyone’s interests we get the right owners, therefore I’m looking for the time to complete this process.â€

As expected, both the appointment of Broughton and the hiring of Barclays Capital has allowed the current owners to get a 6 month extension to their loan from RBS and Wachovia. Broughton said it gives the club time to find prospective owners:

“What RBS has done is given us an extension which gives us time to complete the process. We didn’t want to have a situation where a bidder had negotiating leverage because we were coming against a deadline.â€

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"We are talking a maximum of a few months"
If someone bid today I would expect it to take a matter of a few months
All making me think my suspicions about Barclays were not just selected to look for someone, and acting for someone might be right. Barclays....big connections with Arabs and Amanda Staveley but why Broughton? Perhaps someone has already had dealings with H&G, or knows people that have, and just do not like the way they do business?

regards

regards
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Why the double ´Regards´Vlad? Is it code?
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excitement 😉
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Can you still get excited then?
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I will show you......Have you still got that Photo of Anita you have been showing the lads 😉

regards
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Which photo of Anita are you alluding to?
 
*Coughs* Oh yes, sorry I was getting confused about that photo, the one that does not exist, we will speak no more about it

regards
 
Hicks: “I should make four times my moneyâ€
Article added: April 17th, 2010 TIA


Liverpool co-owner Tom Hick claims he expects to make four times the money he invested when the club is sold.

He and co-owner George Gillett officially announced LFC is for sale yesterday, appointing Martin Broughton as chairman to oversee the sale.

In an interview with Wall Street Journal the Texan said “I should make four times my money.â€

Staggeringly, he claims he expects the Club to be sold for between £600m to £800m, saying “Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I’ve ever made.â€

Hicks and Gillett bought the Club in February 2007, promising not to place debt onto the club – which they subsequently did (£243m at present) – promising to build a new stadium and “have a spade in the ground within 60 days†– something they haven’t delivered over 3 years later. Add in the broken promises of star signings like ’snoogy doogy’, their infighting, public spats, approaching Klinsmann and a net transfer spend of approximately £2m over the last 4 transfer windows and it’s not hard to see why fans are unhappy with their “custodiansâ€.

Yet Hicks still can’t see it, “When you feel fans turn against you it’s very frustrating†he said.

This is the same Tom Hicks who, within weeks of taking over the club in 2007 compared the purchase of Liverpool FC to the purchase of Weetabix:

“When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. 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; revenues come in from whatever source and go out to whatever source and, if there is money left over, it is profit.â€

3 years later Hicks looks like he’s going to get what he said he was going to get – a massive profit. Not forgetting the millions (approximately £8m between he and Gillett thus far) in personal expenses the two have taken out the Club. Yes, unbelievably their expense claims have been more than Rafa’s net spend last year.

This is the same ‘businessman’ whose son told a Liverpool fan to “blow me f**k face†just recently. The same ‘businessman’ who has financial problems ongoing with his Texas Rangers baseball team and has a history of ruining football clubs.

Good riddance.
 
Laurel and Hardy shouldn't be surprised if they are victims of violence after their theiving and lies.

Marvellous research undertaken by pRick Parry and Moron Moores, the pair of fucking dickheads.
 
Middle Eastern investors accuse George Gillett of U-Turn on Liverpool FC sale
by Richard Buxton. Published Sat 17 Apr 2010 10:20

Liverpool owner George Gillett has been blasted by a Middle Eastern consortium for reneging on a previously agreed deal to sell the club to them for £420 million.

Former Celtic captain Andy Lynch, who is heading the bid by one of the UAE's ruling royal families to seize control of the Reds, has claimed that a deal had been in place six weeks ago but was put on hold after the former Montreal Canadiens owner had a change of heart.

Lynch is leading the consortium's bid with former Syria international Yahya Kirdi and says that the group remain interested in securing a 100% stake in the club, following yesterday's announcement by Gillett and co-chairman Tom HIcks to officially put Liverpool up for sale.

He said: “It was all done and dusted until that late swing in events.

"Recent events, which have seen Liverpool put on the open market, prove they need new investment.

“And there do not appear to be any other bidders bar ourselves. I’m ready to go at the drop of a hat.â€
 
I reckon it was all done and dusted before Sheik Mo heard about it and decided to return to the table.
Why if they had an offer not far off the selling rice would they change their minds, bring in Barclays, Broughton and have all this palaver. Mark my words, as I said yesterday, the more I think about it , the more I am sure Sheik Mo is in this somewhere

regards
 
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I reckon it was all done and dusted before Sheik Mo heard about it and decided to return to the table.
Why if they had an offer not far off the selling rice would they change their minds, bring in Barclays, Broughton and have all this palaver. Mark my words, as I said yesterday, the more I think about it , the more I am sure Sheik Mo is in this somewhere

regards
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It would be great to think that our next owner, as well as being a shrewd businessman, would also be a fan.
That way, while growing the club as a business they would also be very keen to ensure success (ie winning feckin trophies) on the playing field.

If that turns out to be Sheik Mo as you suspect Vlad then I will be happy. (for the moment at least 😉)
 
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I reckon it was all done and dusted before Sheik Mo heard about it and decided to return to the table.
Why if they had an offer not far off the selling rice would they change their minds, bring in Barclays, Broughton and have all this palaver. Mark my words, as I said yesterday, the more I think about it , the more I am sure Sheik Mo is in this somewhere

regards
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It would be great to think that our next owner, as well as being a shrewd businessman, would also be a fan.
That way, while growing the club as a business they would also be very keen to ensure success (ie winning feckin trophies) on the playing field.

If that turns out to be Sheik Mo as you suspect Vlad then I will be happy. (for the moment at least 😉)
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I would not put any money on it Count, it's just a daft hunch, but as you say at least the Sheik and his cohorts are fans and have , or can get their hands on big bucks

regards
 
Kenneth Huang, who recently linked to the take over of Liverpool, has denied the link on few occasions. As the Liverpool owners announced the English football giant is up for sale, Huang finally speaks up for the first time when he attended a NBL (Chinese National Baseball League)game yesterday at Chengdu, China.

On the Liverpool take-over, Huang said:' I really wish it turns out to be a successful bid, but then we will see."

But how was it started? Huang replied:' Back in 2008, I was at Singapore attending a F1 Grand Prix, the representatives from Liverpool contacted me to see if I am interested in taking over the football team. They were quoting $1 billion US dollars. The price was totally unreasonable so I turned them down."

"Last year, they came back again and their asking price has dropped significantly, at that point, I think we could talk."

"Actually the negoiation has been going on for few months already. We are now at a crucial stage. "

On current progress, Huang continues: "Right now, my audit team is examining the books and my legal team is keeping close contact with theirs. But then we have a fierce competitor from Middle East."

When will you know if the bid is successful?: "It will be finalized in June."

Why sell up Cleveland Cavaliers then? He said:' I didn't want to sell Cavaliers at all, but there's a rule that you can't own a sporting franchise outside US when you're the owner of a NBA team, so I just had to.'

Huang went on to say football is the most popular sports in the world, premier league is the leader of them all. But why Liverpool? Huang said"Liverpool fans are passionate bunch of people, they really are. I went to Merseyside on few occasions, you can totally feel the vibe."

Huang stressed that 'money is not a problem', so what is his goal he wants to achieve for Liverpool? "Get back to where we were, to be the double champion of Premier League and Champions League."

When asked if he's the one who allegedly called Benitez, Huang replied with a smile:' Benitez is a top coach."
 
Source Hansern?

Some exciting stuff. What do we know about the Chinaman? Fierce Middle Eastern competition too. This is all good.
 
Sorry mate, its from;

RAWK, sources from Sina, Nan Feng Daily and China Daily.


Heres more:

ian-Hua Huang's next goal is to buy Liverpool.

Yesterday, Jian-Hua Huang acknowledged that he looking to purchase Liverpool after completing a comprehensive assessment of British Club.

"I am waiting for the ripe, mature opportunity. June will soon see the answer."

This message does not come from nowhere & it strictly isn’t based on rumour.

About one week ago, the British media, disclosed that because of the debt difficulty, recently standing up to 237 million U.S. dollars, the two American owners are ready now to sell Liverpool in order to meet the club's huge debts.

The two American bosses have now fixed a price to sell Liverpool club.

Two years ago, people had made recommendations to Jian-Hua Huang regarding the acquisition of Liverpool, only at that time the initial asking price reached as high as high as 1 billion U.S. dollars & Jian-Hua Huang rejected the idea.

This time, when the acquisition opportunities started to rise again, he embarked on a comprehensive assessment & he started to appraise the work comprehensively for the second time.

"The FA Premier League is a scarce resource & not everyone has this opportunity. Soccer is in the world's attention. The Premier League is the world's best & most mature professional league."

What Huang Jianhua settles on is FA Premier League's brand, Liverpool's commercial value.

Whether he will see purchasing success of the acquisition & will succeed, at present & for the time being is temporarily unknown.

Jian-Hua Huang indicated the soonest he will realize the result is up to June.

He with partner Adrian Cheng from Knight Alliance wish to repay part of the debt funding to help Liverpool & then get the Red Army's 51% stake in the team for the final overall holding. If the two men from the United States really can let go of Liverpool, for boss Rafael Benitez & for that matter the fans would be a good thing.

The reason being that a new capital injection could help Benitez realize his plans to buy players, but also the Red Army fans would also see a more powerful Liverpool.

What is worth mentioning is NBA Cleveland Cavaliers small shareholder; Jian-Hua Huang no longer owns his stake.

NBA stipulates that no one owner is allowed to have any overseas teams & in order to operate Jian-Hua Huang must give up the title of NBA owner & boss in China.
 
I hope so.

Then we would just need a manager who will trust the players he spend large amounts of money on. Bye Rafa.
 
"When asked if he's the one who allegedly called Benitez, Huang replied with a smile 'Benitez is a top coach'."

As long as they attempt to someone on board who knows something about football, we'll be OK.
 
So I gather Huang is an organiser rather the money man himself.

Who does he represent though, and how big are their wallets?
 
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These Chinamen will milk the club clean!
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Ey?

What makes you say that Y1?
 
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"When asked if he's the one who allegedly called Benitez, Huang replied with a smile 'Benitez is a top coach'."

As long as they attempt to bring someone on board who knows something about football, we'll be OK.



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