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[article]Exclusive: Fenway Sports Group (FSG) are ready to cash in on a sale of Liverpool Football Club.

Winner Sports was told this week that “Talks are taking place” over a planned takeover of Liverpool FC, the most decorated club in England, by the house of Al Maktoum (Royal family of Dubai), according to sources with close connections to the Dubai royal family.

These people said advanced discussions between the club and Marwan Abedin, who is on the board of Dubai’s biggest property developer, had progressed in the past several weeks.

The investor group is backed by Dubai’s Al Maktoum royal family. One of the people familiar with the matter said Liverpool’s owners are looking to cash in after the Premier League struck a record £5bn deal with broadcasters in February 2015 for the UK rights to football’s most lucrative competition.

John W Henry now believes there is no longer a level playing field after Uefa president Michel Platini said Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations will be “eased”.

A source told Winner Sports: “Mr Henry is disillusioned and frustrated”.

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It’s thought Fenway Sports Group (FSG) are seeking a deal worth more than $700m (£450million GBP) with the prospective buyers.

A source in the UAE told Winner Sports: “With a huge slump in oil prices, the people at the top are looking at other sectors like tourism. Buying a prestigious football club can help you achieve certain goals.”

Although Liverpool’s UEFA rankings show how far Liverpool have fallen in Europe under FSG’s ownership (Liverpool sit 55th in the rankings, behind the likes of Trabzonspor) American business magazine Forbes ranks the Reds as the eighth most valuable football club in the world at $1billion.[/article]
 
Is it wrong that I'm thinking "Fuck it, bring on the cash & the trophies that follow"?

Cos I am. Enough of this playing the game right bollocks. We can't beat City & Chelsea as things stand, & I doubt it'll change, so I'll whore ourselves out gladly at this stage.
 
FoxForceFive said:
Is it wrong that I'm thinking "Fuck it, bring on the cash & the trophies that follow"?

Cos I am. Enough of this playing the game right bollocks. We can't beat City & Chelsea as things stand, & I doubt it'll change, so I'll whore ourselves out gladly at this stage.
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Yes. How I feel.

It'd be great to be buying sexy new players but football as we knew it will be gone if this happens. I guess it has anyway and we're too big a brand to be left out (at the moment anyway).

European league anyone?
 
Been to Dubai many times and I have never met a less endearing people in my life. The way they threat the Pakistan and Indian people, to name a few, is quite simply beyond our grasp.

That said, without FFP, it's the only way forward and what a shame. The scum fans will have a field day with this. Fuuuuuuck offfff!

After 25 years we all need Instant gratification - that's all she wrote.

But to be honest I would rather wait 4 more years with FSG. I don't care much for the Arab approach...
 
Couple of things here, if it's true- there is no reason why it shouldn't be either.. Firstly I have no moral qualms about it at all.
If any club in the country deserved wealthy owners it's us.
I can't wait to be competitive and piss on Chelsea and their plastic fans again.
I don't blame John Henry at all, just when the FFP was starting to have an affect the rug gets pulled.
An issue with the article is that as far as Dubai goes is they don't do oil and that's makes them the "poor" neighbours- so I am not sure why oil prices should be a reason -of course all the Middle East royal families are all interlinked. As far as I recall the Maktoum's were fans.
I also think we owe FSG a huge debt of gratitude for being responsible and professional owners, they just made a massive mistake trusting Ayre on his own to run the operation here.
 
Wiberg said:
Been to Dubai many times and I have never met a less endearing people in my life. The way they threat the Pakistan and Indian people, to name a few, is quite simply beyond our grasp.

That said, without FFP, it's the only way forward and what a shame. The scum fans will have a field day with this. Fuuuuuuck offfff!

After 25 years we all need Instant gratification - that's all she wrote.

But to be honest I would rather wait 4 more years with FSG. I don't care much for the Arab approach...
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I see where you're coming from (besides which I endorse Vlad's comments about FSG in his post above) but FSG were always going to decide one day that the balance of advantage would lie in selling the club and, again as Vlad says, pulling the plug on FFP has brought that day forward. Che sara sara.
 
Comical Aly said:
Yes. How I feel.

It'd be great to be buying sexy new players but football as we knew it will be gone if this happens. I guess it has anyway and we're too big a brand to be left out (at the moment anyway).

European league anyone?
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That idea keeps getting brought up, but I'm not convinced it'll happen any time soon (if at all). It's sometimes said that TV and online audiences rather than matchday crowds are the way forward, but even the big clubs will be taking a huge risk if they remove themselves from their roots in national leagues.
 
Dubai suffered in the 2008 crash as they are traders and the business hub of the Arab world as I said they don't do oil themselves . They are suffering a tad over the Chinese economic situation currently - but that does not seem to be a major issue. If it's the Maktoum's that buy us as opposed to DIC "the business" that's a different issue. In the latter stages of 2007 it was going that way
 
The game has changed again, we can't afford to be left behind once more, like we were in the 90s.
You can have all the morals (which we currently don't) in the world, but it means nothing if you're not winning.
 
I could write an essay on it if I was arsed, but I'm not.

Suffice to say that signing top players will be less fun if you give even the slightest thought to where the money comes from and the suffering that is borne from it.

I'd rather have Moores or the cowboys back than these cunts.
 
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Shaikh Khalifa announces 3-day mourning period in #UAE over death of Shaikh Rashid Bin Mohammad bit.ly/1QpaqRX

Does this effect stuff? Can't be arsed to check if they're the same sheikhs or if even related. I'm just meh about any potential club takeovers. We've had too many false dawns.
 
He's one of the son's who was only 34 and next in line. Fit and healthy royal drops dead by cardiac arrest.
 
reuque said:
Does this effect stuff? Can't be arsed to check if they're the same sheikhs or if even related. I'm just meh about any potential club takeovers. We've had too many false dawns.
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Shaikh Rashid was the eldest son of Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
 
Apparently, he was a United fan.

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