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Hicks: 'We've tripled in value'

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[quote author=Wizardry link=topic=39852.msg1091364#msg1091364 date=1271891220]
[quote author=Molbystwin link=topic=39852.msg1090192#msg1090192 date=1271701323]
I don't see how RBS allowing them one last chance to see if they can suck a final draft of blood is going to help things, the only positive I can see from last weeks developments is the imminent departure of two thoroughly greedy carpetbaggers.

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You're bitter, Molby. We get it! One post on the subject makes it clear.


To describe an alternate view to your posts as fanciful is ironic on the grandest of scales.


There is plenty to debate but your dismissal of the commercial strides we have taken since they bought the club makes using the CL victory to insult Rafa seem chivalrous. These two apparent "clowns" have increased our marketability hugely, increased our revenue massively, signed the most lucrative sponsorship deal we've ever seen - despite working through the worst financial crisis the world has seen in the last 30 years. But apparently they're just reaping the rewards of something that was going to happen anyway. ???


I've said it plenty of times and been through it with plenty of colleagues over the last couple of years; the one real mistake they have made (putting aside the debatable signing of Rafa's current contract) was to forecast a date to start constructing the new stadium. It was a comment borne of the optimism sweeping them at the time but still looked a foolish move at the time. Plenty of us said at the time that it was something that could come back to bite them and, in the end, it has been used to hang them several times over.

Demanding that they reduce the asking price for the club?? Absurd! What did we think they were here to do - act as a charity for LFC cause there weren't enough needy clubs in the US?


To this point they've continued to service the loan and done so more consistently than the majority of home owners manage to service their mortgages - and most of these owners are allowed to continue living there without foreclosure. RBS are going to become more relaxed on the settlement of the loan the more confidence we see returning to the economy. All the indications in Asia and the US just now are that the economy is building steadily without booming - the text book demonstration of strong, long term economic growth. Why would RBS risk a growing asset for international bad press, additional cost in administration requirements and the possibility of local fall out if the administration didn't go well?


As for us, well we've got a far higher revenue than ever, we've spent more money on players than ever in our history and a manager that seemingly the majority of fans wanted locked into a long term contract. If I was anywhere near the G&H team just now I'd be pointing out that even the bloody UK banks (notoriously conservative) are becoming more confident in the economy; only a fool would ditch they're largest asset now without consideration for future growth.

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I had my own opinion described as fanciful in the post previous, for this reason, and this reason alone I responded in kind.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.... we seem to be in the realm of latin maxims....

So i'm absurd fanciful and bitter then.

Fair enough.

You see but I would counter that by saying that to patently fail in a business project and yet expect a handsome profit is somewhat fanciful.

There is bad luck in business as well as in all other human endeavours, that is no surprise.

Bad luck doesn't excuse the lies does it?Or the rampant desperate greed...

Also to try for years and years to sell at a ludricously inflated price and when failing to do so raise the price!! well that's just absurd.

May I add to accuse me (correctly, for I am angry also) of being "bitter" whilst defending said behaviour is obtuse.

Is it possible to be deliberately obtuse Wiz? does the word allow itself to be deliberate?

They can get fucked.
 
[quote author=Molbystwin link=topic=39852.msg1091595#msg1091595 date=1271945148]
s, for this reason, and this reason alone I responded in kind.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.... we seem to be in the realm of latin maxims....

So i'm absurd fanciful and bitter then.

Fair enough.

You see but I would counter that by saying that to patently fail in a business project and yet expect a handsome profit is somewhat fanciful.

There is bad luck in business as well as in all other human endeavours, that is no surprise.

Bad luck doesn't excuse the lies does it?Or the rampant desperate greed...

Also to try for years and years to sell at a ludricously inflated price and when failing to do so raise the price!! well that's just absurd.

May I add to accuse me (correctly, for I am angry also) of being "bitter" whilst defending said behaviour is obtuse.

Is it possible to be deliberately obtuse Wiz? does the word allow itself to be deliberate?

They can get fucked.

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Well fucking said. Wizadry - for all the business improvements they've made - revenue increases, sponsorship deals etc.. None of it, absolutely none of it have we seen any benefit from. Fuck all net investment in players and no fucking stadium. They're a pair of lying greedy cunts.
 
[quote author=Molbystwin link=topic=39852.msg1091595#msg1091595 date=1271945148]
s, for this reason, and this reason alone I responded in kind.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.... we seem to be in the realm of latin maxims....

So i'm absurd fanciful and bitter then.

Fair enough.

You see but I would counter that by saying that to patently fail in a business project and yet expect a handsome profit is somewhat fanciful.

There is bad luck in business as well as in all other human endeavours, that is no surprise.

Bad luck doesn't excuse the lies does it?Or the rampant desperate greed...

Also to try for years and years to sell at a ludricously inflated price and when failing to do so raise the price!! well that's just absurd.

May I add to accuse me (correctly, for I am angry also) of being "bitter" whilst defending said behaviour is obtuse.

Is it possible to be deliberately obtuse Wiz? does the word allow itself to be deliberate?

They can get fucked.

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This is now coming down to inferences and interpretation.

I wasn't calling "you" absurd - I said any "demand" that the legal "owners" of the club must reduce their asking price is absurd. I'll ask whatever I want if I'm selling my car and the leasing company - let alone someone living down the street - can't demand that I change the asking price.

I haven't noticed that H&G have been trying to sell the club for "years and years". They denied it for the first couple of years and, in the last two years they've said they're willing to take on a part investment in a company which has increased revenue, improved commercialisation and marketing and has a mechanism to increase revenue even further. It's not a bad story and the logic behind it is quite sound.


Their effort to relate to the fans has been pretty poor in all honesty but I think they are the easy targets for a club that has been underperforming and suffered from the negative publicity which has surrounded SoS. They want to make money out of the venture - no doubt about it and they want to make as much money as possible. In further revelations - whoever owns the club next will want to do exactly the same thing.


They are by no means perfect and I certainly believe that 650m is more than what they'll get; but obviously if they asked for 550m they'd get less than 500m. Asking for 650m, as we all know, gives them room to negotiate. If they get caught having to dispose in a fire sale cause they can't meet repayments and they're over a barrel then I'll say they've reaped the consequences of greed and stupidity. If they sell us for 590m according to their own time frame then, like it or not, they'll have been very successful.


Kerry Packer once sold channel 9 broadcasting to Allan Bond for 900m before buying back it off him for 300m a couple of years later. As he wrote in his book, "you really only have to meet one Allan Bond in your life to be successful". Packer was never accused of excessive greed when almost forcing Bond to sell at 300m - he knew what he could get it for, ended up changing the value a little but that was it. Whether H&G turn out to be Packer or Bond only time will tell but they can try for any sell price they like; that's the path we walk down when selling to new owners and the same will be true of the next owners and the ones after that and the ones after that.



[quote author=Sunny link=topic=39852.msg1091626#msg1091626 date=1271948554]

Well fucking said. Wizadry - for all the business improvements they've made - revenue increases, sponsorship deals etc.. None of it, absolutely none of it have we seen any benefit from. Fuck all net investment in players and no fucking stadium. They're a pair of lying greedy cunts.
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Sunny, our net investment in players has been far higher than at any time in our past as well you know. The massive sponsorships, as I understand it, while signed has not been settled (though I'm willing to be corrected on that). Will we see more money for players as a result? I don't know - I'd certainly hope so and if not then the owners deserve to be abused by the fans for that.

As I say above - I think H&G have been far from perfect and I'm far from being their supporters. I'd have loved to see Kraft take Liverpool in their place but that didn't happen. Yet, while I'm no supporter of theirs I do recognize that they've suffered largely due to their remoteness from LFC and the fact this has made them easy targets for supporters desperate to vent their frustration on someone.
 
Of course it's an interpretation Wizardry, I accept that. IMO considering the massive influx of money into the premier league and highly lucrative European performances(engineered in no small part by the manager you deride) for them to claim a financial success is a little bit rich. It was obvious that the club was massively undervalued and underperforming re sponsorships etc and of course they have a right as owners to make a profit but at what cost to the club itself?

I didn't demand that they lowered their asking price at all, even though it would be the honourable thing to do, no i'm not expecting anything but more greedy lies and manouvering from them.

I detest them enough to say that a nice solution would be for RBS, who are in reality our owners due to the lack of GnH finances, to arrange a sale on their own terms at a realistic price to a new owner better able to bring the club on to where GnH promised but failed to arrive.

As for apportioning blame, thats not important IMO, i have my opinion on GnH and Rafa just as you have yours, what is important is that finally we can get to being genuinely financially competitive via construction of the long overdue stadium. I would be delighted if that were to happen without having to wait a day more on the satisfaction of an obvioulsy impotent owners' greed.

It is fanciful though I know.... but it would be fucking sweet should they get their fingers burnt off.

Especially that fat fuck Hicks.
 
[quote author=Wizardry link=topic=39852.msg1092075#msg1092075 date=1271985059]
Sunny, our net investment in players has been far higher than at any time in our past as well you know. The massive sponsorships, as I understand it, while signed has not been settled (though I'm willing to be corrected on that). Will we see more money for players as a result? I don't know - I'd certainly hope so and if not then the owners deserve to be abused by the fans for that.

As I say above - I think H&G have been far from perfect and I'm far from being their supporters. I'd have loved to see Kraft take Liverpool in their place but that didn't happen. Yet, while I'm no supporter of theirs I do recognize that they've suffered largely due to their remoteness from LFC and the fact this has made them easy targets for supporters desperate to vent their frustration on someone.
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I'm not having our net investment has been the highest ever. We've spent naff all in the last three transfer windows. Their remoteness to LFC is no excuse for the way the club's been run by them. The fact is they've only ever been in it for money. Which is fine - they're business men after all. I would expect, whilst raping, pillaging and piling debt upon the club that they run it with some responsibility and as a going concern. It's not just a business it's a football club. Something than means a lot to many thousands if not millions of people. Seriously, comparing it to Weeta-fucking-bix ? Who gives a shit if Weetabix goes under? They're a pair of despicable cunts who've done nothing but lie and deceive since the day they arrive. The two snakes can't even get on with each other - even when there's good old dishonest profit to be made. I just want them to fuck off forever. I really do hate them for what they've done to this football club.
 
Is it not the case that all of the extra revenue they've managed to get for us, is going towards the interest payments that they saddled us with in the first place?
 
Hicks is smoking his socks. There won't be any buyers for the suggested price. Any prospective buyer just has to wait on the banks to enforce a sale because the Americans will probably default on the loan.
 
[quote author=RolandG link=topic=39852.msg1092436#msg1092436 date=1272038237]
Hicks is smoking his socks. There won't be any buyers for the suggested price. Any prospective buyer just has to wait on the banks to enforce a sale because the Americans will probably default on the loan.
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That's how I would like it to come to pass as long as we get decent new owners. I'd like to see the yank shite financially destitute as a result of their ownership of LFC.
 
Financially destitute and dies a heart attack after that. That would be sweet irony, not to mention bleeding justice!
 
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