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LFC SOLD to NESV.

Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

Hicks is out to do as much damage as possible to Liverpool before getting kicked out on his arse!

I hope he dies!
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

And as it is Texas and he is from there and has probably greased many a palm there over the years ... Nah ... RBS should pull the plug we take the nine point hit and they sell us on, I'd prefer than being sold to some more evil bastards like Hicks. Anyway the relegation battle will be more interesting than finishing fifth or sixth
 
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[quote author=Farkmaster link=topic=41783.msg1195224#msg1195224 date=1287037612]
I think the judge signs these things almost without reading them, and when he gets a chance to do so, unless he decides to be a hero, he's going to throw it out, especially when lawyers from RBS show up.

All that said, I wish it was all over.

I agree with Oncy that this is just a fat fuck in his death throws, but it's been so long now that I wonder whether Broughton is going to seem to seem to win "none shall pass", and emerge as Broughton the white a year from now after being locked into some fucking existential crisis while falling into the centre of the earth.
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Ha ha.

I can't believe even YOU can't spell 'throes' though.
 
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[quote author=RolandG link=topic=41783.msg1195233#msg1195233 date=1287039996]
Hicks is out to do as much damage as possible to Liverpool before getting kicked out on his arse!

I hope he dies!
[/quote]

Everyone dies.
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

[quote author=TheBunnyman link=topic=41783.msg1195237#msg1195237 date=1287040248]
[quote author=Farkmaster link=topic=41783.msg1195224#msg1195224 date=1287037612]
I think the judge signs these things almost without reading them, and when he gets a chance to do so, unless he decides to be a hero, he's going to throw it out, especially when lawyers from RBS show up.

All that said, I wish it was all over.

I agree with Oncy that this is just a fat fuck in his death throws, but it's been so long now that I wonder whether Broughton is going to seem to seem to win "none shall pass", and emerge as Broughton the white a year from now after being locked into some fucking existential crisis while falling into the centre of the earth.
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Ha ha.

I can't believe even YOU can't spell 'throes' though.
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Haha. I've been able to spell less and less since the invention of the PC. Plus I've had to do a lot of things with strict AP style recently, and you'd think it would improve my writing, but instead I seem to just be shutting that part of my brain off completely.
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

Until recently I have always spelt 'wheather' as 'weather,' without realising it was wrong. How did I go so long without realising!

But English isnt actually my 1st language, so i have an excuse.
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

Hicks has not morphed into a giant green slime to slay all before him yet?
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

[quote author=Y1 link=topic=41783.msg1195249#msg1195249 date=1287041174]
Hicks has not morphed into a giant green slime to slay all before him yet?
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He probably has a team of scientists working on a formula, so he can reap his terrible vengance.
 
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[quote author=Mistadobalina link=topic=41783.msg1195247#msg1195247 date=1287040921]
Until recently I have always spelt 'wheather' as 'weather,' without realising it was wrong. How did I go so long without realising!

But English isnt actually my 1st language, so i have an excuse.
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Dude, I hate to tell you this . . .
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

[quote author=Mistadobalina link=topic=41783.msg1195251#msg1195251 date=1287041331]
[quote author=Y1 link=topic=41783.msg1195249#msg1195249 date=1287041174]
Hicks has not morphed into a giant green slime to slay all before him yet?
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He probably has a team of scientists working on a formula, so he can reap his terrible vengance.
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Yeah, he probably payed for it from his £1000 overdraft and will sue for £1 billion, gazillion dollars when it goes wrong.

Another great 'epic swindle'.

(I can't believe they called it that, just to compound the validity of the 'cowboy' retorts)
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

I can't help feeling that wishing death on these people is a tad too far.

*scared that I've become a moderate, apathetic, Liverpool fan*
 
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[quote author=Spionkop69 link=topic=41783.msg1195256#msg1195256 date=1287041789]
I can't help feeling that wishing death on these people is a tad too far.

*scared that I've become a moderate, apathetic, Liverpool fan*
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Was thinking that myself, though some horrible disease wouldn't be too harsh.
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

Morning everyone. Fat cunt dead yet??
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

[quote author=Spionkop69 link=topic=41783.msg1195256#msg1195256 date=1287041789]
I can't help feeling that wishing death on these people is a tad too far.

*scared that I've become a moderate, apathetic, Liverpool fan*
[/quote]

It is, but it's the only way we'll be rid of them.

Much like Ferguson.
 
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[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=41783.msg1195259#msg1195259 date=1287042086]
Morning everyone. Fat cunt dead yet??
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Was looking likely but the Grim Reaper was subjected to a late restraining order.
 
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[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=41783.msg1195259#msg1195259 date=1287042086]
Morning everyone. Fat cunt dead yet??
[/quote]

This whole thing has really brought the best out of you. Your list of famous texans was special.
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

Fabio and Oncy have been aces in this thread.

Sounds like we still have a chance of getting this done by Friday (fingers crossed).
 
Re: LFC Sold to NESV (RBS WIN COURT RULING - CONFIRMED.........TBC

[quote author=Rafa4PM link=topic=41783.msg1195271#msg1195271 date=1287042852]
Fabio and Oncy have been aces in this thread.

Sounds like we still have a chance of getting this done by Friday (fingers crossed).
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No chance. This rat fucker is going to pull a few more spoilers before this is resolved.
 
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[quote author=Spionkop69 link=topic=41783.msg1195256#msg1195256 date=1287041789]
I can't help feeling that wishing death on these people is a tad too far.

*scared that I've become a moderate, apathetic, Liverpool fan*
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Ok. But lets take one of them out just to scare the other.. which would it be??

Gillett who in his dream of taking money out of us introduce Hicks. This little invisible evil man who has not the balls to stand up for justice and fair even noe when everything is over. Who with a few words could lay this ball down once and for all against a man he despice so much he dont even want to sit near him on matches?

Or Hicks who has decide that even when all is lost he will do a last attempt to hurt us out of pure evil. this reincarnation of the evil himself...

There is enough resources in SOS and other to finance a local guy to talk and bother one of them fikk he accidetally does..?
 
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[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=41783.msg1195259#msg1195259 date=1287042086]
Morning everyone. Fat cunt dead yet??
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*brain flashback to three years ago*

Oh. Hicks? It's this one we want mortal damage to at the moment isn't it?
 
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[quote author=IanTheRed link=topic=41783.msg1195281#msg1195281 date=1287043503]
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=41783.msg1195259#msg1195259 date=1287042086]
Morning everyone. Fat cunt dead yet??
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*brain flashback to three years ago*

Oh. Hicks? It's this one we want mortal damage to at the moment isn't it?
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Rick Waller?
 
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[quote author=Insignificance link=topic=41783.msg1195280#msg1195280 date=1287043308]
[quote author=Spionkop69 link=topic=41783.msg1195256#msg1195256 date=1287041789]
I can't help feeling that wishing death on these people is a tad too far.

*scared that I've become a moderate, apathetic, Liverpool fan*
[/quote]

Ok. But lets take one of them out just to scare the other.. which would it be??

Gillett who in his Dreaming of wearing money out of us introdusere Hicks. This Fitte invisible evil man who has not the balls to stand up for justice and fair even noe when everything is over. Who with å few words could lay this ball down once and for all against å man he despice so much he dont even want to sit near him on matches?

Or Hicks who has decide that even when all is lost he will do a last attempt to gitt us out of pute evil. this reincarnation of the evil himself...

There is enough resources in SOS and other to finance a local guy to talk and bother one of them fikk he accidetally does..?
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That's cleared it up for me.
 
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Hicks refuses to give up the fight
Post categories: Football

David Bond | 08:20 UK time, Thursday, 14 October 2010

Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton might have hoped that Wednesday, 13 October would mark the end of his seven-month quest to sell the Premier League club.

Having defeated the attempts of Tom Hicks and George Gillett to wrest back control of the club by securing an emphatic victory at the High Court in London, Broughton was given the go-ahead to call a board meeting for 2030 BST that was intended to rubber-stamp the deal to sell the Reds to Boston Red Sox owner John W Henry.

But then at 2025 BST - as we all waited for a statement outside the offices of the club's lawyers in central London - came the latest delaying tactic from Hicks and Gillett, a quite extraordinary petition to a district court in the former's home state of Texas that resulted in a temporary restraining order blocking the sale.

Included in the petition are some truly remarkable claims against Broughton and his three fellow Liverpool directors - Christian Purslow, Ian Ayre and Phillip Nash.

Broughton faces the media outside the High Court - but there was a further twist to come. Photo: Getty Images

The general thrust of the argument is the same as the counter claim rejected by High Court judge Mr Justice Floyd on Wednesday. In short, the owners say that:
- Liverpool are worth far more than £300m (the deal agreed with Henry);
- better offers have not been considered;
- and that the board's English directors (the home team, as they would have it) shut them out of negotiations.

All this was part of a "grand conspiracy", they say, with Royal Bank of Scotland, who are owed £238m by Hicks and Gillett after funding their doomed takeover in 2007 and various refinancings since.

But the 28-page petition also includes new, truly astonishing allegations.

For example, Hicks and Gillett say the directors undermined a possible £170m financing deal with GSO partners, a subsidiary of financial giant Blackstone, which would have written off a large chunk of the RBS debt.

The owners claim that by the time a meeting scheduled for 1 September in Dallas between GSO and Broughton had been arranged a plot had been hatched to block their attempts to raise new investment or sell the club.

Hicks and Gillett said that, in doing so, the directors breached their "fuduciary duties". They go on to claim that all this was happening at the same time as Purslow, Nash and Ayre were trying to renegotiate year-end bonuses of between £250,000 and £300,000.

They describe this, and what they claim is connivance with RBS to force them to default on the loan, as an "epic swindle" and say they are entitled to £1bn in damages. This is made up of about £330.4m - the full economic value of their shares in Liverpool - plus a further £660m. Hicks and Gillett claim Broughton, Purslow, Ayres and Nash acted with malice - something that entitles them to three times what they say is the value of the club.

Despite all the emotive language and talk of plots, conspiracies and swindles, the central legal question here is this: Did Hicks and Gillett sign binding agreements with Broughton when he was appointed chairman in April that gave him the right to conduct the full sale of Liverpool Football Club as he saw fit?

Just to be clear on this, here is what Hicks and Gillett said in an official statement upon Broughton's appointment in April: "We are delighted that Martin Broughton has agreed to take the position of chairman, working alongside the club's excellent senior management team. Martin is a distinguished business leader of excellent judgment and with a great reputation. He is a genuine football supporter and will seek to oversee the sales process in the best interests of the club and its supporters."

Hicks actually denied any suggestion that Broughton's appointment had been forced upon the owners by RBS and Broughton told me in an interview back in April he was the owners' appointment.

So whatever Hicks and Gillett now say is, as Wednesday's High Court ruling showed, irrelevant bluster.

But that is not to say Broughton will not have to treat the order seriously. While he and the directors may not be bound by the Texas court order, Henry would be unwise to disregard a ruling from an American court, as would a global bank like RBS.

The real problem for Broughton is not the credibility of these claims from Hicks and Gillett but the length of time they may take to unravel.

What Hicks and Gillett are doing is rolling the dice one last time and hoping Henry - who flew to London to attend Wednesday's board meeting and sign off the deal - will become frustrated by the delays and simply walk away.
 
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[quote author=Farkmaster link=topic=41783.msg1195267#msg1195267 date=1287042635]
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=41783.msg1195259#msg1195259 date=1287042086]
Morning everyone. Fat cunt dead yet??
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This whole thing has really brought the best out of you. Your list of famous texans was special.
[/quote]Are you being mean to me?
 
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[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=41783.msg1195289#msg1195289 date=1287044134]
[quote author=Farkmaster link=topic=41783.msg1195267#msg1195267 date=1287042635]
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=41783.msg1195259#msg1195259 date=1287042086]
Morning everyone. Fat cunt dead yet??
[/quote]

This whole thing has really brought the best out of you. Your list of famous texans was special.
[/quote]Are you being mean to me?
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I did like the Ima Hogg - ARE YOU? CUNT line. That tickled me
 
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[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=41783.msg1195289#msg1195289 date=1287044134]
[quote author=Farkmaster link=topic=41783.msg1195267#msg1195267 date=1287042635]
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=41783.msg1195259#msg1195259 date=1287042086]
Morning everyone. Fat cunt dead yet??
[/quote]

This whole thing has really brought the best out of you. Your list of famous texans was special.
[/quote]Are you being mean to me?
[/quote]

No, the good kind of special.
 
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