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I know he complained the other day that he wasn't going to continue to pour his money into this site etc.
Didn't know if he was serious. Guess he was. I'll miss his excellent contributions to the picture thread and Rugby chat.
Didn't know if he was serious. Guess he was. I'll miss his excellent contributions to the picture thread and Rugby chat.
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What a statement. Not posting on a football forum. That will teach them.
He's gone to RAWK, threads are kept on topic there.
So this means there is an admin vacancy? I think we should have some sort of competition in admin skillz to find our new administrator.
I'd like a real ballbreaking twat to make us all feel like naughty schoolboys who deserve to be caned.
I'd like a real ballbreaking twat to make us all feel like naughty schoolboys who deserve to be caned.
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It hurt my feelings Oncey (turns and walks into a corner...kind of like Milan Baros)
And so it begins...
'Comedian' Whelan hits back at Ayre after Liverpool managing director's verbal broadside
By Chris Wheeler
PUBLISHED: 22:49, 5 June 2012 | UPDATED: 22:51, 5 June 2012
Wigan chairman Dave Whelan hit back at Ian Ayre after the Liverpool managing director branded him a ‘comedian’.
Ayre is unhappy over comments made by Whelan during Liverpool’s search for a new manager – which included an approach for Wigan boss Roberto Martinez – and accused the 75-year-old millionaire of creating ‘a sideshow’ before Brendan Rodgers was given the job last week.
Whelan was at pains to avoid an unseemly public row with Liverpool but could not resist a dig at Ayre who caused controversy in October when he said that the Premier League’s top clubs should be allowed to negotiate their own foreign TV contracts at the end of the current £1.4billion deal which is shared between all 20 top-flight teams.
Difference of opinion: Ian Ayre (left) and Dave Whelan
The proposals upset clubs like Wigan and Whelan issued a sarcastic response to Ayre’s latest comments last night, saying: ‘Isn’t he the lad who suggested that the top six should keep the money from the Premier League deal and the rest of us should have nothing?
‘He’s clearly a knowledgeable person on football and I wish him good luck with his new manager.
‘It’s not worth getting involved in. That’s football. Liverpool are happy and I’m delighted we’ve kept Roberto. Brendan Rodgers is a great appointment and I wish them all the best.’
Whelan annoyed Liverpool with a series of interviews in which he claimed that Martinez had been offered the job at Anfield after he gave them permission to speak with his Spanish manager.
Ayre dismissed that as ‘patently not true’ yesterday having insisted following Rodgers’ appointment that he was the number one choice.
He said: ‘It’s disappointing that Dave Whelan felt the need to run the kind of sideshow he conducted via Sky Sports News and various other media outlets.
‘To be honest, I always thought John Bishop was the biggest comedian in the north west but Dave Whelan seems to have taken that mantle over the last couple of weeks.
Hot seat: Brendan Rodgers beat Roberto Martinez to the Anfield job
‘We make no secret of the fact we spoke with Roberto Martinez, but that is all we did.
‘He’s a great guy and I can't speak highly enough of his professionalism and conduct.
‘But for his chairman to make suggestions that just aren’t true is disappointing to say the least.
‘We can say with absolute certainty that the only person who was made any offer by Liverpool Football Club is Brendan Rodgers.’
However, Whelan maintains that Martinez was at the forefront of Liverpool’s thoughts after the Wigan manager met with American owner John Henry in Miami.
He believes Martinez was put off by the fact that he would not have had complete control over football affairs at Anfield.
‘They interviewed him first,’ added Whelan. ‘They asked my permission to speak to Roberto and I gave it. It seems very strange to interview someone and then dismiss him.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ave-Whelan-hits-Ian-Ayre-called-comedian.html
Brilliant - he's actually made an idiot like Whelan look fairly good. Ayre just shouldn't deal with such issues, he's an amateur.
We're supposed to be a humble club yet our moat senior person has opened his gob, yet again. Great commercial brain but clueless as a Managing Director. Hopefully FSG will gag him by relieving him of his current position.
Whelan's response is bollocks though.
Liverpool and dickhead Ayre never, once, made any suggestion to separate certain clubs from the premier leagues' MAIN TV rights, i.e., UK tv.
His suggestion, and I absolutely agree, was to look into splitting the spoils much more fairly for international TV rights, where currently every single team in the league earn the exact same amount of money (which is NOT the case for UK tv rights), and I guarantee you nobody in Asia is interested in watching a Wigan playing a Bolton (unless their star player from their country's playing, of course).
Liverpool and Man Utd remain the biggest reason for asian viewers to pay for the EPL satellite tv deals. Now Man C., Chelsea and Arsenal (they've always been mildly supported) are gaining a lot of interest, but LFC and Scum remain the most supported clubs in the league. The two main entities that earn the premier league extra income through foreign tv rights.
Yet get reward the same as Wigan for it.
It HAS to be reviewed. If not, why not change the UK tv deal to the same one as the foreign one and have every single team earning the same amount?
Wouldn't happen.
Liverpool and dickhead Ayre never, once, made any suggestion to separate certain clubs from the premier leagues' MAIN TV rights, i.e., UK tv.
His suggestion, and I absolutely agree, was to look into splitting the spoils much more fairly for international TV rights, where currently every single team in the league earn the exact same amount of money (which is NOT the case for UK tv rights), and I guarantee you nobody in Asia is interested in watching a Wigan playing a Bolton (unless their star player from their country's playing, of course).
Liverpool and Man Utd remain the biggest reason for asian viewers to pay for the EPL satellite tv deals. Now Man C., Chelsea and Arsenal (they've always been mildly supported) are gaining a lot of interest, but LFC and Scum remain the most supported clubs in the league. The two main entities that earn the premier league extra income through foreign tv rights.
Yet get reward the same as Wigan for it.
It HAS to be reviewed. If not, why not change the UK tv deal to the same one as the foreign one and have every single team earning the same amount?
Wouldn't happen.
... but it's a good thing that the money is spread evenly because the effect is to allow the league to become more competitive.
Not distributing it evenly will leads us down a slippery slope.
The issue should be that clubs should not be allowed to be given vast sums of monmey from outside the game in order to makes teams more successful. Demanding more money for the "important" teams from TV revenue is one of the reasons Scottish Football has got itself in such a mess.
Not distributing it evenly will leads us down a slippery slope.
The issue should be that clubs should not be allowed to be given vast sums of monmey from outside the game in order to makes teams more successful. Demanding more money for the "important" teams from TV revenue is one of the reasons Scottish Football has got itself in such a mess.
Just to make it clear, the suggestion isn't to make it the same as Madrid and Barca's model.
The other teams would still benefit greatly (billions of viewers for the premier league, as opposed to a few thousand), but it would simply be a case of league positions affecting how much of a slice a team gets from the pie. Same as UK rights.
Pure worldwide viewership numbers per team being calculated would certainly be horrible for the unpopular clubs, so as much as I'd like that as a LFC supporter, that's not what I'm suggesting, and neither is the club. It was just to make a point of how much money we're losing and how much free money other clubs are earning.
The other teams would still benefit greatly (billions of viewers for the premier league, as opposed to a few thousand), but it would simply be a case of league positions affecting how much of a slice a team gets from the pie. Same as UK rights.
Pure worldwide viewership numbers per team being calculated would certainly be horrible for the unpopular clubs, so as much as I'd like that as a LFC supporter, that's not what I'm suggesting, and neither is the club. It was just to make a point of how much money we're losing and how much free money other clubs are earning.
Keep it on topic please Doc.
Whelan isn't a comedian, he's a c*nt. He's one of those chairmen who sticks his oar in everywhere. If he hadn't opened his mouth during the whole managerial process it wouldnt have been so embarrassing. I reckon Martinez only met with our lot out of courtesy and never intended on taking the job because he's too fond of Whelan rubbing his arse and feeding him Werthers Original.
I stopped reading after Gerrard at CB suggestion. Utter bollocks.
Jeez.
You really are without morals or scruples, aren't you?
Free money?!
Without a competitive league the Premiership wouldn't be as popular worldwide so that's bollocks.
I just speak from the heart mate.
So you're against the current system in the EPL where we get more UK TV broadcast money than the teams at the bottom of the league through league position?
To go further, should EPL teams playing in Europe share a large portion of their money to the rest of the teams in our league, to be fair to the rest?
Should we have given a portion of our 25m CL money to the teams that lost out in the group stages?
Should we have given a portion of our 25m CL money to the teams that lost out in the group stages?
i suppose its a delicate balance, would more money to the teams lower down in the league led to a bigger gulf between the championship and the prem? thatd be a bit grim
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