Liverpool Takeover Thread

[shine]

Things get more interesting/complicated as Gillette has apparently defaulted on payments to a loan that he used to invest in LFC:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/live...c-after-default-on-75m-loan-100252-27427765/?

 

[DanH84]

doesn't it seem crazy that you can technically own a club and have it sold from under you/not have the power to vote people off the board.

Good for Liverpool fans certainly but crazy.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

If Broughton does have the final say about who gets sacked or not from the board it'll be because H&G wrote it in to his contract

 

[BaZ87]

With all the conditions H&G had to agree to in order to get the latest refinance, we were effectively in administration already with Broughton being the administrator.

 

[BaZ87]

If Broughton does have the final say about who gets sacked or not from the board it'll be because H&G wrote it in to his contract

I have no doubt that they did agree to this and the simple reason they did was because they had no choice.

Let's just hope there's no loophole that will get H&G off the hook.

My personal feeling is that this legal action is just a bluff from Hicks's part to try and get more money out of the deal.

 

[jakeke]

doesn't it seem crazy that you can technically own a club and have it sold from under you/not have the power to vote people off the board.

Good for Liverpool fans certainly but crazy.

Seems crazier that you can assume the position as owner in the first place by borrowing the entire amount for the purchase, and then leverage the debt against the club, that's the utterly bizarre bit

 

[Weebull]

That's not what you initially asked. Keeping the club afloat and hanging on to the likes of Torres at all costs is completely different.

Apologies if I wasn't clear the first time, but what I meant was whether they'd force players to be sold to keep costs down, rather than players simply choosing to leave due to the team's bad position. In effect, would they be willing to underwrite the entire current wage bill, in the best-case scenario that none of your players would leave.

Essentially like when Juventus got thrown into Serie B a few years back for the match-fixing stuff. A few top players left, but enough stayed to ensure an immediate return. The loss of Torres (bad original example, I admit) wouldn't affect you much in the Championship, but if Gerrard, Carragher, Agger and Reina had to go too?

Anyway, it's all purely conjecture. You won't get docked points, and you definitely won't go down, so who cares.

 

[Stag]

Anyway, it's all vitally important for the future of Liverpool Football Club. You will get docked points, and you definitely will go down, so see ya.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

Liverpool scouts looking for four first-team players

I really can't believe what Roy's trying to do to us. He's already bought Konchesky, Poulsen, Meireles and Cole for the first team and now he wants another four. Gerrard and Torres missed a large part of last season and we still finished 7th. Were we really 8 players short of having a competitive first team? If this man manages to hang on to his job until January he'll destroy us

 

[Stag]

First team doesn't mean first 11. He is absolutely right, outside of Liverpool's first eleven your squad players are almost all mediocre at best. Which isn't that surprising when half your first eleven are mediocre.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

"The results are now important in Liverpool, it is first priority to get four prominent players in the next window for the first team. Players who can go into the starting line-up," he stated.

 

[Stag]

That still doesn't mean first 11, a better understudy for Torres wouldn't be considered a first 11 player, but with Torres injury record he would be a player who "can go into the starting line-up".

 

[Robbo]

I dont think the Liverpool squad is THAT bad at all, I mean its certainly a squad capable of coming 5th/6th/7th provided people are fit.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

I dont think the Liverpool squad is THAT bad at all, I mean its certainly a squad capable of coming 5th/6th/7th provided people are fit.

Exactly. We're certainly not good enough to challenge the top four/five at the moment but the way some people have been talking about our squad recently I'm surprised we're not in the Championship this year.

 

[Robbo]

Exactly. We're certainly not good enough to challenge the top four/five at the moment but the way some people have been talking about our squad recently I'm surprised we're not in the Championship this year.

There is just so much negativity around the players, not helped by Hodgson who seems to think the right place for Liverpool is struggling in the relegation zone.

The majority of your first team are very decent players, ones who would easily walk into some of the top 4 teams, and definitely all of the top 10 teams.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

The majority of your first team are very decent players, ones who would easily walk into some of the top 4 teams, and definitely all of the top 10 teams.

How dare you form your own opinion of our team. I suggest you watch more Sky Sports and base it on theirs

 

[Robbo]

How dare you form your own opinion of our team. I suggest you watch more Sky Sports and base it on theirs

It's all Rafas fault!

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

It's all Rafas fault!

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[sammo62]

Liverpool became good the moment Xabi Alonso walked in the door, and got awful the moment he left. No team in the world could replace Alonso and Mascherano with Poulsen and Lucas and hope to carry on competing.

 

[Robbo]

Liverpool became good the moment Xabi Alonso walked in the door, and got awful the moment he left. No team in the world could replace Alonso and Mascherano with Poulsen and Lucas and hope to carry on competing.

There's a difference between competing for a top 4 spot and completely failing at everything.