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Re: Full text: Times Exlusive: India's richest man wants to buy Liverpool
« Reply #120 on: February 9, 2010, 01:02:11 AM »
Pointless getting excited those two greedy c*nts will find some way fuck things up. 

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« Reply #121 on: February 9, 2010, 01:04:21 AM »
Already some posters on here no more about two potential indian buyers than Moores knew about H&G.
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« Reply #122 on: February 9, 2010, 01:05:36 AM »
As I said above, I have dealt with his company and they are very shrewd. I can't see him throwing money around if he didn't see a good business benefit. His company watched every single penny and focused on every single small problem and leveraged it to their benefit. So no I don't expect him to use lots of his money.

Is there any successful business that doesn't do that? That's the whole point of business.


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« Reply #123 on: February 9, 2010, 01:07:33 AM »
I guess there could be a huge potential in India. However a cricketer would (I guess) be what every young guy would like to be.

But G&H are going to want to maximise any money they get. Let's hope the banks lean on them.

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« Reply #124 on: February 9, 2010, 01:07:36 AM »
Can't see this happening at the figures quoted.. £237m for a 51% stake?? That would value the club at about £465m - seems way too high considering £400m has been balked at by previous prospective investors.. hmm.. will wait and see how this develops but not getting my hopes up yet.
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Re: Full text: Times Exlusive: India's richest man wants to buy Liverpool
« Reply #125 on: February 9, 2010, 01:09:18 AM »
I guess there could be a huge potential in India. However a cricketer would (I guess) be what every young guy would like to be.

But G&H are going to want to maximise any money they get. Let's hope the banks lean on them.

Believe me, there a lot of people who watch football in India and they'd be more than keen to watch Liverpool if Ambani takes over and runs it properly.
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« Reply #126 on: February 9, 2010, 01:09:28 AM »
Is there any successful business that doesn't do that? That's the whole point of business.

Yes - my point was that I don't think he would spend like Chelsea or City have done without someway of getting the money back (selling the brand in India?).

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« Reply #127 on: February 9, 2010, 01:10:24 AM »
Believe me, there a lot of people who watch football in India and they'd be more than keen to watch Liverpool if Ambani takes over and runs it properly.

What teams would they follow? Do any of the big clubs ever tour?


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« Reply #128 on: February 9, 2010, 01:13:18 AM »
With the huge population in India there are bound to be some really good players if they can be nurtured.


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Re: Full text: Times Exlusive: India's richest man wants to buy Liverpool
« Reply #129 on: February 9, 2010, 01:13:38 AM »
What teams would they follow? Do any of the big clubs ever tour?



None of the big clubs from England toured. But we did have Bayern Munich back here in 2008-09 and Oliver Kahn came to play. The turnout was around 80,000 people in the stadium or even more.

People generally follow the BIG Four here. Since the scum have been winning a lot since the Premier League started being broadcasted in India, they have a lil more number of fans than us. But once we start winning much of them will be behind us. I know we dont like fans like that but if they just buy a jersey every season that'd be enough for a player's salary.

Edit: All you need is a marquee player, they had Beckham and Ronaldo who had huge following, but with Torres we can definitely take over if we start winning.
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Re: Full text: Times Exlusive: India's richest man wants to buy Liverpool
« Reply #130 on: February 9, 2010, 01:14:46 AM »
Can't see this happening at the figures quoted.. £237m for a 51% stake?? That would value the club at about £465m - seems way too high considering £400m has been balked at by previous prospective investors.. hmm.. will wait and see how this develops but not getting my hopes up yet.

well it's 237million for a 51% stake on condition that no dividends or payouts are taken out by the tumours for 3 years

assuming that the club turns a profit of what 45million with tv rights and standard chartered deal n'all that

buying at this price means you're buying an asset for 237 that will have it's debt effectively wiped out and will have 135million going into it in the next 3 years to make it profitable, increase quality on the field and start a stadium

on that condition it doesn't sound pie in the sky to me - cue someone coming in and telling me how much profit the club actually makes in a year :-)

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« Reply #131 on: February 9, 2010, 01:14:56 AM »
he like cricket...hehehe
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« Reply #132 on: February 9, 2010, 01:16:04 AM »
The only thing i worry about is that if the team didn't win a trophy let alone challenge in the new owners first year then i think they would follow city and chelsea in sacking the manager.

That is one thing i give our current owners, they stuck with the manager like previous liverpool regimes.

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« Reply #133 on: February 9, 2010, 01:16:06 AM »
Where's M. Prithvi, the legend?
Why was Reina acting the big man anyway? Sure he did no more for Spains win than I did.
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Re: Full text: Times Exlusive: India's richest man wants to buy Liverpool
« Reply #135 on: February 9, 2010, 01:18:25 AM »
Yes - my point was that I don't think he would spend like Chelsea or City have done without someway of getting the money back (selling the brand in India?).

But that is precisely what we want. We don't want somebody to spend money like a drunkard in a lap dancing club, we don't want to be like City or Chelsea - we want somebody that can make wise investments to take us to a point of self-sufficiency ie: the club spends what it earns.

By either building a new stadium or expanding Anfield, sponsorship, creating new revenues, etc etc etc, that's all we want. We want a shrewd businessman who can understand this and take us to that point. Sure, in the interim period, to enable us to have bridging funds to buy players we otherwise may be hindered from buying because of debt repayments - but the main thing is that this is exactly what we want. A sober, dignified owner who can take us to that point of self-generating self-sufficiency. I don't know if this fella Ambani fits the mould, if so, great, if not, lets hope someone else does and wants to take us over.

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Re: Full text: Times Exlusive: India's richest man wants to buy Liverpool
« Reply #136 on: February 9, 2010, 01:20:20 AM »
Will this mean that Rafa has to learn the laws of cricket?

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« Reply #137 on: February 9, 2010, 01:21:48 AM »
Will this mean that Rafa has to learn the laws of cricket?

he knows cricket

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« Reply #138 on: February 9, 2010, 01:25:00 AM »
These threads are like a woman feeling your nob in a nightclub and wandering off

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« Reply #139 on: February 9, 2010, 01:26:24 AM »
These threads are like a woman feeling your nob in a nightclub and wandering off

and then you have to go home to the fat, miserable faced wife that is Hicks and Gillett....
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« Reply #140 on: February 9, 2010, 01:27:27 AM »
and then you have to go home to the fat, miserable faced wife that is Hicks and Gillett....

i'd take a bit of knob-feeling right now

it's been too long since he had any proper light at the end of the 'yanks out' tunnel

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« Reply #141 on: February 9, 2010, 01:32:16 AM »
Believe me, there a lot of people who watch football in India and they'd be more than keen to watch Liverpool if Ambani takes over and runs it properly.

We setup an academy there didn't we?  Ayre and Purslow have also spoken about those investing not only having the money but also having a presence in the correct regions.  India certainly seems to be a region they are targeting.

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« Reply #142 on: February 9, 2010, 01:32:45 AM »
and then you have to go home to the fat, miserable faced wife that is Hicks and Gillett....

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« Reply #143 on: February 9, 2010, 01:33:37 AM »
We setup an academy their didn't we?  Ayre and Purslow have also spoke about those investing not only having the money but also having a presence in the correct regions.  India certainly seems to be a region they are targeting.

Yes, one in Pune if I'm not wrong.
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« Reply #144 on: February 9, 2010, 01:34:38 AM »
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« Reply #145 on: February 9, 2010, 01:35:03 AM »
Yes, one in Pune if I'm not wrong.

Looks suspiciously like trying to secure first mover advantage.  It doesn't seem right to give them that much credit, but Ayres is no idiot so who knows.

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« Reply #146 on: February 9, 2010, 01:37:57 AM »
What would appear more attractive to the yanks though?

The £100 mill paid off (which is a must as far as I know) and they retain 30% each, or the whole £237 and they lose control completely and get sod all for 3 years. But can then milk it in.

I think the 40% offer is a good way to divide the yanks - but still leaves us owned by 3 people with alliances that have to be formed between at least 2 to get things through. I dont see how it actually benefits Liverpool FC (obv apart from the debt reducing) in the order of moving us on (stadium loan easier to get).
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« Reply #147 on: February 9, 2010, 01:38:27 AM »
92A is it? That's just it - I'm Absolutely convinced that Moores and Parry DID know all they needed to know about Hicks & Gillette And? Went ahead and sold us down the river anyway - why? One word, money.......................

We may believe Moores is a well meaning bumbling fool and Parry an idiot and maybe they both are but in this case Moores wanted out and now refuses to acknowledge it was HIS fcukup that led to all this madness and Parry? HE wanted to keep his job - until Rafa' assassinated him at LFC anyway in conjunction with Hicks.  No I'm UTTERLY convinced that Moores and Parry did this move DELIBERATELY - for different reasons but they STILL meant it Despite knowing what had gone on re Hicks & Gillette (I mean come on? Do you REALLY think that BOTH of them totally ignored the Internet/Research, took the twin b*stards on trust and proceeded on the deal thus? Don't talk rubbish, NO business deal is EVER done that way nowadays - least of all one like THAT;  They knew alright - they had to of done and thus BOTH of them - ESPecially Moores - whose got off FAR to lightly IMO- deserve an absolute BARRAGE of abuse for what they've done to our club.  In fact Moores should be absolutely bloody Bombarded until he gets up and denounces the twin fcukers in public and possibly thereby deals a deathblow to their pathetic regime at Anfield by absolutely FLOODING SOS with new recruits as well as removing the ONE legitimate plank left to those w*nkers in that obviously at present they can say ''well the man who sold to us thinks HE sold to the right people'' What IF they COULDN'T say that anymore? That WOULD set the cat amongst the pigeons methinks and Moores COULD do that in fact, it's the least he could damn well do after what he's done during and since February 2007 with regard to Liverpool FC.

As to others on here; I agree - I can easily see Hicks dragging everything along and making us think he'll sell with everything intact and then? Fcuk it up RIGHT at the death by umm, I don't know sacking Rafa', selling Gerrard and Torres and Masch' and Reina, hiking his price RIGHT back up before the deal is concluded in a last desperate attempt to make a profit before being forced out OR? The worst one of the lot - dragging the whole saga RIGHT out to it's inevitable, messy conclusion like trench warfare or Stalingrad and FORCING the bank to BLAST him out of LFC room by room - taking things to the ABSOLUTE deadline and STILL not going - FORCING them to get rid of him and NOT paying debts the whole time - THAT would be VERY messy, very messy indeed and Hicks WOULD do it alright - why? From nothing more than sheer, nasty, vicious, childish spite of course. 

They always say like father, like son;  So if Hicks JR is a complete arsewipe (and he IS - has been shown to be) then HOW bad does that make Hicks Sr whose the whole reason for the little scrote being here? I think that yes, we WILL get a decent new owner Eventually but first thanks to the current useless toad and his dinky sidekick? Well because of THEM, things could (and probably Will) get VERY nasty indeed at Anfield....................................

NB Blert - it's JUST like 2007 all over again isn't it? Do the current owners (tossers though they are) sell up for LESS, but a later promise of more and the good of the club OR do they take ALL they can get from the other, less stable offer NOW and run, leaving us, our debt and THEIR mess for someone else to clear up? I think I know which one they'll choose and I don't like that idea, not one bit.
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« Reply #148 on: February 9, 2010, 01:38:29 AM »
Looks suspiciously like trying to secure first mover advantage.  It doesn't seem right to give them that much credit, but Ayres is no idiot so who knows.

Yea, let's wait and see how this whole thing will turn out to be.
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« Reply #149 on: February 9, 2010, 01:39:00 AM »
Can't see this happening at the figures quoted.. £237m for a 51% stake?? That would value the club at about £465m - seems way too high considering £400m has been balked at by previous prospective investors.. hmm.. will wait and see how this develops but not getting my hopes up yet.

interesting.....if true, ambani is not offering the parasites one penny  ;D....he'll pay off the debt that they created out of thin air....this article makes the purslow stuff about H&G being un-willing to drop their price, and his apparent disdain for the americans and their stance all the more believable. We have to hope that Purslow, RBS strangle them from one side, and SOS and us all from the other side can apply sufficient pressure on H&G to walk away with nothing, or close to it,... it's not as if  they've earnt anything here or have produced anything of any value.

I am grateful that Purslow was as honest and brave as he was, speaking a fuller truth than we would ever normally expect from someone in his position, for we can now see future stories like this one about Ambani in a much more accurate context:

....that the problem all along has been the greedy unwillingness of H&G to put the long term health of the club before their own narrow/short term profit/interest, which means selling the club at a reasonable price, and to people who can help the club grow. As Purslow said, H&G won't put in a penny more of their own money, surely an acceptance that they are out of their league.
 
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« Reply #150 on: February 9, 2010, 01:39:21 AM »
RBS hold the aces, and the more I understand about Purslow the more I believe he is acting on behalf of RBS rather than the owners. He is protecting the assets that RBS have lent money against. I'm sure that RBS are gonna be pissed off with these clowns and will force them to sell soon enough.

I think Rafa has been put in the picture to some degree, with murmurings about the summer. I have a feeling that big changes are in store during the close season.

I do take positive things from these articles, from the perspective that there are actually people out there who could potentially rescue us and we're not a lost cause. It is RBS / Purslow who will find them.
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« Reply #151 on: February 9, 2010, 01:43:52 AM »
Quick question:
If you were told that these lads were to take over the club, no questions asked, would you take it? Could be a pompey could be a city. Would you take the risk or stick with Hicks and Gillett? Yes or No.

I think any new owner is worth the risk, they might turn out to be useless bastards, but we already know that the yanks are.

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« Reply #152 on: February 9, 2010, 01:43:55 AM »
Incidentally other than the difference between Middle and (fairly) Far East; Does anyone think that Ambani's plan sounds VERY similar to what DIC once wanted to do at Anfield? (obviously backed with FAR greater wealth though).   Getting the club stable? Sorting out its Finances? Sorting out and strengthening the team to the required standard to challenge? Organising top notch academies here AND in the region the buyers are in? Now just WHERE have I heard all THAT before?  Let's hope the Yanks DO put the health of the club at heart for once - live up to their lies for once, sell to the better offer for the CLUB and then? Fuck off, never to come NEAR Liverpool again, EVER............................
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« Reply #153 on: February 9, 2010, 01:44:08 AM »
RBS hold the aces, and the more I understand about Purslow the more I believe he is acting on behalf of RBS rather than the owners. He is protecting the assets that RBS have lent money against. I'm sure that RBS are gonna be pissed off with these clowns and will force them to sell soon enough.

I think Rafa has been put in the picture to some degree, with murmurings about the summer. I have a feeling that big changes are in store during the close season.

I do take positive things from these articles, from the perspective that there are actually people out there who could potentially rescue us and we're not a lost cause. It is RBS / Purslow who will find them.

just a thought but

could RBS enforce their security to the extent of taking 51% and handing it over without us being 'in administration' and losing the points

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Re: Full text: Times Exlusive: India's richest man wants to buy Liverpool
« Reply #154 on: February 9, 2010, 01:45:21 AM »
Another thing, public perception and company image means a lot to Ambani.
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« Reply #155 on: February 9, 2010, 01:46:08 AM »
Think that could ONLY happen Belfast IF they could assure the league that they're reorganising to secure our finances for the future and that we're 'in transit' effectively and NOT controlled by a bank - the MINUTE the league get a smell of us being administered by a bank? Well look at Crystal Palace the other week for your answer and THAT is to horrifying to contemplate in our current state on the pitch.......................
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« Reply #156 on: February 9, 2010, 01:46:10 AM »
RBS hold the aces, and the more I understand about Purslow the more I believe he is acting on behalf of RBS rather than the owners. He is protecting the assets that RBS have lent money against. I'm sure that RBS are gonna be pissed off with these clowns and will force them to sell soon enough.

I think Rafa has been put in the picture to some degree, with murmurings about the summer. I have a feeling that big changes are in store during the close season.

I do take positive things from these articles, from the perspective that there are actually people out there who could potentially rescue us and we're not a lost cause. It is RBS / Purslow who will find them.

What aces do RBS hold?  If H&G get pissed enough, they'll just get a loan elsewhere and tell RBS to do one.

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« Reply #158 on: February 9, 2010, 01:46:17 AM »
Yes, one in Pune if I'm not wrong.

That's where I'm from. And like destiny_dude said earlier, football fever is HUGE in India. And India is an untapped market. If Liverpool could make inroads there, it could pay a lot of dividends, in more ways than one.

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Re: Full text: Times Exlusive: India's richest man wants to buy Liverpool
« Reply #159 on: February 9, 2010, 01:50:26 AM »
United have their eyes on India and Nigeria. Two big untapped markets.
Let us never forget Rafael Benitez and what he did for us. A fighter full of guts and passion. A gentleman full of class and dignity. A football manager full of intelligence and pure genius. A Legend.
Treat him well Massimo, or we will burn the San Siro to the ground.

Adios Rafa, buena suerte.