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The Crimson Pirate:
My pal who has on overactive imagination and insomnia emailed me this ...

What if?


--- Quote ---* Perenially skint Liverpool City Council volunteers to pay back £8m grant in exchange for Cruise Liner Terminal status. Where is this money coming from?
 
* Liverpool City Council announces two seperate clearance programmes around Anfield - one of the schemes involving housing owned by Liverpool FC. Speculation that the club has "given" the houses to LCC. Why would LFC do that?

* Peel Holdings signs a pre-contract with LCC guaranteeing thousands of jobs for locals on its Liverpool Waters scheme. The new cruise liner terminal is a key component.
 
* Liverpool FC features heavily on the home page of Inner Circle Sports. Why? It's the current team, photos of Stevie and Suarez etc. What is Inner Circle's current relationship with LFC? Inner Circle is a NYC-based sports finance agency that seeks to match up financiers with "franchises" who're looking for funding. Other clients past and present include
FSG (a nice page about their role in the Fenway Park refurb) and, erm... Everton FC. It's worth noting that many of those who believed the Kenny Huang takeover bid was real, were advised that Inner Circle's financier clients included Mill Finacial and the China Investment Corporation.
 
* China Investment Corporation is rumoured to be in the final stages of a major Liverpool (city) based property deal, with LFC one of the stakeholders.

* CIC was behind a massive re-gen scheme in Shanghai very similar in scale, ambition and physicality to Liverpool Waters.

* FSG spent a considerable time with Rick Parry analysing the fine print of the TV deal and, specifically, the rights situation in the Far East.
 
* With Financial Fair Play rules about to kick in, the only potential loopholes in terms of a major investment (using Man City's Etihad sponsorship as an example) stem from "Umbrella" financing from parent companies - for example, if a bank like China Investment Company was to sink £800 million into a (for illustration purposes) "Liverpool FC Village" element of the Liverpool Waters scheme (stadium, hotels, casino, bars, restaurants and, yes, globally-revered football team), it's possible to imagine 10% of that dripping down to the manager for team reinforcements. You could equally envisage FSG parting with 49% and Far East TV rights in exchange for equity.

Personally, I could never see why CIC would become involved in a project to re-generate the Anfield/Breckfield district. It's small beer, for them. Liverpool Waters, however, is much more their thing in terms of scope and aspiration.
 
Is there a major plan afoot, to re-locate Liverpool Football Club to the banks of the river? Are we in favour of such a move? If it is a genuinely high spec stadium of architectural excellence that enhances and becomes a part of Liverpool's iconic skyline then Yes. For me, a resounding Yes. Port cities look to the future as well as the past.

Finally, there was a suggestion that "even Everton will benefit". Outlandish I know but, with a few sweetners from CIC/LCC to replace the red seats with blue and build up their own Everton Village might they move back to... Anfield?

Like I say - I think too much.


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djphal:
Everton move back to Anfield???

wtf

CraigDS:
There was always talk of any shared stadium being on the waterfront.

Personally I can't see it being true, not going off whats written above. FSG won't be able to sell/give away foreign TV rights, and even if they had found a loop hole the PL will plug that quickly, and prevent us playing in the PL unless we signed the new agreement. And even if they could, 49% of the club plus asian TV rights are probably worth more than any new stadium or land acquisition and redev of Anfield (massively).

Nessy76:
"FSG spent a considerable time with Rick Parry analysing the fine print of the TV deal and, specifically, the rights situation in the Far East."

Whaaaaaaaat?

scatman:
very interesting, especially if theres any truth in any of those points

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