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URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« on: September 19, 2010, 09:09:27 am »
Okay people - things have got a little more interesting:

This is The Telegraph's brief summary -
Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks is reported to have told the club’s board that he will sign a £281million refinancing deal to stay in charge at Anfield on Oct 1.
The American, who met Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton in London for talks last week, hopes the deal with the Blackstone/GSO Group will allow him another two years to find a buyer for the Merseyside club, who face Manchester United today.
The deal reportedly does not include any funds to buy new players or to build a new stadium. The notion of Hicks remaining in charge could also lead to questions over the long-term futures of Pepe Reina and Fernando Torres, who have voiced concerns over the club’s ambitions under the American owners.
 


Now overnight, RAWK's answers to Lisbeth Salmander and her team have been beavering away to provide us with up to date contacts; the first stage is to make Blackstone/GSO (or any alternative leverage specialists) think again, if we can. I'd suggest sending this to the first two email addresses on this list and cc-ing the rest; the template is a suggestion only. I'm hoping to have some considered advice from Jack later on, as to the best arguments to use and at the moment, I must confess, my anger level is sky-high and a great deal of emotion has spilled into this email. Still, lets them know we're not easy fodder for their particular brand of rapacious capitalism, eh?

GET EMAILING people. I came on here this morning and 'famous lookalikes' was at the top of the board. For those who prefer snailmail/faxes, I'll be posting those details subsequently.


bennett.goodman@gsocap.com; Stephen.Schwarzman@blackstone.com

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cgoldsmith@beachpointcapital.com; lgoldman@beachpointcapital.com;
droerig@beachpointcapital.com; lfink@blackrock.com; tlevart@dkpartners.com; sleviant@dkpartners.com; jbloom@trimarancapital.com; David.Shaw@deshaw.com; jaranson@centerbridge.com; jbader@halcyonllc.com; mbrancaccio@stonetowercapital.com


This morning, supporters of Liverpool Football Club woke up to the news that Blackstone/GSO is considering a £281m loan to Tom Hicks to continue in his leveraged ownership of the club, news which is greeted by us with a mixture of anger, outrage and despair.
I can assure you of a number of facts:
Should Blackstone/GSO or any other of the financial institutions cc-ed to this email bail out Tom Hicks, you will be taking a heavy risk, even without the hostility of the supporters of the club.
You are no doubt aware that Hicks Sports Group defaulted on a $525m loan last year and the details of the lenders’ outrage at his subsequent manoeuvres concerning land around the Texas Rangers’ stadium. If not, we would be happy to provide you with the details.
Hicks subsequently gave interviews making clear that the default was ‘strategic’ and painting himself as a successful businessman in other fields.
Hicks cannot have it both ways. Either he is a successful businessman – in which case he thinks nothing of reneging on financial agreements if they prove onerous to him – or he did not have the money to repay the loan. In neither case can he be considered a good risk for repayment of a large loan.
No doubt, Hicks has portrayed LFC as a successful vehicle with a growing commercial profile and the ability to repay high interest payments in his approach to you. You should be aware that LFC is in decline, thanks to Hicks’s tenure, and has dropped out of the lucrative Champions League. Its inability to support the interest on the current loans is one factor draining the on-pitch success that ensures off-pitch profit. On Thursday, its ground was 20,000 short of capacity as fans stayed away. It is said that Hicks is seeking to mortgage the loan against the ground and players: if so, you should also be aware that the ground is worth little, being in an extremely depressed area of Liverpool, and the players have made publicly clear their opposition to Hicks’ continuation as owner so that it is likely the best will leave (their ability to pick their own destinations means there can be no guarantee of their achieving their highest worth) should he stay.
It is said that Hicks believes the supporters will accept him as a sole owner. If he has indeed been so deluded as to have informed you of this, I now seek to correct the impression. Hicks and his son are held in contempt by millions of Liverpool supporters worldwide. We are increasingly mobilised and drastic measures, including boycotts, are now being discussed. We are not prepared to see the club we love bled to death.
Has he informed you about Liverpool’s worldwide supporter base? A word of advice: the lukewarm fans will drift away as the debt bleeds the club dry of success, the hardcore fans will boycott and do everything in their power to ensure Hicks is ousted without a penny of profit as quickly as possible.
Don’t believe me? Research us. Look at whom you are dealing with. Look at the boycott we carried out against The Sun newspaper after it defamed our supporters. Look at how we drove shock jockey S Cohen off the air when he insulted our dead. We are not the tame consumers you lbo people are used to dealing with. We are militant, passionate and committed. I don’t know how we will do it, I don’t know how long it will take, but we will drive Hicks from this club and your organisation will be the target of our considered and organised action if you bail him out.
Oh, and personally, I wouldn’t lend Hicks a fiver.
Yours faithfully,




« Last Edit: September 19, 2010, 09:41:35 am by No666 »

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2010, 09:13:51 am »
Well in. Get on this people. We cannot afford to have this c*nt around here for another two years.

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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2010, 09:14:48 am »
I think/hope this is a bluff. Potential investors would have surely hung on till the end in the hope of getting the club at a knock down price. This news may push them into making a move earlier.

If it is true then it is game over, we have lost.

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2010, 09:15:18 am »
everyone needs to check out the thread about emailing the banks to address this issue and send an email today!  Don't delay
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« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2010, 09:16:24 am »
Done 666, sorry on this occasion I just copied and pasted your mail, too angry to think of anything else to write at the minute.
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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2010, 09:18:23 am »
Done

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2010, 09:18:37 am »
Snailmail and fax details for those that prefer them: the important one is at the top - he's a right capitalist b*stard, right-wing republican shite btw.

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2010, 09:19:45 am »
Top class work No666.

Sent - await the inevitable bouncebacks.

EDIT:

Bouncebacks from tlevart@dkpartners.com, sleviant@dkpartners.com, droerig@beachpointcapital.com and jaranson@centerbridge.com
« Last Edit: September 19, 2010, 09:37:39 am by Passmaster Molby »

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2010, 09:21:31 am »
Done 666, sorry on this occasion I just copied and pasted your mail, too angry to think of anything else to write at the minute.

That's what it's there for, JP. I'm hoping to do a measured, considered one later today if Jack can help me with words of wisdom. Apologies if I've made a public fool of myself with too much emotion on here. There are times in life when you realise you're still the left-wing hot-headed idiot you were at 20, and this is one such.

BTW if anyone can get this across the other fora swiftly, it'd be appreciated. I'm logging off to get a shower.
« Last Edit: September 19, 2010, 09:23:08 am by No666 »

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2010, 09:22:11 am »
Excellent letter Rob I felt your anger well in.

Whos ringing them tommorrow?

I will write a new one now no more Mrs Nice Girl  ;)
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« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2010, 09:22:39 am »
Brilliant! Sent!

I had to copy it, I myself am too pissed off to make up something
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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2010, 09:23:33 am »
Another massive game and another damning financial headline jut hours before kickoff. This is beyond repulsive. I'll send these emails straight away when I wake up to watch the match. Hicks must be stopped at all costs, we have to get deadly serious. This cannot be allowed to happen.

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« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2010, 09:26:04 am »
Excellent letter Rob I felt your anger well in.

Whos ringing them tommorrow?

I will write a new one now no more Mrs Nice Girl  ;)

Lynds, post up when you've done it - I'm with you on this now, gloves are off, no more nicey, nicey  :no
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« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2010, 09:27:33 am »
E-mails sent. Will update if I experience any bouncebacks.

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2010, 09:30:15 am »
Done mate.

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« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2010, 09:31:07 am »
Get posting people your club needs you!!

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« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2010, 09:32:09 am »
Done. Well written No666

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« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2010, 09:32:31 am »
aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh my e mail has gone down.......soon as its is up.. TOTAL BOYCOTT fronm the local firm who sponsor to STANDARD CHARTERED.

AND stop going the game. The carling cup needs to be boycotted immedeately it is the last game before the signing of his new deal

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« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2010, 09:32:58 am »
Well Done Rob , done aswell , cant beleive there are still so many Reds out there who refuse to accept how Bad things are ! Maybe if he gets his way the next 2 years will wake them up ! Action was needed along time ago and now its finally happening i hope were not to Late !
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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2010, 09:32:58 am »
droerig@beahpointcapital.com is getting a failed delivery report

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« Reply #20 on: September 19, 2010, 09:33:58 am »
Delivery to the following recipients failed permanently:
droerig@beahpointcapital.com
sleviant@dkpartners.com
tlevart@dkpartners.com
jaranson@centerbridge.com


Out of Office:
mbrancaccio@stonetowercapital.com

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« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2010, 09:33:59 am »
Done.
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« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2010, 09:34:30 am »
sent a slightly edited version. good work.

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« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2010, 09:34:30 am »
droerig@beahpointcapital.com is getting a failed delivery report

It should be beach, there's a c missing.

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« Reply #24 on: September 19, 2010, 09:34:47 am »
Sent. We need to hit these fuckers hard.

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« Reply #25 on: September 19, 2010, 09:34:59 am »
Sent.
Fool, if it wasn't for Sergei here, both you and your cousin be cadaverous mo'fuckers.

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« Reply #26 on: September 19, 2010, 09:37:06 am »
It should be beach, there's a c missing.
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Will change recipient and try again.

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #27 on: September 19, 2010, 09:37:13 am »
"I am currently out of the office, returning on September 22.  If you have an urgent matter, please don't hesitate to contact me on my cell at 917.509.2021.  Thank you."


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I was in Alder Hay with an abscess on my hip in about 1973 and Bill Shankly never came and played the bongos for me.

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #28 on: September 19, 2010, 09:38:13 am »
It should be beach, there's a c missing.

Thanks. I copied the email from the first post so that needs to be fixed there. Also got an out of office reply from Marian Brancaccio.

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« Reply #29 on: September 19, 2010, 09:40:14 am »
Got this:-

Marian Brancaccio to me
   
I am currently out of the office, returning on September 22.  If you have an urgent matter, please don't hesitate to contact me on my cell at 917.509.2021.  Thank you.

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« Reply #30 on: September 19, 2010, 09:42:46 am »
Fucking hell, when will it all just fucking stop?!

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« Reply #31 on: September 19, 2010, 09:43:15 am »
i edited it slightly so it wasnt so long but have sent.

I am not the greatest of writers but I think a much shorter note just saying we are fully against refinancing and our goal is to remove h&g might be better especially as yours is probably the first to go and will be the one read than others should be sending a basic backup.

Anyway good work.
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« Reply #32 on: September 19, 2010, 09:43:32 am »
address corrected.

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« Reply #33 on: September 19, 2010, 09:43:38 am »
Done. God fucking damn them for ruining another important matchday. There is nothing else now...honestly, i would take a 5-0 defeat today if it got rid of them.

I did my own version, bearing in mind WaltonRed's advice from Friday i think it was. Really important to highlight the S*N and Cohen campaigns.

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« Reply #34 on: September 19, 2010, 09:43:53 am »
Fucking hell, when will it all just fucking stop?!

When he's 6 foot under and I'm pissing on his grave.

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« Reply #35 on: September 19, 2010, 09:45:56 am »
Sent - brilliant work.

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« Reply #36 on: September 19, 2010, 09:47:10 am »
Sent

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« Reply #37 on: September 19, 2010, 09:47:43 am »
Got this:-

Marian Brancaccio to me
   
I am currently out of the office, returning on September 22.  If you have an urgent matter, please don't hesitate to contact me on my cell at 917.509.2021.  Thank you.

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Perfect. Time to give Mrs. Brancaccio a phone call or two.

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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #38 on: September 19, 2010, 09:48:14 am »
Got this:-

Marian Brancaccio to me
   
I am currently out of the office, returning on September 22.  If you have an urgent matter, please don't hesitate to contact me on my cell at 917.509.2021.  Thank you.

___________________________________________________________________________

Let the text campaign begin.....+01 to begin I would think?
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Re: URGENT: Hicks's 281m loan - campaign to fight for our club!
« Reply #39 on: September 19, 2010, 09:49:22 am »
Let the text campaign begin.....+01 to begin I would think?

Now that is a good idea, anyone done it yet.......
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