So are you saying that he is a really good businessman due to his dealings with getting best price for Littlewoods, and deliberately selling us at a massive profit for himself and fellow shareholders. But failed to be able to grasp the long term profit that could have been available for both him and the club due to his lack of business acumen.
Is it a case of him looking out for himself and knowingly saying sod the club? Or do you believe he sold in good faith and (like the rest/most of us) failed to see what H&G had in mind all along. Or do you think H&G got into this with a reasonable agenda for themselves and the club, and subsequently realised that they were out of their depth in what was required, and all actions since have been because of this?
I am no fan of Moore’s LFC regime. He coasted on past success, failed to invest in the structure of the club and the ground , made poor managerial decisions, and provided poor leadership all round.
The first paragraph of mine you quoted was in response to someone who said he had no business acumen, his record proves the reverse. I AM saying that he is a good businessman for selling the Pools and Retail business at the top of the market. Both businesses subsequently collapsed. Interestingly in both cases he sold because he did not have the energy, know-how, or will to guide those businesses through the periods of massive change which would have been required to keep them successful. As for us, he sold at a price which has never been offered again, so yes, he was successful in personal and shareholder terms. But it was his 17 years in charge that did the damage and I hold him accountable for, not the sale.
I disagree that he “failed to grasp the long term profit that could have been available for both him and the club due to his lack of business acumen.” He came out of the sale with around £80m. The club needed ( and still needs) £350m on a new stadium, and over a five year term including when the stadium was being built at least another £200m on the team to compete with the Top 3 and Man City. Including the then debt we were sold for £220m. Exactly when in the future are we going to be worth more than £770m? He got out because he acknowledged that he had neither the energy, know how or will to guide us through that period ( sound familiar?), and quite properly thought that £80m now was a lot better than “something” a long way in the future.
As for your second paragraph, I think that he sold in good faith to G&H and is as horrified as all of us as to how it has gone wrong. Equally, subsequent events have proved that if DIC had bought us things could have been just as bad. G&H? I think that they came in with reasonably good intentions, and have been monstered by both their own total inability to understand what they had bought, and events beyond their control. They did not understand how emotive the debt issue would be with the fans, nor did they anticipate not being able to get a new stadium built to both finance the debt more easily, and raise the capital value of the club for re-sale.