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Liverbird 2010 · « **on:** January 14, 2008, 10:30:18 am »

Tom Hicks: We lined up Jurgen KlinsmannJan 14 2008

EXCLUSIVE by Tony Barrett, Liverpool Echo

TOM Hicks and George Gillett held a secret meeting with Jurgen Klinsmann to line him up as the next manager of Liverpool FC.

Hicks today insisted the talks would not have resulted in the immediate dismissal of Rafael Benitez and that Klinsmann was only "an insurance policy."

He told the ECHO: "We attempted to negotiate an option, as an insurance policy, to have him become manager if Rafa left for Real Madrid or other clubs that were rumoured in the UK press.

"Or in case our communication spiralled out of control for some reason."

* Had Liverpool crashed out of the Champions League the club’s owners would have tried to replace Benitez.

* A deal was almost agreed for Dubai International Capital to buy a minority share in the club in the autumn, only for talks to collapse over the valuation of the club.

* Hicks is hopeful for a financial restructure and that plans for the new stadium will be released by the end of this week.

For the full story, see today's Liverpool Echo.

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0500liverpoolfc/0100news/tm_headline=tom-hicks-we-lined-up-jurgen-klinsmann%26method=full%26objectid=20347793%26siteid=50061-name_page.html

They have to go now Im sorry if Klinsmann is the type of manager they are looking to bring.

wickolfc · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:30:55 am »

Doesn't look good...

Valore · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:32:13 am »

Quote from: wickolfc on January 14, 2008, 10:30:55 am

Doesn't look good...

Come on wicko, you get the mob, I'll get the cart of pitchforks and torches...

Rossie · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:32:22 am »

Just read that, I'm shocked, disgusted and disillusioned by it all.

Brick Tamland · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:32:29 am »

Fucking Hell.

You don't come out and admit that sort of shite, even if true.

culbs · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:32:35 am »

Muppets of owners. Rafa is a dead man walking.

Henry Chinaski · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:32:53 am »

Fucking cowboy c*nts.

kev78 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:33:10 am »

For fucks sake....

Johnnyboy1973 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:33:10 am »

"You dont know what you're doing!"

NatD · « **Reply #9 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:33:17 am »

Fcuk me!

I could really do with some DIC in my life right now........!

GTCarney · « **Reply #10 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:34:14 am »

dirty linnen in public again. c*nts.

LFCsnoopz · « **Reply #11 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:34:16 am »

fucking read like the last two posts first and thought rafa left, that's what heartbreak feels like

Istanbul Therapy Group · « **Reply #12 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:34:19 am »

Fuck off now you yank twats

Liverbird 2010 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:34:22 am »

Quote from: Brick Tamland on January 14, 2008, 10:32:29 am

Fucking Hell.

You don't come out and admit that sort of shite, even if true.

Cant believe it mate, really cant wonder who they have lined up next?

Rafa will walk now that I am sure of he will tell them to fuck off and rightly so.

Adonis the Handsome · « **Reply #14 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:34:37 am »

archie · « **Reply #15 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:34:54 am »

unbelievable

culbs · « **Reply #16 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:34:58 am »

Quote from: Brick Tamland on January 14, 2008, 10:32:29 am

Fucking Hell.

You don't come out and admit that sort of shite, even if true.

My thoughts aswell.

Henry Chinaski · « **Reply #17 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:35:06 am »

With the subtlety of George Dubya.

LFCsnoopz · « **Reply #18 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:35:22 am »

fucking how do we email these yanky bastards and tell them to fuck right off

Something Else · « **Reply #19 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:35:24 am »

dark day for the club, this is beyond belief, whether its all true or not now, we are being dragged through a media circus usually reserved for twats of big brother.

Think in a few years we could look back at this, as the time when we got close, and it all went wrong

the americans continue like this and we will be mid table mediocrity by the end of the decade

Sissoko78 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:35:30 am »

Quote from: Lyndsey_LFC on January 14, 2008, 10:30:18 am

Tom Hicks: We lined up Jurgen KlinsmannJan 14 2008

EXCLUSIVE by Tony Barrett, Liverpool Echo

TOM Hicks and George Gillett held a secret meeting with Jurgen Klinsmann to line him up as the next manager of Liverpool FC.

Hicks today insisted the talks would not have resulted in the immediate dismissal of Rafael Benitez and that Klinsmann was only "an insurance policy."

He told the ECHO: "We attempted to negotiate an option, as an insurance policy, to have him become manager if Rafa left for Real Madrid or other clubs that were rumoured in the UK press.

"Or in case our communication spiralled out of control for some reason."

* Had Liverpool crashed out of the Champions League the club’s owners would have tried to replace Benitez.

* A deal was almost agreed for Dubai International Capital to buy a minority share in the club in the autumn, only for talks to collapse over the valuation of the club.

* Hicks is hopeful for a financial restructure and that plans for the new stadium will be released by the end of this week.

For the full story, see today's Liverpool Echo.

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0500liverpoolfc/0100news/tm_headline=tom-hicks-we-lined-up-jurgen-klinsmann%26method=full%26objectid=20347793%26siteid=50061-name_page.html

They have to go now Im sorry if Klinsmann is the type of manager they are looking to bring.

Fuck me.

The only "an insurance policy" claim is inconsistent with the "out of CL, Rafa out" claim.

harrytrow · « **Reply #21 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:35:31 am »

Insurance policy my arse.
Definitely undermining Raffa's position and making it impossible for the man to continue.
Do they think they can achieve a Raffa resignation by admitting this or have they just been caught with their pants down and are trying a fdamage limitation.

Also for all those people who slated some for believing the press....well

wickolfc · « **Reply #22 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:35:35 am »

Quote from: valore on January 14, 2008, 10:32:13 am

Come on wicko, you get the mob, I'll get the cart of pitchforks and torches...

Mad Men · « **Reply #23 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:36:15 am »

Now thats done it for me...out with the yanks! For fuck's sakes, do these people not have any bloody ethics or integrity! They are as bad as bloody REAL MADRID!

Something Else · « **Reply #24 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:36:24 am »

how come its allways Hicks

davidg · « **Reply #25 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:36:34 am »

Confirmation that the owners are indeed. TWATS.

An insurance policy my arse, lying bastard.

¡Basta Ya! · « **Reply #26 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:36:39 am »

Well, that's like a brick to the face.

Quote from: Istanbul Therapy Group on January 14, 2008, 10:34:19 am

Fuck off now you yank twats

Yep.

rafathegaffa · « **Reply #27 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:36:59 am »

c*nts.

This is not the Liverpool way.

Sell up and fuck off.

wickolfc · « **Reply #28 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:37:05 am »

Reality is now, i think Rafa will go come the end of the season

lucid-tentacles · « **Reply #29 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:37:10 am »

Utter Fucking Wankers get the fuck out of our club and this is from someone who very very rarely swears Fucking Toerags

carling · « **Reply #30 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:37:42 am »

Usually I try to have a rational view on these sorts of things.

But it all just seems to get worse and worse.

I just can't believe how bad this is it is getting beyond a joke now.

Johnnyboy1973 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:37:45 am »

Quite simply, you dont line up replacements for employees, who have said they want a new contract.

Just drivel, total bullshit.

Doesn't wash.

LFCsnoopz · « **Reply #32 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:37:46 am »

Quote from: ¡Basta Ya! on January 14, 2008, 10:36:39 am

Well, that's like a brick to the face.

i'll give these two american clowns one of those if i happen to bump into them on my travels

BIGdavalad · « **Reply #33 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:37:49 am »

What the fuck has this club become?

Onward Liverpudlian · « **Reply #34 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:37:57 am »

The only surprise is that Hicks admitted it, the actual act of getting that 'insurance policy' is not controversial in itself because many of us have major doubts on Rafa ever being capable enough to 1) Deliver us a title challenge and 2) Deliver us some decent attractive football instead of the dull boring shite we get served up most weeks.

I really do hope DIC stay interested in our club.

SMD · « **Reply #35 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:38:32 am »

SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU USELESS, LOW-CLASS PRICKS.

I hope he chokes on his cowboy boots.

¡Basta Ya! · « **Reply #36 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:38:39 am »

Just how stupid is this guy to come out and say that.

Raul! · « **Reply #37 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:38:52 am »

Bloody idiotic shitheads. Not a bloody ounce of decency amongst them. Whatever anyone might think about our manager's tactics, he is a decent man with not even Cisse, who he could be accused of having frozen out, having a bad word to say about them.

I'm flipping livid.

That Kennedy moment · « **Reply #38 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:38:53 am »

Quote from: Rossie on January 14, 2008, 10:32:22 am

Just read that, I'm shocked, disgusted and disillusioned by it all.

Reminds me of that Claude Rains quote in Casablanca, where he's the French cop, Louis, who decides to close down Humphrey Bogart's club.

Bogart: 'Why are you closing me down Louis?'
Louis: 'I'm shocked, shocked to find gambling going on on the premises.'
Croupier to Louis: 'Here are your winnings sir.'
Louis: 'Oh… thank you very much.'

Jase · « **Reply #39 on:** January 14, 2008, 10:38:59 am »

I seriously cannot believe that he's came out and said this...