Topic: Echo Comment on Stadium

[MikeD]

Liverpool Echo - Moment of truth - Sep 28 2006
   
THE long running saga over Liverpool FC’s plans to build a new stadium today appeared to be drawing to a close.

The club have managed to convince Objective One chiefs that they do indeed have the money in place to proceed with the exciting project and have thus been awarded a £9m European grant.

Ever since proposals were first revealed there has been speculation – and sometimes even a great deal of doubt – about whether the club could secure the necessary finance to turn its dreams into reality.

During this time, Liverpool have done what all good businesses should do – kept their cards close to their chest and not allowed themselves to become embroiled in conjecture.

Behind the scenes, chief executive Rick Parry and chairman David Moores have worked tirelessly to put together the sort of funding package which will kick-start the whole project.

Today it has become clear that they have successfully navigated this stage of the procedure and now it is to be hoped that progress will be swift so that Liverpool FC can continue to flourish on the pitch and the Anfield area in which it is based can finally be regenerated.

Hopefully today’s good news will give everyone involved a much clearer vision of the club’s direction.

Critics may claim it has been a long time coming but such large scale business ventures rarely happen quickly and anyone who believed this one would buck that trend was missing the point of what a tricky proposition this particular venture is.

A new stadium would be wonderful for the club, the fans and the city as a whole.

Now the challenge is to finally make it happen.

The ball is well and truly in Liverpool FC’s court now and the hopes of all their fans and every single resident of Anfield now rests with them.

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[docker]

come on david moores, show us the money, as the council have said, its over to you. i believe we dont have the funds.

[ttnbd]

Docker you wouldn't believe the club had money even if they showed you a suitcase full of £50 notes

[Kopite]

Docker you wouldn't believe the club had money even if they showed you a suitcase full of £50 notes

"It's monopoly money I tells yer..."

[docker]

Docker you wouldn't believe the club had money even if they showed you a suitcase full of £50 notes

so why when today the council got asked if lfc have got the funding in place, she flo clucas said, thats upto them, youll have to ask lfc,
so you tell me, have we got the money, because everyone knows that the regenaration of the area has nothing to do with lfc. infact thats already started, the new stadium could of been started last may, only we didnt have the money.

[Kopite]

so why when today the council got asked if lfc have got the funding in place, she flo clucas said, thats upto them, youll have to ask lfc,
so you tell me, have we got the money, because everyone knows that the regenaration of the area has nothing to do with lfc. infact thats already started, the new stadium could've been started last may, only we didnt have the money.

So you think the council would hand out £9m pound on the say so of David Moores or Rick Parry?

[Rushian]

so why when today the council got asked if lfc have got the funding in place, she flo clucas said, thats upto them, youll have to ask lfc,
so you tell me, have we got the money, because everyone knows that the regenaration of the area has nothing to do with lfc. infact thats already started, the new stadium could've been started last may, only we didnt have the money.

She didn't say that at all - she said it's up to Liverpool to talk about the funding package they have in place, not that there was no funding package. We had to demonstrate the money was in place to release these grants.

[BrianL]

Docker, you've been the voice of debate all through this and have made some great posts in favour of what you believe.

But i think it's time to accept the inevitable now, otherwise you'll end up looking like a flat-earther. Clucas said the club can discuss the funding thmselves, it's up to them, not what you said.

But we all know this money means LFC had to prove the funding for the stadium was in place. If it wasn't, she'd have been fuckin dancing up Dale St to tell all and sundry, so you have to accept the finance is there.

[JP-65]

But we all know this money means LFC had to prove the funding for the stadium was in place. If it wasn't, she'd have been fuckin dancing up Dale St to tell all and sundry, so you have to accept the finance is there.

 

Nice turn of phrase!

[nidgemo]

come on david moores, show us the money, as the council have said, its over to you. i believe we dont have the funds.

jesus christ, don't you have an off switch?

The club have had to prove to a city council, and several european union funding bodies, many of whom were opposed to the stadium idea, that they had the funding, and you STILL don't believe it.

Do you think the world just exists to take the piss out of you?

[nidgemo]

But i think it's time to accept the inevitable now, otherwise you'll end up looking like a flat-earther.

End up looking like one?

He's looked like one since I've been posting here, and that's been two or three years.

I used to think he was just a mischief causing blue, but now I think he genuinely has some serious mental issues.

[iAnfieldRoad]

I have heard a rumour albeit a small rumour which i dont know how much foundation there is to it that COCA COLA will be involved in the new stadium or the club.One person says that CARLESBERG will sponsor the stadium and COCA COLA will be on the shirts.The other one says that it will be COCA COLA involved in the stadium with the naming rights for it.Like i said i dont know how much truth there is in it and it might very well be a load of pish.YNWA

[iAnfieldRoad]

It probably is mate on all accounts but i thought some of you lads might know more if i mentioned it 

[anon-y-mouse]

I have heard a rumour albeit a small rumour which i dont know how much foundation there is to it that COCA COLA will be involved in the new stadium or the club.One person says that CARLESBERG will sponsor the stadium and COCA COLA will be on the shirts.The other one says that it will be COCA COLA involved in the stadium with the naming rights for it.Like i said i dont know how much truth there is in it and it might very well be a load of pish.YNWA

Heard a similar rumour myself a few weeks ago.

[The Commish]

I have heard a rumour albeit a small rumour which i don't know how much foundation there is to it that COCA COLA will be involved in the new stadium or the club.One person says that CARLESBERG will sponsor the stadium and COCA COLA will be on the shirts.The other one says that it will be COCA COLA involved in the stadium with the naming rights for it.Like i said i don't know how much truth there is in it and it might very well be a load of pish.YNWA

Heard something like that a few years back but only Nike was to be the design and clearly it didn't happen with Adidas coming in, the CocaCola thing may happen though.

[Satiric Gibbon]

I have heard a rumour albeit a small rumour which i dont know how much foundation there is to it that COCA COLA will be involved in the new stadium or the club.One person says that CARLESBERG will sponsor the stadium and COCA COLA will be on the shirts.The other one says that it will be COCA COLA involved in the stadium with the naming rights for it.Like i said i dont know how much truth there is in it and it might very well be a load of pish.YNWA

Kind of, we will always play in red and white, and that will always be the Real Thing, but a certain sports company might just have promised a lot of money for the rights to name the Adidas stadium.. And it seems that it has been a Kraft(y) piece of work to get all the funding together. But there is NO mo(o)re to it than that. I guess we will wait and see 

[SMD]

I have heard a rumour albeit a small rumour which i dont know how much foundation there is to it that COCA COLA will be involved in the new stadium or the club.One person says that CARLESBERG will sponsor the stadium and COCA COLA will be on the shirts.The other one says that it will be COCA COLA involved in the stadium with the naming rights for it.Like i said i dont know how much truth there is in it and it might very well be a load of pish.YNWA

How's it going, Brian?

[Rushian]

The coca cola thing has been going around for years with little substance to it.

[iAnfieldRoad]

The coca cola thing has been going around for years with little substance to it.

How's it going, Brian?

The coca cola thing has been going around for years with little substance to it.

like i said it is a rumour but by the looks of it this has been going around for a while

The coca cola thing has been going around for years with little substance to it.

How's it going, Brian?

like i said lads it is a rumour and i dont know how strong it is but by the sounds of things it has been going for a while.my name isnt brian mate

[Col]

The coca cola thing has been going around for years with little substance to it.

Didn't they cancel all their individual team sponsorship contracts, with a view to concentrating on sponsoring tournaments and competitions?

[SMD]

my name isnt brian mate

Just a joke, the editor on TeamTalk was convinced every season that Nike and Coca Cola would sponsor us, that it was a matter of time for Houllier to convince Zidane to join, along with Thuram and someone else I can't remember.