Liverpool FC sold!

[coupwotcoup]

bringing this back on topic - this from the guardian.

 

1970s British glam rockers The Sweet are still doing the rounds but no one pays much attention to them any more even though their lead guitarist moonlights as manager of Brentford FC. The Fiver, however, found itself humming the melody to their catchiest hit last night as it followed the bloody hi-jinks at Anfield, which can only be described as a Boardroom Blitz. Oh yeah it was electric, so frightfully hectic, and the Americans started leaving, because their fellow directors stopped believing. Boardroom blitz (de-dum-dum-dum). Boardroom blitz (de-dum-dum-dum). Boardroom blitz (de-dum-dum-dum).

 

 

 

Beats the pants off You'll Never Walk Alone, doesn't it?

 

 

 

Yes, it does. Anyhow, this is what happened: Liverpool's five-man board accepted a £300m bid from a group run by Boston Red Sox top banana John W Henry. But it wasn't a unanimous accord: two of the board - popular club owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett - opposed the sale because they wanted a price much closer to the £600m they insist the club is worth. So they tried to oust two of the directors, Christian Purslow and Ian Ayre, and replace them with people whom they knew would vote against the sale.

 

 

 

The thing is, chairman Martin Broughton was appointed by the Royal Bank of Scotland, to whom they owe the equivalent of around 100 Paul Koncheskys and, as a condition of RBS's decision not to call in the debts, they had stipulated that only Broughton could change the composition of the board. According to Broughton, Hicks and Gillett "flagrantly abused" their undertaking to respect this provision. Broughton maintained Purslow and Ayre in situ and says the sale can go ahead, leaving them with losses of up to £144m as punishment for their sorry Liverpool misadventure. It is expected that they will contest the sale in court, where Broughton expects the beak to declare that "we did act validly in completing the sale of agreement".

 

 

 

So what of the potential new owner? He's American, he's got a big Dubya smack bang in the middle of his name and his main sporting love is rounders: what could possibly go wrong? "I have been meeting them now for several weeks in Boston, in Liverpool, in London, and I feel they are totally committed to supporting and getting the winning mentality back into the team," hurrahed Broughton, who assured fans the owners have promised to invest in players and either expand Anfield or build the club a new home. Sound familiar?

 

 

 

Unless Hicks and Gillett thwart the sale in court - and if they go down that route it could be several weeks before the outcome is known - then the only hurdle to Henry will be the Premier League's fit and proper person test. And, of course, that is easier to pass than two dishevelled and vomiting beggars who used to be cynical speculators.

 

 

 

 

Perhaps Gerry Marsden could get the gang of '89 back together and re-name the band 'Anfield Aid'.

Might raise enough to pay for another Lucas. Worse Premiership player since Mikel Beck?

[Eastside Urchin]

almunia is worse

[coupwotcoup]

almunia is worse

 

Ouch...

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/9074311.stm

[Eastside Urchin]

would absolutely p1ss myself if this happens

[coupwotcoup]

And of course their next match is.....at Goodison.

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

Coup - please see post number 13 of this thread for reference to this............... and do try to keep up old boy!

[coupwotcoup]

Ooooooooooo get her. I was just adding some flesh to the bones...

Just a date is too ambiguous for your lot - well some anyway!