Money laundering? He clearly has no preference to any team, he is whoring himself around. That being said, He has a bad reputation at the teams he does own. So by all means, he can buy Liverpool.
Liverpool FC are up for sale
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Brian Farnet from Friern Barnet is interested and preparing a nasty offer.
If Ratcliffe shows something serious of a bid, I'm all for him to buy the club. But if he is nothing but hot air, then I hope one of the top Japanese club ownership groups from the J-League buys the club. My personal preference is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, who already own the high profile club of Urawa Red Diamonds (2 times AFC Champions League winners, 1 time runners-up, and a final coming soon).
I'm fine with not getting the 'sugar daddies' or big money owners. We are a big money club. What pisses me off is that we have these incompetent twats who have us paying of their debt.
What do you think?
Liverpool fans embracing dirty money from a shady oil country? Absolutely no chance of not happening
If Liverpool are bought by an oil country then any trophies they win from now on will have the same asterisk City do. Even if City get to 21 premier league trophies, no one will care. When City wins its basically like a draw, no one won
There was an article earlier from Paul Joyce and Matt Lawton who say Martin Broughton is interested. Basically the names linked are all the ones who were involved trying to buy us
Harris/Blitzer and Broughton
Pagliuca
Ricketts
Harris/Blitzer and Broughton
Pagliuca
Ricketts
Leech all they can, then sell when serious reinvestment is required. Typical.
They'll act just like Newcastle fans, they're turn it around, praise their new owners and defend the regime which buys them.
Think every fanbase would in general act like that, to be fair
Of course. It's just they always like to act up with their it means more stuff and similar. Someone made a good comparison in EL thread yesterday, Barcelona is Liverpool of La liga (mes que un club and shit).
Yeah but it doesn’t matter if plenty wants it, they can only lose fans and what makes United the club they are will be lost. We aren’t a lower club, we don’t need the money to spend millions, we already do. There is literally no upside
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Another Saudi owned team?
Most likely one of the Americans that didn't pick up Chelsea. No way a Saudi gets them as it is too hard to tell whether they're a puppet of MBS and the Saudi's already have a foothold in Newcastle.
To be fair, people said there was no way the Saudis would get Newcastle either. Money talks.
I would imagine that Liverpool and United are the only two clubs in the land that would genuinely protest to being a state-owned club.
Donald Trump would be a good fit for them. Both parties support racism and both think they actually won despite actually losing. Both supporters like to make noise and both Trump and Klopp wear hats and shout at people. Now let’s go!
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That's around what Chelsea went for.
Chelsea went for 2.5bn pounds.
Yeah just checked and the shares were 2.5b, the total commitment 4.25b pounds.
2.5b, losers.
Actually would be sad if an institution like Liverpool became another oil club, and don't think their fans want that either
He said it may take upto 2 years, IF anything does happen.
Some Liverpool fans hoping for 250m shopping spree in January!
Is it on Ebay ?
Nothing on Craiglist
FSG would have a buyer in mind before making the bold announcements they have. Much like when players walk through our door much to all our surprise.
And £250m? Pfft. That's just for Bellingham and his salary. I want more for OUR oil.
Genuinely, would being owned by an oil state (Dubai or whatever) change anything for you?FSG would have a buyer in mind before making the bold announcements they have. Much like when players walk through our door much to all our surprise.
And £250m? Pfft. That's just for Bellingham and his salary. I want more for OUR oil.
You've obviously not seen earlier posts of mine. I would not recognise anything we win after the takeover. Probably completely stop supporting the club too, which will be harder.
As I've also said, you cannot wash blood away with trophies.
I'd say about 99% of them will willingly spread their arse cheeks open and gladly have oil soaked notes shoved up their arse. The 1% being the match going fans.
I haven't.
I'm really hoping it doesn't happen as it would effectively end Liverpool. Another business person/consortium is what it has to be. Thoroughly depressing state of affairs that fans of clubs are put in a position where their clubs can become suddenly become hollow playthings and sports washing projects.
You know more than most. How much are they selling for ?FSG would have a buyer in mind before making the bold announcements they have. Much like when players walk through our door much to all our surprise.
And £250m? Pfft. That's just for Bellingham and his salary. I want more for OUR oil.
Who’s buying ?
Which players are they signing ?
I think people of a certain age who’ve lived to see the inception of the Premier League have seen football gone from being for the fans, to being a corporate sponsor machine, to a money laundering operation and now evolved into a political vehicle for government regimes, and the governing bodies who run the sport are getting more and more corrupt. The corporate guys they were in bed with got dumped for the leaders of countries, and those guys can influence where a World Cup gets played.
It’s a bit numbing looking back on that. Take me back to the days of 20 years ago when it all got corporate. At least those companies just wanted you to buy their products. These days it’s highly dubious people who run countries trying to influence geopolitics.
It’s a bit numbing looking back on that. Take me back to the days of 20 years ago when it all got corporate. At least those companies just wanted you to buy their products. These days it’s highly dubious people who run countries trying to influence geopolitics.
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I wouldn’t offer a tenner and a pack of skittles for this bag of….sh*te
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I guess most Utd fans would too, people want success for their team and prefer not to mix politics with sport especially when our own country is a benefactor of selling arms to these regimes. It is not the job of football fans to make these choices , the very team we support have players that will be there, and ex players like Beckham and Neville i think you should criticise these people first not ordinary fans and lay people who just want to enjoy a game of football. City will keep winning things whilst they have owners who have the money and next it will be Newcastle we are falling behind and the only people who can buy us are the same type of people.
This guy’s a bluffer, has absolutely no intention of buying any Premier League club. Seems like he just wants to keep his name in the public eye.
We have absolutely no chance of ever being sold do we
We need to bring back the good things in football
We have to join with all the other club’s fans and crowdfund a buyout.
Obviously we wouldn’t want to inconvenience the Liverpool fans after the stress of the takeover rumours, so the ownership would strictly be non-Liverpool fans. I’m sure we could run the club in the spirit of all that is fun in football