Hopefully they get the right people in this time. I am worried though that we could end up with a con artist like the ones that got portsmouth in to so much trouble, saying they had lots of money but basically didn’t have a bean in their pockets.
is a fan buyout (ignoring the obvious scouse stereotype) a realistic proposition?
the club pretty much needs a sugar daddy at this stage, an individual or group willing to pay off a chunk of debt for no return.
I have a feeling I’m not going to like how this turns out either way. Selling up to a Sugar Daddy might solve the current problems but somewhere down the line he’ll grow tired of lumping dead money into his plaything (see Abramovich) and we’ll probably leave the club in a worse situation than it’s already in.
I can’t say that I’m not glad to see the yanks go though.
Fcuk it though, anything to get rid of the current two in charge. Apparently there is a syrian businessman fronting up thee bid for one of the ruling families of UAE, supposedly talks are at an advanced stage
Always worried when I hear of these sort of people are interested. Look at Portsmouth, some arabs claiming to have deep pockets buy that club and then it is found that they dont have a penny. Hopefully the folks at Liverpool will do a lot of investigation before selling.
i hope they go bust - im seething that Irish people forget that their fans murdered an Irishman at heysel 
The spirit of generosity, altruism and leadership that Gillet and Hicks demonstrate is an example to us all. They’re selling the club so that someone else can take it to the next level. If you love something, set it free, in the words of our old friend Sting.
In years to come, I can see Liverpool supprters tearing up at the thought of the rein of these amicable Americans and the effect they have had on their beloved club.
To make a good omelette you gotta break a few eggs …
The Red Army…
A Chinese Internet gaming tycoon, who once played against Liverpool, is in talks to buy the Premier League club, Chinese media reported on Wednesday.
Zhu Jun, chairman of Nasdaq-listed online game company The9 Limited, said the negotiations were ‘ongoing,’ but added that the outcome would be hard to predict, the Beijing Times reported.
Officials at Shanghai-based The9 would not confirm the talks had taken place. ‘So far we have no comment on this,’ company spokeswoman Phyllis Sai said.
Zhu, who already owns Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua, has held two preliminary meetings with Barclays Capital, the investment bank hired to handle the sale, The Independent newspaper in the UK reported.
They took place in Hong Kong in late April and more recently in Shanghai, it said, citing unnamed sources.
The Independent said the 44-year-old proposes to head a consortium of businessmen, perhaps including one or more other owners of Chinese Super League clubs, to make a bid.
Zhu is a long-time admirer of Liverpool and actually played against them in 2007.
He bought Shanghai United in 2006 and then took control of rivals Shanghai Shenhua a year later to force a merger between the two teams.
It was soon after this that he lived out a dream by donning Shenhua’s number 16 shirt and playing under a pseudonym against Liverpool in Rotterdam.
Although he only played for five minutes, the game took his obsession with the club to a new level, he told the Beijing Times.
If Zhu is successful in buying Liverpool, he will become the second Chinese owner of a Premier League club, following in the footsteps of Hong Kong billionaire Carson Yeung who owns Birmingham.
What kind of offer would it take to buy the club? I read that the Yanks had a valuation in excess of 900 million in place, based on a completely ludicrous claim that the club had trebled in value under their stewardship.
Well considering there is an estimated 350m debt and any buyer also has to guaruntee the funds for a new stadium, they will be lucky to get the 400m offered by DIC two years back… If it is not sold the bank will force a sale so i dont think its looking promising inregards the 900m !
Spirit of Shankly set for showdown talks with Premier League
May 13 2010 by Philip Kirkbride, Liverpool Echo
A LEADING Liverpool fans’ group is to demand answers when holding talks with the Premier League tomorrow.
The Spirit of Shankly have managed to secure a meeting with League officials in hope of finding resolutions to the ongoing off-field problems that are blighting the Reds…
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore is the highest profile member of the League delegation set for the face-to-face talks with SOS on Friday.
The supporters’ union say thousands of concerned fans have already e-mailed and written to the League asking what action they are going to take to help a club which has developed severe financial problems.
SOS have expressed their deep concern at how the club has been allowed to “deteriorate” and say Scudamore and the League’s hierarchy must not allow such issues, which have plagued the Tom Hicks and George Gillett ownership reign, to happen again.
James McKenna, spokesperson for SOS said: “The Premier League have a duty to run the game properly, to regulate it and make sure it is protected. However, they don’t seem to take this duty seriously, allowing the debts at Liverpool to pile up, with owners who are far from fit and proper.
“We would like to the Premier League to better protect clubs and put in place regulation that stops what has happened with Hicks and Gillett from happening all over again. It isn’t right or proper that a club should pay for it’s owners to actually own them, and it isn’t proper for the future and the finances of a club to be put in jeopardy for the sake of business and making a profit.
“Those in charge need to act, and they need to act now, before its all too late.”
SOS, established in backlash to the American owners, will have the chance to hammer home their fears for the future having already sent the Premier League a letter.
The furious Anfield supporters’ group believe lack of regulations on the behalf of League chiefs is in part to blame for the Reds’ spiral into danger.
An exert from the letter to the Premier League reads: “It is Liverpool FC’s current predicament and the Premier League’s criminal silence on these issues that has prompted me to contact you. Liverpool Football Club now finds itself being ‘touted’ around looking for someone to come in and pay down the debt with a £100 million investment. So far one bid has been submitted from the Rhone group and with the deadline for offers fast approaching. We may find ourselves forced into inappropriate investment, rather than finding suitable investment.
“I demand that the Premier League conduct a vigorous ‘fit and proper’ person’s test of any new investor, considering they are expected to take a controlling stake.I demand that subsequently you regulate in a much more vigorous way to ensure that any future investor keep any promises to protect all football clubs and the game that you regulate through binding undertakings to be given to the Premier League.”
SOS also claim in their letter to have sent questions to Reds managing director Christian Purslow - but say they have yet to receive answers.