Middle East buys Liverpool

[liverpoolsno9]

Yep FSG are an investment company, so why people get surprised when there's a thought they might cash in their investment is crazy.

 

They got a man who knows as much about football as JP on here to commercialise the shit out of us, and he's done a very good job of that. They have built a new stand that apparently will pay for itself using the corporate cash it generates.

 

They have placed a new manager in the role who appears to be taking the club in the right direction.

 

 

I have no doubts that they are actively looking for the right buyer but it will not be another investor because I don't think there's much more money to squeeze from this lemon. Hence disposing of Ayre. I think the only market for a buyer would be the mega rich type who will give FSG their profit and will in return get a pretty decent little set up.

 

 

So I am not for one second saying I absolutely believe the rumours circulating, there is some logic in the basis of them.

 

Look at how far FSG have distanced themselves from us since they realised FFP was a sham. Look at how quickly they acted to stop any protests. I think there are many fans that believed the second the main stand was finished FSG would sell and I am one of those fans that believe this too.

 

Believing something doesn't equate to it actually happening of course.

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[liverpoolsno9]

Yep FSG are an investment company, so why people get surprised when there's a thought they might cash in their investment is crazy.

 

They got a man who knows as much about football as JP on here to commercialise the shit out of us, and he's done a very good job of that. They have built a new stand that apparently will pay for itself using the corporate cash it generates.

 

They have placed a new manager in the role who appears to be taking the club in the right direction.

 

I have no doubts that they are actively looking for the right buyer but it will not be another investor because I don't think there's much more money to squeeze from this lemon. Hence disposing of Ayre. I think the only market for a buyer would be the mega rich type who will give FSG their profit and will in return get a pretty decent little set up.

 

 

So I am not for one second saying I absolutely believe the rumours circulating, there is some logic in the basis of them.

 

Look at how far FSG have distanced themselves from us since they realised FFP was a sham. Look at how quickly they acted to stop any protests. I think there are many fans that believed the second the main stand was finished FSG would sell and I am one of those fans that believe this too.

 

Believing something doesn't equate to it actually happening of course.

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[liverpoolsno9]

Fuck it. How the fuck do you embed a gif or YouTube vid.

[Kloppite]

Fuck it. How the fuck do you embed a gif or YouTube vid.

It's black magic.

[liverpoolsno9]

It's black magic.

Racist

[Kloppite]

Racist

Voodoo then!

[Anubis]

Fuck mobile version.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Our problem in the last 25 years hasn't been not having money, it's been not spending it wisely.

Is the correct answer.

 

Does anyone really think that FSG have been stingey? As far as I can remember, Dalglish and Rodgers never missed out on any targets due to FSG's penny-pinching.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Maybe this bid for the bid for the commonwealth games in 2016 has a tenuous link to this.

 

if we are doing well and any owners thought there was even more money to be made by increasing capacity again, well I can't see opening up an old rail station being much of an obstacle. After all the city would have to also show decent transport links in any bids for such large events as the commonwealth games.

Reopening rail lines and stations as a planning condition long pre-dates any of the recent daft talk about Commonwealth Games. Personally, I reckon it's a deal-breaker, given the time and expense of getting anything done on UK railways; we'd need to charge £100,000 a ticket to justify the investment. Either that condition goes or the ARE stays as it is.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Quite probably this story is bollocks. The issue of us being sold is real imo and it's not if but when'

Even by the standards of this thread, that post is silly. FSG could hang around for a hundred years before selling and you could then point to that post and say "told you".

[xerxes]

Reopening rail lines and stations as a planning condition long pre-dates any of the recent daft talk about Commonwealth Games. Personally, I reckon it's a deal-breaker, given the time and expense of getting anything done on UK railways; we'd need to charge £100,000 a ticket to justify the investment. Either that condition goes or the ARE stays as it is.

Redeveloping the ARE does not take us over the 60k break point.

[jimmycase]

ARE will likely only be developed if we regularly sell out (54000) when the new Main Stand opens and, there's still demand for more seats.

 

Even then, I suspect any owner, even this mythical mega rich one if they eventually appear, will want to see a season or two's demand well in excess of then new capacity before extending ARE.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Redeveloping the ARE does not take us over the 60k break point.

I was getting confused; one of the earlier stadium designs had an option to go up to 70k, didn't it. I think that was where the railway condition first popped up.

[Kloppite]

I was getting confused; one of the earlier stadium designs had an option to go up to 70k, didn't it. I think that was where the railway condition first popped up.

The railway at the back of the ground does actually go anywhere. It goes to Walton then to tuebrook then it goes to Huyton. Opening that railway line for passengers is going to do precisely fuck all with regards of getting people home.

[CWD82]

The railway at the back of the ground does actually go anywhere. It goes to Walton then to tuebrook then it goes to Huyton. Opening that railway line for passengers is going to do precisely fuck all with regards of getting people home.

Sounds perfect for me! It'd get me straight home! You could look at park and ride schemes and the like too off the end of the M62.

 

It's the 21st century mate, anything can be done if the desire is there

[CWD82]

ARE will likely only be developed if we regularly sell out (54000) when the new Main Stand opens and, there's still demand for more seats.

 

Even then, I suspect any owner, even this mythical mega rich one if they eventually appear, will want to see a season or two's demand well in excess of then new capacity before extending ARE.

There's 20,000 on the season ticket waiting list.

 

Even after they do the main and the Anny road theirs loads of demand and that season ticket waiting list has been closed for years. Theirs probably loads more people interested

[Babb'sBurstNad]

I'd wager most on the waiting list get tickets for the game anyway, so it's hard to gauge how many more seats would be needed based on that. Going up in increments and seeing if there's further demand seems pretty sensible. I'd take a permanently packed 54k over a 70k that only fills to capacity for big games and fudges the official attendance for the rest.

[Harry Squatter]

The railway line runs through edge lane then the olive mount chord and then come out between Wavertree technology park and Edge Hill. So you could get a train from Lime Street to go past Edge Hill then connect to the Olive Mount Chord.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Sounds perfect for me! It'd get me straight home! You could look at park and ride schemes and the like too off the end of the M62.

 

It's the 21st century mate, anything can be done if the desire is there

It's the 21st Century - the desire to improve public transport (outside of London-based vanity projects) isn't there.

[magicrat]

Even by the standards of this thread, that post is silly. FSG could hang around for a hundred years before selling and you could then point to that post and say "told you".

I promise I won't post any smug messages in 2116  

[Kloppite]

There's 20,000 on the season ticket waiting list.

 

Even after they do the main and the Anny road theirs loads of demand and that season ticket waiting list has been closed for years. Theirs probably loads more people interested

There is more than that I am 23300 and I have been on it knocking on 10 years.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

There is more than that I am 23300 and I have been on it knocking on 10 years.

Fair warning - I'm 23,301 and I've been watching Kind Hearts and Coronets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's my best attempt at a contemporary popular culture reference.

[jimmycase]

There's 20,000 on the season ticket waiting list.

 

Even after they do the main and the Anny road theirs loads of demand and that season ticket waiting list has been closed for years. Theirs probably loads more people interested

 

We have this every time the ST waiting list is brought up. Doesnt mean all those 20000 people will actually take a ticket when they have to shell out £800 before a ball is kicked. My mate put his 2 kids down for a seasie on the off chance they'd want to go the game when they were 10 or older.

 

But it enforces what I said, if the new Main Stand sells out every home game, they'll increase the ARE. If the Main Stand doesnt sell out, it'll prove the 20k waiting list has a lot of timewasters on it.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

The railway at the back of the ground does actually go anywhere. It goes to Walton then to tuebrook then it goes to Huyton. Opening that railway line for passengers is going to do precisely fuck all with regards of getting people home.

It goes. From the docks to Speke.

[Anubis]

When are people on the waiting list likely to find out if they are in with a shout of a season ticket?