Liverpool enter talks with Saudi Arabian and Qatari consortiums over a potential £3BILLION takeover

[Bobby Hundreds]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

All that may be true.

 

What do you think the club is worth?

 

I dont know what the club is worth, ultimately the worth is what someone is willing to pay so let's see in the end if we hit the 3 or 4 billion mark and then we will know for sure. I've said from the start when the news broke I think they'll still be here in 2 years.

[Lee909]

Didn't wa t to say anything but sent a proposal last week. 

 

£1000

16 curly wirlys 

A box of Fredos  

Xmas sized Toblerone 

And a 1/15000 scale yacht

[VladimirIlyich]

10 hours ago, Lee909 said:

Didn't wa t to say anything but sent a proposal last week. 

 

£1000

16 curly wirlys 

A box of Fredos  

Xmas sized Toblerone 

And a 1/15000 scale yacht

I for one welcome Lee909 as our new overlord.

[Mudface]

10 hours ago, Lee909 said:

Didn't wa t to say anything but sent a proposal last week. 

 

£1000

16 curly wirlys 

A box of Fredos  

Xmas sized Toblerone 

And a 1/15000 scale yacht

That's just to be in the running for starting the match threads.

[col06]

All gone quiet on this wonder why

[TD_LFC]

1 minute ago, col06 said:

All gone quiet on this wonder why

Because actual football takeovers are usually not carried out in the press.

[col06]

1 minute ago, TD_LFC said:

Because actual football takeovers are usually not carried out in the press.

True but when it started wasn't a day going by without a rumour seems to of stopped

[TD_LFC]

4 minutes ago, col06 said:

True but when it started wasn't a day going by without a rumour seems to of stopped

 

Big news, would generate lots of clicks and page impressions to impress your editor if you were a journalist who had to consider this kind of thing.

 

It's easy to generate lots of quick stories about nebulous groups of middle eastern super rich groups or American investors, hard to keep it going week after week without eventually having to narrow down the details though.

 

[Daisy]

I see Boston red sox have agreed massive new deal for one of their players. 

 

£500k a week and the red sox turnover much less than us. 

[3 Stacks]

14 minutes ago, Daisy said:

I see Boston red sox have agreed massive new deal for one of their players. 

 

£500k a week and the red sox turnover much less than us. 

 

The player they signed to that deal is the one player they've decided to keep and pay long term. The fans would have killed them if they'd have let him walk as well. 

 

And the contract is 11 years 331 million, it doesn't work per week. 

[Lee909]

Comparing US sports players wages and ours is stupidity. Players get higher wages cause you don't have transfer fees. 

[Reckoner]

If the Saudis came on now with a sizeable offer we should chop their hands off… I mean bite their hands off. Bite.

[VladimirIlyich]

9 hours ago, Reckoner said:

If the Saudis came on now with a sizeable offer we should chop their hands off… I mean bite their hands off. Bite.

I know what yemen t' say.

[dockers_strike]

What an absolute non story this is. Except the Echo, sports media and FSG Out and social media brigades have made it into just a massive non story in my opinion.

 

Horus asked me if I was in tears when the news about FSG 'selling up' broke? Maybe Horus is in tears because nothing is happening, FSG arent selling up and in fact, are struggling to even get a 'strategic partner' on board.

 

Me, I just shrug my shoulders because in the scheme of things, there's fuck all input I have except to watch on from the sidelines. If anything did happen, that is.

 

No one should be surprised really. Apart from the fact FSG been open to partial investment in the club ownership for years, nothing has come of it. They were open to a naming rights deal for the Main Stand. Except everyone and his wife knew the ground would still be called Anfield and only the tv companies would say 'Welcome to the blah, blah, blah main stand here at Anfield' so the bang wouldnt be big for the buck, as they say. Naming rights for the stand has been quietly dropped from the agenda.

 

chelsea had a number of interested parties sniffing around them within days of the government signalling it wanted Abramovich out as part of the Russian sanctions. The Landarn draw isnt it, something we dont have in the provincial 'norf.'

 

The Echo constantly regurgitates the same article about who isnt in the frame to buy the club. I think it's even running the story yet again today!

 

Some say a sale wont happen overnight. True, but, it didnt take potential buyers long to line up to buy the club after RBS decided enough was enough of the 2 cowboys and threatened to put the club into administration. Obviously, there arent as many nation states never mind individuals with a spare £3bn-£4bn stashed in a bank account than there were people with £300m+ back in the day.

 

With a supposed asking price well north of £3bn, I just dont see a sale happening and that's discounting united, PSG and supposedly spurs all touting themselves as being on the market to the right buyer.

 

Personally, I dont see us being sold any time soon and even a partial sale looks very, very distant possibility to me.

 

Crack on.

[TheHowieLama]

2 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

Personally, I dont see us being sold any time soon and even a partial sale looks very, very distant possibility to me.

You realise this is not a good thing yea?

 

In other news:

 

Qatar Sports Investments, owners of Paris St-Germain, are looking to make a minority investment in another team and have held exploratory talks with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

5 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

You realise this is not a good thing yea?

 

In other news:

 

Qatar Sports Investments, owners of Paris St-Germain, are looking to make a minority investment in another team and have held exploratory talks with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy.

We need to be put on ebay.

[chrisbonnie]

27 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

We need to be put on ebay.

 

Does that still exist? 

 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

47 minutes ago, chrisbonnie said:

 

Does that still exist? 

 

Yep, my dad made a fortune on it. 

[Reckoner]

1 hour ago, chrisbonnie said:

 

Does that still exist? 

 

Yes everyone on MySpace is always going on about it.

[dockers_strike]

2 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

You realise this is not a good thing yea?

 

In other news:

 

Qatar Sports Investments, owners of Paris St-Germain, are looking to make a minority investment in another team and have held exploratory talks with Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy.

 

Sorry, what's not a good idea? I also said there's fuck all I \ we can do about anything to make such a sale happen.

 

Whether PSG hold exploratory talks with Levy about spurs or, talks previously with Leeds isnt going to make any sale of us happen.

 

The owners of PSG were reportedly looking for 3rd party investment in PSG themselves recently.

 

[Scott_M]

4 hours ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

We need to be put on ebay.

More like Gumtree in the escort and massage section. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

2 hours ago, Reckoner said:

Yes everyone on MySpace is always going on about it.

And Friends Re-United

[Scott_M]

Same as reported yesterday, this time by Bloomberg. 
 

I’d be surprised if Qatar invested in Spurs. Without wanting to sound stereotypical, Spurs obviously have a large Jewish following. Qatar doesn’t recognise Israel as a country and has has a history of anti-Semitic views. 

 

With the debt around the stadium etc, IMO, we’d be better value than Spurs. 
 

Still, London and one of the worlds best stadiums (that’s the PR line, I didn’t care for it), I can see why they’d be interested.

[dockers_strike]

1 hour ago, Scott_M said:

Same as reported yesterday, this time by Bloomberg. 
 

I’d be surprised if Qatar invested in Spurs. Without wanting to sound stereotypical, Spurs obviously have a large Jewish following. Qatar doesn’t recognise Israel as a country and has has a history of anti-Semitic views. 

 

With the debt around the stadium etc, IMO, we’d be better value than Spurs. 
 

Still, London and one of the worlds best stadiums (that’s the PR line, I didn’t care for it), I can see why they’d be interested.

 

They probably dont know Spurs history. In any event, I dont think they really care. All they are interested in is their ownership project and sports washing.

 

An article in the Torygraph suggests talks with spurs and Levy are very cordial and spurs are the Qatari's preferred option.

[dockers_strike]

Qatar has signalled potential interest in taking a stake in Tottenham Hotspur after the nation's most influential sporting chief met with Daniel Levy. Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who is also president of Paris Saint-Germain, held talks with the executive chairman last week as the nation weighs up ambitious post-World Cup investment.

Sources close to Levy maintain the pair met only as friends and there were no discussions "regarding equity of the club". However, other insiders suggested the subject may now be raised as Qatar Sports Investments considers the possibility of a new minority stake at a Premier League club.

An offer worth under £1 billion for a 25 per cent stake in Tottenham was mooted by industry specialists as an option, with Al-Khelaifi and Levy said to be on good terms. Representatives for Manchester United are also understood to have tested interest at high levels in Qatar in recent months, but the suggestion at this stage is that Spurs would be a more likely prospect.

One source with knowledge of the situation said it was too early to say whether Qatar would now ask for formal talks with Tottenham. However, the insider added that European sport can expect "strategic acquisitions that are going to be quite bold" from QSI in the coming months.  

"Over Christmas and New Year, there's a push from senior levels to really go for it at QSI," the insider added. "The suggestion that Qatar is going to pack up and leave after the World Cup has always frustrated BeIN (the Qatari-owned broadcaster), QSI and PSG." 

Last October, QSI bought a 22 per cent stake of Portugal’s SC Braga for around £90million. But Doha-based sporting investment arm has since set loftier ambitions to rival that of the multi-club UAE ownership at Manchester City. Prior to the World Cup, there had been minimal interest in Premier League investment but it now seems the mood has changed. 

Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who is also president of Paris Saint-Germain, is ready to expand Qatar's portfolio Credit: GETTY IMAGES

Interest would be limited to a minority investment because Uefa remains opposed to the prospect of teams under the same ownership facing each other in European competition. "It might not be Tottenham but it might be," said the insider over potential interest in Spurs. Al-Khelaifi was said to be acting solely in his role at QSI rather than as head of the European Club Association during the meeting with Levy, who is also a member of the ECA board. 

Al-Khelaifi is also known to be in talks with American investors over fresh investment in PSG and BeIN ahead of the World Cup in America in 2026. More than 300 clubs around the world are part of multi-club ownership groups but QSI's only interests are in PSG and Braga. QSI are looking at football investment opportunities around the world.

Despite denials from Tottenham that any investment talk has taken place with Levy, the prospect of significant new funds may appeal to Joe Lewis, the multi-billionaire owner. Antonio Conte has consistently pushed for more significant backing to compete at the top of the table. To help cope with his demands, Lewis injected an extra £150million into the club in May after Enic, the Bahamas-based subsidiary, increased its majority control of the club by about two percentage points.

 

t is the unique position in which Nasser Al-Khelaifi finds himself in the wake of the Qatar World Cup that makes an investment offer at Tottenham a possibility. Internal meetings since the final in Doha have hardened the nation's determination to seek out fresh, ambitious football investment within Europe. 

Manchester United and Liverpool - both openly seeking new partners - might seem a more obvious fit, but a total buyout is said to be of less interest to Qatar while they protect their outright ownership at PSG. There is, however, keen interest in following the Manchester City multi-club investment model, with a host of minority stakes across Europe and beyond. 

The Premier League is just one option for Qatar's next move but a stake at Spurs would be as good a fit as any, sources said. Despite denials from the Daniel Levy camp that any investment talks have taken place, Tottenham will have a price in mind should Al-Khelaifi come calling again. As a guide price, Levy was said to have placed a £3.5 billion total price tag on the club when he was last approached by an interested bidder in September 2021. 

That fee was branded laughable by some industry experts at the time but, given Chelsea sold for that exact same price by the following spring, Levy will feel his number was in the right ballpark. Clearly the club lacks the trophy-winning pedigree of Chelsea, Liverpool or United, but in terms of overall assets, Tottenham are not far behind. 

Antonio Conte remains one of the world's most sought-after managers; Harry Kane and Son Heung-min would be prized by any club; and there is a world-class stadium that may yet start to earn the club serious money. A naming rights deal is still yet to materialise but talks with Google in the autumn sparked renewed hope that a solution was in sight.

Tottenham and their seemingly endless failure to land silverware is a gamble, but Qatar has big enough pockets to take the risk.

 

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/01/09/qatar-talks-tottenham-plot-post-world-cup-investment/