Tom Hicks trying to do deal with Mill Financial to block NESV Takeover

[StevieH]

atsiamis@springfieldfinancialco.com; rdevine@springfieldfinancialco.com

 

Dear Sirs,

 

It has come to our attention that Tom Hicks is looking likely to try to enlist Mill Financial - who already own George Gillett's 50% of the club - to pay the £280million debt to the Royal Bank of Scotland by today's deadline and thwart the takeover by NESV.

 

We write to inform you that if you are involved with any refinancing by Tom Hicks regarding Liverpool Football Club, we will be forced to, as a united and well informed group of supporters, target your assets in any place over the world. We can also promise that you won’t receive your money back from Hicks, as we will take every measure possible to force him out, including a financial boycott of the club, if he wins his fight to hold control.

 

We have already made our feelings well known to one major financial institution, Blackstone/GSO, who were set to refinance Hicks until we made our feelings known. Now, we are making our feelings known to you. Don’t get involved with these two chancers and give them a chance to pile more debt onto our club. They are defaulting on their loans with the Royal Bank of Scotland and have no intention of making any investment into Liverpool FC.

 

Walk away from them and save yourself a protracted, unfulfilling problem, the best way to describe the last three years of our lives with these two men ruining our football club.

 

You have been warned

[RED Tezza]

Sent

[Reacher]

Sent mate, Nice one. Went to both address'

[kacangpool]

steve, i just sent the earlier to mill just a minute ago. should i send him again using this one?

[StevieH]

rscudamore@premierleague.com

atsiamis@springfieldfinancialco.com; rdevine@springfieldfinancialco.com; stephen.hester@rbs.co.uk; roger.lowry@rbs.co.uk;

 

 

Dear Mr Scudamore,

 

 

 

It has come to our attention that Tom Hicks is looking likely to try to enlist Mill Financial - who already own George Gillett's 50% of the club - to pay the £280million debt to the Royal Bank of Scotland by today's deadline and thwart the takeover by NESV.

 

 

 

Your rules contain an Owners and Directors test, and a description of when it applies, and how it operates. (Rules D1 to D7 inclusive.)

 

Furthermore, your rules contain an obligation for certain financial information to be submitted to you if someone proposes to acquire control of a club. (Rule C91).

 

 

 

With reference to those rules in particular, and your general obligations to administer Premier League clubs, we would like to know if you have demanded or received the following information.

 

 

 

1. Has Mill Financial acquired (directly or indirectly) voting rights at any shareholders' meeting of any of Gillett Football, Kop Delaware LLC, Kop Cayman, Kop Football Holdings Ltd, Kop Football Ltd, or Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Ltd?

 

 

 

2. If so, what is the nature and extent of those rights, and what percentage of the voting rights do they control, in each case?

 

 

 

3. From which date did they acquire these rights, in each case?

 

 

 

4. Has Mill Financial acquired (directly or indirectly) voting rights at any directors' meeting of any of Gillett Football, Kop Delaware LLC, Kop

 

Cayman, Kop Football Holdings Ltd, Kop Football Ltd, or Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Ltd?

 

 

 

5. If so, what is the nature and extent of those rights, in each case?

 

 

 

6. From which date did they acquire these rights, in each case?

 

 

 

7. Has Mill Financial acquired (directly or indirectly) the right to require George Gillett junior to vote as Mill instructs him at any directors' meeting of any of Gillett Football, Kop Delaware LLC, Kop Cayman, Kop Football Holdings Ltd, Kop Football Ltd, or Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Ltd?

 

 

 

8. If so, what is the nature and extent of those rights, in each case?

 

 

 

9. From which date did they acquire these rights, in each case?

 

 

 

10. Is George Gillett undergoing any form of bankruptcy proceedings in any jurisdiction in the world, and/or are any of his relevant companies subject to formal insolvency procedures in any jurisdiction in the world?

 

 

 

11. If so, what are the full details, and when did that action commence?

 

 

 

12. If so, then will George Gillett junior be disqualified, under PL rules, from acting as a director of Liverpool Football Club and/or any of its parent companies, and from which date will that take effect. Has any notice already been served upon him or the club?

 

 

 

We firmly believe that, if you have any of the information above, then we, as fans of LFC, are entitled to be given copies, and we would urge you to publish the information on your website and release it to the media.

 

 

 

Even if, contrary to our belief, you maintain that the actual full details of the information that you have received should be private, then please answer the following questions at least.

 

 

 

13. Have you made enquiries similar to any of those mentioned above?

 

 

14. Have you had replies to those enquires.

 

 

15. Have you shared copies of your enquiries, and any replies, with the parties to the forthcoming legal action, and their legal representatives.

 

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

KOP FAITHFUL

[Sangria]

Done and will do again this morning on my wifes and sons accounts have some work to do.

Come on lads one last drive at these parasites.

[StevieH]

steve, i just sent the earlier to mill just a minute ago. should i send him again using this one?

 

Bombard them. Send the emails as many times as you can.

[kacangpool]

Bombard them. Send the emails as many times as you can.

 

heh ok. done great job btw.

[Chippo]

keep on sending. This is the final stumbling block

[Seemann]

I'd take administration and a 9 point penalty now to stop this mess!

 

If that's the only way to be 100% sure Hicks and co are definately out of the club then I say put us into administration pronto. It feels like we're gambling atm. I don't like the fact that Hicks got time to do buissness cause he's desperate and will do anything it seems.

[redsfan]

we still going with putting something like a matter of urgency on the top of this email so they get to read it?

[bus24]

If that's the only way to be 100% sure Hicks and co are definately out of the club then I say put us into administration pronto. It feels like we're gambling atm. I don't like the fact that Hicks got time to do buissness cause he's desperate and will do anything it seems.

 

They can't thanks to tinpot Jim and his kangaroo court. The RBS don't want to be held in contempt of court in Texas, which they would be if they put us into administration as of now.

[Barzini]

Sent

[Jonny83]

Sent.

[Reacher]

Both sent, well in. cheers.

[Redtel]

Done

[Seemann]

They can't thanks to tinpot Jim and his kangaroo court. The RBS don't want to be held in contempt of court in Texas, which they would be if they put us into administration as of now.

 

That doesn't make me feel any better.

 

We might live to regret that RBS didn't call in the loan earlier this week?

[spider-neil]

This is Ben Smith's latest:

bensmith_times Ben Smith

Mill opened talks with RBS am yesterday, offering to pay off #lfc’s loan. On advice of its lawyers, RBS refused to take the money

 

 

YAY!!

[Seemann]

How can Hicks sell his shares when RBS/Liverpool can't accept a bid from NESV?

 

Maybe Hicks don't need to sell atm to get Mill to pay the debt - could be a deal to do this after the debt is cleared adn power back at Hicks court, but it seems very weird.

[spider-neil]

How can Hicks sell his shares when RBS/Liverpool can't accept a bid from NESV?

 

Maybe Hicks don't need to sell atm to get Mill to pay the debt - could be a deal to do this after the debt is cleared adn power back at Hicks court, but it seems very weird.

 

Hicks' shares aren't part of the American injunction.

[Xherdan]

This is Ben Smith's latest:

bensmith_times Ben Smith

Mill opened talks with RBS am yesterday, offering to pay off #lfc’s loan. On advice of its lawyers, RBS refused to take the money

 

 

YAY!!

 

 

 

For lawyers see Kop Faithful.

[Wigdahl]

Sent.

[Seemann]

"Mill opened talks with RBS am yesterday, offering to pay off #lfc's loan. On advice of its lawyers, RBS refused to take the money," The Times's Ben Smith tweets.

 

This seems dodgy as well?

 

No doubt will see another day in court about this if Hicks don't get it his way. Can RBS really say no to money from someone trying to pay a loan?

 

The 'fact' that someone (Mill) is willing to pay the loan (for Hicks) must be a bad thing for us?

[Frankenhooker]

"Mill opened talks with RBS am yesterday, offering to pay off #lfc's loan. On advice of its lawyers, RBS refused to take the money," The Times's Ben Smith tweets.

 

This seems dodgy as well?

 

No doubt will see another day in court about this if Hicks don't get it his way. Can RBS really say no to money from someone trying to pay a loan?

 

The 'fact' that someone (Mill) is willing to pay the loan (for Hicks) must be a bad thing for us?

 

Maybe Henry has an airtight binding agreement with the club and RBS would be in breach of this if they accepted Mills's money ?

[redsfan]

radio5 reporting the TRO has been removed. If true hurry the hell up and get this nesv deal done now before hicks starts something!