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That's different to having total control though. Total control is picking the players you want, then the board go and buy them. Final say is more of a veto - for example, if he's told it's Balotelli or Eto'o, he can pick either, or veto them both and get nobody. That's different to saying 'i want player X' then getting him.
Look, I'm certainly not absolving the manager of any blame and I'm certainly not his biggest fan.
For a start, he needs to improve his management of big games and quickly. Euro aways, semi-finals, etc. We concede the ball, territory and momentum and it goes against everything that is good about Rodgers.
I may well be wrong and he might be choosing all the players, in which case it doesn't look good for him. However I just find it almost impossible to believe some of the players brought in are his choices. It doesn't take a great footballing mind to work out they are the opposite of what a Rodgers side needs.
I'd like to see him become accountable for it all, given another year or two and then here's no excuses. Partly because if we sack him now, I think FSG would appoint the next Rodgers. Eddie Howe for example. Just don't see them appointing a Klopp or Rafa.
I dont want him given any control of transfers
He definitely wanted Allen and Borini at the club, they are totally his signings. I really woyldnt trust him with more money based on those 2 deals alone
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Sorry mate, I sounded a bit abrupt there, I know that something that was in the epilogue of book 3 was left out of last night's episode as it has pissed off a few book readers I know as they were expecting it to be in last night's show. I believe it is a bit of a game changer and I have no wish to know what this is before I watch it in series 5 or read the books myself.
There has been an epilogue missed out of book 3 BUT one part of the story has already caught up to book 5 and weve seen a glimpse of stuff that I suspect we will see in future publications!!!
I suspect the next season we will see a lot of stuff that even those who have read the books (upto Dance With Dragons) wont know about
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Gutted it's over, although I thought the last episode was quite weak compared to that of previous seasons. One of the strengths of the show - the constantly shifting stories - is also one of the 'potential' problems, there quite literally are no villains left, only Roos Bolton that I can think of.
In the tv series the other "villains" left are Walder Frey and the Whitewalkers
Oh and Littlefinger
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Is he better than Joe Allen? I like Lallana but there's not much between them imo. £25M is way too steep.
Taken from Squawkas stat comparison software
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I heard he had a medical yesterday morning' date=' close source at the club as well.[/quote']
Sunday morning he was supposedly in Cottam Hill at a presentation and was there will after 2pm in the afternoon driking in the bar there
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TonyBarretTimes Tony Barrett
Andy Carroll got back from Ibiza yesterday - as I did - and trained at Melwood today - as I didn't. The arrest rumour is b******s.
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From The Times
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Striker Connor Wickham soon to cast aside his L plates
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The Ipswich Town striker, who scored three goals in four Coca-Cola Championship games last month by way of celebrating his 17th birthday, is confident that he will soon be free to take to the open roads. But he also has his sights set on England lasting the duration of the tournament.
“I’ve got my driving test in the week we get back from the Euros, in the first week of June,” he said. “I’ve had 25-30 hours of lessons. I’m confident I can pass.”
England play group games against the Czech Republic tomorrow, Greece on Friday and Turkey next Monday. The top two qualify for the semi-finals and the final takes place on May 30.
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<!-- END: Module - M63 - Article Related Attachements -->After becoming Ipswich’s youngest-ever player in the 2008-2009 season, at 16 years and 11 days, Wickham was a regular in Roy Keane’s squad this season, earning reviews that could have turned the head of a less grounded individual. But with a sound family background, the former Manchester United captain as his club manager and John Peacock leading this England group, the powerfully built striker is so eminently sensible that he sounds like a young James Milner.
He has an agent — Paul Goddard, the former Ipswich and West Ham United player — but “I just leave it to my dad. I know he’s always going to be there for me so I leave everything with him and he’ll sort it out. Then I can concentrate on my football.”
The 6ft 3in target man has signed a kit deal with Umbro but he knows not to act like a kid in a sweet shop. “When you’re a footballer, things are going to come your way and you’ve got to be responsible with everything you do,” he said.
The one moment that did frazzle his senses was when, seven months after scoring twice in a Carling Cup victory over Shrewsbury Town, he opened his goalscoring account in league football with a stoppage-time winner against Scunthorpe United in March. “I just lost my head,” he said. “It was the best moment I’ve had in football so far. There’d been a lot of times when I’d got on [as a substitute] but hadn’t scored.
“Because it was the 93rd minute, I just ran off to the touchline towards the fitness coach and got bundled by all the players. My parents recorded it so we’ve watched it over and over again.” After a few sensible words from Keane Wickham and his family celebrated with a Chinese takeaway.
A Liverpool fan whose role model is Fernando Torres, Wickham spent four years on Reading’s books, living in Aldershot, before his father’s job in the Army led them to Colchester and trials with Ipswich. He made sure he studied sufficiently hard to gain eight A-C grade GCSEs before leaving Philip Morant School last summer.
“He’s a very level-headed young man,” Peacock said. “I think he’s at the right club and Roy’s done a really good job with him, steadily developing him. He’s a goalscorer but he’s matured a lot in his build-up play.
“Physically he’s a real specimen of a young man so it’s no surprise he’s dealing with the physical demands of Championship football. He’s had a lot of accolades this year but he’s dealt with it all in a very mature manner. Within this peer group, he’s just one of the 18. That can only be of benefit to the team.”
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Isnt Wickham a Liverpool fan?
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When DIC veto the loan in 16 months time and Hicks has to then put his own money in, what will Hicks do?
This is taken from elsewhere when someone suggested similar
Lets assume GG sells his stake in the club. This would have to result in some restructuring since both GG and TH own the club through the Cayman investment vehicle. The borrowings recently secured were approx £250m on holding company and £100m on the club. The club would be valued at say £350m enterprise value less debt of £100m to give an equity value for 100% of the club of £250m. In am not even sure the debt relating to the stadium will have been drawn down as yet so the equity value may be more. Therefore GG would be entitled to at least 50% or £125m. He then somehow would repay the borrowings attributable to his share of the acquisition debt (assumed to be £250m) currently held by the holding company. The observant ones among you will have worked out that my back of the envelope example seems to leave GG with nil profit. If the club debt is less than £100m today then my example would mean GG walks away with half of every £ of debt below £100m. Therefore if none of the £60m stadium tranche has been drawn down then he will have made £30m cash on the deal. Good business I would say.TH would be left with 50% of the shares and his remaining share of the acquisition debt - say £125m. This debt is secured on his shares but generally has nothing to do with DIC.
I imagine that DIC would seek to refinance the remaining club's debt to ensure the entire stadium construction finance is in place for a suitable period - say three to five years. This debt would I am afraid still rest with the club as would any working capital facilities (i.e. player acquisition funds) unless DIC inject new cash on acquiring GG's 50%. Should they decide to inject additional equity into the club then TH's shareholding would be diluted - however this would not happen without TH's agreement.
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my understanding was as KOP holdings owns LFC DIC would be buying 50% satke in kop holdings and not LFC (same thing i know but it means that any new investor would be buying into kop holdings and all its interests and debts)Am i wrong on this?
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You may be right, although I suspect a new holding caompany would be set up to but the club. DIC would subscribe for 50% of the shares (or more or less) and TH the other 50%.
In that case Kop Holdings would sell its shares in the club for (again) £350m less £100m debt leaving £250m+. The acquisition debt is then settled - GG walks off into the sunset and TH has to find a new way of financing his £125m share of the new holding company - how he does that is up to him - he could simply revise the existing debt.
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Where are TH's weakness'in all of this
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I don't really think there is one. I am not sure that there would be any great urgency for DIC to buy Hicks out other than good housekeeping. They may be able to dilute his shareholding by stumping up finance in the future. Indeed that could suit both of them.
Some credit must go to Hicks (more so as he joined with GG at a later stage) that he seems to want to stick in there. I think everyone knows that they bought the club on the cheap owing to the lack of investment in the past decade or more. WE all know that this club will be a force to be reckoned with once a 60,000+ stadium is complete. Who wouldn't hang in there for the upside
Essentially I guess it means that there is little DIC can do to forcibly reduce Hicks' equity other than stopping dividends and hoping nature takes its course
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They could go public and say they want to invest in the team, with Parry and Moores on the board already and DIC and Hicks owing 50% each, it would mean the two clowns (Moores and Parry) will become king makers. If DIC get 50% Hicks is fucked.
I agree with your last point just dont think DIC can force Hicks to match their capital injection / investment
For me it will be vetoeing dividends to Kop Holdings and forcing him to pay interest / loan repayments more than anything
I honestly dont think it will come to that anyway, if they get Gilletts shares, they will get Hicks' soon after
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As that thread says, be funny if DIC want to come in and invest heavily... Hicks will have to pay half or owe the money with interest or fuck off.
Why will he???
The only pressure they could put on Hicks would be vetoing dividend payments to aid in servicing the Kop Holdings loan and even then they would need a majority of the shareholders / board to do this
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Well all i'm going off is what DIC said about it. I take your point that the board had to consider the other bid etc, but i'm confused - are you saying that they didn't make a bid at at all?
DIC had a period of exclusivity, during that period (usually called an offer period) they decide whether to make an offer or not
That period expired BEFORE DIC tabled a formal bid
Because the offer period had expired we could talk to anyone we wanted and Statler & Waldorf duly gazumped them whereupon DIC threw in the towel and walked away
Barry is pretty much spot on in what he is saying regarding timeline and blame
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There was a whole one pager in the Pink echo on the subject, seems to be a done deal from the way he was talking, like he can't even be arsed going into detail anymore!
Football Echo - Saturday, August 12, 2006
By Chris Bascombe
THE FINAL PIECE TO AN AGE OLD PUZZLE
Striker can complete the jigsaw
England’s national jigsaw championships took place in Surrey just a few weeks ago, fortunately, Liverpool weren’t’ represented. As anyone who’s followed the club for the last 16 years will tell you, the club struggles so often assembling “the last piece” they’re still in the process of completing a puzzle they started in 1990. By the end of the week Rafa Benitez should be unveiling the latest missing segment. When Dirk Kuyt arrives, which thankfully looks increasingly inevitable, major business will be concluded for another summer and the first serious assessments of the new Liverpool can proceed. Benitez has argued with some justification he doesn’t possess the financial might of Chelsea, but other than Jose Mourinho, nobody does. Relatively speaking the purchase of Kuyt for £10m will demonstrate once more that although the Reds desperately need more capital, any accusations they fail to back their managers in the transfer market are grossly unfair.
Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Roy Evans and Gerard Houllier all broke the club’s transfer record, in some cases more than once. Benitez hasn’t yet eclipsed the £14m wasted on Djibril Cisse on one player, but after the latest round of spending no-one will be able to take future hints of poverty seriously. Proving Kuyt arrives, and that’s the key here, Liverpool will have signed six players for a combined cost well in excess of £25m. That’s a ball park figure because some of the fees remain undisclosed. It’s emerged Fabio Aurelio, for example, wasn’t a free transfer from Valencia after all. The Brazilian signed a pre-contract with a Uruguayan club last January, so Liverpool had to pay the South Americans to bring him in. it can also be argued a portion of the fees can be accounted for through player sales. But in the closed season, only Fernando Morientes’ departure brought any reasonable return. When any investment in the squad is compared to Chelsea, clearly Liverpool look like poorer cousins. You can take a figure of £25 m and bend it to suit whatever argument you feel like depending on whether Liverpool have won or lost their last match. Compared to the rest of the Premiership (aside from Chelsea, the ludicrous Newcastle who spend money that’s not their own and Portsmouth and their “mystery” backers) the Red are hardly misers. And if the vast investment in transfers since 1990 proves anything, it’s not how much you spend that matters most, it’s what you spend it on.
Take a poll of the greatest signing the club has made in that time, and if the £2.5m for Sami Hyppia isn’t at the top, you’ve been asking the wrong people. Liverpool’s board will hope they haven’t any black cheques to hand the manager this summer has a positive effect. Benitez has stated regularly how his scouts have to work harder and take more care because mistakes can’t be afforded. The luxury of wasting £14m on a striker who is clearly not good enough will never be granted in the current regime and who’s going to argue? At times this summer it’s been easy to identify moments of mil discord, mainly when Benitez’s frustration with the lack of a conclusion with both the Alves and Kuyt deals lingered.
Tension between the managers demands and the boardroom’s enforced pragmatism are hardly new. Since the days of Bill Shankly, the Anfield board has been handed a wish list at the end of every May, only to send it back with crosses through one or two names beyond the club’s resources. As another round of Shankly books are testifying, the legendary Scot offered and retracted his resignation on an annual basis when deals weren’t agreed for his number one targets. The echoes from history are eerie when analysing the relationship between Benitez and his board. Political contests are a deeply absorbing aspect of the game, and the current Liverpool boss has an expertise when it comes to battles of will.
Of course, unlike Shankly, there’s never been anything so dramatic as a threat to walk from Benitez - even if the Real Madrid saga last spring was a bit close for comfort - but the age old problem of what a manager wants and what he can actually afford is as significant now as it’s ever been.
Kuyt’s signature should ensure both the manager and board feel hugely satisfied with their summer’s business. Benitez began the pre-season hoping for at least seven new faces, and Kuyt would make six. If Jerzy Dudek leaves the club, or Scott Carson is sent on loan, a new keeper may yet be added. Of those top of the “wish-list” only Daniel Alves escaped Benitez’s grasp and he’s young enough to arrive at a later date. Early indications suggest Jermaine Pennant will prove a hugely encouraging compromise anyway.
So smiling faces and pats on the back all round if Kuyt holds aloft his red jersey over the next few days. Now let’s hope that jigsaw is finally complete.
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Yeah call me a knob because you lost but on this note, why not address the real issues that Rafa is dramatising about? Robben over-reacted and that is not news but the the real news is that Rafa is simply distracting his team and the public from the defeat they suffered. Kewell dives doesn't he? Reina clattered Eidur, didn't he? Garcia goes to ground so easily doesn't he? Reina should not have raised his hands, should he?
Firstly Reina should have gone for his actions towards Robben (as per the letter of the law) but retrospective action should be taken towards Robben for blatant simulation. If the authorities dont stamp down on this soon its gonna be a constant fixture in every game
I want to pose this question to you.. "If Cech had raised his hands to Carragher (in the same manner as Reina) do you think Cech would have been sent off?". IMO the answer would be no because Carragher would never have reacted in the way Robben did
Incidentally if you want to use the letter of the law Gallas should also have gone for pushing Reina (but Reina didnt do a Robben so Gallas got away with it) and Gerrard, Crouch & Shearer should also have gone in the Bowyer ruckus during the Newcastle game
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I thought pre-contracts under the age of 17 meant nothing..ie werent legally binding
Didnt Defoe tear his up when he signed one at Charlton and wanted to move to West Ham
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I've been told he does indeed run a newcastle site along with apparently having a newcastle season ticket.
I also noticed that those pin badges he was selling on ebay that he has as his location Tyne and Wear. Just slightly out of Scarborough isn't it?
I believe Dunk owns / runs these sites in addition to KT
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Pennant would be brilliant for us, he is a good lad, seriously.
Whilst the lad is a decent enough player off the pitch hes a headcase, only the other week he turned up for training pissed
We have an extremely professional squad you would have to question the sense in bringing someone with that reputation into the club
Still if Rafa wants to who are we to argue
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Thats the correct answer. Simao has apparently said he wants to move Benfica know we need a right midfielder so if they turn us down then yes we will go elsewhere and unless someone else buys him they have an unhappy player on there hands.
Simao wants to leave Benfica "to play in a more competitive league", the chairman has said he can go for £12 million
All their qualification does is stop us getting him at a lower price than £12 million (personally I think we are going to have to pay over the odds for any right winger we eventually buy)
Unless Simao has a U-turn and decides to stay (this might mean him missing the boat completely) I think it will still go through
We will also be offerring significantly more wages than he is on at Benfica
Benfica are also struggling in the Portuguese League (they are 6th or 7th I think) and might miss out of the Champions League next season whereas chances are if he does join us he will be playing in that tournament
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If Cisse played as the main striker 17 games consecutively, do you think he would score a few? We have scored 13 in the leaghe this season, I think we would have more if he played all the games. So the answer is YES, Cisse would be my main striker having considered the lads whom he is competing against.
Cisse has scored 3 goals in the League from 8 starts and 4 more coming off the bench
1 a penalty, 1 a fluke (ok a cross) the other a genuine goal
There is nothing to suggest that in the Premier League he would be a consistant goalscorer
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Simao and Pieniar from Ajax seem to be who he's looking at for on the right.
Maxweel from Ajax is out of contract this summer...he was player of the season in Holland last year,and Rafa's friend Guilleme Balague says he wouldn't be surprised to see one or two players from Ajax signed in Jan.so we may see him in a couple of months..he plays left back or mid.a better player than Djimi.
Don't have an idea about centre back...cant see woodgate packing from Real at the moment,says he wants to repay their loyalty while he has been injured.
Kuyt might well be one of those players from Holland ;)
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The Mail are running a headline Frozen Out
Basically saying Newcastle are Owens only hope after Fergie blocked any deal for Owen.
The other Manu press have run Sven wants Owen at Utd story
Must be true if the Mail is reporting it :no
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Rashid
I thought you said we were also getting Duff
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Rashid it is on the online Echo website at the bottom of the Kirkalnd article
TontoB I think you are right that Leeds and the agent are haggling over the loyalty payments
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Dont forget Blackburn as a possible destination
New HBO Series: Game of Thrones
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Its hardly likely that they are going to spoil the cliffhanger and say "dont worry Jon is coming back next series"
To me hes essential to the entire story arc
It doesnt make sense to off him now, especially when Weiss & Benioff actually got permission from George RR Martin to do the show by answering one question "Who is Jon Snows mother??" Why would that be such a secret and such an essential question if his end game was dying at the Wall at the hands of the Nights Watch