Spooky

That's shocking! I know for a fact it was smuggling canaries that he was done for!

The whole world is holding its breath...

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Sir Giggsy Giggs with Sir Giggsy Giggs as his assistant.

You don't half talk a lot of shit mate, and I mean real, kindergarten stuff. Embarrassing.

She's Hicks' chief financial thingy so she'd be involved whomever he was selling to. Staveley being in Dubai may mean nothing - I'm sure she works for them on all sorts of deals. But you can't help wonder...

They are re-negotiating them; there's a strong possibility the banks will require settlement in January (the option to defer to July is just an option) and if so they'll be working on negotiations now. You don't start doing it the week before you know.

According to Mihir Bose's anti-DIC article in the Telegraph they were intending to borrow £300m out of a total £450m spend which would include purchase and stadium. That to me sounds like borrowing £300m for the stadium but spending 150m cash to buy the club. Infinitely better than what we now have. Borrowing to build the stadium is standard practice which no-one has any problems with. Buying the club with cash would have obviated costly debt servicing costs. And remember these are details from a supposedly anti-DIC article. You can't know that at all. It's just negative speculation on your part.

Sorry but what exactly did you expect them to do? They came in, made a generous offer, upped it, tried to buy both parties' shares, when that didn't transpire they tried to buy Gillet's; when Hicks demurred they tried to buy a 49% minority only for Hicks to tell them to fuck off after agreeing in writing to meet them, so they tried again to buy both shares only to see Hicks touting the club around the US and London ready to take anyone's money in order to buy out Gillett who in turn has said in public he won't be selling to Hicks etc etc ad infinitum So what exactly have DIC done wrong in your jaundiced opinion?

Indeed, esp as Babel could play in any of the three positions. Assuming Gerrard stays central, Villa could have his pic of left or right of Gerrard And even Ronaldo is doing his best work coming in as more as a sort of auxiliary striker than a winger.

Does that mean if we meet AC next year they'll have a similar banner about Inter? ;)

So it could the start of the endgame, when we finally see the back of the lying, deceitful, power-crazed, money-obsessed tyrant who has made so many of our lives a misery. And I see there's some activity on the Liverpool ownership front as well :whistle:

Yep as a relative newbie myself I've seen others do this and it's been disgusting; I reckon I should wait around and see if he really is all that before I start laying into him, as opposed to just obsequiously following the pack.

Anyone recorded Dave's SSN appearance? If so can you post it somewhere please :)

Believe me, considering the prices they charge there's never a shortage of mugs in the club shop :P

I think we should play 4-4-4-4 and hope no one notices

Fucking hell! Nobody's made that gag before

How the fuck do you know what negotiating has or hasn't been going on? You there with them are you?

Maradonna over Pele. Pele can't get it up ;)

I think 'armed' is the word...(6)

So what he's saying is that Hicks is a bloodsucking vampire? Sounds about right. (But if everyone at Anfield carried crucifixes, would the Count still be able to go to the games?)

anfieldroad.com Jim always writes interesting, thoughtful articles after digesting the available news rather than just flinging out the first thing that comes to mind and he never claims that he's 'correct' or has 'sources', just that this is how he understands it from what he's read in the public record. Well worth bookmarking.

Change the fucking record mate you're getting well tedious

That's rather unfair; what do you expect them to do? They can't buy if Hicks won't sell. Even if he's just stalling they have to wait until he's ready. It's not a case of making a bid; I've no doubt figures have been bandied about right from the start and if the reports are true they're already offering him a huge profit for doing nothing. What more can they do?.

Is there a bored meeting going on here?