Football Ground >> Liverpool takeover

12/4/06 9:03 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
BaldTony 96 Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 12/12/2002 Posts: 9720	The Dubai Royal Family are about to buy 5 time European Champions Liverpool FC. To be run as a long term investment and not to move money overseas to avoid being arrested by Russia.

12/4/06 9:29 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Govnor Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 01/01/2001 Posts: 16212	Long term investment?? LOL, yeah Football clubs are great long term investments!!! You have ignored this user.

12/4/06 9:35 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Shotgun Mick Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 01/01/2001 Posts: 8523	Yet another sell out to a foreign owner. Very sad. You have ignored this user.

12/4/06 11:47 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
BaldTony 96 Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 12/12/2002 Posts: 9723	It would have been nice to remain a football club, and not a business like the other teams. But if it's going to happen, then these seem the best option I've seen so far. You have ignored this user.

12/4/06 12:50 PM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Shotgun Mick Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 01/01/2001 Posts: 8524	Even if they go the same way as Chelsea and become as hated? You have ignored this user.

12/4/06 3:16 PM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Yougottawanna Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 09/21/2001 Posts: 19903	If I know anything about Dubai, their royal family must be ass-rich. They'll make Abramovich look like mohammed al fayed. Maybe Liverpool will be the new chelsea...then chelsea can accuse liverpool of being a soulless club! You have ignored this user.

12/4/06 3:26 PM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Govnor Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 01/01/2001 Posts: 16259	"They'll make Abramovich look like mohammed al fayed." LOL, good line. However - I read a while back that in "cash terms". Roman is the richest in the world. I don't think Chelski will be out bid by anyone, anytime soon. You have ignored this user.

12/4/06 4:30 PM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
BaldTony 96 Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 12/12/2002 Posts: 9724	They have much much more money than Abramovich. Difference is they are intending this as a business, not a plaything/get out of jail free card, so won't be splashing that kind of cash around. I'd never support it if they did. You have ignored this user.

12/4/06 4:54 PM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
BaldTony 96 Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 12/12/2002 Posts: 9725	One major difference is that Liverpool have shown in the distant past that they could win big things. They have shown recently they can win big things. Before the Russian appeared, Chelsea didn't do anything. You have ignored this user.

12/4/06 8:37 PM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Fernando Edited: 04-Dec-06 Member Since: 03/15/2002 Posts: 14861	Dude is the 5th richest person in the world! He could drop lots of $$$ on the Reds! You have ignored this user.

12/5/06 8:44 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
KurtCorris 2 Edited: 05-Dec-06 Member Since: 09/29/2006 Posts: 700	theyve offered liverpool a new stadium in the offer also. could work well for them IMHO You have ignored this user.

12/6/06 12:23 AM

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Fernando Edited: 06-Dec-06 Member Since: 03/15/2002 Posts: 14867

In September 2006, Al Maktoum and his brother Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum were served with a lawsuit in US district court in Miami, Florida for the enslavement of 30,000 boys in the past three decades for use as jockeys for camel racing, a popular and lucrative form of entertainment in the UAE. The suit was filed on behalf of parents of six victims on the basis of international laws banning slavery and the use of child labor. The case was filed in Miami because the defendants own property in Florida, including a horse farm. Later in September, the UAE removed all the child jockeys and sent them back home, to countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, et cetera, with the help of UNICEF. . . . so at least we know Liverpool will have a pretty sweet youth academy set-up. You have ignored this user.

12/6/06 4:59 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Shotgun Mick Edited: 06-Dec-06 Member Since: 01/01/2001 Posts: 8530	...and if they sign Shaun Wright Phillips he will have a nice sideline. You have ignored this user.

12/6/06 9:14 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Govnor Edited: 06-Dec-06 Member Since: 01/01/2001 Posts: 16290	LOL^ You have ignored this user.

12/7/06 11:17 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Joe Ray Edited: 07-Dec-06 Member Since: 08/24/2000 Posts: 45017	" not to move money overseas to avoid being arrested by Russia. " Care to elaborate on this? Aren't they moving money overseas with the purchase of liverpool? You have ignored this user.

12/8/06 5:55 PM

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BaldTony 96 Edited: 08-Dec-06 Member Since: 12/12/2002 Posts: 9758

Sorry, was badly phrased. IMO Mr Abramovich had invested in Chelsea mainly to get the cash out of Russia in a manner that nobody is going to question. The FA would gladly fuck their own grandmothers up the arse for a few quid. They don;t give a flying fuck about the game. They just want to strut around Soho Square saying look at the Premiership. We have 30M players over here. Roman is happy because he probably does enjoy football, and now also has the bonus of being immune to any shenanigans by Putin. The cash can be moved abroad, and he has a hundred thousand cockney wankers to kick up a fuss if anything does go wrong. Hopefully, Dubai are doing this as a purely business transaction. They run the Country and have no need for dodgy shit. You have ignored this user.

12/8/06 11:07 PM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Yougottawanna Edited: 08-Dec-06 Member Since: 09/21/2001 Posts: 19958	What Abramovich is doing isn't that bad IMO. Lots of businesses pump loads of cash into speculative enterprises to avoid paying taxes on it, it's nothing shady. You have ignored this user.

12/9/06 10:25 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Joe Ray Edited: 09-Dec-06 Member Since: 08/24/2000 Posts: 45032	Baldtony, ah I see. Thanks. You have ignored this user.

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Takedown 6 Edited: 12-Dec-06 Member Since: 03/12/2002 Posts: 930	Rafa's not moaning about the "investment", that's for sure. You have ignored this user.

12/14/06 8:47 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
BaldTony 96 Edited: 14-Dec-06 Member Since: 12/12/2002 Posts: 9789	From the Club Christmas Do: Zenden Kuyt Carragher Gonzalez You have ignored this user.

12/14/06 8:48 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
BaldTony 96 Edited: 14-Dec-06 Member Since: 12/12/2002 Posts: 9790	Fowler. lol You have ignored this user.

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Govnor Edited: 14-Dec-06 Member Since: 01/01/2001 Posts: 16526	looks like an awesome christmas party...at the pond... You have ignored this user.

1/31/07 1:41 PM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
BaldTony 96 Edited: 31-Jan-07 Member Since: 12/12/2002 Posts: 10046	Well fuck me, they pulled out. Now the only bid is by the American, and we'll end up a billion quid in debt like Utd and sharing a ground with fookin Everton. You have ignored this user.

2/2/07 12:24 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
steveuuuu Edited: 02-Feb-07 Member Since: 01/01/2001 Posts: 132	NNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! You have ignored this user.

2/2/07 1:57 AM	Ignore | Quote | Edit | Warn Admin | Vote Down | Vote Up | Delete Post
Takedown 6 Edited: 02-Feb-07 Member Since: 03/12/2002 Posts: 935	Great, that's all we need..sharing a ground with fuckin' blue noses. You have ignored this user.

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