stevenjos Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 i hope the mail rips the club a new a$$hole this afternoon about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysticraven Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 For goodness sake! Just Getton With It!!! We need something to cheer us up! Mystic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrobo1 Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Anyone want a little wager that Ellis will only go once the new training centre is complete? looks like Ellis will be around a while BW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysticraven Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 *Looks around for high building to leap off* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloBarnesi Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Here is an utterly silly theory. The Comer brothers do want to buy a football club. They are growing sick of Doug. Another Irish man phones them up; ‘I am interested in buying a football club. I reckon I could turn it round. Massive fan base, etc, etc’. Brothers say sure; whats the deal? Niall Quinn tells them... Its probably conspiracy theory. Quinn has signed a confidentially agreement not to reveal his backers. Rumours were strong it was Fergies friends. But hey you never know. I reckon .0005% reality! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent_Bob Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 So the takeover will happen tomorrow then, as it's clear we won't get relegated? Sorry, couldn't resist as this thread was relegated to page 6... But here it is again :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis_B Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Well brought this back following this article in the Guardian Norwegian consortium prepares bid for Liverpool Dominic Fifield Saturday April 22, 2006 The Guardian A consortium of Norwegian businessmen, who include in their number an environmental activist who once chained himself to the gates of Sellafield, are preparing a financial package which they hope will allow them to buy into Liverpool and end the European champions' lengthy search for major new investment. The group have been put together by Oystein Stray Spetalen, a financial investor worth an estimated £150m, with their principal backer the hotel magnate Petter Stordalen. The 43-year-old Stordalen is something of a celebrity in Norway, having championed the country's tourist industry and tied himself to a footbridge over a drainage pipe at Sellafield in 2002 after claiming radioactive emissions from the nuclear power plant were polluting the Norwegian coast. "It is my policy not to comment on any potential investments," Spetalen told the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang. Stordalen owns 90% of the Choice Hotels Scandinavia group, Norway's largest hotel chain, and is believed to be attracted by the potential of building a hotel alongside Liverpool's proposed new stadium on Stanley Park, together with a possible casino. The Norwegian pair have already sought advice on English football and Liverpool's future potential from the former Swindon, Sheffield United, Middlesbrough and Barnsley striker Jan Aage Fjortoft on the scheme. Fjortoft is currently manager at Lillestrom and Spetalen hopes he would play some role at Liverpool should they succeed in buying significantly into the club. Liverpool opted against commenting last night but are aware of the group's interest, though privately they are sceptical whether the Norwegians value the club at the £200m the current chairman David Moores believes it to be worth. The Norwegians' clout could be increased significantly should the building magnate and long-standing Liverpool suitor Steve Morgan become involved in their bid, as has been mentioned in Norway. Morgan, Liverpool's third largest shareholder with a 5.5% stake in the club, has twice been knocked back by Moores having submitted proposals to increase his holding, the chairman insisting he had undervalued the club. The Garston-born businessman sold shares estimated to be worth around £240m in his Redrow building firm in 2000 and boasts an estimated fortune nearer £370m. Now interestingly could this be the 'Norwegian' group that I was told about in December?...... have they been put off by Ellis or is this just them sniffing around again. Liverpool would cost £200m, Villa about £50m...... Come on Rothschilds sort it out! CLICKY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocafella Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 If some Norwegian fellows bought Villa I would die. Stordalen and Spetalen are both rich, but remember Røkke and Gjeldsten who bought Wimbledon? They are strictly in it for the money, and have no passion for football. Spetalen once said:"That Bergkamp is good, we should get him". This was when he was playing for Inter or something and Spetalen was the owner of Vålerenga. We would relegate withing years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Come on Rothschilds sort it out! I'm sure Rothers are doing the job they have been asked to do quite adequately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahamaad Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Come on Rothschilds sort it out! I'm sure Rothers are doing the job they have been asked to do quite adequately. The problem is Ellis. Its like me selling my house. The estate agent suggests putting it on the market for 150K, but I refuse and ask for 200K. No one is going to buy it, especially if it needs a lot of work doing on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Indeed. Thats the difference between "wanting to sell" and "being willing to sell". He doesnt want out, isn't making the preparations to leave, but is too old and befuddled to provide any level of leadership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrobo1 Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 so what happens is that we slip and slide further to the nationwide, but I am still confused about one thing who exactly is making teh descions to sack players and curtail the spending because Ellis isn't ?? according to Ginge on here it appears it was being kept from Ellis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Curtailing spending sounds like no ones got authorisation to spend more than £x. So no ones making decisions. Looking back it's a surprise that they managed to sort out the delaney option and davis' contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 22, 2006 Moderator Share Posted April 22, 2006 The Delaney option was automatic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfcinwales Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 So the takeover will happen tomorrow then, as it's clear we won't get relegated? Sorry, couldn't resist as this thread was relegated to page 6... But here it is again :-) No but there may be news in the papers,possibly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis_B Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 There again there may not be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee_av Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Come on Rothschilds sort it out! I'm sure Rothers are doing the job they have been asked to do quite adequately. The problem is Ellis. Its like me selling my house. The estate agent suggests putting it on the market for 150K, but I refuse and ask for 200K. No one is going to buy it, especially if it needs a lot of work doing on it! And considering that your estate agent would then tell you where to go, as he would have no way of getting a commission. :roll: If Rothchilds are taking the busuines on, then they should know what they are doing. How long it will take is a different matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 I'm sure rothschild are being adequately paid for what they've been asked to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrobo1 Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 I'm sure rothschild are being adequately paid for what they've been asked to do. but didn't I get told that Rothschilds only gets paid on comission and this surely can only be forthcoming on a takeover. we will probably not know about it eh ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee_av Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 I'm sure rothschild are being adequately paid for what they've been asked to do. but didn't I get told that Rothschilds only gets paid on comission and this surely can only be forthcoming on a takeover. we will probably not know about it eh ??? Surely, if that's the case as with an Estate Agent, it is in their interests to find a buyer for the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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