More Liverpool take-over chat.

As far as i can tell, Sky have got the story wrong.

He hasn't tabled a bid to buy the club, he's buying the debt off RBS - which is why the bid is only around £350m - which would allow him to put pressure on the yanks to sell the club to him. Sources close to him have said that he wants it done before the transfer window closes so he could give Hodgson money to buy players.

if RBS had called in the loan and repossesd the club,it'd be the biggest news in football this year that'd be the news headlines on the front pages here and back pages all over the world, it hasnt happened.
from memory I'm pretty sure when broughton came in to sell he was backed by barclays and RBS are extending loans and keeping out of it for the time being.

RBS haven't called in the loan.

One thing i don't get is that Purslow was supposed to get £100m investment, and didn't. So then RBS refinanced the loan anyway. This obviously means that RBS have some confidence in the useless cunts who are running things now.

I think he'll buy the debt from RBS which would then give him the influence to get rid of the yanks, they'll be under ridiculous pressure to sell to him and will have to do so. I don't think £350 is a bid for the club considering the debt is around £335m.

yeh pretty much.

i'm not getting excited about it, because we've heard all the promises before. I just hope we get this fucking stadium built.

that makes more sense, except that with barclays handling the sale RBS selling the debt (assuming they are allowed to, we dont know the terms of their deal with the yanks) would massively undermine barclays, and I dont think banks tend to cut each others throats like that.

add to that the fact that the yanks are stubborn and intransigent bastards and if he's bought the debt under their noses they could actually kick their heels in and there be yet-another-power-struggle.

knock down those shitholes around anfield and develop the ground.

buy those cunts out.

I realise people are on a bit of a wind up but the idea that Liverpool will get more chinese fans because they might be getting chinese owners is a little weird.

Obviously you don't then, you manky cunt.

You can't even afford Luke young's wages.

it's impossible to develop the ground, the Anfield Road end is on the fucking road, it's never going to get any bigger.

Extending the main stand would require knocking down too many houses, and it'd mean getting rid of Lothair road and Lake street as well as blocking off Back Rockfield Road and Tinsley street.

It took long enough to extend the Kemlyn Road ffs

Truest words spoken in jest and all that.

Has anything happened to all those boarded up houses in Adifeld over the summer?

It doesn't create a good impression of your city to all those Liverpool FC tourists.

Liverpool One and the new docks look lovely but it's all undermined by row after row of derelict houses.

it does beg the question though, whos fucking stupid idea was it to build houses all around goodison and anfield in the first place. especially when you consider they dont look like much now but when they were built a while before the semis went up further out in the city, these were some of the nicer houses in the city, yet they built them next to football grounds.

the city centre ends of wavertree and kensinton are full of boarded up houses too, there were plans for redevelopment and people living in the area where expecting to get compulsory repurchases at quite generous terms. BUT they were expecting those about 3 years ago, the money seems to have dried up now and lots of these projects have now been ditched by the tories. its pretty likely that large areas of the city are going to fall into ruin if it continues much longer.

A lot of them have been knocked down now, with plants and things in their place, there was a big metal cow there a few weeks ago for some reason. There's still loads which are due to be knocked down but it's taking a fucking age.

The Rockfield road area (behind the Main Stand) is fucked, most of the houses are boarded up.

Yeh i know, the houses in Rockfield Road are fucking huge, some of them are really nice (the ones that have been looked after obviously) but most are derelict now, it's ridiculous.

my great-auntie used to live in one of the 3 storey houses on arkles lane and I always thought it was some kind of mansion when I was a kid

when i was 16 i went to a party in Rockfield Road, a girl i went to school with lived there and we were celebrating leaving school, i couldn't believe how big the house was inside.