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[kunilson]

nice to see that we're starting off the new season surrounded by bullsh.it from our owners just like last season.

why can't these 2 just see sense and fu.ck off

[Emerald Red]

What a joke these two massive wankers have turned us into. May the hairs on their sacks turn to drumsticks and beat the bollox off them.

[tubby]

Has SOS tried contacting any representatives from DIC?

[Igor Zidane]

They have been in contact in the past Bav ,i'm not sure about now. I would only pressume that it would make sense if they still want to take over.

[Ciggy]

Liverpool fans' groups launch savage attack on Gillett and Hicks for latest stadium delay

By Sportsmail Reporter Last updated at 5:36 PM on 29th August 2008

Liverpool fans' groups have launched a savage attack on the club's American owners after yet another delay to the building of their new stadium in Stanley Park. 

Co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett have announced that the £400million arena will be delayed because of the global cash crisis. 

Now it has emerged the delay could be for up to a year, while there is even more worrying suggestions that the Dubai investors who want to buy the club may be losing interest in the whole saga. 

Liverpool fans are angry and stunned by further delays to the 60,000 stadium, which Hicks and Gillett promised would be well under construction by now when they took over the club 18 months ago. 

Dr Rogan Taylor, founder of the fans' group ShareLiverpoolFC, who want to take the club into community ownership, hit out saying: 'This has not come as a surprise. The Americans did not have any money for the stadium.

'We have been saying this for a long time. These guys are a broken record, they are the soap opera of Anfield Road. This just goes on and on and is just an excuse for not starting the stadium. 

'The money goes up every time. Three years ago it was £150million, now it is £350-£400million. And now they are talking about "re-visiting" the capacity issue.

'But that was the original reason for the delay 18 months ago, these guys are not in a position to make a long-term investment of the kind required for a stadium. 

'If there is no funding in place by spring, then European and NW development grants will be lost indefinitely for the re-generation of the area. 

'This is about the owners breaking our trust over and over again. They do not have the confidence of anybody in the city, or the wherewithal. 

'A new stadium is essential to the business structure of a modern, great club. 
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Rogan Taylor: 'The owners have broken our trust over and over again'

'Just compare the matchday 'take' at Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium or the money taken by Manchester United at Old Trafford. They pull in around three times what Liverpool manage for each match.

'If you add that up, 20 games a season, and those clubs are getting £50million more than us each season simply by playing in a bigger stadium. 

'You cannot keep up with them in these circumstances. The problem is the debt our owners carry, there is not really a significant problem in raising money to build a stadium if they did not have a major debt on their backs. 

'If they did not have that, raising this money is not a problem. You can get half of that up front with naming rights for the stadium and executive boxes for 10 years. 
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'I am embarrassed by what is going on at my club, certainly since the Americans' takeover. 

'There are about a dozen clubs worldwide who have this genuine combination of local and global strength. But it is a dangerous situation. 

'This club is more vulnerable now than it has been in my entire 47 years of watching the club. It is a house of cards and a puff of wind can blow it over. 

'Liverpool is a sub-prime loan by the Royal Bank of Scotland, and if we do not do something about this everything can go away.'

The Spirit of Shankly fans group, dedicated to removing the Americans from the club, are also angry. 

Spokesman Jay McKenna said: 'It is our firm belief that the owners have neither the resources nor the intention to deliver this project, and are using the current economic climate as a subterfuge while they attempt to drive the potential sale value of the football club up. 

The owners have no money, no credibility and no dignity, and are not fit custodians of the club.   

We demand their immediate resignation and the sale of the club to fit and proper owners.'

Waiting in the wings are a Dubai consortium led by the oil state's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. 

They maintain they still have the money to buy out the Americans and that a deal is still on the table. 

But sources suggest that their patience will not last forever. They have the money to build a stadium, but the spiralling cost has become an annoyance as the ownership saga has dragged on all year. 

Liverpool have not signed the lease for Stanley Park with Liverpool City Council but deny this is anything more than a legal issue

[red37]

Get out the club!    F*cking sick of this cr@p.

[LFC2007]

Another review of the capacity > another few million on design fees.

They wouldn't be so profligate if it was their own money on the line, that's for sure.

Where does this end?

[RUSHIE#9]

The mention in their "statement"-(catalogue of bollox) that the delay will be one year added together with the supposed 6 month extension they have on the refinancing due in January suggests that Twit 'n' Tw@t are gambling (Liverpool Football Clubs future) that the credit crunch will be over by next summer.
I'm sick and tired of this situation like everyone else and just hope that the worst case scenario ends up being that if they take that 6 month extension they still won't be able to finance the stadium or their debt come next summer and are forced to sell out to DIC.

These dark days for LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB are getting darker and darker and still there is very little light at the end of the tunnel.


 

[J*o*n*D*o*e]

lets not forget that this holds up the regeneration of the whole area so is actually effecting peoples lives and livelihoods.

no doubt we`ll not see either of them over here for a while, but if they do ever show there faces at Anfield again it will be a crying shame if there still in the ground by kick-off, we need to run them out of town.

[7_Kewell]

lets not forget that this holds up the regeneration of the whole area so is actually effecting peoples lives and livelihoods.

exactly...Liverpool and LFC needs this. Can't believe that some people want the whole thing to fall through.

I agree that the owners need to go, but our club NEEDS a new stadium. I hope this delay signals the end f their ownership, but i also hope our new ground will be built soon.

[Reg]

Can the council or the UK government sue them for non performance?

[Ciggy]

Can the council or the UK government sue them for non performance?

Somethings got to give Reg my mums house is falling down, its her own and two years ago the council offered her a lot of dosh for when they start a regeneration on the area.

My mum hates her house and has just had to get a new kitchen and new kitchen floor in thats cost 7 grand when she didnt want to spend 7 pence on it 

The whole area is a feckin sh!thole that resembles the Bronx.

The people want to move the houses are falling down this is just delaying it for more years, and now the council have pulled the grant I hope they keep the promise and build new houses for that 9 million that was promised.

[LegBarnes]

Can the council or the UK government sue them for non performance?

Somethings got to give Reg my mums house is falling down, its her own and two years ago the council offered her a lot of dosh for when they start a regeneration on the area.

My mum hates her house and has just had to get a new kitchen and new kitchen floor in thats cost 7 grand when she didnt want to spend 7 pence on it 

The whole area is a feckin sh!thole that resembles the Bronx.

The people want to move the houses are falling down this is just delaying it for more years, and now the council have pulled the grant I hope they keep the promise and build new houses for that 9 million that was promised.

awww ciggy that isn't nice. 

I hope they will sell up soon and get some real buisness men in to fix our problems.

I get that area sorted ASAP.

[LegBarnes]

Mr Moores i hope your enjoying all that extra money you made selling us out to these two fooking conmen, what where you thinking off man, your meant to be one of us and you didnt even bother your to get these two c***s checked out first, you and parry shouldnt be within a mile of this great club, but dont worry because we the fans who have the clubs best interest at heart will keep fighting on till these two t**** are gone, i guess all we can hope for is that somewhere in the background (where you like to remain) you might be trying to do the same.

Its parry he pulled wool over moores eyes .

Think of it this way if parry and moores sold to DIC would parry still have a job (answers on a post card). 

[Ciggy]

Evertons EGM meeting on the 3rd of September a groundshare will be dissgussed Peel Holdings is offering a site on the docks.

LCC and Warren (Im a bitter Bluenose Bradley) will encourage Liverpool and Everton to groundshare.