Month: June 2010

Friends Of Liverpool

MEET OUR POSSIBLE NEW OWNER SHEIKH KHALIFA

With Hicks & Gillette having lowered their asking price to £560 million for Liverpool FC, a number of groups have shown a desire to purchase the club. It appears that a prospective new owner may be a wealthy Arabian figure. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, to give him his full name, is the current President […]

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HICKS & GILLETTE LOWER THEIR ASKING PRICE

It appears that hated American owners of Liverpool, Hicks & Gillette have lowered their asking price down to £560 million due to pressure from RBS (finally) and Watchovia, the two banks they are in hock to. The despised duo are apparently in talks with a middle east consortium to buy the club at a far […]

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RAFA SACKED WHILE HE WAS ON HIS HOLIDAYS!

Rafa Benitez’ shabby treatment by MD Christian Purslow is now in the public domain.After six years of dediation to Liverpool Football Club, his departure was swift and ruthless.“It was really sad,” Benítez said when discussing his departure in an interview with Radio City today. “I was on holiday so it was a surprise that everything […]

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WHAT IS IT WITH PURSLOW AND CO?

What is it with Purslow and Co at Anfield? The vacant Liverpool manager’s job needs to be filled and soon. Kenny Dalglish is the fans favourite, and mine, for the job. Yet Managing Director Christian Purslow seems determined to secure the services of Fulham manager, Roy Hodgson. It puzzles me as to why Purslow is […]

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LIVERPOOL BOARD: WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION!

Oh  God. Little did we know that when the new board was appointed by Hicks and Gillette earlier this year that things would come to this derisory end. The first thing they did was get a new sponsorship with Standard Chartered Bank( who are they?) worth £20 million a year, if we are in the […]

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BARCA TO BID £70 MILLION FOR TORRES

Barcelona have entered the race to sign Liverpool’s prized asset Fernando Torres. Sandro Rosell, the new Barcelona president is determined to pair Torres with his international striker partner David Villa, who the Catalan giants recently acquired from Valencia, It is believed that a massive offer of £70 million is being prepared to bring the star […]

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KENNY STEPS OUT THE RUNNING FOR LIVERPOOL JOB

It appears that Kop idol, Kenny Dalglish has tonight ruled himself out of the running for the vacant manager’s job at Liverpool. Despite telling Liverpool MD Christian Purslow that he wanted the job last week, it appears that his ambitions to manage his beloved Liverpool again have been rejected by the board. It seems that […]

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WELL DONE RAFA

Rafael Benitez was in town today, probably to start organising the sale of his house and that. But he made a point of visiting the organisers of the Hillsborough family support group and he made a large donation of £96,000 to the fund by cheque. “When he handed the cheque over to me he was very […]

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KENNY KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY

Kenny Dalglish has thrown his hat into the ring for the vacant Liverpool manager’s job, vacated by Rafa Benitez last week. While I would love to see King Kenny return to Anfield as manager, I would be very wary if he did so. For a start, he has been out of football management for a […]

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GERRARD: “I WANT TO LEAVE”

News coming out of Spain suggest that Stevie G may be on his way out of Anfield. Spanish newspaper La Marca says that Liverpool’s talisman has told the club that he wants to leave. Gerrard cut a forlorn figure throughout much of last season and speculation about his future has increased by the day with […]

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