Rumours abound that Liverpool have recieved offers from several wealthy businessmen around the world. It appears that one prospective new owner may be a wealthy Arabian figure.
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is the current President of the United Arab Emirates and Emir (Ruler/ Leader) of Abu Dhabi. He is one of the wealthiest Arab businessmen in the World. He is wealthier than his half-brother, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan who is the owner of Manchester City FC.
Sheikh Khalifa, as he is known, is said to be the third wealthiest royal with his net-worth around $19 billion, he also has major interest in Abu Dhabi and UAE developments.
If he was interested in taking over Liverpool, his wealth could mean the Reds would have more financial power than both Manchester City and Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea.Is this the right man to take over from the ill-fated reign of Hicks and Gillett? He sounds like the answer to Liverpool’s fan’s prayers.
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Find it all strange, they are being linked to players when there is no manager in place aswell.
Sky just reported, although fulham wont release any statement they understand hodgson will be liverpool fc,s manager by friday. Looks nailed on to me.
Top BBC reporter saying the same thing. HOPE its not true.
I have also heard this is adone deal & will b anounced on the 15 of july !!!!!
Just been informed by a friend,hodgson was at melwood yesterday and the sale of the club will enable us to buy just as heavily as city,still will wait and see the truth. Just been on sky mark hughes turns a multi mill deal to manage a foreign team down so maybe he is after the fulham job.There usually a domino effect so again suppose we will just have to wait and see. Mate also said carra and gerrard are very happy with hodgson who will get them back to basics and common sense team selection.All will be revealed in time i guess,when its true it will be made public and we dont have to guess.
Who thinks Hodgson can attract big names at the club?
Not me.
I’m not even sure if he can persuade Gerrad, Torres and Mascherano to stay.
On the up side, he can bring Bobby Zamora and maybe win us the Europa League in the next 3 to 4 years.
Fingers crossed!
Maybe roy wouldnt have been my 1st choice either but this may just be the bizarre managerial decision that gets us our title back,i hear fans calling for a english manager for england maybe its time we had a manager who knows the prem and will play players in position,give his all to the f.a cup and aims to get us back in the champs league.gives the young players like pacheco,kelly,derby,nemeth,plessis a chance,wont please everyone i know but may just be the mad choice that helps us get back to the good old days.
Redknapp and O’Neill if you want someone who knowes Premier League.
The fact that Redknapp is not an option says something about the clubs situation.
O’Neill maybe would take Liverpool job, I dont like him neither but far better option than Hodgson, and more expensive most likely.
But is this the time to be saving money on manager?
Hodgson has apparently alredy signed a 3m contract as LFC manager. So RealHolidayReports.com you have an active imagination, but for the most part the majority of us arent that gullible.
Oh guess what kids, i have it on good intel that Bill Gates is going to buy liverpool. Yeah, and he is going to turn Anfield in the biggest Stadium in the world. It will sit 500000 people and every seat will have its own lcd screen. He is going to bring back all the former greats of football like pele, platini, maradonna, zico bechenbauer into the team and we are guarenteed a premierhip..
sod off you wayne ker. We feel bad enough without peolpe like you raising false hope. Sit on a mine and just die already…
no disrespect to the new manager, but why would sky publish that we were after another coach if he was the one trusted with the job? I think we were shown that we wanted a better coach but settled for 3rd best… My view is that we still have alot of tears to lose.
he can’t be worse than the yankees! plus he’s minted so cld work for LFC!
looks like its roy,only one thing to do now,back him to the hilt,english,experienced,appreciates our history as he was brought threw his footballing career whilst we were winning things,weve had our foreign coaches so maybe the old school can roll back the years.who knows hey positives only about the man for me and hopefully his football will be positive to.Seems like a man with alot of dignity,welcome to liverpool fc roy and all the very best…………….
antix 1 post 90, spot on mate, great post
am made up with roy,get rid of the deadwood,get in players who are good enough but come on a budget,we just have to live with the fact financially we cant compete with citys spurs etc anymore.At the end of the day 11 players the same as the opposition,play em in the right position,dont leave the subs till 65 mins every single game,dont persist with average players nearly every game,dont sell your best players,dont get rubbish players in only to move em on in 12 months.whether hodgson is or isnt the best manager in the world cheer the guy on and see what he can do,money is the main factor in people taking jobs not love for the club.Post 90 must be gullable or you wouldnt be so wound up,the rafa era has gone move on with woy and see where it takes us.sum 1 post 93 not spot on and not such a great post.
It’s sad that we have to create this kind of rumours to please ourselves and keep us hoping. We are in Dreamland my friend. Same goes for Tom Greedy Hicks. His evaluation will never interest anyone. As long as Tomcat does not make enough money to kiss goodbye to us, he wont let us go. And those Sheikhs are not dumbo. They wont succumb to Tomcat’s greediness.
On a potential takeover of the club – with Tom Hicks and George Gillett looking to sell up – Broughton added: ‘Information has gone out to a number of people who have expressed an interest.
‘There haven’t been any offers to turn down but we wouldn’t expect any offers at this stage. There is no specific deadline but hopefully a deal can get done before the end of the transfer season.
‘But these things can take quite a bit of time. We’re on course pretty well to be where we expected to be at this stage.’