The Sunday Express is reporting that Dubai International Capital are close to sealing a £500million takeover of Liverpool Football Club. DIC, attempted to buy the club in 2007 and again tried to buy George Gillett’s 50% share in 2008, but, according to the paper, this time could be the real deal as Gillett and Tom Hicks look to sell the club this summer. DIC, is the investment of arm of the rulling family of Dubai, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is prepared to invest heavily in the club. According to the Express, DIC are ready to commit funds to build the Red’s new stadium and are prepared to give the manager a large amount to spend on transfers.
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I JUST WANT TO ENJOY WATCHING THE REDS AGAIN ITS BEEN A BAD SEASON THE PLAYERS JUST DONT LOOK GOOD ENOUGH .GERRARD JUST DOESENT LOOK THE SAME BUT CAN YOU BLAME HIM HE MUST LOOK AROUND THE CHANGING ROOM AND THINK HES PLAYING WITH THE DOG AND DUCK SUNDAY FOOTBALL TEAM .LETS JUST HOPE WE BECOME THE MIGHTY ATTRACTIVE TEAM WE ONCE WAS .COME ON THE REDS
Got disappointed with the Yanks, don’t know whether to trust Middle-East rulers. Money can buy us good players, but not success. Having said that, Man City is progressing with the likes of Tevez, Barry, Adebayor, etc. Desparate to see Gerrard winning a Premiership title in a Red shirt.
whoever takes over, has a big job on there hands. i hope its done asp, and with people who want to make lfc great again.so while the mancs talk about no 19, we will talk about no 29………
is it dic… or the syrian, or was it the chinese no wait a minute its the indian, no its the kuwaity… no an american consortium. no it can’t be its maktoum. or could it be…
Two ways to look at this. As mentioned before someone is going to have to put in nearly £1bn to turn the club around, even DIC wouldn’t part with that kind of money with no guarantee of success no-one would. Secondly all this talk of buying good players and you forget that there is no champions league to play for, it’s a step down for most of the players you want and unless Liverpool are given a stadium for free(!) you’ll never be able to afford their wages.
If DIC take over the Reds, then I welcome that as superb. They should of taken over years ago and we would not be in this mess with 2 yanks who have no idea or passion about the greatest football team in the world.
My message to DIC is clear and precise. Come to us and you will not be disappointed. With your ownership, you will make us not only the greatest but also the team that everyone will fear.
Dubai has financial problem now. They need to borrow money from Abu Dhabi. Both Dubai and Abu Dhabi has their own Ruler.
Seems unlikely for DIC as they have massive problem with their Dubai World project.
DIC are a technology based investment Corp – not a sugar daddy. It was unusual for them to look at a Football club and I doubt they will coming knocking again – Rick Parry blew it! As for Abu Dhabi and the Sheikh that own Man City they are on a different planet financially to Dubai – in fact short term they have bailed Dubai out. I think DIC are still lucrative but they will be looking to make money not pour money into LFC for no return.
Hope this happens, we need significant investment !!
Need no debts, new stadium and new players !!
Sell:
Cavelieri £2m, Intandje £2m, Reira £6m, Aurelio £3m, Benayoun £9m, Kryiakos £2m, Babel £10m, Lucas £6m, Ngog £4m, Degen £2m, Plessis £1m, Spearing £1m, El Zhar £2m. total £50m
Buy:
Hennesey £2m, Clichy £10m, Richards £5m, G Cahill £8m, Ireland £7m, J Cole Free, Turan £15m, Van Der Vaat £8m, Higuain or Aguero £25m, Jovanavic Free. Total £80m
So £30m spend – existing transfer incomes !! All the above would be acheivable in getting with the right man at the helm.
We would have flexibility in our squad and much more options on the bench to change games.
GK – Reina
RB – Johnson/ Richards
CB – Carragher/ G Cahill
CB – Agger/ Skrtel
LB – Clichy/ Insua
RW – Cole/ Maxi
CM – Gerrard
CM – Mascherano/ Ireland/ Aquilani
LW – Turan/ Van Der Vaat
ST – Torres
ST – Higuain or Aguero/ Kuyt/ Jovanvic
Bring through:
Ayala, Pacheco, Kelly etc.
Make it happen please, 1 yr suffering in the europa league, then into our rightful place in the champions league and challenging for the PL Title !!
Mourinho is the man to lead us to this !!!
Who will save us? Please, DIC, please! The ones that come and save us will be adored by millions of people. A nice role to play?
What is interesting is that someone actually read the express and decide to place an article on the net talking about this so called “exclusive”. What is more interesting is that there are people actually reading this ludicrous article about an article from this paper and posting comments. Wait a minute I think I may have done the same. Doh!
i have heard from a reliable source that if the chinese consortium comes in and buys liverpool fc they will go and buy three of the worlds best number nines,number nine in spain is egg fu yung,number nine in germany is wanton noodle soup,and my own person favourite’italys chicken chow mein,,,,,lets get real liverpool are in dire troube and all of the posts are way off the mark it will be at least 12 months before we find a buyer,and in all truth we could be in in mre severe financial trouble than we already are y.n.w.a
As liverpool have a great history ,man city fans kinda feel sorry for you so we have decided to have a bring and buy sale to help with transfer funds for next year
so look at the back of your cupboards and dig out the old tins of hotdogs and soup bring them along
remember pennies makes pounds 😉
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan married Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum daughter in other words he is his son-in-law,i cant see it happening to be honest
Fv€K1ng dream on, lads. The bottom fell out of Dubai last year, they have no money. No-one is gonna pony up £500M to buy us then have spare change to fund a stadium better than that corrugated iron shed Goodison, let alone Anfield, and forget about Getting any more than £20M. If that.
We need the the deal for the club done ASAP.
I’d be surprised if it’s not already in place.
There’s only one man for the job and that’s Mourinho.
I’ve been reading the same thing for years now in regular intervals: “DIC is buying Liverpool FC”, “DIC is ready to make a bid to buy Liverpool from the American’s” and now “DIC are close to sealing a £500million takeover of Liverpool FC”.
I dont even know if the company exists any more, but I think that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum(copy-paste) is really inerested in buying Liverpool FC.
His family- and other relations with Man.City owners wouldn’t stop him from investing.
Ruling familyes in UAE are rivals in many things, so way not in football?
I’d like Sheikh to invest, if Man.City is any indicator on how they are ready to run the club and invest it would be great for Liverpool.
If we get £20 million , plus sell – Riera £7 million , Auerlio – FREE , Benayoun – 8 million , Babel £10 million , Gerrard – £30 million , Degan £2 million , Plessis – £2 million , El Zhar – £2 million , Nemeth £2 million , Spearing £2 million , Intandje – £2 million , TOTAL – £67 million , pls £20 off the board, – call it £90 million
Bring in :
Tawio – £12 million
Richards – £7 million
Parker – £8 million
Turan – £15 million
Mata – £17 million
J.Cole – Free
Van der Vart – £10 million
Jovanovic – FREE
Higuin – £22 million
Paul and others who are listing palyers, etc. Dream on. Nobody is going to buy Liverpool at the inflated price these cowboys want. At £500m it’s overpriced by about £200m. Add the cost of paying off the debt, buying the players we haven’t been buying and funding a stadium. There will be a squadron of pigs over the Mersy before that happens. Hicks and Gillett have totally screwed Liverpool. They bought the club using borrowed money, have put nothing into it, and now are holding out for a ridiculous price. Even if they are eventually forced to sell for lower, they will still lose nothing of their own money, and have taken substantial amounts out in ‘expenses’. they have a lot to be grateful to Moores and Parry for.
really lads to be honest there is money out there we have the new chairman and financial advisor they will sort out the potential buyers and will make sure they are legit , Rafa is the man to lead us forward where were we before him think back exactly nowhere we may be back to square one but he will get us out of this my faith is in lfc come on the reds