“It’s a very exciting time. Talks are ongoing with Tom Hicks and George Gillett and are at an advanced stage. We’re working round the clock to try to pull it off. . . Hopefully it’s not too much longer before it’s all done and dusted.”
The words coming from prospective Liverpool buyer Yahya Kirdi today? No, these comments came from a representative of his consortium back in April. Former Celtic player Andy Lynch, pictured with Kirdi on the left, said these words to the Daily Record three months ago. He promised that the consortium would invest £400m so that Liverpool’s debts were wiped out and that money would be made available to buy a new stadium and to invest heavily in the team.
Kirdi’s consortium has once again emerged in recent days as a prospective buyer for the club. A former Syrian international, Kirdi is now a resident in Canada and has made his life as a businessman, representing his investors in both Europe and North America. He is said to be representing a joint Middle Eastern and Canadian group of investors, and they are interested in purchasing Liverpool. Their statement read today almost identical to Lynch’s statement in April:
“Agreement has been reached on all major terms including the purchase price, repayment of the existing bank debt from RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) and Wells Fargo and financing of a new stadium in Liverpool’s Stanley Park. A formal purchase agreement between the parties is in the final stage of negotiation.”
It all sounds too good to be true really, especially as they have promised such things before. According to the Sunday Times though, the Kirdi bid is favoured by George Gillett, and apparently they have been negotiating with the American owners rather than Martin Broughton and Barclays Capital. We will have to wait and see what really transpires in the coming weeks and whether the Middle East-Canadian consortium is really a serious bidder.
There are “several” bids according to Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton and while Kenny Huang has distanced himself from any formal bid, another has come forward, although not much is known about them. Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce whose company is representing one of the interested parties has said to Sky Sports News that their clients will only reveal themselves if they are successful in purchasing Liverpool FC.
Harris described their bidders as “very serious” and that they believed the £325million price being bandied around in the papers as “way too low.” Seymour Pierce represented Randy Lerner in his takeover of Aston Villa so it will be interesting to see whether a less publicised offer will be the winning bid over the much talked about deals being put forward by Kirdi and Huang.
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to me it sounds better if we give it to Kirdi, bcos he also said that he will built a 5 star Hotel and Shopping Centre at Stanley Park. Kirdi or Huang.
Thanks but NO Yanks.
He hasn’t got, and wouldn’t get, planning permission to build a shopping centre on Stanley park. This guys obviously living in dreamland
This is all becoming such laughable rubbish!
ermaaL, tom and george said there would be a spade in the ground within 60 days regarding the stadium guess wht it never happened. Kirdi can say whatever he wants but anyone with half a brain cell knows he isnt serious and is just helping his mate george out with a fake bid to either raise the price Huang is offering or to get rid of Huang and hold onto the club even longer.
Kirdi would be a bad idea, I hope he gets nowere near this club.
Yanks OUT!!at last i hope they are OUT of our beloved club.i would prefer Kirdi but also the Chinese man isnt bad(comparing to the Americans,LOOL!!!).
Sell Mascherano for 25-30 million
Sell Degen for 2-3 million
Riera 4 million,Benayoun 6 million.
That’s at least 37 million and we havent bought anyone!Buy Milner,Ashley Young with that money.
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Subs:Cavalieri,Skrtel,Aurelio,Lucas,Aquilani,Jovanovic,Babel,Ngog.i doubt O’Neill would say no to 40 million for these two players,even if the money are huge,we’have 6 english first team players.and Crouch for the bench would be awesome.Please Kirdi buy us!
@am:yeah but this time is different and Kirdi knows what the Yanks popularity is at Liverpool. so he wont make the same mistake.
from what u read in the papers wudnt believe anything they say 1min huang as made an offer the next he hasnt so what is really going on?
I dont think we should be lookin for joint ownership of the club again, after hicks and gillett always falling out all the time, not talking to each other is not good for the club, we liverpool supporters need to have one owner, one man who makes all the decisions and someone who has a strong personality and deep pockets. Someone whos going to build us our stadium and pay off our cripelling debts. Not some buisnessman who comes from canada and the other who lives half a world away in the middle east if reports are correct. This to me is not the way forward, they have to make sure what has happened in the past with h&g does not happen again. I just hope martin broughton and co do there home work before signing on the dotted line, because h&g dont care there votes are going to the highest bidders who ever they may be, at the end of the day the dont give two fuks aboot lfc, all the see is $ signs. I hope wee get mega rich owners who put the money where there mouths are but until that day comes only time will tell.
Kirdis consortium contains a surprise element, in the shape of one of the H&G offspring. No wonder they prefer that deal.
So Emma… Let’s give our beloved club to a friend of Mr Gillett? A man promising hotels and solar power, do you really think a 5* hotel would work in Anfield (even ignoring talk of planning permission on a public park)!
If Huang’s backers are the China Investment Corp you have to go with them as they have assets of £320billion.
Seymour Pierce have previously backed Middle East consortiums similar to DIC but as per previous forums this could be the brother of the Citeh owner fron Abu Dabhi.
I would go with Huang as CIC are enormous.
read the stories we get yayah kirdi an then gillet is still around, go with huang an get the biggest global market behind us. i no which one i want!
I’d support anyone who goes behind H&G’s backs!!
Some good points – you would think that any genuine bidders wouldn’t be shouting their mouths off whilst negotiations were going on.
Ermaal shutup, Kirdi is known to be friends with Gilletts son, and hes only buying to sell later, Gilletts using him to start a bidding war. If we dnt get Kenny and his backers then they’l go elsewere probably Man Utd and that wud be that 4 us.
why, ermaaL, would you rather take the Kirdi offer? He´s a close friend of the Gillett-family (which is a giant minus, as I want nobody who has had a personal relationship with either of the owners, as a new owner) + he represents a Middle Eastern (so far so good) and CANADIAN (not that good anymore, at least not in my eyes) group who wants to buy the club. No yanks as you said it yourself.
The chinese offer, or Huang-offer, if you will, could give us a massive boost, using Liverpool in the (unused) chinese market, which would give us a massive financial boost. He also seem to have his head screwed on right, which Kirdi certaintly does not (as an example, you can take his qoute “I want to build Liverpool”, meaning not only the club, but the whole city, which should be totally irrelevant, as he should only care about how the club, this is a bad sign).
Besides, I think this is just a FRIENDLY favour for his friends in the Gillett-family. When that bloke Harris said the group he was representing thought that the Chinese offer of 325 mill. was way too low, I immediately thought that this is just an immaginary bid to pressure the “others” who are in for the club. (I personally believe that only Huang, who ironically enough just dismissed the fact that he´s made an offer, is the only one in it, even though Broughton has said something else. This is because he´s known for being the excact opposite of a PR-junkie, who´d like to be in the papers all the time. I think he only wants some peace around him during the final phases of the bid.)
Huang is the way to go, no doubt. I wouldn´t turn down Sheikh Mohammed either, if I was wrong about that there is no one other in for the club. Both he and Huang seems fit for owning LFC.
When it comes to Kirdi and evt. all other American (both North- and South American) could just, and I really, really mean this, bugger off, no matter how rich they are, as they have proven, not only with Liverpool, that they have yet to learn how to manage a club financially (at least a football-club).
No to Kirdi please. Just because of a 5-star Hotel and a Mall? Never mind. I am more interested in LFC.