Liverpool Thread - 2022/23

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Eds said:
According to the BBC report the club "would consider new shareholders" but that FSG "remains fully committed to the success of Liverpool, both on and off the pitch".

Doesn't sound like they are selling but looking for more investment or am I reading it wrong?
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This is what’s floating around Twitter.
(Also, state of those fucking teeth)
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Eds said:
According to the BBC report the club "would consider new shareholders" but that FSG "remains fully committed to the success of Liverpool, both on and off the pitch".

Doesn't sound like they are selling but looking for more investment or am I reading it wrong?
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It doesn't mean anything. I have written stuff like that in a previous life and it says absolutely nothing.
 
Eds said:
According to the BBC report the club "would consider new shareholders" but that FSG "remains fully committed to the success of Liverpool, both on and off the pitch".

Doesn't sound like they are selling but looking for more investment or am I reading it wrong?
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What ever they are looking for it’s a weird way of going about it by announcing that they are looking to sell. Surely they would have a little black book of contacts who they could talk to about investing or selling. Having to publicly say ‘We are willing to listen to offers give us a call’ shows they have exhausted their immediate avenues and desperation is starting to kick in.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
My only concern would be Bezos?

He's taken a hit recently (for someone worth £150bn) but everyone is aware Amazon are making moves on the next TV deal.

Doesn't strike me as a sports fan but when you have that much money...
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Prob if they bought a club they wud not be able to buy tv rights. Amazon are after a tv deal in future and I think will be involved with streaming.
 
If they are willing to sell then there is no way they are going/committing for big money signings like Jude. So its us vs Madrid then..
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
My only concern would be Bezos?

He's taken a hit recently (for someone worth £150bn) but everyone is aware Amazon are making moves on the next TV deal.

Doesn't strike me as a sports fan but when you have that much money...
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Chelsea given their location, would have been arguably the most attractive club purchase in English football. Bezos and people of his ilk didn’t come forward then, I don’t expect him or someone like him to come forward now unless they are a Liverpool fan.

I think it’s far more likely that another US consortium pick up the mantle. I think it’s safe to say that whoever comes in will spend cash initially, it’s how they endear themselves to the fanbase. It’s the long-term commitment to spending cash the yanks typically don’t do. I’d expect that’s why FSG are looking to cut and run now.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
But, but, but....I thought Liverpool had a £120m deal in place with Jude?

Does it scream to you their owners might not even be committing to £10m right now?
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The sales deck/prospectus had already been produced. In current assets they’ve tippexed Erling Haaland out replacing his name with Jude Bellingham (hopefully/almost certainly)
 
halfcenturyup said:
Yep, Cousin went to school with him Newcastle. Mother was a hairdresser, explaining the lovely hair (Sting, not his mum or my cousin).
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I lived around the corner from Sting, we lived just over 100 metres from each other. I don't remember him from that time as he was just another person without fame but must have seen him regularly with us living so close to each other.
 
Mick_ said:
I lived around the corner from Sting, we lived just over 100 metres from each other. I don't remember him from that time as he was just another person without fame but must have seen him regularly with us living so close to each other.
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You remember any Bianchis living around there?
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
My only concern would be Bezos?

He's taken a hit recently (for someone worth £150bn) but everyone is aware Amazon are making moves on the next TV deal.

Doesn't strike me as a sports fan but when you have that much money...
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Wasn't there a governance/monopolies issue back when Sky owned part of Trafford, when they held the rights to the PL? If I've remembered correctly, they had to sell, so Bezos/Amazon couldn't own them, as well as the media rights.

With regard to the timings of this, perhaps it's a combination of:
1. Liverpool might not make CL next year - future loss of revenue in CL
2. Liverpool not looking good for CL & PL - current loss of revenue from both
3. Any debt, which may or may not have to be refinanced in the short-term, will be at eye-watering rates compared to a year ago.
4. Massive investment required for 1st team - to compete and replace all the old men.
5. Ground investment - to be up to scratch/compete with Spurs and the the future Everton etc.
6. Infrastructure investment - to be worth anything longterm
7. Academy investment - to help sustain income growth
8. Women's team investment - to ensure continued participation at top level in one of the fastest growing sports in uk.
9. The Coutinho moneytree has finally ended.
10. World economic uncertainty - eg commercial sponsors wavering/cutting back

Add all those together, and they clearly just want to get out with some value/profit still. Anyone buying, better have deep pockets and a longterm plan - and willing to bet big on a brand that lives in the past, has so much negativity, needs massive investment across the entire spectrum of it all and a fanbase that is feral, vicious, neanderthal and cult-like.


Not looking good.


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