skamp what do you think of the idea gillette is selling up

thing which has interested me is that hicks has been doing all the talking recently, i got a feeling gillette wants out. we just gotta wait and see, pretty sure the saudi guy has agreed to buy part of liverpool.

remember kuwati also agreed but pulled out in the end, fingers crossed really.

i am just hoping the prine gets one hand on liverpool, he can then work on pressuring hicks to sell the remaining shares later on if he wants total control

Host: we have heard there is an upcoming sports project, can you provide us with some details [regarding the project]?

Prince: sure, tomorrow Im signing an agreement with the owner of Liverpool an "investment and strategical" deal regarding the middles-east and north africa. At the same time, F6 might buy between 25-50% of Liverpool football club. but the collaboration (regarding football matters in the middle east) and the [football] academies [in the middle east] will come a bit later.

H: So can we expect Saudi football to improve from this collaboration?

P: "Yes, with God's willing. Not only Saudi football, but Football in the entire Middle East will gain [from this deal] as well." the prince adds, "we have signed already [the deal to collaborate in the middle east] but tomorrow I'm going to spend the entire day with the owner to attend the ceremony [of signing the deal] and I will also attend Liverpool's game with Hull"

H: I'm sorry your highness but I didn't hear you properly, you said between 45%-50%, what was that for?

P: "No", the prince says before stressing "Between 25% and 50% of Liverpool fc...Ownership deal...With God's willing"

H: We wish your highness all the best.

P: Thank you

yeah kinda understand where you are coming from

have you seen the brochure liverpool sent out to financial intermediates ?

tbh i think they are just trying to sell about 25 percent but it wouldnt surprise me if one of them wants out totally. which ever way it goes, the 2 yanks will rip them off

007 there is no such thing as a poor Saudi Prince.

Tis why I said "relatively poor". Put it this way, he's not listed on forbe's billionaires.

as Skamp has said,all the guy is buying is 50% of 50% which is 25%.

so in effect all hicks is doing is lining his own pockets(clearing his own debts),not investing in Liverpool

thats the way i see it.........mind you who knows

pictures of the saudi people taken meeting rafa and hicks....

damn site wont let me post them

says dynamic pictures are not allowed

ahh i see what you are doing

you are trying to make this seem bad as possible and not see it as a investment but when it happens you will throw a huge party...

we just gotta wait and see mate, i really do hope he invests because that means the 2 owners losing some of their power over liverpool. hopefully it will decrease over time to a big fat 0

surely if he owns 50%(25 from each) he has controlling interest and can force them to do his will.

Saudi Arabian sports investor F6 confirmed today that it’s discussing buying part or all of English Premier League soccer team Liverpool.

Chairman Prince Faisal bin Fahad bin Abdullah al-Saud watched the Reds’ 6-1 victory over Hull as a guest of co-owner George Gillett two days ago.

“Everything right now is on the table in terms of discussion,” Barry Didato, director of strategic investment at F6, said in an interview. “If the relationship didn’t make sense financially we couldn’t do it.”

Didato wouldn’t say whether F6 had met with Liverpool’s joint-owner Tom Hicks. Jonathon Brill, a spokesman for Gillett and Hicks, declined to comment.

Didato said F6 had also signed a memorandum of understanding with Gillett about a possible investment in Nascar’s Richard Petty Motorsports, moving one of the sport’s races to the Gulf and also setting up soccer academies in the Middle East and North Africa “at a level the world has never seen.”

The Al Riyadh newspaper reported that F6 was poised to pay between 200 million pounds ($319 million) and 350 million pounds for 50 percent of Liverpool.

“Those are some of the numbers that have been initially floated around,” Didato said.

Liverpool is England’s most successful team, with 18 league titles and five European Cups. Gillett and Hicks are looking to raise funds to restart work on a new 72,000-seat stadium and reduce debt of 240 million pounds with Royal Bank of Scotland Plc and Wachovia Corp. That work stalled after credit dried up during the global economic crisis.

‘Complexities’

“There’s some complexities to this,” Didato added. The investors are looking at the team’s debt, the current squad and the club’s facilities, he said. Didato said Prince Faisal also needed to be convinced about the “chemistry” of a possible partnership with two owners who have had disputes in the past.

“It’s very important for his highness to have a good partnership,” the F6 official said. “You don’t want to get into a case of where you’re entering the scene of family counseling: We don’t want to be there.”

The owners have also been subjected to fan protests because of the delays in building the stadium and backtracking on a pledge not to burden the club with debt used to fund their February 2007 acquisition.

“There’s some skeletons in the closet,” Didato said. “I don’t think it’s a whole graveyard in the closet.”

“Within three to four months we’d be able to know” a time scale over when a decision could be made on a possible investment, Didato said.

well we know he does want 50 percent of liverpool

i think it was hicks who screwed up the dubai deal by not letting gillette sell his stake.

but skamp i do think this one has a great chance, seriously the money being floated about is insane. 300m for 50 percent is way over priced and it wouldnt surprise me if hicks would jump in and try to sell his shares for that much first

so Amar you think the saudis think you are worth 700mill????

are you insane.....?

listen to Skamp for once in your life

This bit is really important

"why would anybody pay £350m for half a club that needs another 4 or 500m spending on a stadium (they wouldn't)"

btw people i was about about 350m for 50 percent * 3 academias... kwacka dont put words in my mouth. personally i thought he wanted 50 percent for 200-250m while the rest goes on the 3 academies. guess w ejust gotta wait, everything is unclear

the academias are separate i believe

i am just wondering where all the money fits in

hicks and gillete confirmed they are seeking outside investment today

kwacka dont be a wum we are exchanging our views on it, dont ruin the thread by turning it to a slagging much

kwacka cant you see we are exchanging views and discussing it? we are all listening and trying to make sense of this all

all you are trying to do is create arguments. tbh i aint got time to get involved in childish arguments against, so if you dont have anything useful to add then kindly move on to another thread

seven i think he himself is going to build the 3 academies, i think he may be including that money as in what he is going to invest

so however much it costs to build them 3 and then money to buy shares which does indeed look like 25 percent like skamp said, al tho things do look strange in how many shares he wants

btw people i was about about 350m for 50 percent * 3 academias... kwacka dont put words in my mouth. personally i thought he wanted 50 percent for 200-250m while the rest goes on the 3 academies. guess w ejust gotta wait, everything is unclear

yeah i thought he was trying to invest with his company and keep his academy deal separate. they have said tho they are interested in a stake of liverpool but will not take on the debt of hicks and gillette

the positive thing is the 2 clowns are looking for investors, hopefully they will find someone. the only way i see them 2 releasing their control over liverpool is for the third owner to take it over from the inside if you know what i mean

yeah but skamp now they are at the stage of desperation, spending money to produces brochures to attract owners lol

that tells me they are pretty damn desperate now, they are in a weaker position than they were last season or before

yeah i know mate, i understand that but their position is still weaker now due to financial turmoil in their personal assets and since they have publicly admitted seeking investment which they didnt do before shows they are actually in desperate need imo

lets just hope they sell out soon

they havent got over the financial storm, all they did was delay it

the fact they are selling their other franchises PROVES THIS

what is new is the fact that the Financial downturn bottomed out and the money men are now freeing up the markets