KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum anyone read this story today

is it more spin ??

http://business.maktoob.com/20090000407530/Flailing_Liverpool_may_get_UAE_sheik_boost/Article.htm

ABU DHABI - Liverpool Football Club, a long-time target for Middle East investors, could get an injection of cash from an influential sheik in the United Arab Emirates, according to an official.

Members of the ruling family of Ras Al Khaimah, one of seven sheikdoms in the U.A.E., hope to meet with the club's U.S. owners George Gillet Jr. and Tom Hicks to discuss investing in the English Premier League side, a senior official in the emirate, with knowledge of matter, told Zawya Dow Jones.

Liverpool's owners "may be coming next week," to discuss a deal, the senior official, who declined to be named, said. Ian Cotton, Liverpool FC's director of communications, said, "at the moment, we are not commenting on this speculation." A spokeswoman for Tom Hicks couldn't immediately confirm a planned trip.

The funding could help the Anfield-based club compete for new playing talent in the January transfer window, when European clubs are permitted to trade players.

Liverpool has lost ground on better funded teams like Chelsea Football Club and Manchester City Football Club when competing for the world's best players. It's also struggling on the pitch. Liverpool was last month eliminated from the lucrative UEFA Champions League, costing the club an estimated GBP10 million on its projected income from the competition.

Defeat against Arsenal Football Club Sunday has also raised the prospect of Liverpool missing out on next season's tournament entirely. It's currently seventh in the English Premier League and must finish in the top four to earn a Champions League place, worth up to GBP25 million per season.

Undoubtedly this will turn out to be just another lot of hot air.

Read how it is worded - "could get an injection of cash" "hope to meet with the club's U.S. owners", "may be coming next week"

It's just like me saying "I hopeto win the lottery on Saturday.

i will believe when the money is in the bank lol

Every time we get linked with investment or take-overs we get a little ahead of ourselves. Probably because we're so desperate to get funding for the new stadium, players etc. Also we're aching to get the Yanks out.

This time round I'll only believe it when the papers are signed and the money is in the bank.............along with a spade or two in the ground!

good observation kirkby

i dont really think if the sheikh being linked hardly knows whats even happening.loll

atleast i dont see a full ownership by this one specifically if a bit of truth there is in this speculation,

YNWA

if they stop after the third spade ...hehe :P

Then it's time for the bulldozers! LOL

Can't see it happening myself. Who would want to just give us money? They'd want a say in how things are done and it just won't work. If 2 Americans can't agree with each other how will they agree with someone half way round the world.

Only a complete takeover will work and thats what we need more than a few million quid at the moment.

UAE are already struggling to keep their Dubai alive with the mountain of debt. I doubt they'll be keen to throw away silly money on buying out Gillett and hicks. There's nothing to gain really. It's all paper talk to me and opportunity to sell some papers.

For once, I'm actually hoping we'd fail to qualify for next year's champions league. That way the 2 clowns will have no choice but to sell out at a lower price where buyers will actually buy. It's like cancer... you need to remove the cancerous part before it spreads and kills the club.

No point qualifying for next year's CL and we'll be back to square one... 2 clowns as owners and a team that's not strong enough to win anything.

I'd rather have the drastic fall and rise up again... than forever languish in mediocrity of fighting for 4th place every year.

the current crisis in dubai shows us the uae isnt as strong as we think.

honestly, i would prefer some english investor unite with middle east shieks.

man city was a attractive investment because the stadium was already built