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With both our owners now having come into a, quite substantial, finacial windfall over the last months. LFC still remain in financial trouble, with no 'spades in the ground' and Rafa still having to shop in the basement specials section for players!

Why can't these F@cking Americans decide to either help the club out or F@ck off!!??

Let's hope the 'Large War Chest' that has been spoken about is coming from some of these funds they've recieved! Ah, F@ck it who am I kidding!? They're not going to start putting their own money into OUR club anytime soon, IF EVER!

never ever,, yikes

To be honest they don't really have that much money. Both men are typical American Debt dealers leveraging debts on the assets of the companies they have bought, making them appear very well off, whilst inventing holding companies as the representative company , so as to not endanger their own or their families personal wealth.

They will eventually buils the stadium, whatever size it is as this is the only real way they can make money, by selling it and materialising the profit, paying off the debt and dissappearing with whats left. As can now be seen from the Texas Rangers. They are Businessmen , not Football men.

It is why if as predicted Man City make a record breaking £100M bid for Torres in the summer, they will sell him, Profit.

They don't care about the club they only care about money. They were not good people to sell the club to , as in real terms they are not that well off and are desperate for profit.

This differs to the Arab oil giant approach, who buy teams as playthings, don't really care about losses, they have more money than you can shake a stick at, they just want success.

I know who i would rather have owning our club.

I think you are right and a good analysis. However other than Chelsea or Man City most (all?) premiership clubs are run by businessmen. Even DIC run sports concerns as businesses.

Were we to get new owners we would need extraordinary luck for it to be otherwise

It would be interesting if a Barcelona model would ever work in the prem.

I don't know what to think anymore..Hicks has mentioned this coming summer being "big" for us, whatever that means? Even if both owners gave £10-£15M of their personal wealth from these huge baseball team sales it would be a start to go with the usual summer transfer kitty, but I just can't see it happening. That said the debt of the club is down from £350M to £240M ish so the interest payments will be down significantly on the last financial year and with the £80M kit deal you would hope for a big summer. Time will tell but I'm not getting my hopes up.

well they've publicly committed to it, there will be a lot to answer for if they u turn.

I have commented previously,... you cannot buy something if you don't have the cash - this is a fundamental economic principle.

Global legislation should be changed which outlaws all forms of illegal financing - of course this remains to be seen whether greed and corruption in most governments will prevail.

Don't think he will clear any money from this - think he owes this much to the MLB - so will just clear some of his debts

Emp they didn't have the money in the summer as this was while the GFC was still going on. This summer will be the test of whether they are here for the team or profit. I suspect the later.