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We're all fretting about our No.9

Talk of broken promises made by the board prior to him signing his contract extension is the main issue. Issues from the past, Hodgson says.

Purslow in major talks with him in Spain just this week gone.

Surely once Nando gets back and makes his intentions felt then we will know what is gonna happen either regarding a Takeover being immediate or by the Winter Transfer Window.

Even if he feels let down by those promises made.... if a new buyer is imminent then he will surely stick around. Anything else will just be an excuse to leave us.

With new owners comes new investment so he will end up with the quality players he feels he deserves to play with!

So....... If Torres gets back from his Hols and says he's staying then that has to be the best sign of all!

If he says he is going then we are in trouble and Purslow/Broughton are still along way from getting rid of H&G!

Wonder when Torres gets back from his Hols to Melwood.......

YNWA

What does everyone else think? Thoughts?

i expect him to stay, like dunk says i think he owes us at least one more season.

if the lad wants to leave though let him go. i hope he doesn't but it shouldn't be such a hard decision. in form he's probably the best striker in the world but if he did go the funds would still give us 2 or 3 potentially quality signings.

don't wanna [oops] on everyone bombfire but even if we do get new owners it wont make us a "man city" with the amounts of debt on the club. i hope i'm wrong but if the club is sold things will change for the future surely and the new stadium HAS to be priority which holds the key to funds in the future especially with uefa applying this new "you only can only spend what you make" rule coming into place.

I think it would be very foolish for him to leave us if prospective new owners are imminent. But on another note he is injury prone and a fee of £50m + for him would be significant in buying a few world class players.
I would rather see him go back to spain or Italy rather than another prem league club.

red4life, the reasons for the prices increasing is because of the debt. the reason why people wont pay it is because of the owners. think about it if we had an extra 25,000 seat to fill on a match day we could more than afford to lower ticket prices and still make a significant profit...

new owners/stadium + lower tickets prices = new signings/happy fans/healthy club

don't bother wanted - it is just another excuse for him to have a dig at 'OOTs'

OOTs you mean out of towners?

supposed im classed as an out of towner, i work at the ground but i live over the water in wallasey. can totally understand what he's sayin though. the prices have been upped because of tax apparently, but the club is struggling. you can't say that there aren't enough fans to fill the ground, theres always been a heavily exended waitin list for season ticket holders and they have been in high demand for a long time.

last season was a huge shock to us all for a team that were expected to challenge for the title, it simply couldnt have gone any worse. i think when you weigh it up the frustrations/negativity/uncertainty surrounding the club has played a major part for the fans not to renew their season tickets too. if we had come 2nd in the league again or won one of the cups would they still feel the same way? i doubt it.

the new stadium is for the future and its vital that its built for the long run. think about it...

lets say the average attendance at anfield is 44,000 (just for arguments sake).

44000 X 45 = £1.98m X 18 (home games per season) = £35.64M

thats just on the league alone, no cup games reserve games etc.
with a new stadium...

60000 X 45 = £2.7m X 18 = £48.6m

its nearly a 1/3 increase in revenue. once its built it will pay for itself within years. add tv rights, sales, merchandise, sponsorship etc to that you've got some very healthy numbers. if the debt is cleared the club will be self sufficient without the need of further investment. thats were the top quality signings cme into it. theres alot of [oops] off fans at the moment but if it was built it would be full every home game. its still number one prioity simple as (sorry to bore you with the long winded post)

Sorry about the double post

But as for the match going fans dwindling away i just can't see that happening. LFC has a huge world wide fan base. Most notably in Norway, theres many foreign fans that fly in to watch every home game, i know this cos i see them at the ground every game. Ever wonder why the attendance was low during the snow crisis? theres your answer

Want3d, you are spot on. I too am a OOT from Croxteth & my youngest has been on the season ticket waiting list for 11 years & has still not qualified for one yet.

I accept some people cant afford the season tickets, but a £32 increase from £700 to £732 is not that much. But the people i know who have given up their season ticket have done so cos they are disillusioned & not because of an increase in the price.

talk of torres goin to city today for £70m... that could possibly get us dzeko, aguero, arda, coentrao, banega and possibly a centre half if masch went too.

fair play to him he's just the same as us in a sense, we all wanna see top quality signings only difference is we'll never turn our backs on the club. its crunch time for him to speak up now though, city have made it publicy known they wanna sign him.