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From BBC:

Liverpool Football Club - which owes two banks £350m - has renegotiated its debt with the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Club owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are believed to have extended the £290m RBS debt for another year, but agreed to pay back £60m.

Negotiations between RBS, Wachovia and the owners have been prolonged, with fears the banks may call in the loans.

Latest accounts show Kop Holdings, the parent company of the Anfield club, lost £42.6m in the year to August 2008.

Annual figures showed that interest payments accounted for £36.5m of those losses.

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The club has continued to spend on new players as it looks to try and win the top prizes in the game, with Portsmouth defender Glen Johnson joining in a £17.5m move.

But the owners have failed to find the money to build the club's new stadium, with preliminary work on the Stanley Park venture halting during last season.

In June, Mr Gillett agreed to sell one of his major assets - his 80% stake in the NHL's Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team - in a deal which would ease financial pressures at the Premier League club.

Meanwhile Mr Hicks has been reportedly looking to sell off elements of his own sporting empire - which includes Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers and the NHL's Dallas Stars.

Liverpool was put on the market last year with a reported asking price of about £500m, but no sale was finalised.

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does this mean we are set to see the two stooges at the club for another year or maybe they have only managed to secure and extend this loan with the guarantee of another investor?

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Either is possible mate. The only ting I know is that Rafa wouldn't have signed on again if there wasn't a plan for the future regarding cash for new players and the new stadium (which should have been half built by now!)

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indeed it should! When I was at Anfield last November I remember walking though Stanley Park and getting all excited at seeing JCB's and other building materials but sadly they were only refurbishing the duck pond!!! :P

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Originally Posted By: 4ever-reddy
indeed it should! When I was at Anfield last November I remember walking though Stanley Park and getting all excited at seeing JCB's and other building materials but sadly they were only refurbishing the duck pond!!! :P


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Haven't the ducks been nicked?

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think the bluenoses ate them! and gave moores the feathers to line his nest wink

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indeed it should! When I was at Anfield last November I remember walking though Stanley Park and getting all excited at seeing JCB's and other building materials but sadly they were only refurbishing the duck pond!!! :P


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No, they've moved into Goddison!

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no Joel, you're getting your birds crossed mate, it was the headless chickens that moved into Goddison!

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And a goose.


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