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Luis Garcia is currently in Madrid where he is expected to complete a medical for Atletico Madrid, whilst Fernando Torres has cut short his holiday to complete his Liverpool move.
Liverpool have almost completed the signing of the Bulgarian Under-21 goalkeeper – Nikolay Mihaylov.
The player who turns 19 tomorrow is set to sign for Liverpool on a three year deal.
Ten days after the UEFA Champions League final in Athens which was organised with as much strategic planning as a car boot sale, UEFA’s murky officials began to leak stories to the press about their report condeming Liverpool fans as the worst in Europe.
After days of silence from UEFA following on from the potentially disastrous events in Greece, where over 3,000 Liverpool fans with genuine tickets were beaten, tear-gassed and refused entry to the stadium, UEFA have compiled a dossier branding Liverpool fans ‘the Worst in Europe’.
Of Liverpool’s allocation of 17,095 tickets for the final in Athens, only around 11,000 tickets went to fans.
Around 6,000 tickets were eaten up by corporate season ticket holders, players, former players and the largest chunk by ex-shareholders of the club. Rick Parry revealed the figures today – and our feeling, as is the feeling amongst the vast majority of our members on the forums is that this is nothing short of a disgrace.
Thousands of Liverpool supporters are gearing up for the trek to Athens this weekend. Some fans have already left as package deals, flights connecting through European countries and probably even Taxi’s (!) make the trek to the distant shores of the European continent.
You may have come out of the ballot empty-handed. You may be in despair over the ridiculous ticketing fiasco whereby touts are flogging OUR tickets to us for over a grand.
Recreativo Huelva, the Spanish side that took Florent Sinama Pongolle on loan, have completed the deal for the Frenchman for €4 million (£2.7 million).
The famous home red shirt will have one more crack at the Premiership title next year as Liverpool are set to keep it, but both the Liverpool away shirt and the Liverpool European away shirt are set to be replaced in the summer.
Liverpool travel to Villa Park for a 1.35pm kick off tomorrow (Sunday 18th March 2007) and the reds will be looking for three vital points after Arsenal moved ahead us to 3rd in mid-week.
Supporting Liverpool is seriously bad for your health. A tie the reds could have finished before half time went the distance thanks to a combination of the woodwork, a touch of brilliant Barcelona goalkeeping and some nervy shooting.
Although the media (chief culprits the increasingly clown-like Sky TV) would have you believe that Liverpool were wracked with internal problems and aiming for a 2-1 defeat at best, we actually decided it would be more fun to play Barcelona off the park and beat them.
Moving swiftly on from the announcement just over 48 hours ago, Liverpool have begun to send out information to club shareholders to accept the cash offer of £5,000 per share offered by George Gillett Jnr and Tom Hicks.
After years of speculation and discussions former Chairman David Moores finally made good on his promise to secure a future for Liverpool Football Club both on and off the field.
Rafa Benitez wound up the blue-half of the city yesterday when he referred to Everton as a ‘small’ club, and those loveable rogues from across Stanley Park (for now) have been biting back in force.
Dubai Investment Capital have spoken to the Liverpool Echo about the collapse of the Liverpool bid – still angry at David Moores and the Liverpool board. A spokesman for the DIC investment group suggest reds Chairman David Moores had a moment of madness. “If the fans want to know what’s happened, David Moores suffered what [...]
Liverpool’s proposed takeover by Dubai Investment Capital has collapsed after a board meeting at Liverpool failed to ratify the groups offer.
Just as the transfer window was finally getting ready to slam shut, Liverpool have completed the signing of Javier Mascherano, the Argentinian World Cup star, who has been rotting away out of sight at Premiership strugglers West Ham United.
Under Stock Exchange rules, Liverpool Football Club have today been forced to confirm the recent developments with the Liverpool take-over plan and in particular American George Gillette’s new offer for the club.
The Dubai investment bid at Anfield is set to value the club itself at £156 million according to the BBC. Chairman David Moores, who owns just over 51% of the club’s shares, is expected to pocket £75 million from the deal. Dubai Investment Capital are at a very advanced stage after assessing the club’s finances [...]
According to Liverpool Chief Exec. Rick Parry, the proposed takeover by Dubai Investment Capital of England’s most succesful football club, could be completed within days to weeks.
We are giving away Liverpool’s first shirt unveiled this summer in our latest competition on the site.
West Ham’s want-away Argentinian world cup star Javier Mascherano has undertaken and passed his medical at Anfield.
Stories circulating in today’s press from the Business world seem to indicate that Dubai Investment Capital intend to purchase Liverpool with the main focus based on the stadium development, Anfield regeneration and then to sell the club on to new investors.
Rick Parry and DIC both expressed their desire to secure a future for Liverpool Football Club, but only in a way that would respect the club’s historic traditions and values.
The story we posted two days ago has finally broke in the national media. Under strict financial legislation – companies need to disclose impending financial decisions and today both Liverpool FC and the Arabian Capital Investment group announced their on-going co-operation in a possible Liverpool takeover.
After what seems like endless years of discussion, names being bandied round and frustration at David Moores reticence to hand over his shares, a cash injection at Anfield appears to be getting closer and closer.
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