I was talking about rdownes9 really... Not very nice of him/her at all!

Bluey, Reina has been one of the safest pair of hands in the league. You know he is a very good and reliable goal keeper, but you're always going to say he has butter fingers for as long as you can remember that mistake against Everton.

I wouldn't call playing for Everton a disorder Bluey!!!

Here's a joke for you......
An Everton fan's on holiday in America and walks past a tramp, the tramp says "You gotta a quarter sir", to which the Toffee replies "no mate we got knocked out on Penalties in the last 16!!! Ask me mate who's a red, they have them all the time!!"

Barnsley

Saved me typing it.

Not a very good comeback boys is it? You say Barnsley, I just say OLDHAM! 2 rounds earlier! A division further down........gotta try harder than that!

i dont support Everton.

We're not the ones who posted the poor joke which hit you back in the face.

It's like being in the playground all over again.

Well you would remember that with you only being there a few hours ago.

ha ha very grown up reply bluey!!! wot you gonna do call someone fatty or foureyes next!!!

Anyway how did my joke hit me back in the face?? You didn't reach the quarters in Europe and we have.

Steely, who doesn't support Everton, mentions our FA Cup defeat, you back him up when your boys made a quicker exit to an even lower team. Don't quite get it somehow!



Anyway, enough of all this bitchy [beep!], in all seriousness, Everton were dead unlucky last night, and I really do mean that. They played well and did well to come back. Its gonna be great fight til the end of the season for that chapions league place, so may the best team win!

Topic please.

Liverpool FINANCE EXPERT EXPECTS DIC DEAL

Hicks - broke off talks.
Football finance expert Professor Chris Brady has dismissed Tom Hicks' termination of Liverpool takeover talks with Dubai International Capital (DIC) as a "negotiation manoeuvre" and expects the deal to be wrapped up by June.

Hicks ended discussions yesterday, insisting in a statement he was not interested in jointly running the club "by committee" with DIC and vetoed their proposal to buy out 49% of co-owner George Gillett's 50% stake.

It has led to speculation that the proposed £400million deal is dead in the water, but Professor Brady, who is the Dean of the business school at Bournemouth University, believes Hicks is angling for a better price.

He told Football Insider: "Clearly Hicks wants out now. He probably thinks he can get £450 million by stalling and they (DIC) will probably go to £450 million.

"My guess is that this is a manoeuvre in a normal negotiation. Hicks will wait and try to get as much money as possible by frustrating DIC, but it's obvious from the dialogue he will sell.

"From what I've heard there is no rush of alternative buyers out there and DIC are keen.

"Dubai (DIC), presumably, will want to wrap the deal up by the middle or end of June so they have time to prepare for the new season."

Earlier reports - since denied by Hicks - suggested Hicks and DIC had disagreed over the Dubai group's plans to install a fan with full voting rights to the board.

Brady, who thinks DIC will eventually assume total control of the club, believes the scheme would help any new owners avoid the same popularity issues suffered by Hicks and Gillett.

"If Dubai buy 90% of the equity at some stage or another, then a group, possibly Rogan Taylor's (Share Liverpool FC Group), can take 10% for the fans with board membership," he added.

"I suspect that's what Rogan's group are aiming for, and I reckon DIC will take that.

"They would get the majority and controlling stake, and it keeps the fans quiet for five years or so, which is important.

"No matter how much due diligence they (foreign investors) do, they do not quite understand how involved and awkward fans can be over here."





This is interesting in a business sense.

It's all gone very quiet, what is Tom up to ????

Question for anyone with any Financial brain. (or anyone who can be arsed)

With the crisis affecting the good old USA, what damage (if any) has this done to T Hicks companies.

Will this make him sell LFC quicker?

Liverpool stalkers DIC believe the credit control crunch across the Atlantic is now seriously impacting on Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks' businesses and that he will soon be back at the negotiating table.


Or he may sell he's other sports teams to concentrate on Liverpool

ps, Thats if he can find a buyer for them....

This is going to lead to murder. I can feel it.

Here is the latest from the Independant.

DIC to seal £400m deal for Liverpool in 'three to four weeks'

By Jason Burt and Ian Herbert
Tuesday, 25 March 2008

The long pursuit of Liverpool by Dubai International Capital is set to end within the next "three to four weeks" with the investment group taking full control of the Premier League club, according to a source close to the proposed deal.

DIC is understood to be confident that it will finally buy the club for £400m – and is looking to involve a "third party" investor, who would take a minority stake, as part of its business plan. The company is believed to already have an agreement in place with the club's co-owner George Gillett Jnr to buy his share. It is also confident that Tom Hicks, who owns the other 50 per cent, is now close to agreeing to sell to them even though he cut off negotiations earlier this month insisting he would not sell even a minority stake. Hicks also said he would block any attempt by Gillett to sell.

Although DIC, which is the private equity investment arm of the Dubai government, realises it is paying a high price for Liverpool – Gillett and Hicks bought the club for £219m 13 months ago – such is its determination to succeed that it wants to push ahead. "It's not a cheap deal and Hicks is holding out but there is confidence that it will now finally happen," a source said. Matters have not been helped by the strained relationship between the two Americans.

DIC, whose chief executive Sameer Al-Ansari is a life-long fan of the club and who will join the board, has ambitious plans which could include involving some of its other investment vehicles in an attempt to raise its profile. The hotel group Jumeirah could be used as part of the development of a new stadium. A wide-ranging review of the club, and its revenue streams, will be conducted.

DIC came close to buying Liverpool before the Americans' acquisition and has tried to resume negotiations, on and off, ever since. The reason for the apparent confidence now could be that several of Hicks' loans are due for refinancing within two or three months. This may be the trigger for his main lender – believed to be JP Morgan – to force him back into talks with DIC and accept its offer for Liverpool.

The full level of the Texan's debt is unclear. But DIC sources believe he has been hit badly by the state of the financial markets in the United States, which has seen the value of assets which he has borrowed heavily against drop – in some cases by between 30 and 50 per cent. Were Hicks unable to refinance loans when, at a time of severe anxiety among financial institutions, they are due, JP Morgan could take over the assets Hicks has borrowed against or force a sale. Since bankers would tend to sell on such assets anyway the presence of a prospective buyer like DIC would be attractive to them.

Given how far apart DIC and Hicks seem to be, it would appear that any chance of the Arab consortium having a future role at Anfield would be through a complete takeover, with or without a junior partner.