Kuwaiti businessmen at game?

[Keita]

Kuwaiti businessmen attend Liverpool game at Anfield with Tom Hicks

 

1 hour ago

 

LIVERPOOL, England — A group of Kuwaiti businessmen were at Anfield on Sunday with Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks to watch the match against Chelsea as the American searches for new investors.

 

Among the group was a member of the Al-Kharafi family, which Hicks has been talking to about helping to fund a 60,000-seat replacement stadium for Anfield.

 

Hicks sent key personnel to Kuwait and other countries in the region to find investors able to provide the capital that will help him meet his financial obligations to Liverpool - notably building the new stadium - and reducing the club's debt.

 

Liverpool finance director Philip Nash met earlier this month with billionaire Nasser Al-Kharafi, who owns The Kharafi Group which is building the 60,000-seat Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium in Kuwait.

 

Hicks shares ownership in Liverpool with Montreal Canadiens owner George Gillett Jr. The two men both attended the game on Sunday, marking the first time in 13 months that they have been seen at the same match.

 

Their relationship deteriorated throughout 2008 and, in a clear sign of their lingering divisions, they were separated by more than a dozen seats in the directors' box.

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianp...QP77XC-5AxqMwOw

[CarraLegend]

Gedo also says said people met Gillett earlier today at the Crowne Plaza.

Edited February 1, 2009 by CarraLegend

[Sion]

think the distance between them in the stands says it all

[Swipe]

Gedo also says said people met Gillett earlier today at the Crowne Plaza.

 

Is that a poster from another site, mate?

[CarraLegend]

Is that a poster from another site, mate?

 

Yes he's on RAWK, dont think ive seen him get anything wrong to be fair. That shankslegend fella is a beaut though.

[Sion]

Is that a poster from another site, mate?

 

from RAWK, has a pretty decent track record with this sort of stuff

says they're staying at different hotels as well

[Swipe]

Cheers lads.

 

Be interesting to see what comes from Hicks and Gillett's visit

[Gunga Din]

its times like this i wish FYDS was still posting here

[Keita]

Yes he's on RAWK, dont think ive seen him get anything wrong to be fair. That shankslegend fella is a beaut though.

 

He took a bit of bashing from Tony Barrett not long ago.

[madaboutlfc]

its times like this i wish FYDS was still posting here

so f***ing true.. fyds was pure entertainment

[Sion]

He took a bit of bashing from Tony Barrett not long ago.

 

when was that, would love to see that.

[AmassiveSlot]

what happened to poor little FYDS

[Keita]

when was that, would love to see that.

 

He said that Barrett and the Echo were holding info back about Hicks and Gillett but Barrett started a thread on RAWK telling him not to tell porkies.

[CarraLegend]

when was that, would love to see that.

 

 

Was months ago now, think it all got deleted anyway. Think he said some "info" and said Barrett will back it up and it all went wrong! Or something like that anyway.

[Gunga Din]

so f***ing true.. fyds was pure entertainment

 

 

if by entertaining you mean full of s***, then yes, he was

[CarraLegend]

He said that Barrett and the Echo were holding info back about Hicks and Gillett but Barrett started a thread on RAWK telling him not to tell porkies.

 

Yeah that was it! Think he's f***ed off now anyway hasnt he?

[Sion]

Was months ago now, think it all got deleted anyway. Think he said some "info" and said Barrett will back it up and it all went wrong! Or something like that anyway.

 

ha, is that why he seems to have flounced off and hardly posts anymore.

Never seen such an insider reputation built up on f*** all knowledge, that's RAWK for you.

[Rimbeux]

what happened to poor little FYDS

 

 

Someone ridiculed him on another forum, calling him a whopper or similar, and it was a final straw for him, the way forums are and being laid into by strangers

[madaboutlfc]

if by entertaining you mean full of s***, then yes, he was

if you cannot see humour in how A will do this whilst B waits in the background till C is going to lose money and international monetary conditions will dictate that yanks will sell.. It is just like reading a John Grisham novel

[Hassony]

if by entertaining you mean full of s***, then yes, he was

 

 

if you cannot see humour in how A will do this whilst B waits in the background till C is going to lose money and international monetary conditions will dictate that yanks will sell.. It is just like reading a John Grisham novel

 

Is it ok to lay off the guy until he start posting once again?

[Keita]

Yeah that was it! Think he's f***ed off now anyway hasnt he?

 

 

havent seen any of his posts for a while, but they seem to worship him on RAWK.

[Raj]

That shankslegend fella is a beaut though.

 

She gets things wrong, but she does have a good source.

[Gunga Din]

Is it ok to lay off the guy until he start posting once again?

 

 

he still logs on and reads. he can reply if he wants. and its nothing i havent said to him when he was posting here anyway

Edited February 1, 2009 by Gunga Din

[GWistooshort]

From the Daily Mail today............

 

Kuwait billionaires are still in Anfield talks

Last updated at 12:58 AM on 02nd February 2009

 

Liverpool are still locked in talks about selling the club to the Al-Kharafi family in Kuwait, despite reports that the secretive Middle East dynasty were no longer interested in Anfield.

 

Instead, Kuwaiti representatives saw Liverpool beat 10-man Chelsea at Anfield and they are continuing negotiations with warring owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, having conducted their due diligence studies of the club’s troubled finances over the past few weeks.

 

Hicks’ main allies at Liverpool, commercial director Ian Ayre and finance boss Phil Nash, have been in Kuwait making presentations to the Al-Kharafis, whose patriarch Nasser has delegated nephew Rafed, a Liverpool fan, to be chief negotiator.

 

It is understood the Al-Kharafi family want the majority stake, with Gillett being bought out and Hicks keeping a reduced percentage.

 

The full price would be about £300million but that would also mean picking up debts of £350m.

 

Liverpool will be wary after the Al-Kharafi clan terminated talks last July without explanation.

 

The contract was ready to sign and all that needed to be done was to settle periphery issues.

 

Hicks was furious after five months of negotiations conducted under the football radar.

 

Equally upset at their wasted work costing them millions were Al-Kharafi’s UK financial advisers, understood to be football stockbrokers Seymour Pierce.

 

But the Kuwait billionaires haven’t gone away, although agreeing anything between Hicks and Gillett is problematic.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1...ield-talks.html

[GWistooshort]

The Guardian, the Independent & the Times this morning all say that representatives of the Al-Kharafi's were at the match yesterday

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/fe...verpool-chelsea

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/footbal...ne-1523002.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/foo...icle5636557.ece