I spotted this YouTube video in the NME website this week:
http://www.nme.com/news/echo-and-the-bunnymen/53344
It includes a number of pleas from fans of the club, both famous and not so famous and not famous at all to the current owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett to sell the club and get the hell out of Liverpool. It would appear that the duo are somewhat unpopular in a city that has a fanatical fan base for both it's main teams. Having been to the Kop on a number of occassions with the Incredible Mr Ford when we were at university I am feeling the shock of the club's dwindling success and, in particular, their awful start to this season. It now appears that the holding company, Kop Holdings owes the Royal Bank of Scotland 280M pounds and need to pay it back by 15th October or face administration. If that happens the club are likely to face the docking of 9 points, leaving them -3 in the league.
The pair bought the club in 2007, vowing to build a new stadium in Stanley Park and remove the club from debt. So far the debt has not been removed and so the new stadium, despite being designed and planned, remains unbuilt. At the same time the team has not performed due to injuries and a lack of desire from the owners to buy new players.
Now we're hearing that if the club goes into administration it could risk the deal with the proposed buyers further risking the future of the club.
Surely this can't be allowed to happen. Britains most successful club cannot be allowed to disappear. And I'm not just saying this because I've followed them for 22 years. I'd say the same if it was any of the other big clubs in Briatin.
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Hicks and Gillette were a pair of shysters but the problems are not down to lack of spending on players. Benitez spent many millions on players, the trouble was lots of them were crap.
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