[Football] Liverpool set for "monstrous takeover" bid from Qatar in February

[BBassic]

Liverpool set for "monstrous takeover" bid from Qatar in February

Liverpool could be about to be in the money, with a Qatari group set to bid for the Reds

www.fourfourtwo.com

Oh good.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

We’ll still beat them.

 

[Swansman]

People will be a bit angry about it at first but I think the Newcastle thing shows it takes a couple of months to wash the takeover and then all will be fine again.

 

[erkan]

People will be a bit angry about it at first but I think the Newcastle thing shows it takes a couple of months to wash the takeover and then all will be fine again.

Very true. The normalisation of Newcastle's place at the top table thanks to blood money has not taken very long at all.

 

[portslade seagull]

The PL hierarchy only care about the money and not where it comes from. Thank goodness for TB

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

I’d rather Liverpool than say Villa, Leeds etc.

 

[Zeberdi]

People will be a bit angry about it at first but I think the Newcastle thing shows it takes a couple of months to wash the takeover and then all will be fine again.

Global football, silly sheik money, multi-multi millionaire oligarchy - it just p*sses on my fireworks about all the amazing work TB is doing at Brighton to make us competitive. Never going to like it or get used to it.

 

[Stat Brother]

That's Klipperty out of work then...







...maybe not.

 

[rippleman]

People will be a bit angry about it at first but I think the Newcastle thing shows it takes a couple of months to wash the takeover and then all will be fine again.

It didn't take the Geordies more than 24 hours before all the tea towels were sold out in Newcastle. The Geordies didn't care where the money came from and neither will the Scousers.

The game encourages sportswashing and it will continue. Neither the clubs nor the players have any issues or concerns (as Kane not wearing the "One Love" armband at the WC despite giving it plenty beforehand that he would, demonstrates).

 

[BBassic]

I had a look at the PL ownership the other day and there's something like 16 clubs currently majority owned by foreign investment/ foreign states.

It takes a lot to wake up the Little Englander in me but this does it. 16 foreign entities have one vote in any meeting that can decide things which affect OUR national game. It's bollocks.

If it keeps going this way the threshold of hitting 14 votes to pass something like, say, Premier League matches played abroad becomes lower and lower. If you've got 10 clubs saying yes then you only need to "convince" four more.

And that's not forgetting the sportswashing, the human rights abuses, the treatment of women, the treatment of homosexuals etc etc etc all of which should be enough to fail the owners test in the first place.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

EPL is fast becoming a global willy-waving contest, a bit like UK racehorse ownership used to be. Which makes it all the sweeter when the (comparatively) little guy makes them all look silly

 

[The Fits]

It's grotesque.

 

[BN41Albion]

Very true. The normalisation of Newcastle's place at the top table thanks to blood money has not taken very long at all.

This. Just how have Howe and they done so remarkably well in such a short space of time!? goes the narrative by most pundits.

I wonder..

 

[WhingForPresident]

No doubt the Liverpool fans who had an issue with Newcastle's takeover and the World Cup in Qatar will suddenly have a change of heart...

 

[Super Steve Earle]

EPL is fast becoming a global willy-waving contest, a bit like UK racehorse ownership used to be. Which makes it all the sweeter when the (comparatively) little guy makes them all look silly

I wouldn't do that in Quatar - they'd probably lop it off!

 

[drew]

If Tottenham get bought by the Qataris then will be interesting who they pick to win if and when Spurs/Liverpool/PSG meet in the champions league!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I wouldn't do that in Quatar - they'd probably lop it off!

I'm in about four minds as to which emoji to pin to your post

 

[Rookie]

The premier league and / or government should have stopped this happening a long time ago. The horse has firmly bolted now and it ain’t coming back.
Games abroad and the end of relegation won’t be far away

 

[The Fish]

This. Just how have Howe and they done so remarkably well in such a short space of time!? goes the narrative by most pundits.

I wonder..

To be fair, the owners haven't thrown around transfer fees that people were predicting. They haven't gone off and appointed Pochettino on massive wages as many expected.

The owners are awful and shouldn't own the club. But, to dismiss the team's performance as chiefly down to money spent, is reductive. Joelinton, Longstaff, Willock, Schar, Almiron were all here before the takeover and are all integral to our league position.
Pope, Trippier, Burn have all played superbly, and all were <£15m. Bruno was £39m, but hardly out of the range for the majority of PL clubs, same with Sven Botman. It's really only Isak at £60m where you could accuse the club of largesse and he's only played 260 minutes, so it's not like our record signing has fired us up the league. We have gone from relegation candidates, added 7 (excluding Isak) to our first team, and now we're genuinely competing for Europe.

On that point, it's important to remember that, last season we'd played 19 games, Won 1, Drawn 8, Lost 10. This season we've played 19, won 10, drawn 8, lost 1. That kind of turnaround cannot possibly be dismissed by laying it all at the feet of money spent. In fact, Newcastle have spent less than 9 clubs so far this season.

It's not just about money, Eddie Howe, Eales and Ashworth are why we're sitting in the top 4. Nothing we've done would have been impossible under the previous owner. But, I say again, the new owners are awful and shouldn't own the club.

 

[Cornwallboy]

That's Klipperty out of work then...







...maybe not.

Why?