Investment

[Extraordinary Swindle]

Haven't seen this posted ...

 

Cisse desperate for Reds stay (Sky Sports)

 

Last two paragraphs:

Meanwhile Liverpool's preparations for next season continue as chief executive Rick Parry will reportedly meet with former Oxford United chairman Robin Herd on Monday to discuss potential investment in the club.

 

Herd is acting on behalf of European investors and his proposal could result in funds being provided for new players as well as helping to finance the move to a new stadium, with the current power structure at Anfield remaining unchanged.

[RP]

In today's Times as well.

[Stevie H]

front page of today's grauniad sport as well./

[fred]

And in the Guardian: here

[tomas]

Any news, rumours or gossip on this?

[mercury]

A little bit more from today's Independent:

 

 

No one can match Gerrard, says Dalglish

 

Last para:

 

Liverpool's prospects will improve significantly if they can secure an investment package that increases both Benitez's transfer budget and their prospects of building a new stadium on Stanley Park. A consortium of European financial institutions, fronted by the former Oxford United chairman Robin Herd, met to formalise the latest proposals for the club yesterday and will present their plans at a scheduled meeting of the Anfield board on Thursday.

Edited May 16, 2006 by mercury

[Tyler]

Anybody know anything about Robin Herd?

[Armin_Tamzarian]

Anybody know anything about Robin Herd?

 

I'm pretty sure that robbing from the rich and giving to the poor won't form part of his business plan if that's any help?

[Guest Cardie]

Anybody know anything about Robin Herd?

 

Former Oxford Utd Chairman, fronting a consortium of European institutions, Brother called Douglas.

[L19red]

Former Oxford Utd Chairman, fronting a consortium of European institutions, son of Thora.

[DazzlaJ]

I am going for a Robin Herd, see you in 5

Edited May 16, 2006 by Dazzla

[cymrococh]

Robin "Seen not" Herd.

[KD07]

Show me the moneyyy then la.

[MarkD]

Former Oxford Utd Chairman, fronting a consortium of European institutions, son of Thora.

 

Walk-in baths in the dressing rooms, Stannah lifts to the top of the Centenary stand? Come on!!!

[Beardsley]

Heard a rumour that he was fronting Jordan (the F1 team, not the ti*s).

[fellafeen]

Lawro was on the last word (radio show in ireland) last night and said he heard of a big meeting today that will involve a massive investment in the club.

[Guest Cardie]

He's a friend of Jordan (again F1 not Model) according to one of the articles and he's part of the consortium.

[Rich Gobey]

Lasy seen "riding through the glenn"

[£440,000]

Anybody know anything about Robin Herd?

 

Never heard of him.

[fellafeen]

Eddie Jordan is a big celtic fan i think.

[plonky]

Eddie Jordan is a big celtic fan i think.

Coventry City, though he has invested in Celtic

[David Hodgson]

I'm pretty sure that robbing from the rich and giving to the poor won't form part of his business plan if that's any help?

 

 

Genius.

[Extraordinary Swindle]

Eddie Jordan is a big celtic fan i think.

He invested in Celtic at the invitation of Dermot Desmond but I don't think he's a fan.

[LFCJari37]

He was a car designer and owned and ran March for many years.

 

From Grandprix.com:

Name: Robin Herd

Nationality: Great Britain

 

A graduate of St Peter's College, Oxford, Herd began working at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1961 as a design engineer on the Concorde supersonic aircraft project. In 1965 he was recruited by McLaren and his first project was a revolutionary test car, for the Firestone tire company, which was built from an aerospace material composed of plywood and aluminum sheeting which was called Mallite. The first car was fitted with an Oldsmobile V8 engine but a F1 version of the car was built and run in 1966 with both Ford and Serenissima engines. It was not a success. His sportscars were successful in CanAm racing with titles for McLaren in 1966, 1967 and 1968.

 

Herd designed the McLaren F1 M7 for 1968 before moving to Cosworth to design a four-wheel drive F1 car. This project was canceled and in 1969 Herd joined forces with Max Mosley, Alan Rees and Graham Coaker to establish March Engineering which quickly became a very successful racing car manufacturing business. The company's efforts in F1 were less successful. After a major sponsorship deal with STP ended, the company struggled in F1 but managed to win one race in Austria in 1975 when Vittorio Brambilla scored an unexpected triumph in wet conditions. By the end of 1977 Herd was the only one of the original owners left. He pulled the team out of F1 and concentrated on building customer cars with great success in Formula 2 and Formula 3.

 

The company made a brief return to F1 in 1981 with the RAM March team but it ended in debacle after just a few months. That year Herd began concentrating on the United States market, winding down his European activities, although the company continued to enjoy considerable success in F2 and F3000. Success in the United States was dramatic, however, with the March Indycars becoming the dominant force in the mid-1980s. As a result of the success Herd floated the company on the Stock Exchange in 1986 - the same year in which he was awarded a CBE for his services to the motor racing industry.

 

Herd took March Racing back into F1 in 1987 with backing from the Japanese property company Leyton House. He sold the new team to the Japanese company in 1989 and created Robin Herd Ltd., a design office in Bicester. This designed an F1 car but money could not be found to run it and so in 1991 the company became Fomet 1 and supplied the car to the Fondmetal team. In 1992 a new deal was struck with French team owner Gerard Larrousse and the company became Larrousse UK Ltd. Larrousse ran out of money at the start of 1995 and the design bureau became GenTech (UK) and began doing development work for the Forsythe Racing CART team.

 

That year Herd quit racing and bought the Oxford United soccer team with big plans to rebuild the team's stadium. He also established a company investigating natural ways of producing energy. Neither project was very successful and Herd stood down from Oxford United after two and half years.

 

In 1999 there was talk of Herd joining forces with Mike Earle to set up a new F1 team but money could not be found although in the autumn of that year Herd announced the formation of an Indy Racing League team called March Indy International.

[cymrococh]

He's a friend of Jordan (again F1 not Model) according to one of the articles and he's part of the consortium.

The Guardian say that there is no evidence that anyone involved with motor-racing is part of the consortium.