i think its an opportune time

[Phil236849]

they have had a lot of bad press over the last few years on the tied investment and stadium issues. but they have secured a good investor for the club who will take the club forward at the time it was desperately needing help.

 

Dont sack Parry! dont sack Moores etc etc

[Spike]

only time will tell to be honest. At the moment, they've done enough to earn themselves time for a constructive dismissal

[Morse]

Moores for Life President.

 

Parry for Chairman!

[Guest Scot]

It's far too early to know whether they have secured a good investor, phil. We have an investor, and I'm hopeful.

[matty]

Aye. Much too soon too tell if this is good or not.

 

It's something.

 

As Jiao Zemin said about the French Revolution...

[XabisBadFoot]

I think there should be chants for David Moores at the next home game for sure..!

 

I honestly believe if he had the money, he would invest every feasible penny in the club - no doubt. He is as much a legend at Liverpool as anyone. Has never been anything but courteous and is Liverpool through and through. Glad he's been made Honorary President.

 

Nice one Mooresy lad!

[Phil236849]

well i can see what you're saying, time will tell, but in the meanwhile, i think we can feel pretty good all the same and pretty grateful to rick'n'dave. we had to get a serious investor quickly. we have serious investors. it looks like it will take us on to a higher level. and its neither morgan nor president bad profile on human rights thingysumthinatra. you have to say they had a big job to sort a big deal - getting us a very serious investor quickly - and there is no real basis at this stage to suppose they have done anything other than achieve that very well

[RP]

I think it is right to acknowlegde that they have now achieved something that many people said they were incapable of - get serious significant investment into the Club.

 

Maybe it took longer than many would have wanted, but just maybe they have been patient and got the right deal.

 

Time, as ever will tell.

[Guest Scot]

I think it is right to acknowlegde that they have now achieved something that many people said they were incapable of - get serious significant investment into the Club.

 

Maybe it took longer than many would have wanted, but just maybe they have been patient and got the right deal.

 

Time, as ever will tell.

 

I can go with that

[Flasher]

Time indeed will tell. For the time being though, I think they've handled the whole thing brilliantly, in the sense that they haven't panicked, haven't gone too public with anything they've been up to, and always said the right things when it was relevant.

 

As it stands, I trust them until it's proven I should not.

[FMac]

As everyone is saying, only time will tell, but I'm comforted that DM seems to have done his best to get the right people...

 

George Gillett:

I don't know how to properly communicate how much care David Moores put into making this decision. He questioned us aggressively about our commitment, our passion and our willingness to help take the club forward. He wants to ensure we can re-emerge as the greatest team in the Premiership and be fully competitive in Europe. The interview process was rigorous, it was not foregone and it was not about money. It was about our passion and our understanding of the fans of this club.

 

David is an amazing man and this club is his life. This was the most difficult decision of his life because every single fibre in his body is in this club.

 

Tom Hicks: This club has been in David's family for fifty years and when we left his house it was a very poignant moment because there were tears in his eyes. He has agreed to be a Life President at the club and he will still be sitting in the directors' seats at Anfield.

[Huyton_Red]

I think there should be chants for David Moores at the next home game for sure..!

 

I honestly believe if he had the money, he would invest every feasible penny in the club - no doubt. He is as much a legend at Liverpool as anyone. Has never been anything but courteous and is Liverpool through and through. Glad he's been made Honorary President.

 

Nice one Mooresy lad!

 

He has also just made as much money from the football boom of the last 20 years than anyone apart from Martin Edwards. The pair of them made about £80 million profit each, by far the biggest benefactors of the boom in the game

 

Good on him, totally agree but he has made a f'ckin fortune out of this as well like hasnt he

[Big E]

sack em anyway, just in case

[Fagan]

if anyone deserves a mosaic at the united game its moores surely.

 

hed be well chuffed

Edited February 6, 2007 by Fagan

[Bootle Buck]

Rick looked very bewildered at the post conference. He sat there with a look on his face like he was saying "What the feck have I gotten myself into"

[Guest Kev]

Nope sorry, still don't trust them.

[SkippyjonJones]

If we win the league and European cup then the yanks will have been fantastic.

If we don?t then they won?t and it will be the fault of Moores and Parry.

 

Pretty much the same for any owner tat we would have got in.

 

Its not possible to measure one against the other unless you can do it in parallel universes.

 

 

DIC might have invested more ? or walked away if the going got tough. Or sold shares when things when well. Its impossible to say.

 

 

Like the mancs ? the best we can hope for is that the new owners don?t stick their nose into the management side ? just stick to owning the club. And the less we hear of them in the press the better.

[Benitez]

Rick looked very bewildered at the post conference. He sat there with a look on his face like he was saying "What the feck have I gotten myself into"

 

 

he always looks bewildered though.

 

Anyway, I'm glad that he's staying on as chief exec, that was one of my worries, that it'd be all change. So it's a relief that he's still gonna be 'ere.

[Mike]

Nope sorry, still don't trust them.

 

you're crap at this kev.

you're still convinced that rick parry and moores want a groundshare.

[Knox_Harrington]

I love how Parry and Michael Owen share a voice.

[Guest Scot]

I love how Parry and Michael Owen share a voice.

 

 

NHE's right about the idea that if we do well, Yanks are thanked; if we don't it's because of Parry and Moores.

[Knox_Harrington]

NHE's right about the idea that if we do well, Yanks are thanked; if we don't it's because of Parry and Moores.

Parry's f***ed coming or going here, yes. If the Yanks sold Anfield to Glazer and spat at Gerrard it'd be all down to Parry.

[Herbie von Smalls]

i've been out of the loop for a few days and have heard only one brief radio bulletin plus a sky sports news report.

 

if nothing else, parry and moores have achieved what they set out to. they've secured investment, making possible the new stadium, with the promise of no groundshare. they've secured the commitment to a generous budget for the manager. and the means to improve our global appeal. whether or not the owners walk the walk, the chairman and ceo can only act in good faith and i trust their judgment.

 

the fact the new owners, who are successful in their own right at running sports businesses, gave the vote of confidence to the current board ought to say volumes for the aims and methods of messrs parry and moores.

 

as far as i'm concerned parry has been as good as his word and the events surrounding the withdrawal of dic cast the dubaians in a poorer light than our negotiators. i'm glad we have the chairman and ceo that we do and i believe they will carry on their good work with even more resources at their disposal.

 

as for the new owners, well they've earned some degree of trust from their words today. they've been more open and approachable than the glazers were at man utd, and seem to have conducted themselves with more dignity than the dubai would-be investors. i appreciated their acknowledgment of the heritage of the club and the desire to prioritise the fans and the matchgoing experience at the new stadium. time will tell how much trust they are worthy of, but i'd rather enter a new era in the history of the club i love with positive hopes, than with suspicion.

 

i'm sad a degree of our identity is diluted, in terms of the ownership. but in these times of global exposure to the sport, i hope we'll become the most beloved in the world with a strong emphasis on the roots of the club in the city.

Edited February 6, 2007 by Herbie von Smalls

[nd]

Football entered a new era some time ago. The rules have completely changed. I'd say that getting two loaded Yanks with experience of running, ahem, 'franchises' is bang in step with the times.

 

Like it or not.

 

Well done to Parry and Moores for the completion of much hard work. It's not as glamourous, but those two have worked just as hard as any manager or player for the good of this club.

 

Will we win the league because of this deal? Not instantly, no. But without taking care of the business side of things Liverpool FC would eventually be left with the vapours of past successes to live off, and not much more.

 

We're still up there, and we can finally trade meaningful blows in the transfer market with the likes of Man U, Chelsea, Madrid. It's not an equal footing - Man U piss all over everyone on the business side, Madrid maintain the de facto backing of a national government, while Chelsea can piss all over everyone as long as Abramovich is allowed to keep his corrupt billions - but Liverpool set foot in the new global arena today.

 

Like it or not.

[mercury]

Spot on Herbie. They delivered.

 

As said, the "what ifs" are unlimited. It's like a marriage - you'll never know how it'll pan out without actually going through it. One thing for sure, if the good faith and hard work is not there, it will not succeed.