29 May 2016 20:34:44
Hi Eds

After hearing Macca's news on Liverpool being in talks with 2 parties over the sale of the club. Is it safe to say, the two parties would be from the UAE and China? and in your opinion, which would be the best way to go?

Thank you.

{Ed091's Note - imo opinion does it really matter? I just want someone who loves the club, just like fsg do.

1.) 29 May 2016
29 May 2016 22:04:37
The perfect answer. ed.

2.) 29 May 2016
29 May 2016 22:10:54
In all seriousness tho ed, fsg are not capable of taking us to the top are they?

{Ed091's Note - only bailed us out of debt. Spent at least £300m on transfer and agent fees. Stopped the club losing 1m a week. Made massive improvements in our commercial business. Brought in managers the fans wanted (klopp, kenny) got £100 m for average players in Torres and sterling. Spent £150m on a new stand. Bar henderson getting a ban an a unfortunate slip and a inept moron manager, would have won us the league.
You are talking out of your arse, again. They've been the best owners the clubs ever had.

3.) 29 May 2016
29 May 2016 22:11:07
Maybe it's the billionaire one who sits in his tent in Dubai watching Liverpool games and has therapy when we lose, Lol.

4.) 29 May 2016
29 May 2016 22:26:31
Sorry FSG have done more for the club and kept it close to how LFC family are. Tried to buy the right players right coaches managers. Look totally different sport to they are known to. This season think Klopp will take us closer and finally won the premiership. Sod off these people who want these investers from china or. we have the best owners since the moors family.

5.) 29 May 2016
29 May 2016 23:32:06
FSG have been brilliant absolutely brilliant, just saying.

6.) 29 May 2016
29 May 2016 23:40:35
Kurtz is obviously a plot loser, FSG are great owners and let's hope they continue.

7.) 29 May 2016
29 May 2016 23:52:19
Liking eds091 already, great answer, totally agree.

8.) 30 May 2016
29 May 2016 23:53:58
Touch of realism here but can anyone tell me of a more unsuccesful period of time under a previous ownership. The facts are that they are every bit responsible as any manager we have had.

{Ed091's Note - that's comparing oranges to lemons. There was no where near as many sugar daddies in the 70/80/90s. That's just one factor...and there's many many more as to why they haven't been as successful as say the 70s and 80s owners.

9.) 30 May 2016
30 May 2016 01:14:54
Are FSG looking to sell, or are these other parties bidding on an asset they covet? Two entirely different beasts. And if the latter, maybe FSG don't particularly want to sell, but have to listen because, in the end, they're businessmen.

Does anyone know which it is?

{Ed002's Note - This has been dealt with extensively over the past two years.}

10.) 30 May 2016
30 May 2016 02:23:54
This is nothing new really. Ed002 has said many times in the past, that with the new TV money coming in it could result in FSG deciding to sell up.

11.) 30 May 2016
30 May 2016 04:17:00
To The Irish Rover, Hicks and Gillette bought the club in Feb 2007 and had it wrested away from them in October 2010 during which time their net investment was £0, they drove Rafa away and won nothing. The left with the club hours from bankruptcy.

There you go, a less successful period of ownership.

12.) 30 May 2016
30 May 2016 00:28:55
Yes ed91 but you have missed out the 2000's. We have been sliding down the league since Fsg have taken over. Spent a fortune on horrible players due to bad selection of managers. Hiring Kenny because the "fans" wanted him is not the sign of good ownership, its a sign of owners who didn't have a clue about football. Hiring a novice on a dossier and a bit of Irish charm has sent our club back years, meanwhile we get over taken by all and sundry. Millions wasted on players etc etc etc. I don't dispute that they are nice decent people who tried to do the right things but the facts remain they have no clue about football and that has killed us. I would also dispute their love for the club as you say. How many times has John Henry made the trip to watch Lfc over the last 5 years? Liverpool were pure and simple an investment opportunity for him and his crew to make a nice profit. The brought the club at the right time and are now possibly selling at the right time with the big Tv deal coming in.

{Ed001's Note - the time when the prick Moores owned us? You are really trying to call that successful? When it was him that stopped us being able to challenge by refusing to improve the stadium as it would have stopped him being able to dip into club funds to pay for his first class travel and hotel costs? He also refused to buy players for a number of managers, even though the money was there, purely because, again, it would have meant he could not take as much. That is not including him shafting DIC to sell us to G&H to line his own pockets at the expense of the club he pretends to love. With his crocodile tears. No one with a memory of that time could possibly consider that thieving turd to be a better owner than FSG who have consistently invested.}

13.) 30 May 2016
30 May 2016 11:00:39
Not to mention responding to the fans protests about the ticket prices.

14.) 30 May 2016
30 May 2016 11:10:47
Irish Rover - You should remember that Kenny Dalglish, the man "the fans" forced onto FSG, had a prior managerial record. Four titles in the First Division and Premier League, two FA Cup wins, four Charity Shield wins and one Scottish League Cup win; all before he was asked to manage LFC once again. To imply that FSG, or the fans, did not have this record in mind and that only his record as a player was considered, is grossly inaccurate.

We're in the digital age. Any football game, at any moment of time, anywhere in the World, can be seen online via the internet. To imply that John Henry had no interest in the team is unfounded. He could easily have been watching every game online, without a need to be physically in the stadium. (You're expecting a 67 year old to cross the Atlantic over to Liverpool every weekend to watch the games? ) .

15.) 30 May 2016
30 May 2016 12:56:45
Thanks to NBCSN we are able to watch every PL game in the States.

16.) 30 May 2016
30 May 2016 17:07:56
Usually don't mind what you have to say Irish Rover, but you are talking nonsense. Sounds like typical ignorance to not trust anything "yankee" because this isn't their sport. Have a look at yourself mate.

17.) 30 May 2016
30 May 2016 18:14:07
FSG may not have got every decision right, but we need to look at the picture in the round. As many other posters an Ed's have menntioned above they've put the club on a much better footing that the shambles in which it was left by H&G. It's easy to criticise, but anyone who's tried to grow a business of any size will know you don't always make the best decisions all of the time, but if you make good decisions most of the time and don't made a major horlicks of anything critical, you'll probably prosper.

My limited experience of working in the middle east is that the Arab ruling class are long term thinkers and planners, and that's what we need. No experience of the Chinese.