Comments on: Rafa to be sacked by absentee owners?

By: Liverbird

Liverbird — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:08:25 +0000

By that Texas guy’s definition Tom Hicks has proved as successful as say the owners of Blackburn Rovers? One topline win in donkey’s years middle of the road since. He does not get it we have bigger ambitions than that.

By: John Steele

John Steele — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:00:46 +0000

Jim, I haven’t made up my mind that Hicks is THE bad guy. I have made up my mind that Hicks is A bad guy. You seem to push the view that all the dirt you can dig up on the other parties involved accrues to the benefit of Hicks. How does that make sense? I’ve no doubt you will leave no stone unturned trying to find out who leaked the letter to Sky. How does that detract from the crass behaviour of Hicks in writing it, knowing full well that as a 50% shareholder and in a minority on the issue in the boardroom he was not able to effect Parry’s removal. It was nothing more than a piece of gratuitous visciousness and deserves to be exposed as such regardless of your determination to show that Gillett, DIC et al are just as capable of telling lies.

At least we don’t here so much of the “what do we really know of DIC” argument. We have got to the stage at which Pol Pot would be seen as a better proposition than what we have in place. In fact most fans can see one scenario worse than the current one and that is Hicks with an effective majority.

By: John Steele

John Steele — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:32:54 +0000

Sorry Frosty for the typo. the link is http://forums.icnorthwest.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=34368

By: John Steele

John Steele — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:29:43 +0000

Frosty. On your last point about dear old Tom go to ……http://forums.icnorthwest.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=34368Times are going to get tough for the leveraged buyout and marginal equity merchants.

By: hicks is a homo

hicks is a homo — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:58:47 +0000

Tom Hicks is an idiot. I am from TX and follow his other teams closely and he finally realized that what was best for the Stars (hockey) was to fire the GM. It took him a few years to figure that out. I think he has perfected the management idea of seemingly putting in a lot of money at first and then pulling out and not wanting to do anything else. He is an idiot and I knew when I first saw he had an interest, that LFC would be doomed along with everyone who worked for LFC.

By: John Silva

John Silva — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:21:39 +0000

The only information we have comes from claims made by the owners, Benitez, and outsiders. There is absolutely no actual proof that Hicks and Gillett want to sack Benitez, but sadly this has not stopped the majority of people with an internet connection acting as if there is. What is sadder is the anti-American bigotry on this page, from using the pejorative ‘yank’ onwards. What is clearly true, and is shameful, is the public petulance displayed by both sides. On the plus side, performances are improving. I think Benitez, Hicks and the supporters should all calm down, show more respect to each other, and react to actual events, rather than speculative hearsay.

By: GoNowYanks

GoNowYanks — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:46:03 +0000

We need to get rid of these yanks now. They have no sense of what they are doing – taking transfers out of the managers hands – doh.

They know NOTHING. Get them out. Let’s show our support for Rafa on Weds and show them what the club means to us.

They mean nothing!

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:09:23 +0000

Gutted!! This is talk that you do not want to hear.. The fact that the yanks have repeated what they said already is by the nature of the coment that they have quietly agreed to sack Rafa!! They will only stick to this coment as they know what awaits them when they come back over to Liverpool.
Rafa will talk to the press, the yanks will do nothing exept repeat their coments and then when it is time they will announce that they have let him go. Rafa will only stay if he says sorry through the Media…watch this space…

By: Jim Boardman

Jim Boardman — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:01:49 +0000

Thanks for all the comments. Just wanted to clarify something. Rafa hasn’t asked for more money. He’s tried to negotiate a number of sales, and with the money from that, to negotiate some targets to buy with that money. He’s also tried to negotiate some Bosmans. Overall it would cost the club and the owners nothing. He’s been told he isn’t allowed to do that.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:03:32 +0000

First I think the owners are a bit right in demanding some sort of ‘show me the true colour of the squad’. After all we should be stronger this year but we have fared barely at CL. (That’s where the money lies).

So the new owners might say no more money down the drain.

If we win over Porto and Marseille – things will change quickly. In Premiership we have a game in hand and we played most of or games away – unlike Arsenal.

Let’s hope that all this is just a smokescreen for things to come.