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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...s-with-Kuwait-family-over-Liverpool-sale.html


Tom Hicks opens talks with Kuwait family over Liverpool sale
Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has opened discussions with one of Kuwait's richest families over a possible sale of the club.


Hicks's camp are in tentative talks with representatives of the Al Kharafi family, whose head Nasser is the 48th richest man in the world with an £9 billion fortune.

Nasser Al Kharafi was linked with a move for Newcastle last year but the key player in the prospective purchase of Liverpool is understood to be his nephew, Rafed Al Kharafi. The family fortune is based on construction and a variety of holdings in the banking, fast-food and tourism sectors.

Liverpool's finance director, Phillip Nash, a close ally of Hicks, travelled to Kuwait this week seeking investment for the club's stalled new ground, but the ultimate goal is thought to be securing the sale of the club, which the Americans value at £600 million.

Hicks's discussions with the Al Kharafis, which are understood to have begun without the knowledge of co-owner George Gillett, mark the second time in a year that the Americans have sought to sell the club to the family.

Last spring Gillett opened talks with the family and at one stage a sale looked probable, but after extensive negotiations the deal broke down in July when the Kuwaitis walked away without explanation.

Hicks's decision to return to the family to try to execute a new deal is understood to have infuriated Gillett and will further deepen the distrust between the two.

Gillett has been under pressure to refinance a £40 million loan secured as a personal guarantee demanded by RBS as a condition of a £350 million refinancing deal the American's negotiated this time last year.

Nash's deployment to Kuwait also indicates the increasingly perilous position of chief executive Rick Parry, who appears to have been frozen out of the deal by Hick's altogether.

If Hicks cannot secure a full sale it has been suggested that he would settle for a majority stake that would leave him with a place on the board and power over the football side of the business.

That is likely to be deeply unpopular with supporters dismayed at the civil war within the club at a time when they should be focusing on winning their first league title in 19 years.

With the club split 50-50 between the two owners however, there can be no resolution to the ownership issue without the agreement of both.

According to well-placed sources there is a new willingness to sell on both sides however. With their £350 million loan due to be renegotiated in July, funding for the new ground uncertain and RBS unlikely to be able to offer favourable terms having been crippled by the financial crisis, there is an imperative to sell or secure fresh investment.
 
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DagsJT said:
Fair play Misfit :)

Where did you hear about it?
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reliable source.
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Get used to this face....
 
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whatever happens, Cunt and Cunt are on the way out, they've been hammered by the global financial crisis and can't repay loans. However, RBS are also fucked, the bank that they borrowed the money from....hmm.

Funny that all the owenership bollox, contract bollox (rafa and players) etc comes out and then we start dropping points all over the place.
 
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According to press the guy is a secretive shrewd business type with zero interest or knowledge of football, he would not even know who or what Liverpool were, he owns all the KFC's in the Arab states though... ;)
 
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zero interest or knowledge of football.....much like the yanks then, no thanks. We want DIC. Or any other of the worlds top 100 billionaries who support Liverpool.
 
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Misfit - it's a shame that the Liver bird won't be on the shirt in that form, unfortunately although I prefer its cleaner look.
 
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crayon said:
Misfit - it's a shame that the Liver bird won't be on the shirt in that form, unfortunately although I prefer its cleaner look.
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I suppose they have to keep the badge for the foreigners so they recognize the shirt. That picture does look good though.
 
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Not another match against The Ten Defenders from across the park!

Also whats going to happen with the fixtures?! Manu are scheduled to play everton on the 2nd of feb, with the replay on the 4th. Wonder if the FA will just let Everton play that match aswell.
 
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Somebody please call the local council and tell them to remove the blue bus
that has been parked in anfield for the past week.

Thankyou.
 
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You cant expect them to do much else when they've got no fit strikers.

If you wanna win things you need to learn how to breaks teams down when they play this way because the more you win, the more you'll come up against it.
 
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You also need to learn your lessons and mark Cahill and the defenders need to learn not to listen to Rafa and stop attempting to do zonal marking or whatever the hell they were doing.
 
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matherto said:
You also need to learn your lessons and mark Cahill and the defenders need to learn not to listen to Rafa and stop attempting to do zonal marking or whatever the hell they were doing.
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Interviewer: "Rafa, Tim Cahill has been on the end of two set pieces unmarked in two games, are you guilty of not learning lessons.

Rafa " No I dont think so, Steven Gerrard scored twice"
 
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How quality was that assist from Torres ! Beauty...

Might actually do you lot a favour, because (unfairly in my opinion) this means that United's game with Everton gets moved forward, and a bunch of our players won't be fit for it now. I would have thought it more appropriate to play the FA Cup game first, but hey, what do I know.
 
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That Torres control and assist was sheer class, wonderful to watch :D

It's that kind of creativity, vision and flair that we need in a midfielder though. We keep coming across teams just parking the bus and we haven't got that kind of trickery available to us that will open up those teams.

I do think we should get someone in the Luis Garcia mould this week otherwise we'll be stuck. Teams are aware that we can't break them down if they play 4-6-0 and they'll continue to play like that against us while we don't have any options.
 
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I was thinking along the same lines, Everton will go for a point against manu and I would expect them to put more effort in to that then the replay. But it could just aswell be the otherway round. Hopefully they'll be too tired for the 2nd match whatever they decide.
 
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