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L’ex proprietario del Liverpool Moores si dichiara pentito per il passaggio di proprietà del club a favore del contestatissimo duo americano Gillett e Hicks che detengono la società dal 2007 tra scarse fortune sul terreno di gioco e contestazioni da parte dei supporters. Ora Moores invita gli “yankees” a passare la mano visto che i tifosi ( foto ) avrebbero già sofferto troppe delusioni. Walter Smith sarà l’allenatore dei Rangers anche nella prossima stagione, con a fianco il fido Ally Mc Coist che subentrerà tra un anno all’ esperto timoniere. Smith ha rinnovato il contratto dopo avere avuto sufficienti garanzie circa quella che sarà la campagna acquisti del club, negli ultimi tempi oggetto di trattativa di acquisizione da parte di un consorzio londinese.
Former owner David Moores calls for Liverpool sale
Former owner David Moores has admitted he “hugely regrets” selling Liverpool to George Gillett and Tom Hicks and has called on them to sell up.
Moores sold the club to the American duo in 2007 but their reign has been controversial, with concerns mounting about the Premier League outfit’s debt.In a letter to the Times newspaper, Moores insisted he acted with the “very best interests of the club at heart”.He wants the pair to leave and added: “Don’t punish the supporters any more.”Gillett and Hicks have had a turbulent spell in charge since taking over the club from Moores in a deal worth about £200m.Their reign has proved unpopular with supporters, who regularly voice their dissatisfaction at the level of debt taken on by the club after the buy-out.Liverpool are currently £351.4m in debt and the club’s finances will not be helped by the failure to qualify for the lucrative Champions League next season. There are also issues over funding for a new stadium in Stanley Park as well as providing a budget for manager Rafael Benitez to operate with in the transfer market.
Moores (left) talks with Gillett at Anfield in 2007
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Gillett and Hicks announced in April that they intend to sell the club and Moores’ wide-ranging 3,100-word letter, published the day after the five-year anniversary of Liverpool’s stunning Champions League final victory over AC Milan in Istanbul, will place further pressure on Liverpool’s co-owners to find a buyer.In it, he addresses several issues, including the reasons for his sale, the checks the club did on Gillett and Hicks and his opinions on their tenure.Moores, whose fortune derived from his family’s Littlewoods pools and shopping empire, said his departure was in the pipeline following the hugely successful Euro 96 tournament in England with “the influx of more and more overseas superstars on superstar wages”.
He stated: “I was aware the game was changing beyond all recognition and deeply worried, too, about my ability to continue underwriting the financial side.”Moores remained in charge but the search for a new owner started in the wake of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s takeover of Chelsea.”The Abramovich era was upon us and I knew that I could never compete,” added Moores.He believes the hunt was conducted in the proper way and added: “So sincere was our commitment to finding that person or company, that we invested huge sums and massive amounts of time investigating potential investors, only to conclude that they were not the right people for Liverpool.
I call upon them now to stand back, accept their limitations as joint owners, acknowledge their role in the club’s current demise, and stand aside, with dignity
Former Liverpool owner David Moore
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“It would have been easier, I assure you, just to take the money, cross our fingers tight and hope things worked out – but we dug deep into every file and asked all the tough questions, knowing the answers might scupper any deal.”Moores said the process of looking into the background of Hicks and Gillett was detailed but there was an “element of the process I accept we could have handled better”.”We had looked into George Gillett’s affairs in detail and he came up to scratch,” he said. “To a great extent, we took Tom Hicks on trust, on George’s say-so.”Could we have done more? Probably – though under those circumstances, in that time-frame, probably not.”We did our due diligence on Messrs Gillett and Hicks and if we’re guilty of anything it is that, after four years searching, we may have been too keen, too ready to hear the good news that George and Tom had passed their tests.”Liverpool ended the season in a lowly seventh position in the Premier League after exiting the Champions League in the group stages, and stories linking Benitez as well as star players Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres with moves away from the club have started to circulate.And with the future ownership of Liverpool also the subject of speculation, Moores – who is still an honorary life president of the club despite resigning from the board in June 2009 – has decided now is the time to speak out.”It has been hard for me, sitting mute on the sidelines as the club I love suffers one blow after another,” he concluded in his letter.”Since resigning from the board I have not set foot inside Anfield – and it hurts. I hugely regret selling the club to George Gillett and Tom Hicks. I believe that, at best, they have bitten off much more than they can chew.
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“I call upon them now to stand back, accept their limitations as joint owners, acknowledge their role in the club’s current demise, and stand aside, with dignity, to allow someone else to take up the challenge. Don’t punish the club’s supporters any more – God knows they’ve taken enough.”In the letter, Moores said “significant shareholders like Granada and Steve Morgan were insistent the board of LFC should accept the Gillett and Hicks offer and left me in no doubt about my legal duty to accept the offer”.
However, Morgan, who is now the owner of Wolves, denied that was the case.He told BBC Radio Merseyside: “I haven’t read the letter but I would disagree with that statement.”Perhaps if he had done some due diligence at the time then it wouldn’t have happened but we are where we are.”I agree with the sentiment that something drastic needs to happen at Liverpool to get it out of the mess it’s currently in.”Liverpool Supporters’ Club chairman Richard Pedder believes the letter will not have an affect on the sale of the club.He told BBC Radio Merseyside: “It’s other pressures from other areas that will force them to do something.”The banks are the big issue with them. They have got to pay that money over. That’s what they are going to be looking at, if they can’t raise the money then hopefully they will sell.”
( BBC football )
Walter Smith agrees to manage Rangers for another season – then hand over Ibrox reins to Ally McCoist
May 26 2010 James Traynor
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WALTER Smith last night signed a new deal which will keep him at Ibrox for one more year before handing over to Ally McCoist and Kenny McDowall.Rangers’ management team have all signed new contracts after talks with Ibrox chief executive Martin Bain – ending months of uncertainty for the SPL champions’ fans.Smith came close to walking away but decided to stay despite continuing uncertainty over the ownership of the club.London-based property developer Andrew Ellis met Ibrox owner Sir David Murray yesterday but his £33million buyout plan still looks unlikely.But Smith has held his own talks with Lloyds Bank and the money men they placed in the Ibrox boardroom and last night’s deal came as a result of those meetings as well as demands the Rangers boss had made.
And Smith, who has now been promised a summer transfer kitty, said: “I am wholly committed to managing the club next season and when it comes to the end of next season I firmly believe Ally and Kenny would do a great job and I am glad everybody at the club shares that view.”I have given this decision a great deal of thought.”The next season holds many challenges and I’d hope with the backing of fans, management and staff – we can pull together and continue to achieve the levels of success we have enjoyed over the last few seasons.”Although Smith will stay on for only one more year, McCoist and McDowall have signed two-year deals allowing them the chance to go it alone.That was always the plan when the trio arrived just over three years a go but since January all three men have been working without contracts.The manager was tempted to walk away on at least two occasions in the past 18 months but stayed out of loyalty to the club, his staff and the fans.Murray Park sources said Smith’s office had been cleared and it was far from certain he would return after the close season as he was disillusioned at the cuts imposed by the bank.Clearly, the bank have realised the real value of Smith and his backroom team, who have helped save Rangers by taking the club into successive Champions League campaigns.Smith, who has been pressing the bank to ease their grip on wages, can now concentrate on holding on to his best players and adding to his squad.Gers chief executive Bain said: “The bank recognises the club needs to be managed at a level where it is in a position to deliver success on the field and meet supporters’ expectations.”In broad terms, we will invest some Champions League revenue and general profit from this year in the playing squad.“We will be able to maintain our wage levels as they are and, if any players decide to leave, we will be re-investing proceeds back in the squad.“Smith’s assistant manager McCoist said: “We’re thrilled to get it sorted. We didn’t want to go anywhere. This is our home.”It will be a privilege and an honour to take over from Walter next year and that is a challenge I shall certainly relish.”
( “Daily Record” )
Dopo il grande successo di “Lads 2009”
Un noto leader di una Firm, richiesto di commentare i consueti incidenti procurati all’estero dai Lads, dichiarò alla stampa “Margaret Thatcher ci deve condannare pubblicamente ma dentro di sè sarà sicuramente orgogliosa del lavoro fatto dai ragazzi”.. Questo libro si propone come un viaggio attraverso quarant’anni di trasferte oltre Manica dei Casuals britannici al seguito delle selezioni nazionali e delle squadre di club. La narrazione delle principali trasferte può facilmente diventare il paradigma per descrivere centinaia di giornate nelle quali le firms hanno esportato all’estero il loro bagaglio di fedeltà, nazionalismo, alcoolismo e, spesso, anche violenza. Il volume si propone come naturale seguito di “Lads 2009”, dello stesso autore, che illustra la scena attuale dei mobs britannici tra le mura domestiche. Sangue, birra e Red Hand gli ingredienti ricorrenti di un cocktail spesso esplosivo
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