Chinese State Owned Company Everbright

Deal is still on apparently

Echo running with the story:

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/chinese-willing-up-liverpool-valuation-11831770

This doesn't make sense? "A Chinese consortium is willing to raise its valuation of Liverpool to £1bn to secure an investment in the club, it was reported tonight.". The club is only worth £1.1 billion? That's a takeover bid, not an investment, surely?

Could this be why balancing of the books and not willing to spend much money certainly seems this has some legs in it

If it did happen, and Jürgen was given enough dosh to buy eleven of the top players in the world, for ridiculous transfers and wages, to launch a massive assault on the prem and CL.
Who would be happy with that, and who would prefer the slowly slowly build up over three more years ?

If it did happen, and Jürgen was given enough dosh to buy eleven of the top players in the world, for ridiculous transfers and wages, to launch a massive assault on the prem and CL.
Who would be happy with that, and who would prefer the slowly slowly build up over three more years ?

I don't see it as an either feast or famine situation mate, I think there is a middle ground where we just buy the quality we need and quicken up the process rather than always waiting for next season. Then once you are at the top it's just a case of freshening up the side rather than rebuilding every other year.

Would I be happier if we had brought in 2 or 3 world class players ... yes. Would I care how much they cost if we won the league... no.

The thing that concerns me most with a Chinese takeover is what will happen if Jürgen says to the Chinese owners -I want you to go and buy me a number 6,what will they buy him.

£1 billion?

Holy sh*t. Just goes to show just how much the value of English football has risen since FSG bought the club in the High Court six years back.

£1 billion?

Holy sh*t. Just goes to show just how much the value of English football has risen since FSG bought the club in the High Court six years back.

You can likely thank the television contracts. I forget what NBC Sports paid for the rights to broadcast epl games here in the states but it was a HUGE amount and "soccer" appears to be finally here to stay and gaining a big following in the states.

£1 billion?

Holy sh*t. Just goes to show just how much the value of English football has risen since FSG bought the club in the High Court six years back.

FSG have hit the jackpot, first buying the club when it was on its knees, and now benefitting from the massive influx of TV money and related commercial opportunities. Keep the pursestrings tight and watch the value of their asset soar. And now they might cash in by selling to the Commies. They must be loving it.

£1 billion?

Shitting hell. Just goes to show just how much the value of English football has risen since FSG bought the club in the High Court six years back.

To be fair they did buy us in a fire sale, I think our value at the time was really much higher than £300million, but you can only get what someone is willing to pay and I think the board and the banks were happy at that time to see Hicks and Gillett walk away with as little as possible.

For me the more baffling thing is the low price that we were sold TO Hicks and Gillett for, spent years trying to find a buyer and then sold the club for what was looking back a pittance. 

Don't care what people say. Don't want to see the club throwing silly money at players like City, Chelsea and United.

I've been complaining about those soulless clubs trying to buy the league £50 million per player at a time and I don't know about you but I value my own morals and views towards the game more than a few pieces of gold.

World class talent should be earned by the way you play, not the size of your bottom line. I know the game is moving on, but I don't care. The day I see us making deals like £50 million for Martial, Jon Stones or your mates Granny something will have died at this club a little.

£1 billion?

Holy sh*t. Just goes to show just how much the value of English football has risen since FSG bought the club in the High Court six years back.

Football is the worlds number 1 entertainment, £1 billion is still cheap for a club like LFC.

Don't care what people say. Don't want to see the club throwing silly money at players like City, Chelsea and United.

I've been complaining about those soulless clubs trying to buy the league £50 million per player at a time and I don't know about you but I value my own morals and views towards the game more than a few pieces of gold.

World class talent should be earned by the way you play, not the size of your bottom line. I know the game is moving on, but I don't care. The day I see us making deals like £50 million for Martial, Jon Stones or your mates Granny something will have died at this club a little.

It should be tempting but I just don't fancy it either for similar reasons. I don't think Klopp wants it either. If Everbright came in and gave Klopp hundreds of millions to spend they'd fully expect him to spend that money. I suspect Klopp's timeframe for doing what he wanted would be considerably shortened as well.

Don't care what people say. Don't want to see the club throwing silly money at players like City, Chelsea and United.

I've been complaining about those soulless clubs trying to buy the league £50 million per player at a time and I don't know about you but I value my own morals and views towards the game more than a few pieces of gold.

World class talent should be earned by the way you play, not the size of your bottom line. I know the game is moving on, but I don't care. The day I see us making deals like £50 million for Martial, Jon Stones or your mates Granny something will have died at this club a little.

Yeah but... We could be historic, successful, worldwide fan base AND rich.

Why not?

This doesn't make sense? "A Chinese consortium is willing to raise its valuation of Liverpool to £1bn to secure an investment in the club, it was reported tonight.". The club is only worth £1.1 billion? That's a takeover bid, not an investment, surely?

I've not read the link but I'm guessing it means that any investment made will correlate with the club being worth £1bn so 20% ownership will result in a £200m investment.

Don't care what people say. Don't want to see the club throwing silly money at players like City, Chelsea and United.

I've been complaining about those soulless clubs trying to buy the league £50 million per player at a time and I don't know about you but I value my own morals and views towards the game more than a few pieces of gold.

World class talent should be earned by the way you play, not the size of your bottom line. I know the game is moving on, but I don't care. The day I see us making deals like £50 million for Martial, Jon Stones or your mates Granny something will have died at this club a little.

Ok, but is 50m for Martial or Stones really that different from 35m for Mane?  I mean it's not like we are shopping bargain basement or anything.

Just getting an idea of how massive these Everbright fellas are. According to Northcroft on twitter, the dismissal of any investment occurring came from the Chief of only one particular arm of the Everbright empire. You know its Chinese state controlled little when there is so little info about them on the internet! Even Gary Wilmot's wikipedia page is bigger than Everbright's!

The most interesting thing about these rumours are that they are not being spearheaded by some ego centric blunderdome like Kenny Huang back in 2010 who caused The Times and other broadsheets to go into overdrive when he blatantly lied through his teeth saying something ridiculous along the lines of 'I've got the backing of the Chinese government's sovereign fund! (value = 1 trillion dollars)'. That charade didn't last long - the Chinese government came out the next day saying they'd never heard of a Kenny Huang. Worrying how badly Liverpool were being run (this was when Purslow when full Purslime) that bids were being considered for Huang and one of Gillett's own Kuwaiti mates. 

If it did happen, and Jürgen was given enough dosh to buy eleven of the top players in the world, for ridiculous transfers and wages, to launch a massive assault on the prem and CL.
Who would be happy with that, and who would prefer the slowly slowly build up over three more years ?

i'll tell you who wouldn't be happy with that, the very first human being who matters in such a deal, Klopp. if we got that kinda dosh and wanted to become that kinda club we would have to bring in another manager...

... a few Chinese whispers won't affect that determination.

You couldn't resist that could you Stu ?   

Yeah but... We could be historic, successful, worldwide fan base AND rich.

Why not?

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"We are multi millionaires . We shall buy this place and fire you immediately"

We haven't won the league for 26 years. I find it pretty incredible that people want to dictate the terms on which they would accept us winning it. I just want us to win and I believe playing on a level playing field regarding finance would be a big step in the right direction towards that goal. Who wouldn't want to watch us playing great football with great stars. I would certainly prefer watching a team with Dalglish and Rush or Suarez in it than one with Borini or N'gog leading the line.

As I have said before lets win the league and then argue about how we should have won it.

We haven't won the league for 26 years. I find it pretty incredible that people want to dictate the terms on which they would accept us winning it. I just want us to win and I believe playing on a level playing field regarding finance would be a big step in the right direction towards that goal. Who wouldn't want to watch us playing great football with great stars. I would certainly prefer watching a team with Dalglish and Rush or Suarez in it than one with Borini or N'gog leading the line.

As I have said before lets win the league and then argue about how we should have won it.

100% agree

Don't care what people say. Don't want to see the club throwing silly money at players like City, Chelsea and United.

I've been complaining about those soulless clubs trying to buy the league £50 million per player at a time and I don't know about you but I value my own morals and views towards the game more than a few pieces of gold.

World class talent should be earned by the way you play, not the size of your bottom line. I know the game is moving on, but I don't care. The day I see us making deals like £50 million for Martial, Jon Stones or your mates Granny something will have died at this club a little.

We broke the transfer record for Kenny, Collymore, and Carroll, I'll assume you think something at the club died when we made those transfers mate.
It's the real world, you move forward or you go backwards, its sad, but that's the reality, and we really are in danger of being caught up and overtaken by lesser teams with more ambition if we don't move with the times.
We're currently sitting on the beach hoping the tide won't come in, when its already wetting our feet.

Yeah but... We could be historic, successful, worldwide fan base AND rich.

Why not?

Oh God the fans! Never even thought of the bandwagon cu*ts that would swap their City shirts for Liverpool ones. Don't want anything to do with them cu*ts.