Liverpool will brush off the controversy over England's top clubs selling naming rights to their stadiums and chase the most expensive naming rights deal in the history of sport. Despite the recession, the Merseyside club's hierarchy are convinced they can raise a mammoth £250m by persuading a leading global firm to buy the rights to name Liverpool's proposed ground. Click to continue reading...

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LIVERPOOL will brush off the controversy over England's top clubs selling naming rights to their stadiums and chase the most expensive naming rights deal in the history of sport.

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Latest rumours in the press are that that the Liverpool owners want to replace struggling Benitez with Aston Villa's Martin O'Neill, it is believed Hicks & Gillette are impressed buy the way the Irishman has built a strong squad on limited funds from Randy Learner and is riding high in the Premier League. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's hierarchy are piecing together a £100million rescue package to try to turn round a season that has been branded 'a disgrace' by one of their own players.
Anfield bosses hope to have the cash injection in place by January and will be eager to avoid any delays after keeper Pepe Reina turned on his own team-mates and berated their Champions League failings. Click to continue reading...

The city of Liverpool claims it would receive a £200 million (US$330 million) boost if it is a host city for the 2018 World Cup, should England win the rights to host the tournament.
The city is arguably the biggest heartland of English soccer, with both Liverpool and Everton having secured multiple trophies over the years. Click to continue reading...

With Liverpool preparing to play Fulham at Craven Cottage in a matter of hours, injury problems continue to plague the the Anfield club. Captain and perennial talisman Steven Gerrard will not play due to his nagging groin injury, while fullback Glen Johnson will miss action because of a thigh strain.

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David Moyes - Management is a lonely job at times

To say it was a week to forget for Evertonian's is an understatement.
Three games, three defeats, 10 goals conceded and a casualty list befitting a small battlefield, it is no wonder Toffees fans are wearing concerned expressions at the moment.

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If you need proof that kindness still exists in football, look no further than Dr. David France and Everton Football Club, and the story behind the greatest collection of football memorabilia ever assembled.

Known as The David France Collection, it's an incredible assortment of more than 18,000 items that Dr.

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George Gillett's arrival on Merseyside last Saturday morning was greeted with great hostility. If the Reds co-owner was expecting the furore that surrounded events off the pitch over the past two years to have died down, he clearly underestimated the extent of his actions.
When Gillett and his business partner Tom Hicks strolled out onto the Anfield pitch in March 2007, they were given the most velvet of red carpet treatment by all connected with the club. Click to continue reading...

The FA Cup Final, May 1989 was contested by Everton and Liverpool at Wembley Stadium. It became one of the most memorable FA Cup Final in terms of excitement, emotions and tension. John Aldridge had put Liverpool 1-0 up after four minutes but Stuart McCall equalised in the 89th minute to force extra time. Click to continue reading...

Neither George Gillett Jr. nor Tom Hicks, the co-owners of Liverpool, is expecting imminent investment in the club from Prince Faisal bin Fahd bin Abdullah al-Saud, a member of the Saudi Royal Family, despite reports to the contrary over the weekend.
Hicks and Gillett are in ongoing talks with a number of potential third-party investors as they seek first to reduce Liverpool's £250 million debt and second to bring in the kind of sizeable cash injection needed to finance the club's move from Anfield to a long-planned new stadium on nearby Stanley Park. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool co-owner George Gillett was in talks on Saturday night about selling a 25 per cent stake in the Anfield club to an Arab prince in a deal worth £125million.
Sunday Mirror Sport understands that Gillett has met with Prince Khalid al-Faisal and members of the Saudi royal family about investment opportunities at Liverpool. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool are pursuing a £240million naming rights deal to finally kickstart their troubled move to Stanley Park.
Carlsberg's 18-year shirt sponsorship with the Reds ends next year.
But the Danish beer brewers are prepared to match the £100m Arsenal received for a 15-year deal with Emirates. Click to continue reading...

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Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks is adamant that the club's proposed new £350m stadium will be built once the global financial crisis stabilises.
Construction on the new site in Stanley Park, next to the Reds' current Anfield Stadium, was frozen in August 2008 due to the financial conditions.

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The transfer traitors that shocked the fans and football

After all the kerfuffle a certain dread locked bean pole caused this week, I thought I'd resurrect an old post from a few months back to see who really is the most hated by his ex fans.

10. Barmby/Beardsly – Merseyside Fanny Magnets

Baby faced Nicky Barmby and Quasimodo faced Peter Beardsley both played for the Red and Blue of Merseyside in the glory years of their careers.

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American businessman Tom Hicks, the co-owner of English soccer club Liverpool, says the team will not receive increased investment after he sells his Texas Rangers Major League baseball franchise.
More specifically, the proceeds of the sale - certain to be over US$500 million - will not go towards the financing of the club's proposed new stadium in Stanley Park, which is unlikely to be ready much before 2018.

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"You Don't Know What You're Doing"

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks is adamant that he remains committed to building a new stadium for the club.

The Reds were planning to open a replacement for Anfield in neighbouring Stanley Park, with the new ground designed to have a significantly increased capacity.

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Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has vowed that the club will build a new stadium – but has said that the move will not be financed by the £450million he is set to bank from the sale of baseball club Texas Rangers.
Hicks and business partner George Gillett have been unable to raise the £500m it will cost to fund the development of a 60,000-capacity home for the Reds at Stanley Park because of the credit crunch. Click to continue reading...

Bad news on the building off the new stadium at Stanley Park with new M.D. Christian Purslow saying this afternoon ''Construction on the new stadium will begin when the current contraction in the banking industry ends''.In other words when Hicks and Gillette can find a bank daft enough to lend them £450 million to build a stadium which, without significant personal investment by the owners, will only saddle Liverpool FC with huge debts which could cripple the club and end up meaning we have to sell Torres and co. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's new stadium will not be built until the global recession is over and credit becomes available to finance the $800 million project.
The 60,000-seat replacement for Liverpool's historic but crumbling Anfield was due to have opened next year, but the economic downturn forced co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. Click to continue reading...

Nearing the point of no return?

Tom Hicks and George Gillett are a stain on the football club I have supported for practically my entire life, bar the first four years of my life where I was in fact far more partial to Farley's rusks, and anyone who brushes off fears of the Americans ruin Liverpool Football Club really need to wake up from their stupor.

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Liverpool FC's American owners have concluded a deal re-finance the bank loan they took out to buy the club in 2007.
Co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are not expected to issue a statement, but the deal is believed to be for another year and will involve them paying back £60m of the original debt. Click to continue reading...

Rafa Benitez must feel like he's found a peseta but lost a pound.
No sooner was he celebrating the arrival of Glen Johnson, while admitting he may have paid just a tad over the odds for him because he was English, than he received the devastating news that Andriy Voronin, the ‘Bovine Ponytail', plans to return to Anfield from his loan spell at Hair Fair Berlin and "conquer the Premiership". Click to continue reading...

1. Manchester City have made a "stratospheric" offer to Samuel Eto'o according to Barcelona president Joan Laporta. (Various)
2. German champions VfL Wolfsburg are refusing to sell Edin Dzeko to AC Milan, the Bosnian striker said on Sunday.
"Wolfsburg won't let me go. Everyone knows that Milan are the team of my dreams but I can not do anything," the 23-year-old told Italy's Sky television. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant may be about to swap the red half of Merseyside for the blue half, according to the News of the World.
The British tabloid claims that Pennant, who spent last season on loan at Portsmouth, is considering making the controversial move this summer when he will become a free agent. Click to continue reading...

The Royal Bank of Scotland has taken the remarkable step of writing to Liverpool supporters to explain its continued financial support for the club's unpopular owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
The bailed-out bank has faced severe criticism from Liverpool supporters angered at plans to extend the Americans' £350m credit facility with the RBS and Wachovia ahead of a 24 July deadline. Click to continue reading...

The Reds want to cash-in on a new, big-money deal, but they'll have to wait a while before they can ditch their current benefactors.
Liverpool's 17-year partnership with their major sponsor, Carlsberg, is one of the longest in the game, so much so that the beer giant's logo has become an iconic emblem for the Anfield club. Click to continue reading...

City MPs have launched a fresh bid to topple Liverpool FC's American owners.
They want the government to pull the plug on a crucial £350m loan to Tom Hicks and George Gillett – by taking advantage of the part-nationalisation of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
MPs said the move, prompted by fury over the apparent collapse of plans for a new stadium, would force the Americans to sell. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool and Everton must share a new stadium for it to be included in England's 2018 football World Cup bid, according to the head of the city's 2018 bid committee. Warren Bradley, the leader of Liverpool City Council, told UK newspaper the Observer that currently "Anfield and Goodison Park do not fit FIFA's criteria". Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's beleaguered co-owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, look set to ­refinance their £350m loan with the Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia from next month's deadline, the ­Guardian has learned. The extension could cost up to £3.5m for the arrangement fee, with ­interest payments – approximately 4% above the banking rate – similar to the terms on their current facility. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's owners have vowed the club is not going bust despite losses of nearly £41m in 2008.
Latest accounts for Kop Football (Holdings) Ltd showed debt rising by £77m to £359m.
Auditors also cast doubt on the Anfield club's future as a "going concern."
But owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett today dismissed that analysis as merely "accountancy-speak. Click to continue reading...

Rafa Benitez is struggling to hang on to unsettled midfielder Javier Mascherano in a new blow that further compounds the financial crisis engulfing Anfield.
Already reeling from mounting debts that are hampering plans for strengthening his Liverpool squad, Benitez is now facing an uphill struggle to keep Mascherano from Barcelona's clutches. Click to continue reading...

And you'll ne-ver get a loan / Yooou'll ne-ver get a-loooan...
To all billionaire Arabs with a passing interest in the beautiful game: Liverpool FC needs you. Its American owners, Tom Hicks (Jack Lemmon) and George Gillett (Walter Matthau) are in a spot of financial bother. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool council leader Warren Bradley has warned Everton and Liverpool they have until December to resolve their stadium issues or risk missing out on hosting the World Cup.
And for the second time in a week, Councilor Bradley reiterated his desire for further talks over a shared stadium between the two Merseyside clubs. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool face the prospect of missing out on tens of millions of pounds in revenue, vital to their pursuit of Manchester United, by missing two vital deadlines for the construction of their new stadium, which is the cornerstone of the club's growth.
Club sources have confirmed that they are interested in discussing with Carlsberg the idea of naming rights for the new Stanley Park stadium which, as The Independent revealed last week, the Danish brewer wants to pursue when its sponsorship deal comes up for detailed discussion in July. Click to continue reading...