David Moores can do one last great favour for the club he loves before he hands over the reins, and it could prove the most important of all the decisions the Moores family has made over the decades they have ruled the Merseyside club.
George Gillett has muddied the waters at this late hour for a Liverpool takeover by tabling a bid even though it seems destined to fail....i hope.
The biggest reasons i hope it fails, it seems to be in some ways to resemble the manyoo Glazer marriage, a rich American trying to buy a major english football club but seeming to be underfunded to do it the right way.
He does not seem to have the money or is unwilling to invest in a new independent stadium for Liverpool Fc
We need to get out of debt and build a new stadium, no one is arguing with that fact, but the Gillet proposal has one shocking hole in it, the fact that he wants to even consider a ground share option with our neighbours Everton shows that he does not care or does not know what the supporters of this famous club think about ground sharing with their bitter enemies.
No Liverpool supporters i know would ever be willing to ground share with the blue half of mersey for a number of reasons, one being why would we help them by giving them an easy fix to there money problems by financing a stadium and becoming one more threat in the league because believe me Everton would fill that stadium and bankroll a rejuvenation of their club. Even though it would be very good for Everton their fans are probably not too keen either on an idea of a shared stadia.
The DIC bid is a bid that includes cancelling the debt of the club but the most important part of the deal is the new independent Liverpool Football Clubs stadium which will in itself guarantee the future of the club. In this bid there is no hint of a lack of funds or penny pinching unlike the rich americans offer.
In my view the Gillet bid is bad news for Liverpool but it could be good in one way, if it makes DIC realize that Liverpool Football Club is a prized asset and it may hurry up the deal a maybe even release some cash for this current transfer window.
But hats off to David Moores if he turns away (the more money for him deal) that Gillet is offering and goes for the (better for the club but less money for him) deal that DIC is offering, i know its seems a small amount of the money when we are talking so many millions, but there is not many chairman who would take a couple of million pounds less to ensure that the company that they left behind was in safe hands.
I am congratulating David Moores already, before any deal has gone through, because i know he will not worry about his personal wealth and even if it means losing a couple of million he wil do whats best for the club.
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