Liverpool FC has sought the help of investment bank Merrill Lynch to find a buyer for the club, according to a report in The Times newspaper. Out of the 20 clubs in the Premier League, Liverpool has been one of the hardest hit in the credit crunch due to the £350 million that American owners George [. Click to continue reading...

The Wall St financial bailout collapsed today and amongst the banks that could be hit hardest is Royal Bank of Scotland who were going to be one of the largest beneficiaries. The bailout would have allowed RBS to offload billions of dollars of toxic assets and loans. This year itself RBS wrote down $10 billion in losses from worthless subprime securities.

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Rafael Benítez interrupted his preparation for today's match against Stoke City — in which victory would send his Liverpool side to the top of the Barclays Premier League — to spend four hours with a delegation of fans from the Spirit of Shankly (SOS) supporters' union on Thursday. The Liverpool manager covered a wide range of subjects during the discussions but reassured the fans that his future lies at Anfield. Click to continue reading...

Time Magazine has just published it's list of Best and Worst Sports Executives of 2008 and Don Garber came in at number 14, four places above Roman Abramovich and his scary self. Some of the other footie luminaries who made the list where Sir Alex at No.2, EPL boss Richard Scudamore, and Inter Milan capo Massimo Morretti. Click to continue reading...

LIVERPOOL could still end up in the hands of Dubai – despite Dubai International Capital's insistence that it is no longer pursuing a deal to buy the club.

DIC – the investment arm of the Dubai government – put out an official statement yesterday denying it is ready to launch a fresh bid for the Reds or a new one for Newcastle United. Click to continue reading...

Alex Hicks, the son of Liverpool FC co-owner Tom Hicks, was embroiled in a hotel disturbance Sunday morning when one of his bodyguards was arrested after allegedly punching a hotel security guard. According to The Times, it's understood that the "fracas revolved around Alex Hicks and his group of friends, who were staying at the hotel. Click to continue reading...

THOUSANDS of Reds fans took part in a protest march against the club's owners ahead of yesterday's big match at Anfield.

The march was organised by the Spirit of Shankly group with several thousand fans turning out to take part ahead of the clash with Manchester United.

The crowd marched from the Liverpool Supporters' Club, Lower Breck Road, up to Anfield, in a show of strength against owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Click to continue reading...

In both Newcastle and Liverpool, thousands of supporters plan to march in protest against the owners of their respective clubs.

Members of a Liverpool supporters group named Spirit of Shankly intend to march to Anfield in protest against the club's American co-owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Click to continue reading...

In Newcastle and Liverpool this Saturday, thousands of football fans will be marching in protest against the owners of their respective clubs. Members of a Liverpool supporters group named Spirit Of Shankly will be marching to Anfield in protest against owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. According to the supporters union, it'll be "a march of [. Click to continue reading...

Sheikh Mohammed will step up his bid to buy Liverpool by using his own money to invest in the club.

The oil-rich Arab leader of Dubai has ditched DIC - the investment arm of his government - as the buy-out company he will use if he gets the chance to purchase the Anfield club from Americans Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Click to continue reading...

Jamie Carragher has launched a scathing attack on Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, saying he has been sickened by their broken promises and profiteering.

Writing in his autobiography, Carragher accuses the Americans of buying the club solely to make a profit and says he is unhappy they have failed to keep their promises of building a new stadium and pledging money for transfers. Click to continue reading...

It would appear all is not well at Liverpool. Defender Jamie Carragher has revealed in his new book , Carra : My Autobiography, how he truly feels about the club's American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett and as you will see in a moment, it's not very complimentary.

The former England international has many harsh words to say about Hicks and Gillett throughout the book. Click to continue reading...

There's the Anfield that we all know on TV. The sight of Liverpool supporters waving their scarves as millionaires such as Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard run around the pitch. But directly behind Anfield is something that Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett don't want you to see. The most deprived neighborhood in Britain. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool fans' group the Spirit of Shankly wants the Royal Bank of Scotland to stop financing the club's American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

The bank, along with US investment bank Wachovia, gave finance to the owners in January to re-finance their original loan of £350million, which ended with the club being saddled with £30m a year of interest payments. Click to continue reading...

The Dubai investors who attempted to buy Liverpool last year are yet to make an increased offer for the club.

Sheikh Mohammed, the ruler of Dubai, was reported to have sanctioned an increased offer of £500 million to buy Liverpool.

However, sources have now described those claims as inaccurate, and insisted there are no ongoing talks about the possible sale of Liverpool.

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The Arab invasion of the Barclays Premier League seems certain to continue, with Liverpool's American owners weakening in their resistance to selling the club to Sheikh Mohammed, the ruler of Dubai. Tom Hicks vetoed an attempted sale by George Gillett Jr, his co-chairman at Anfield, this year, but the American tycoons are expected to return to the negotiating table as an unforgiving financial climate takes a toll on their ambitions for the club. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's chief executive Rick Parry insists that the fighting within Anfield is now over. Rows between Parry and Rafa Benitez over who would and wouldn't be signing for the Reds, along with the fallout between owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, threatened to see chaos decent. However Parry says that stability has been restored and everyone is now pulling in the right direction, as he explained to Sky Sports:

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Liverpool's American dream fades amid debt and lost revenue

You wonder what David Moores thought of it all. In April, after the breathless Champions League victory over Arsenal, the man who is still nominally Liverpool's chairman gave his first interview since selling the club to Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool fans angry at new stadium delay

Liverpool's proposed new stadium has suffered a fresh delay of at least a year, with fears now mounting on Merseyside over whether the ground can ever be built under the ownership of Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

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Liverpool's proposed new stadium has suffered a fresh delay of at least a year, with fears now mounting on Merseyside over whether the ground can ever be built under the ownership of Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

An official statement pointed to global market conditions for what was described as a "short-term" problem, though The Daily Telegraph understands that Hicks and Gillett accept that the earliest target for an opening date is the 2012-13 season. Click to continue reading...

Ah, you have to love Liverpool's American ownership. Aside from being two of the biggest buffoons in the Premier League, Tom Hicks and George Gillett have turned the Anfield club into a laughing stock over the last year by airing the club's dirty laundry for all to see. Aside from ... Click to continue reading...

THE Liverpool fans group who want to buy the club last night received the backing of sports minister Andy Burnham.

The MP for Leigh, a life-long Everton fan, will put aside cross-city allegiances to back ShareLiverpoolFC's dream of co-operative ownership of the Anfield club, eventually ousting American co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benitez will step up his efforts to bring in midfield reinforcements – and finally concede defeat in his pursuit of Gareth Barry.

The Liverpool manager is determined to strengthen his left side and is set to make this his priority in the remaining two weeks of the transfer window. Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benitez had to be talked out of quitting as Liverpool manager last week over the protracted Gareth Barry transfer that is causing a fresh rift with the Anfield hierarchy.

It has emerged the Spaniard decided to resign after being told the club's American owners would not stump up the £18m to sign Barry from Aston Villa. Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benítez has declared himself "calm" as Liverpool prepare to start their season this evening with their summer-long pursuit of Gareth Barry still up in the air, but the suspicion remains that this calm could be the prelude to another storm.

Despite his board's decision to veto an £18 million deal, Benítez is determined to proceed with a deal to sign Barry from Aston Villa and he will urge the club's American owners to back his judgment once the small matter of tonight's Champions League qualifying match in Belgium is out of the way. Click to continue reading...

If Tom Hicks and George Gillett were looking for a way to win back the favour of Liverpool supporters, then they may well have found it. By publicly admitting what had been rumoured for a couple of days – that they feel that the price quoted by Aston Villa is too high – they have expressed what most fans have been thinking throughout the summer. Click to continue reading...

Reports from the Middle East indicate that Dubai International Capital (DIC) are ready to re-launch their Liverpool takeover bid, as tensions mount between manager Rafael Benitez and the club's current owners.

DIC attempted to take control of the Merseyside club in March, but their £400million bid was rebuffed despite the widening rift between co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool FC owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett have finally vetoed Rafael Benitez's, inglorious pursuit of Gareth Barry, and for the first time in their tenure I wholeheartedly agree with one of their major decisions.

Everyone in the world – except Rafa- can see that £18m is way too much for Barry, especially since the club's pressing need for quality wide players supersedes the need for yet another central midfielder. Click to continue reading...

In an attempt to placate manager Rafael Benitez, Liverpool's owners have reportedly authorised an £18million move for Valencia star David Silva.

Benitez is livid with Tom Hicks and George Gillett after the Reds co-owners vetoed an £18million deal for Aston Villa midfielder Gareth Barry.

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With the Gareth Barry deal hanging in the balance, Rafael Benítez, the Liverpool manager, must have known when he sat down on Thursday afternoon and expressed hope in an interview with this newspaper that the new season would be free of the turbulence that blighted the previous campaign, he was asking for the impossible. Click to continue reading...

Rafael BenÍtez's relationship with Liverpool's owners reached crisis point last night when it emerged that not only had Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr vetoed the manager's bid to buy Gareth Barry but that the American duo had turned down an offer of a £12 million interest-free loan to help to buy the Aston Villa midfield player. Click to continue reading...

Gareth Barry would consider pulling the plug on his prospective move to Liverpool from Aston Villa if the transfer is not resolved come the start of the Barclays Premier League season in eight days' time.

Barry is eager to join Liverpool, but the England midfield player is becoming increasingly concerned about the amount of time the deal is taking, after Villa paved the way for the move last weekend, and he is not willing to wait much longer. Click to continue reading...

Rafael Benitez's complete mismanagement of Xabi Alonso is the main reason the talented Spaniard is on his way out of Anfield.

****I originally posted this article on the 5th February 2008 in response to what I believed were obvious signs that Xabi Alonso was being mismanaged by Rafa. In light of the current uncertainty surrounding Alonso's future, I feel compelled to re-post the article. Click to continue reading...

Hamburg, looking to regroup after suffering the loss of Rafael van der Vaart to Real Madrid, enquired about one of Liverpool's squad players, but were scared off by Rafa Benitez's ridiculous valuation. Are YOU Nike's Most Wanted? As Anfield co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are still refusing to bail Rafa out . Click to continue reading...

Steven Gerrard's thigh injury will almost certainly scupper any thoughts Liverpool had of selling Xabi Alonso to raise money to sign Gareth Barry. Gerrard returned from Oslo having picked up the injury in the 4-1 win over Valerenga on Tuesday and had a scan and further medical tests yesterday.

Rafael Benitez, the Liverpool manager, believes it is "touch and go" whether Gerrard will be fit for the first leg of the Champions League third qualifying round tie at Standard Liege next Wednesday, but he is certainly out of the friendly against Lazio tomorrow. Click to continue reading...