[QUOTE="moreinjuredthanowen, post: 9661337, member: 1010745"]I think FSG were careful not slow. they took a huge mess on and had to write off the book a massive loss on the pink elephant stadium G&H faked. They then went to the council and had to negotiate planning and a CP on houses to get the main stand and anfield raod ends dealt with.
They broke ground and built the main stand.
So..... basically for me its 6 years since they took over and i fail to see how they could have done this much quicker without trampling over people. The council have been very good to us.
I just hope we announce a redevelopment of the anfield road end quickly. I HOPE we see it as even if marginal its worth it and the protest that screamed greed at them hasn't put them off.
I think anyone living in the area has to in general put up with a lot on match days etc but the stuff the council have announced could be great for the area (in general) and bring quite a number of jobs.
The main stand brings jobs in concessions etc. A hotel would bring jobs, a big club shop brings jobs. Nice paths and trees and all sorts......[/QUOTE]
Again, Houghton (sp) and RSB's expanation for selling the club at @ half price (albeit a distressed sale) was that NESV, as it was, were ready there and then to expand the ground. I have no sympathis for Hicks, especially, and Gillete, but if the argument for a quick, underpriced sale was that a new ground would 'imminently' be started on and it then took five years.... well, shades indeed of an epic swindle.
As said, no sympathy for Hicks as he turned down a second offer of £450m from DIC only a year before that would have seen him cover all his debts and then some. He, over Gillete, so we're told, wanted to hold out for @ £660m ($1bn) that Forbes said the club were worth. Well in 2008 before the crash they did, anyway. And H&G had told Moores the same bullshit in 2007 when they gazumped DIC in the first place, trousering Moores et al several millions more in the process (and he's the **** at the source of our wasted ten years since Istanbul if you ask me), but whilst grateful to FSG for saving the club from administration and recapitalising it, let's not fool ourselves that FSG's slow process was anything other than financially motivated. And we've still fallen further behind City, Uniturd and Chelsea in the process, and I don't just mean the sugar-daddy element of the oil clubs, I mean commercially and world profile too.
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