I'm an American based (Chicago) Liverpool FC fan. I'm also a sox fan, (White Sox). Ive have followed Liverpool since the mid 70's when I was old enough to understand the game. Liverpool has a rich history that is equaled by none. The most decorated club in English football history. The 2 current owners has done nothing but lie and load debt on this club over the last 3 years. Liverpool as an entity is one of the most profitable clubs in the sport, but because of the 300 mill loans that hicks and gillette lumped on the club the club operating profits goes towards servicing these clowns loans and not on investment in the squad and infrastructure. John W. Henry didn't hurt the Red Sox Nation when he got involved in building the #1 Nascar team in stock car racing. No and most of Red Sox Nation didn't even know he was involved in that enterprise. It didn't hurt the Red Sox as they snuggle up as tight to the Luxury Tax in MLB as they possible can and sign and cut players as they see best to give them the best chance to compete. Liverpool FC fans need to understand that Red Sox are in the same division as the win at all cost yankees, who spend 50-70 million more that the top teams there competing against. The reason the Red Sox have been so successful since NESV took over in 2002 is because they have a great GM (Theo Epstein) and Head coach (Terry Francona). This year was a freak injury laden year but these guys make moves every year to bring in key players and to be competitive.
They also have a great fan base and when they play in Chicago they bring thousands with then for what is always a 3 or 4 game series. Fenway is alot like Anfield, steeped in history and home field advantage is really home field advantage. I've been to both stadiums (Anfield 40+ times Fenway 5 times) and this could be a great deal for NESV. Buying Liverpool for $477 without the debt will have the club vlkued at $700 million by 2015. The return to greatness is around the corner for Liverpool FC. just a side note there was an agreement between the yankees and Manchester Utd 5 years ago where they entered into a merchandising agreement that enabled each club to generate between 15mill and 20 mill ayear through eachothers pro shops.
