Owners use Kop money for themselves
According to the Guardian, George Gillett and Tom Hicks are using money Liverpool have generated for their own personal expenses.
The club are being made to pay almost £2m to cover the travel and legal expenses of the American owners.
The owners’ holding company Kop Football‘s accounts show that Hicks charged £192,000 for ‘third party consulting, travel and other expenses’, while co-owner Gillett charged £129,000 for ‘reimbursable travel, legal, personnel and other expenses’.
The total charged to Kop in expenses, for the owners and their affiliated companies, since their takeover in 2007 to the accounts’ end date of 31 July 2008, was £1.85million.
James McKenna, spokesman for the Spirit of Shankly, said: “Hicks and Gillett were the multimillionaires who promised not to do a Glazer and that work would start on the new stadium within 60 days.
“Yet now we find, as fans, not only are we paying for their takeover, but we are also paying for their costs of having done it, and, for coming over to visit the football club.
“They were supposed to bring investment to take the club forward, but it turns out we’re even paying their travel costs.”
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out out out please will someone come and buy our club so these idiots can go back to the muppet show were they belong once again they are exposed for using the club when they should be putting money they are bleeding it out
Yank lieing cheating scum get out of are club..
anything else they want do with the club’s money? maybe spend it on clothes, food and internet porn??
All i want now is for our great club is just to be settled, an end to this constant battle between owners and fans, cause with all of this happening we are fast becoming the team the media love to bad mouth, every story released is either miles from the truth or just a bunch of BS, like the alonso then the masch stories then it was how we are going to bankrupt when both arse and manc have 2times and 3 times the debt respectively than us. where the owners sell or they dont something needs to be dne. a good start would be to give us that stadium they promised from word go. the really reason moores sold the club in the first place.
disgusting!
i would like to add that them using the clubs money is bang out of order tho, but we dont have all the infomation it could look alot worse than it is or not as the case may be!
WHAT!!!!
PLEASE KICK THEM!!!
YOUR DON’T LOVE LIVERPOOL N YOUR ARE VERY EGOMANIAC!!!!
QUIT..
QUIT!!!!
RUBBISH!!!
LIVERPOOL CAN BANKRUPT IF THE OWNER ARE GILLET & HICKS!!!
PLEASE TAKE ACTION!!!
these thing will not happen if rick parry use his dumb head when negotiating with these 2 stupid american donkeys!! Parry shud bring in those Arab investors not these 2 clown..i blame it on rick parry!!
Hicks & Gillet are like weapons of mass destruction bad news for a “great” club like Liverpool……..MUST GO !!!
WHICHEVER BANK LEND THE YANKS MONEY TO REFINANCE, WE WILL GET THE MAFIAS TO ROB THE BANK!!!!!
they all suck…liverpool can become a strong club but all of them…if they are poor please sell liverpool to rich owner…please…
come on Sheikh Muhamed, come and buy Liverpool.
FUCK U HICKS & GILLET…
I HATE UUU
wtf…..
ABU DHABI come on buy liverpool as soon as possible..this 2 american owner is suck..How 2 win next season if not even hv money 2 buy new player’s..fuck gillet n hicks!!
pleeaseee..any billionaire buy Liverpool now!!…
THESE STUPID YANKS ARE BLEEDING OUR FANTASTIC CLUB DRY.PLEASE GO HOME TO AMERICA NOW AND F.UCK YOUR OWN CLUB AND COUNTRY UP..
YANKS FUCK OFF. ur ruining the club. you’re not only embarrasing the club, ur embarrasing urselves. save urselves and SELL UP. or we’ll come over and beat the shit out of u and throw u out. speaking on behalf of malaysian fans. YANKS OUT
What the eff? Disgusting pigs
no way if they done that they should sell now and get out of town u r killing our club u money grabing twats go nowwwwwwwwwwwwwww
a piece of shit…..
someone just sponsor me 10 thai baht. I’ll get some thais prostitute and rape those yankees assess……
JOIN AT:
http://WWW.SHARELIVERPOOLFC.CO.UK
NOW!!!!
why so surprised as if they view the club its players its staff and its fans as anything more than a business venture lets pray to god that someone with the money and the slightest clue about business comes and takes over so those two lying cheating bastards can go back to america and concentrate on fucking soccer.
Those 2 greedy,horrible,scum,wankers,jokers of americans better leave and sell the club because they are absoutley destroying the great heritage and magnificent history which is liverpool fc. I am so gutted how those 2 can come into a mighty institution and start borrowing money and also paying for expense’s which is coming out of liverpool fc when l read that article l almost punched one of my friends. I am so unhappy now because the longer those two are in power of that club l will be always dreading the next day when ther is more news on liverpool fc and it will probbaly be castatrophic.For me l do not want that to happen.So all to those great liverpool fans around the world we as fans can stop these to dime bars and remove and oust them out of our beloved football club because we do not want to go the leeds way that would be shambolic. We need to fight and get rid. Also do we blame Morres and Parry for this,because l do. They were the ones that brought those 2 idiots in and they never went with dic. If DIC were in charge of liverpool fc we would not be in this diaster right now. I ask all LFC fans go down on your knees if you want to and pray to god because l am.I will write next message next week and hopefully those two have gone. pray,pray,pray,pray,LFC Fans.
IF THEM TWATS DONT LEAVE SOON ENOUGH WITH OUR DEBT COULD END UP LIKE LEEDS!
It’s time to take direct action against these 2 yankers.
basturds
These to americans r gods in manchester ur going to do a leeds ha ha loserpool mufc rule
motherfucking rio-mufc ill beat the shit outta u … go fuck fergie n u can shed ur tears on his ball that ronaldo is gone n ur mofo team has nobody to dive anymore
this is pathetic journalism – its thier club – they have every right to use its money!
i hate the way our dirty laundry has been aired by them, i think their approach to klinnsman was disgusting but…
just because the papers are going mad over MP’s expenses doesnt mean the owners of a company (LFC) don’t have the right to spend their own companies money, its not like every other commodity is cut short to save up for players! also its not as though they havent been prepared to spend big – torres/keane and now johnson all between 15/22 mill, and they made a loss on Keane, something which if I ws an owner I’d be furious about!
so stop using teh expenses bandwagon to have a go, its about time they explained exactly why the stadium hasnt been built, as its in their long term financial interests to get it done as well, accept it, and get behind them, a rift between owners and fans is in no way a positive thing. And ranting about them wont change anything.also making them feel more welcome may encourage tehm to spend more money!
so get behind LFC and let win the league!
Интересно, а есть хоть кто-то, кто не согласен с автором? :)