Spoiler

Liverpool face money trouble – is the Premier League bubble about to burst?

Could a Big Four side really go down the pan?

As the Tesco Value teabags and “one square of loo roll per visit rule” at Spoiler towers demonstrates, the nation remains in the grip of a financial apocalypse.

Throughout the crunchy credit crisis, the Premier League [...]

Kuwaiti billionaire in talks with Liverpool

More foreign money to be poured into the Premier League

According to this morning’s Sun newspaper, Liverpool’s financial chief Philip Nash and commercial director Ian Ayre have been sent to the Middle East to thrash out a takeover deal with the man above, Nasser Al-Kharafi.

The Kuwaiti, [...]

Why the credit crunch is good for Liverpool but bad for Manchester Utd

Global belt tightening brings mixed fortunes to the big four

Manchester Utd’s £14m-a-year- AIG shirt sponsorship looked to be on rocky ground earlier this week, and the future of the deal looked no more certain as the US Federal Reserve rescued the insurance behemoth with a £47bn refinancing package yesterday: rather understandably, they will no [...]

How has foreign ownership affected the Premier League?

Forty per cent of the top flight now owned by overseas investors

For a team like Chelsea, foreign investment has proven the difference between success and slightly more success, but not every club benefits. Now that Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim [...]

Vote: Who should leave Liverpool first?

Someone will go, but will they be from the boardroom or the dressing room?

The Liverpool boardroom soap opera continued today as George Gillett told his former buddy Tom Hicks to zip it, following his outburst at Rick Parry last [...]

George Gillett to bring misery to another football club

The MLS could be welcoming one of the Prem’s least lovable owners

Thoroughly unpopular American businessman George Gillett already owns an Ice Hockey team, a NASCAR team and a Premier League side, and he could be about to start a new MLS franchise.

Montreal Impact currently [...]

Liverpool owners set new standards in greed

Once proud club currently being mugged like a pensioner

The Liverpool Echo is reporting today that George Gillett, half of the double act which has got supporters of Liverpool Football Club so steamed up, has turned down an offer for his share of the club that would have put a breath-taking £80 million in [...]