Dear Mr Hicks

Many words have been written about what’s happened to Liverpool Football Club over the past three years.

Now it’s time for the spoken word.

“Dear Mr Hicks,”

With thanks to Mike Jefferies and everyone else who worked so hard to make this video.

Please, please spread the video far and wide.

We’re getting our club back.

17 thoughts on “Dear Mr Hicks”

  1. Please god this works….. It,s a sorry day when I have Blackpool fans calling to take the piss out of our club. No one else understands……Liverpool FC aren”t just any club….they are the greatest club Britain has ever produced and to see them as they are today makes me cry. Football cannot be financed through debt and these jokers need to leave right now

  2. ExXcellent video. Thanks to Mike Jeffries and all involved for taking the time and effort to make it.

    I’ve just heard on BBC Radio5 Live that the board met today (Tuesday) and considered two bids for the sale of the club. One US and one Asia based. H&G are opposed to the sale.

    More at 21.30BST for those able to listen.

    Dan Roan is reporting this on his Twitter account:-

    Breaking: Hearing 2 new bids for LFC – one from Asia the other US – board held meeting today – H&G understood to be trying to oppose

  3. Thought the video was very good and very touching, but I feel that it will fall on deaf ears. Infact I know it will fall on deaf ears and will have as much impact as a girl guide trying to sell cookies to Mr Burns!

  4. Think it’s also funny that as this video gets released we have a bid from the Boston Red Sox?

    Does anyone else think that this is the H&G PR machine doing it’s best to get the video away from the headlines?

  6. Many raw & passionate comments in the video and you can see what LFC means to so many people.

    I am counting down the days to when Hicks & Gillette leave our club. I really hope we are reaching the end game.

    Any further news on who the 2 bidders are?

  7. From the Guardian:

    The owner of the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team, John W Henry, has posted an outline offer to buy Liverpool Football Club, according to sources close to the discussions. Liverpool’s chairman, Martin Broughton, presented Henry’s bid, along with one from Asian business interests, understood to be Chinese, at a board meeting today.

    Both bids were described as “credible” by reliable sources today and Broughton, Liverpool’s managing director, Christian Purslow, and Ian Ayre, the club’s commercial director, were understood to favour entering serious discussions. However, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, the American owners of Liverpool, which owes £237m to Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia, were said to have rejected the offers in principle because they do not provide enough money for their shares.

    One informed source described Henry as “extremely interested” in buying Liverpool, saying he has the means and expertise required, as evidenced by the Red Sox’s iconic stadium, Fenway Park. Liverpool supporters will be naturally suspicious of any bid coming from the US after the bitter experience with Hicks and Gillett and will want assurances that the finance is real, not borrowed. Hicks and Gillett engineered a “leveraged buy-out” of Liverpool in February 2007, with £185m entirely borrowed from RBS, then made the capital and interest the club’s responsibility to repay.

    The outlines of the bids are understood to be broadly the ones which have been considered as the only credible solution for the club – repaying the banks but giving little profit to Hicks and Gillett. The banks, both of which collapsed in the economic crisis, – RBS is now 84% owned by the British taxpayer – want their loans back on 15 October but there is no apparent prospect of either of the owners being able to repay them. Despite that, Hicks and Gillett are known to have held out for a handsome profit on their shares. Neither could be reached for comment tonight.

  10. Hicks and Gillett are going down the legal route

    http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/liverpool-fc-statement-3

    Liverpool Football Club tonight issued the following press statement:

    The Board of Directors have received two excellent financial offers to buy the Club that would repay all its long-term debt. A Board meeting was called today to review these bids and approve a sale. Shortly prior to the meeting, the owners – Tom Hicks and George Gillett – sought to remove Managing Director Christian Purslow and Commercial Director Ian Ayre from the Board, seeking to replace them with Mack Hicks and Lori Kay McCutheon.

    This matter is now subject to legal review and a further announcement will be made in due course.

    Meanwhile Martin Broughton, Christian Purslow and Ian Ayre continue to explore every possible route to achieving a sale of the Club at the earliest opportunity.

    Author: Liverpool Football Club
    Tagged: statement

  11. The official statement on the LFC site states that H&G have not only rejected the 2 bids but have tried to get rid of Purslow and Ayre from the board and replace them with two stooges…just when you thought they couldn’t sink any lower!

  13. Just when you thought that this soap opera could not get any worse. They are KILLING THIS CLUB. This news is depressing……..

    Liverpool Football Club tonight issued the following press statement:

    The Board of Directors have received two excellent financial offers to buy the Club that would repay all its long-term debt. A Board meeting was called today to review these bids and approve a sale. Shortly prior to the meeting, the owners – Tom Hicks and George Gillett – sought to remove Managing Director Christian Purslow and Commercial Director Ian Ayre from the Board, seeking to replace them with Mack Hicks and Lori Kay McCutcheon.

    This matter is now subject to legal review and a further announcement will be made in due course.

    Meanwhile Martin Broughton, Christian Purslow and Ian Ayre continue to explore every possible route to achieving a sale of the Club at the earliest opportunity.

    Author: Liverpool Football Club
    Tagged: statement

  17. i hate hicks, but this is a pretty obnoxious video. i think it reinforces some of the negative stereotypes about Liverpool supporters. and to those who are wearing the new kit in the video, you are truly, truly, truly obtuse.

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