DIRECTORS of Liverpool Football Club have been summoned to an urgent meeting tomorrow to debate three potential bids to take over the club. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17785252%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=millionaires%2dbattle%2dto%2dtakeover%2 dliverpool%2dfc-name_page.html)

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OOH Dear!!

Lets hope no Russian oil oligarchs or Americans are involved eh? :(

Can somebody please explain to me why the ordinary fans have never been offered the opportunity to buy shares in the club?

Let's look at the plus points (assuming a majority shareholder maintained 51% control):

i) The millions of pounds the club needs would be raised;

ii) The club would be controlled by a large contingent of fans- and lets face it, there are so many all over the world, there has to be a lot of wealth amongst them.

iii) That all important link between the fans and the club would be set in stone. The current situation aint so bad as the main shareholder is a passionate LFC fan. And so in an autocratic kind of way, he represents the views of all the other fans.

But bring in some foreign business men, who don't necessarily have any love for the club, but are merely interested in acquiring assets- whether it raises money or not, this cannot be good for the club.

I just don't see why a share issue to the public has never been offered. Besides being a great gesture to the fans, it would maintain tradition whilst raising large sums of money.

Can somebody please explain? Am I missing something?