Where would we be.

[Wooders]

we'd probably be a decent championship team full of young academy products by now ? We'd get raided every summer/january mind

[sandman]

People go on about our 'luck', but there are other factors which meant this happened to City.

Firstly our enormous potential, with historic fan base and success, with big city status.

Secondly thanks to Wardle and co, firstly for keeping us afloat and secondly for choosing Frank as a new owner who could take us forwards and had the cash to make us compete - this turned out not to be the case for various reasons, but plays a big part in the story.

Big thanks to Frank for doing all the messy buying up of all those piddly little shares from small shareholders - some of whom moaned their heads off - and therefore making the club a single entity easy to buy.

More thanks to Frank for spending the summer of the Olympics talking to his 'friends' and eventually meeting the Sheik.

Could it happen to any club? No not really because Frank did all the dirty work and it was his contacts that got us bought. All Liverpool's contacts can come up with is some dodgy Chinaman.

No Shinawatra, no Sheik Mansour.

I totally agree, thats why I went back as far as the Thaskin takeover rather then the Sheikh. I honestly believe that our club are indebted to the thai guy as he was both the bridge and foundation of greater things!!

[Chopper]

Also worth saying that he sold the club for a fair price, instead of trying to get maximum profit like a certain scouse owner.

Conversely Mark Mak raised the issue that even while Frankie was in charge, the club was still a mess financially and Wardle was still reaching into his pockets.

Credit is due to Wardle, he sold the club for a loss in the best interests of making us better. He is a true supporter of this club.

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

We just don't know, anything could've happened. Say what you like but SP did a sterling job that season before the takeover, that team finished much higher than they had the right to. Whether we would've finish 8th or 18th the next year would've been hugely down to the next man in charge.

imo.

[saulman]

We just don't know, anything could've happened. Say what you like but SP did a sterling job that season before the takeover, that team finished much higher than they had the right to. Whether we would've finish 8th or 18th the next year would've been hugely down to the next man in charge.

imo.

We'd just lost two of our best players (thanks Joey and Distin) and without any money for managers wages, players wages or any sort of transfer budget, that manager would very likely have been stupid or crap.