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...Ever since the Moores family sold their controlling stake in Liverpool FC to US businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillett in 2007, ending half a century of local stewardship, the club’s fans have become accustomed...
...from David Moores, ending the Moores family’s 50-plus year association with the club....
...Mr Selig and Mr Greenberg poured praise on Mr Hicks, who will be chairman emeritus. Mr Hicks said his family had “taken great pride and joy in our association with the Rangers”....
...(In the end he came third, behind Simpson and Jerry Hicks). Coyne has now re-emerged as Unite’s official for the Ministry of Defence. What’s the catch?...
...According to one close observer of the saga, the Moores family was given assurances from the US duo that they were “going to come in with a truckload of cash”....
...Mr Hicks’ statement said he and his family were committed co-owners of the club “for many years to come”....
...Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who bought the club in a £220m deal last February, are in talks with Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia, the US bank, for a deal estimated at about £350m....
...But the takeover was put together in a hurry to steal the club from under the noses of Dubai International Capital, the UAE investment arm, which appeared to have shaken hands on a deal with the Moores family...
...It also emerged that Dubai International Capital, the investment arm of the UAE royal family, was positioning itself to buy all or part of the shareholding in the event of the refinancing deal falling apart...
...Weetabix, the cereal group built by the George family, was sold to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, the US private equity group, at the end of last year....
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