Liverpool stadium in doubt
Posted: Thursday May 15, 2008 08:26AM ET
There are new concerns about the ability of Liverpool's co-owner, Tom Hicks, to to fund the club's proposed new stadium in Stanley Park following an unexpected decision to delay the construction of a stadium in Texas. Tom Hicks, one of the two co-owners of Liverpool Football Club, has made the shock admission that he has been unable to secure financing for the Glorypark mixed-use development in Arlington, Texas that was scheduled to open in March 2010. The $500 million development has been shelved because of the credit squeeze and difficult U.S. retail market.
Tom Hicks, Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Comments (9)
Not surprising that he waited until Liverpool's season to acknowledge this. Gives the Kop more reason to hate him!
kopper | 05/15/08, 09:33 AM
Report Offensive CommentBut but Hicks is a good American guy!!!!! It's all those scuzzy Scousers who are ruining the club!!!
Just sell to Dubai already Tom. Quit delaying the inevitable.
Jackie_Treehorn | 05/15/08, 01:15 PM
Report Offensive CommentI'm happy to hear about the new stadium not coming to fruition. Leaving Anfield behind would leave the club as an empty shell of what used to be. Sure they can be great at a new field, but rather than build a new stadium, why not use that same fortune to renovate and expand the current one.
Building the new stadium is a cashgrab. Should DIC come to power, I'll be just as upset if the project gets approved.
Shadow Angel | 05/15/08, 01:22 PM
Report Offensive CommentI'm not sure I see how a shelved stadium proposal in Texas affects a new stadium in Liverpool. Isn't this story connecting dots on issues that aren't directly connected?!?
Big Ben | 05/15/08, 01:35 PM
Report Offensive CommentGod, Hicks is such a piece. What a mess. I really hope this doesn't continue to affect the team.
les rouges | 05/15/08, 02:36 PM
Report Offensive Comment"I'm not sure I see how a shelved stadium proposal in Texas affects a new stadium in Liverpool. Isn't this story connecting dots on issues that aren't directly connected?!?"
Because if he's lying about one it's a good bet he's lying about the other.
Jackie_Treehorn | 05/15/08, 03:01 PM
Report Offensive Commentlook at all the liverpool fans, the scousers....lol
sell to DIC, and you wont have to worry. but it will be a big blow to you guys
jeevs BS | 05/15/08, 03:25 PM
Report Offensive Commentif it doesnt get done, but then again, anfield is legendary
jeevs BS | 05/15/08, 03:25 PM
Report Offensive CommentI'm not sure I see how a shelved stadium proposal in Texas affects a new stadium in Liverpool. Isn't this story connecting dots on issues that aren't directly connected?!?
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Well actually Big Ben, if I am not mistaken, Hicks hired the same contracting company that was planning to build the new stadium in Texas to also build the Stanley Park stadium.
Hicks is such a tool. Bringing the club into loads of debt, boardroom drama, retracting of his stadium proposals...
HICKS NEEDS TO GO!
YNWA!
'Poolmyfinger | 05/16/08, 09:56 PM
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