Us Former Bankrupt Leads Race to Buy Liverpool Fc

Evening Standard - London › November 30, 2006

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LIVERPOOL is set to be the latest major football club to fall to a foreign take over after it emerged that the controlling Moores family is ready to sell up in a deal which could top Pounds 290 million.

Heading the race for the Reds is colourful American businessman George Gillett, a sometime bankrupt and former owner of the iconic Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. But the ambitions of Gillett are being pitched against the petrodollar firepower of Dubai International Capital, an investment arm of the Arab emirate headed by its horseracing-mad Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed.

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Us Former Bankrupt Leads Race to Buy Liverpool Fc

David Moores, who controls the Littlewoods family poo...

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