By Nick Harris 11 October 2010 The search for the identity of the Asian bidder who pushed New England Sports Ventures close in the race to seal a deal to buy Liverpool ended with Robert Peston’s report on the BBC earlier today. Peston’s scoop named him as Peter Lim, a Singapore businessman with a fortune […]

By Alex Miller at the Leaders in Football Conference, London 7 October 2010 Dr Rogan Taylor, the University of Liverpool academic who founded the ‘Share Liverpool’ scheme in 2008 to raise cash for a fan-led buyout at Anfield, has told sportingintelligence today that the potential new owners of the club, New England Sports Ventures, must […]

By Pete Wilson 6 October 2010 New England Sports Ventures have just released the following statement in relation to their proposed takeover of Liverpool. (More stories here). Background info provided separately on John W Henry says he “is passionate about soccer”. . . Other stories mentioning Liverpool in any capacity Liverpool takeover related stories Sportingintelligence […]

By Nick Harris 6 October 2010 Liverpool’s board has announced this morning that it has agreed to sell the club to New England Sports Ventures, the parent company of the Boston Red Sox whose major stakeholders include John W Henry, Tom Werner, and the New York Times Company. The sale is conditional on Premier League […]

By Nick Harris 6 October 2010 The acrimonious battle for control of Liverpool is taking a series of extraordinary twists following two “credible” bids for the club which were rejected on Tuesday by owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who are now seeking to remove MD Christian Purslow and commercial director Ian Ayre from the […]

. Premier League: concise guide to the clubs (last updated 9 Oct 2012) . NB i: This page includes club details for all clubs who have been in the Premier League since 2009-10. NB ii: ‘Latest total wages’ in the club profiles below is club’s bill for ALL employees (many hundreds), not just the players’ […]

By Nick Harris                                            26 March 2016 Goodbye to The Independent as a newspaper, published on paper for the final time on Saturday. It’s been inevitable for some time. It won’t be the last paper […]

By Roger Pielke Jr 6 August 2014  With the final Major of the golf season starting on Thursday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, most of the talk in anticipation of the PGA Championship is about a player who almost certainly has no chance of winning, even if he were to play. I’m of […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 September 2012 One amusing vignette in the first episode of FOX’s forthcoming fly-on-the-wall Liverpool documentary features a brief exchange between midfielder Charlie Adam and the Boston Red Sox outfielder Cody Ross. It takes place in the locker room at the home of the Red […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 19 June 2012   This interactive feature includes your questions (and answers to them) lower down the piece. Thanks for taking part   A companion piece to this article was published on Sunday (linked here) to consider the business thinking behind the big bids by […]