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Vladimir Romanov 'got scared' by Liverpool offer

Discussion in 'Football Chat' started by F@ces, Apr 13, 2011.

  1. F@ces

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    Thank the lord this didn't happen...

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    HEARTS owner Vladimir Romanov says he made a mistake in failing to buy Liverpool when he claims the club was offered to him for £200 million in 2005.
    "In 2005, my club Kaunas was playing against Liverpool in the Champions League qualifiers," said the Lithuanian businessman and banker, who the same year bought a majority shareholding in Hearts.

    "David Moores, who then owned Liverpool, suggested that I bought it for £200 million. The price was realistic, a serious piece of real estate, star players. Just to mention Gerrard."

    Romanov admitted: "I got scared. By that time I had been beaten black and blue over Hearts in Scotland where they pictured me as an idiot. And I thought that if I got hold of Liverpool they would definitely drive me to an early grave."

    He said he had planned a bid with a Russian businessman friend who he did not name. "He refused. And I did not risk getting into it on my own," he said.
     
  2. Colm75

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    Dodged a bullet there.Mind you we stepped straight into a land mine 2 years later.
     
  3. mickdel

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    what luck...though would he have been any worse than the 2 muppets we ended up with....
     
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    jesus i think he would have been worse than Hicks and Gillet.He ruined Hearts in my opinion, Sacking their Best manager at the time Goerge Burley and sacking numerous different managers and selling quiet alot of their better players.
     

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