Football: Post Sport Focus On Liverpool's Thai Deal: Pounds 60m? That Is Just Tip of the Iceberg ; with the Reds Set to Welcome Aboard the Thai Prime Minister,Mark Hookham Looks at What It All Means for Liverpool

Daily Post › May 12, 2004

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RIGHTLY or wrongly,Roman Abramovich has transformed Chelsea with a wave of his cheque book -and Liverpool may just have found their very own sugar daddy. Billionaire Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to put the finishing touches to buying a third share of the club and presenting boss Gerard Houllier with a massive transfer budget.

And the good news for Reds fans is that his official spokesman yesterday told the Daily Post that it could be just the tip of the iceberg.

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Football: Post Sport Focus On Liverpool's Thai Deal: Pounds 60m? That Is Just Tip of the Iceberg ; with the Reds Set to Welcome Aboard the Thai Prime Minister,Mark Hookham Looks at What It All Means for Liverpool

This follows the PM's meeting yesterday with chief executive Rick Parry in Bangkok as talks continued about a possible pounds 60m injection into the club to spend on players and the proposed new Stanley Park stadium. Speaking about comparisons with Chelsea's Russian owner Ab...

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