LIVERPOOL FANS PLEDGE UP TO £60M
Share Liverpool FC, the group looking for 100,000 fans to put in £5,000 each in a bid to buy the club, have confirmed that they have been pledged nearly £60m during the first four days of the scheme.
11,892 fans have pledged to buy a share of the club, which amounts to £59.46m in a bid to make the £500m needed for the buy-out.
Google has revealed that, as well as the 11,892 "count me in" responses, the site has also recieved 5,394 responses in favour of the idea but need more information to make their pledge and 7,930 responses from people who cannot afford it.
The UK, Norway, USA and Ireland are the four countries where most of the hits originated.
However, with only £60m made there is a long way to go to get up to the proposed £500m. It also must be said that it is easy enough to pledge £5,000 and then not go through with it.
Rogan Taylor, Share Liverpool FC's spokesperson, remains confident.
"These are pretty impressive numbers for just a few days with
www.shareliverpoolfc.co.uk live on line and we're very encouraged," he said.
"The stats also reveal we have a lot of work to do to present more detailed information, and also to address the affordability issue many fans flagged up.
"What they will be buying is something that lasts forever - a share in Liverpool Football Club which cannot be disturbed.
"The member shareholder will be able to pass it on, down through his or her family generations; to sons and daughters, and grandchildren. You will sit in that new stadium and think: 'This belongs to us ...and so does the club that plays here!".