Reds may find DIC a powerful, proud and very wealthy enemy

FOLLOWING Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum direct instruction that his family’s investment company pull out of their proposed deal to buy Liverpool this week, Reds’ supporters may wistfully wonder what might have been, should the club’s shave with new suitor George Gillett turn sour.

Having watched Chelsea and Man Utd succumb to respective Russian and American investors, hardcore supporters were not initially appeased by the spectre of Arab suitors on the Anfield doorstep. Now the self-same Arabs have indignantly removed themselves from the bid, the fans are now asking questions as to how such a wonderful deal could have soured.

The £450m bid by Dubai International Capital for Liverpool FC, was a long way down the road to being completed and the snub delivered by the Liverpool board — perceived or otherwise — to the Maktoum family was simply too much to bear for the dignified and proud ruler of Dubai.