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REDS LINKED WITH THAI TAKEOVER
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Liverpool are the latest Premiership club to be linked with an overseas takeover, as Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is thought to be considering purchasing the club.
Shinawatra made tentative enquiries about buying Fulham last year, but Cottagers chairman Mohamed Al Fayed rejected his overtures.
The telecommunications tycoon is now thought to have switched his attentions to Liverpool as he looks to get involved in English football.
Thai national team coach Thawatchai Satchakul, who advised Thaksin during his targeting of Fulham, revealed he has been weighing up a move for Liverpool for some time.
"I believe the prime minister already had his aides checking Liverpool's financial position in the past four to five months," said Satchakul.
"He is now in the process of deciding whether to bid for Liverpool.
"His feeling now is similar to that five or six months ago when Fulham was in the picture. If you visualised him doing shopping in a store, I would say the prime minister's eyes are now fixed on Liverpool."
Thaksin admitted on Sunday that he was looking at buying a bigger club than Fulham, but refused to elaborate on the identity of his target.
"It should be a bigger club (than Fulham)," said Thaksin.
Any proposed move for Liverpool would depend on current chairman David Moores, who has been the club's majority shareholder at Anfield for over ten years.
Moores hinted at the club's AGM in January he would consider his position at the end of the season leaving the road clear for someone to take major control
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