We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

Liverpool F. That's not true. On May 24 Hicks and HSG filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection/separation of the Texas Rangers from HSG and asked the courts to approve of the sale of the Rangers to the group headed by Greenberg and Ryan.

Thomas Ollis Hicks Sr. Hicks co-founded the investment firm Hicks Muse Tate & Furst previously owned fifty percent of the English football club Liverpool FC and is chairman of Hicks Holdings LLC which owns and operates Hicks Sports Group the company that formerly owned the Texas Rangers the Dallas Stars and the Mesquite Championship Rodeo. Despite Forbes Magazine estimating Hicks' wealth at USD 1 billion in 2009 Hicks was unable to pay off joint loans of circa £200 million the following year.