‘Going to be’: Gary Neville shares who he thinks are the two most likely buyers of Liverpool

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Gary Neville thinks Liverpool’s likely buyers come down to two types of investors. FSG put the Reds up for sale this week.

FSG seek investment in Liverpool right now – and that could mean selling the entire club. That’s the situation and it’s one that causes a lot of uncertainty at Anfield.

At the end of the day, we have no idea who’s going to end up with Liverpool. All anyone can do is speculate but as Gary Neville points out, you can certainly imagine the types of buyers.

“[FSG] put a £3bn or £4bn valuation on Liverpool when they raised some money coming out of Covid,” he told The Overlap. “That’s where they put the valuation. They could probably get that at this moment in time – they might not in two years.

“They certainly can’t compete with certain other teams in the league, so I don’t think it’s that big of a surprise when you look at some of the evidence surrounding it.

“But the question always comes, as it did with the Glazer family at Manchester United: who buys it next? It’s either going to be a more aggressive American investment fund, or a more wealthy American investment fund, or it’s likely going to be a sovereign wealth fund or some sort of state nation.”

Liverpool’s likely buyers

Neville’s completely right, of course. Especially as Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the UK’s richest man, ruled himself out of the running on Tuesday.

It’s hard to imagine, then, anyone but the two options Neville mentions as buyers. We’re talking around £4bn here and it’ll follow the same sort of pattern as other elite clubs.

Oil states are one, American investment groups are the other. They’re the ones buying up assets like this and Liverpool fans simply must prepare for one or the other.

Exactly which is ‘best’ comes down to personal taste, however.