Key detail given over the next club Liverpool owners FSG are likely to buy

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As Michael Edwards returns to Liverpool – or rather to FSG – changes are afoot at Anfield.

The club was already due for a huge shift this summer as Jurgen Klopp’s calls time on his near decade long spell with the Reds. But the arrival of Edwards as FSG’s CEO of football signals that those changes may be bigger than initially thought.

One of the key things about Liverpool’s sporting director coming back on board is reportedly FSG’s willingness to look into a ‘multi club model.’ The Americans are seemingly keen on taking over another football club to run alongside the Reds.

So far, suggestions of which club that could be has been purely speculation. The Athletic include some such paper-talk in an extensive report of what this could all look like in practice for Liverpool.

They name four clubs who have been linked with being on FSG’s radar as a second club. All four are based in Brazil, with Cruzeiro, Internacional, Botafogo and Athletico Paranense said to have been mentioned by the press.

And indeed, they go on to claim that South America – and in particular Brazil – have certainly been ‘assessed’ by FSG in regards to taking over another club. However, a key point is that despite their interest in clubs across the Atlantic, their preference for a first step is reportedly to buy another European side.

FSG looking at Europe

For many supporters, this will no doubt be news filled with excitement. Some will have watched their rivals from the Premier League hoover up sister clubs and be asking why Liverpool can’t do the same.

Certainly, as far as modern club football goes, that seems to be the thing to do right now. That’s where it’s headed.

Well, excuse us for being old fashioned, but we’re not necessarily quite that enthusiastic.

From our point of view, every football club in the world is unique. They all exude and cultivate their own individual culture, often relating to the city or town they originate from.

It has never sat right that another club can essentially strip that away and make it nothing more than another arm of a much bigger operation.

Of course, there are different ways for this to work. If FSG simply buy up someone else and act as their owners with no affiliation to Liverpool, we don’t see a big problem with that. It’s when the waters start muddying and the lines start blurring that we start to get suspicious.

How would we like it if, say, Real Madrid bought out Liverpool and started treating it as simply a means to better things at the Bernabeu. We wouldn’t like it.

So, while it is exciting to see which club FSG pick and see a new relationship start to blossom, this should still all be handled very, very carefully.