Chatter over a potential sale of Liverpool has unexpectedly restarted over recent days, with FSG reportedly open to letting go of a minority stake in the club.
The Americans have long been slightly controversial owners in the eyes of a portion of supporters who, despite seeing them develop the infrastructure around the club immeasurably, have been frustrated by their occasional caution in the transfer market.
For those fans, news that a consortium involving Amazon owner Jeff Bezos could buy part of Liverpool will come as a potentially exciting update. But according to journalist James Pearce, the move should not be seen as FSG preparing to walk away from Liverpool, with John Henry and co still committed to running the Reds.
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FSG are still committed to Liverpool
Clearly, FSG have been looking into the possibility of selling Liverpool for quite some time. The club was on the market as recently as 2024, and though the Boston-based group ultimately chose to stay, they would seemingly sell if the price was right.
Speaking on the Market Madness podcast this week, though, Pearce claimed that he has been led to believe that this new exploration is not the first move towards a permanent sale.
“I spoke to some senior sources at FSG yesterday [Wednesday] who were adamant that these discussions are still at an early stage and it would be kind of premature to describe it as a deal being absolutely imminent,” he said.
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“It’s been described to me as kind of parallels with what happened with Dynasty Equity, I think three years ago when Liverpool ended up selling, I think it was a three percent stake in the club.”
“I think this one will be, if it does happen with the Bhatia led consortium, it will certainly be higher than three percent. I haven’t had that 30 percent figure confirmed. There seems to be kind of a contrasting view swinging around. I’m sure that will figure as part of the negotiations as well in terms of the exact percentage.
And then the key line: “But yeah, I’m certainly led to believe that FSG remain committed to running Liverpool. I think some people have maybe interpreted it as this is kind of the beginning of the end for FSG, but I’m told that no, they still fully intend to be the majority shareholder and to run the club and that selling a small stake is a way of injecting capital into the business.”
Any move that leads to Liverpool being more cash solvent should be seen as good news by supporters, especially when it potentially contains someone such as Bezos, the third richest person on planet earth.
But though a big injection of money is always welcome, weariness over introducing new people and new dynamics into the Reds ownership structure will remain. For their failings, FSG have been terrific owners for Liverpool, and
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