Liverpool takeover: Joint consortium ‘lead interest’ with £3.2bn bid; club teased about ‘a lot of wealth’
Liverpool have been told that a joint consortium made up of investors from Saudi Arabia and Qatar are ‘leading the interest’ to buy the club from FSG.
Fenway Sports Group – a sports investment company headed up by John W. Henry – spent around £300m to buy Liverpool from Tom Hicks and George Gillett in 2010.
They are ready to cash out and make a big profit as it was confirmed last month that they are willing to listen to offers from potential investors.
The current Liverpool owners have been questioned in recent years, with fans wanting to invest more money into the squad so it will be easier for them to compete with Manchester City.
FSG also received a late of hate last year after it was revealed that they were involved in the planned European Super League.
Liverpool are in need of an overhaul to freshen up their squad and it has been suggested that FSG could ‘gift’ Jude Bellingham to the club before they leave.
A takeover could come sooner than most suspected. Last week it was reported that a Saudi-Qatari consortium were planning to submit an initial offer to FSG.
But it was stated at the same time that the Middle East group face competition from a ‘coalition of German investors’ plus an ‘unnamed American consortium’.
Now journalist David Lynch has spoken in detail about the Saudi-Qatari consortium’s potential takeover of Liverpool.
“It’s still early days in this takeover process, but I’ve been told that one of the parties that are leading the interest is a joint consortium of Saudi and Qatar investors,” Lynch said on the Blood Red Podcast.
“It would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago given the diplomatic relations between those countries, but things have thawed considerably in the last couple of years.
“We’ve seen their rulers sat next to each other at the World Cup and things look a lot brighter. And that’s opened up the possibility of these two companies form these companies to bid for Liverpool.
“The opening bid they’re hoping to lodge to FSG is around £3.2bn, and that’s a bid that is going to come with a lot of wealth behind it.
“The fact they’ve paired up because they didn’t want to be the two richest sides of a bidding war and allow the price to get out of control is an interesting one. It’s not something you could’ve envisioned a couple of years ago.
“Things have completely changed and Liverpool may be part of a strategy to be an olive branch of sorts to bring these two together and buy the club.”
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