Since the news broke on Monday that Liverpool’s owners Fenway Sports Group are interested in selling the club after 12 years in charge of its running, the rumours of potential new owners have been in full flow.
The Reds’ American owners are looking to cash in on the Premier League club for a whopping £4billion and are looking for potential buyers, hiring investment companies Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to conduct the sale of Liverpool, reports the Athletic.
There have been a number of potential owners that have already distanced themselves from the football club this week, with Dubai Holding Group being the latest.
According to Ben Jacobs, there is no truth in Dubai International Capital bidding for Liverpool as they simply don’t exist as an entity anymore having been subsumed by Dubai Holding.
However, the new group, Dubai Holding, are also not considering an offer.
There is no truth in Dubai International Capital bidding for Liverpool. DIC did try in 2007 but they don’t exist as an entity now having been subsumed by Dubai Holding. Dubai Holding are also not considering an offer.
— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) November 10, 2022
Dubai Holding has over $130billion in assets across 13 countries and this will come as good news for the Liverpool fans who don’t want their club taken over by a state.
The group will now be added to the list of potential new owners that have no interest in the club after Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Bahrain distanced themselves from any potential deal.
Ben Jacobs also stated this week that Bahrain are not looking into buying Liverpool and have not expressed any interest, with the country having no plans to do so either in the near future.
Whilst Britain’s richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe announced, via the Telegraph, that he is not interested in trying to buy either Liverpool or Manchester United following the news that the former is up for sale, as he wants to focus on his Ligue 1 team, Nice.
No Middle East sports washing outfit will buy Liverpool as the opposition they would get from supporters would highlight their dubious and nasty human rights abusing.
then we are a stupid fan base and concede all future success to Man City and Newcastle.
America dropped an atom bomb in Japan and killed thousands of Iraqis coz they thought their president had weapons of mass destruction. Though it seems that anyone in the Middle East that wants to buy a club is dealt with the same thing of human rights abuse even if they are from a different country like the United arab Emirates. Wake up and actually do some research rather than regurgitate the same propaganda you hear on the news from corporations that have an agenda. There are bad people in the arab countries 100% but don’t assume everyone is the same coz of a few bad eggs.
If theres no Middle east owners, we will never be able to compete against City year after year.
Here is what I don’t get, Liverpool fans are always moaning that we can’t pay players enough money, we can’t buy anyone near or over £100m, we can’t afford world class players if you want a consortium like FSG to take over.
If a consortium buys us we will either have another 10-15 years of FSG style buying, buy cheap, train up, sell on for a profit.. me personally I don’t care either way, Liverpool has always been a working man’s club and to me no matter who owns the club as long as they invest in the club the way FSG have then I’m happy.
FSG took over in 2010, since then our club has gone from being worth £300m with debts of nearly £800m to now worth an outstanding £3.6B for 89% stake.
They’ve won every trophy a single club can win and how many of our previous owners can say they did.
Imo a consortium means we’re carrying on how we are already going with FSG… if on the other hand other fans want us to be like Citeh or PSG then you have to accept that it will be a Middle East person that can offer that as we can now see with Newcastle
Correction, SOME liverpool fans are always moaning, SOME not all you and me included.
Those that do don’t get the bigger picture, plus no one knows what FSG will do until someone comes along and actually makes them an offer of some kind. Until then it’s all just speculation.
maybe best scenario would be FSG sell a 51% stake