Exactly my point. The main reason we’ve been so shit for so long has been bad decisions around who to hire. Whether that be players, the manager, or anyone else involved in the footballing side of the club. FSG seem to have generally been very good at that side of things. So I don’t see how Liverpool taking a leap into the unknown is the obvious upside you’d think from most of the comments in this thread.
Liverpool FC are up for sale
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It's the assumption they will be acquired by owners akin to City, PSG and Newcastle who will absolutely bank-roll them - which is very likely.
Dubai will buy them, and then it’s City and Liverpool for the next 20 years. God help us.
Can we please turn up the heat on our fecking leeches.
I'll put £100 in to buy them, anyone else interested? Liverpool FC owned by Man Utd supporters... excellent.
Someone should buy them just to run them ro the ground and do humanity a service.
Yeap three options:
1. Somebody rich and smart/responsible will buy them. There are very few of those left so extremely unlikely. Ratcliffe being a United fan will hopefully stop him, but he is businessman first so who knows
2. Somebody like Glazers will buy them and drive into the ground. Probably most likely considering who bought Chelsea
3. Some oil-rich or blood money rich asshole
will buy them and try turning them into City/Newcastle-like project. Very bad for EPL
You need to read between the lines though, the timing of this will be significant (if not immediately obvious why) and you can bet that they absolutely will sell if someone comes along looking to be majority shareholder with a big bash of cash.
I thought the super league was coming back soon?
United to come in with a cheeky bid? 
A new farmer club in the Championship would be nice.
A new farmer club in the Championship would be nice.Didn't Jim Ratcliffe try and buy Chelsea when up for sale. Will he try and buy Liverpool. I hope not
A consortium led by Pancake and Stevie G should pass all the fit person tests
If a country buy them I'm done with football.
Can’t believe I’m jealous of Liverpool.
New ownership could go either way to be honest.
I have seen the CAF bashed on every kind of candidate for the next ownership, though. From the MBS to Dubai to Elon Musk... The number of capable buyers is very small, yet none of them has satisfied the CAF yet.
Yeah we are having a belting 24 hours
Oh FFS. They could have waited until Klopp left. That's when I was going to stop watching football too.@Dumbstar we might get our answer fairly soon
Surprising move considering that Washington Commanders will likely sell for over $6Billion. You would think they would wait for that sale to go through before attempting to sell Liverpool.
How are you seeing this as a good thing for Liverpool? I'm livid and sad. If it goes down the murderous regime route (ME, China, etc) then supporting my beloved club will have to stop. You should be happy.
Majority of interested parties in Chelsea were american. The value of pound v dollar is very favourable currently too. To be honest though I think FSG will sell to best possible candidate for the club and expect supporters to have a big say. It's definitely good news for them.
Yeah hard not to feel utterly sick to my guts
They have already caused unrepairable damage
No chance. The highest bidder will win.
I think if they get new owners they'll get stronger because they have everything in place structurally on the football side of the club. And that structure started taking shape after Damien Comolli was brought to the club, who in-turn brought Edwards and the data science head (Graham) to the club after getting to know them from his time at Tottenham. FSG fired Comolli after a short time but he had put in place the people who would prove to be very important in Liverpool's success in the long-term. They also have the face of a potential new project in Jurgen Klopp, and he's among the best in the world in his role as the head coach.
I think as far as the United owners are concerned, I feel they will sell within the next two years but it will be a sale done in secrecy imo. I also think a potential Liverpool sale would put even more pressure on the Glazers.
I think as far as the United owners are concerned, I feel they will sell within the next two years but it will be a sale done in secrecy imo. I also think a potential Liverpool sale would put even more pressure on the Glazers.
Most of your fans won't stop and fan numbers are largely a side issue for these nation state funded clubs anyway. Plenty of plastics about when you can buy success.
We don't know that yet though, do we? Chelsea's new owner is playing Football Manager. They could get ownership similar to the Glazer family for all we know.
If it's anything like Chelsea, they will have several bids meeting the asking price.
Anything is for sale for the right price
why is this being reported as being up for sale when all I saw was they were open to new shareholders?
why is this being reported as being up for sale when all I saw was they were open to new shareholders?
They've denied it haven't they?
FSG have taken one look at City and Newcastle and thought “we can’t compete financially with those” - getting out before it becomes too obvious
Plenty of investor interest in football seemingly. The Chelsea consortium, the hedgefunds bankrolling Barca revenues etc.
Doesn't have to go the ME dictator route.
Doesn't have to go the ME dictator route.
Yup they're pretty smart. Their valuation peaked and it's the right time to exit.
Fenway have gotten a free ride as they're even worse owners than the Glazers imo. Liverpool's net spend under them is pathetic. They're extremely lucky to have gotten Klopp as manger and they struck gold with the Coutinho money signings. Now that a rebuild is needed with Klopp likely not on board, the owners are jumping ship as well.
Any evidence of that whatsoever? Pretty sure he'll stick around to spend the £££. He has a contract too.
Yup the ESL is truly dead and buried if they’re willing to sell. No way they pass up on that cash cow otherwise. These guys are so slimy, selling up when they know the team needs major investment,
They put a lot of money in on the capital side of things. The Anfield extension and the training ground.
Our capital spent under the Glazers in practically zero for the last 17 years.
They also don't take out money. Overall they are a lot better.
Whoever comes in needs to spend a lot of money on the squad and I’m not surprised the owners are backing off it.
it’ll be another American consortium and hopefully more chaos because sugar daddy’s don’t exist anymore
it’ll be another American consortium and hopefully more chaos because sugar daddy’s don’t exist anymore
Depressing.
Why's that? They don't have any stake in the Commanders - and Dan Snyder doesn't really want to sell right now either, so that process could take a while. The NFL is a completely different kind of league than the PL as well so hard to take anything away from such a valuation.
Even if they want to, they have very recent examples in both the PL (Chelsea) and the NFL (Broncos) to compare any bids to.