Hearing that Qatari deal is far down the road; hasn’t reached the finish line, but very well positioned.
feels like this is gathering a bit of steam. may get more by the end of the week? if it's accurate, I really don't know how to react. just too many conflicting thoughts.
We all need to make peace (I'm not saying I have yet) that in all likeliness our new owners will be less than stellar characters.
We are screwed one way or the other. Keep the cheapskate owners we have or get some owners with money who suck.
best outcome is FSG stay as owners with a boatload of cash injected. can't believe I'm typing that mythical shit.
This English professional football business has moved to the gangster model of ownership - only grotesquely wealthy egomaniacs (rather than rational business people) can play at the top level now. So, we either get somebody like this to take us back to the top level or be content to sit mid-table within the limitations of an FSG business model (or something similar). My assumption is FSG took a look at the last CL place being taken up by the gangster funders (Man City; Man United; Chelsea; and now Newcastle) and have decided to vote with their feet. Regular CL football was necessary for their ROI numbers to make sense and that is not the case any more.
Edging towards a football world where all of the top clubs, the richest clubs will be owned by billionaires who compete with each other to buy all of the best players for exorbitant prices . Klopp has performed miracles during his time at Liverpool but pretty soon if you aint got a billionaire owner you're gonna be left behind .
Between Middle East owners buying up all the big football teams and about half of the F1 Grands Prix being in petrostates these days, I'm going to have to get used to the consequences of 80 years of everyone pumping these countries full of cash while we were pumping out gas tanks full of petrol... At least F1 are going to try to go to synthetic fuels, ala Porsche. This is fine, as long as the energy required to generate these synthgas fuels is coming from sustainable sources (HINT: it isn't).
FSG increasingly likely to sell just a minority stake in Liverpool rather than sanction a full sale, but nothing is imminent. US banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are continuing to sound out interest. #LFC https://t.co/3OYFRm5aLI— James Pearce (@JamesPearceLFC) January 18, 2023
We had RedBird invest 500m into FSG/Liverpool in 2021 and where did that money go? RedBird and FSG £538m investment deal confirmed as Liverpool owners make full statement - Liverpool Echo
It helps us not turn into hypocrites by being forced to support a club funded by oil money and people who don’t believe in human rights.
That part is fine - but it's unlikely that FSG will be using that investment to fund transfers for us. Or it seems to be that way to date.
[ Yep and that's the frustrating part of FSG and investments . So far their financial strategy re Liverpool is that the club must be self sustaining with no additional transfer funds coming from above. Other investors joining the group as RedBird did doesn't seem to guarantee any of that cash dropping into LFC's coffers.
Sad as it seems, FSG are just not the owners to keep us at the top of the game given how the business has developed. The options for owners that will take us to and keep us at the top are pretty odious to date obviously. Depressing choices.