🚨 BEZOS WANTS A 30% STAKE IN LIVERPOOL, BUT FANS AREN'T CONVINCED
12 August 2026, 11:36
📝 THE FULL PICTURE:
The fourth-richest man on the planet is knocking on Liverpool's door. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, worth around $257bn, is part of a consortium in advanced talks to buy 30% of the club. FSG bought Liverpool for £300m in 2010 when the club was on the brink of bankruptcy. Now the club's valued at £4.5bn, and selling that stake would net FSG around £1.4bn. But here's the catch: Premier League financial rules mean this won't unlock big transfer spending. Fans carry scars from the Hicks and Gillett days, and Spirit of Shankly is demanding answers about what the buyers get in return and who they really are.
💭 MY TAKE:
I get it. Liverpool fans watched Hicks and Gillett run the club into the ground, so the nerves make sense. But Bezos isn't buying the whole club, just a stake. The real winner here is FSG, pocketing £1.4bn while keeping control. That's wild. The funny part? This doesn't change Liverpool's spending power one bit. So what's the play? A trophy for Bezos, payday for FSG. Fans are right to ask.