Liverpool house owners Fenway Sports activities Group are reported to have “no urge for food” to promote the membership to controversial and divisive billionaire Elon Musk.
Musk was confirmed to be involved in shopping for Liverpool throughout an interview given by his father, Errol, to Occasions Radio on Tuesday.
Musk Sr was initially reluctant to remark as a result of “they’re going to elevate the worth”. However he shortly folded when pressed additional on the matter, gushing in regards to the household’s historical past in Liverpool and the way they personally knew “fairly a number of of the Beatles” on account of his mom being born within the metropolis.
However the probability of Elon Musk, who was a floor flooring investor in Tesla – now the chief govt – and famously purchased Twitter for $44bn, changing into Liverpool proprietor seems virtually non-existent.
In response to the interview on their very own radio platform, The Occasions later reported that FSG will not be involved in promoting Liverpool, nor has there been any contact between Musk and the group led by John W. Henry about such issues. The Reds chiefs have “no need” to have interaction in any discussions both, and will not be taking the feedback made by Musk’s father significantly.
Sky Sports activities additional backed that up on Wednesday morning, stating that Liverpool is taken into account “not on the market” and that there have been “no approaches” from Musk or anybody else.
Regardless of the obvious historic household reference to Liverpool, Musk has beforehand claimed that Manchester United have been his “favorite crew” rising up, even joking he was shopping for the membership in 2022.
FSG, whose sporting portfolio started with the Boston Pink Sox, accomplished a £300m takeover to buy the membership from unpopular former house owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett in 2010. Over the past 15 years, Liverpool have returned to the top of English and European soccer.
The Reds have been named the world’s fourth-most precious soccer membership by Forbes in 2024, behind solely Actual Madrid, Manchester United and Barcelona, price an estimated £4.3bn. Such an quantity can be a drop within the ocean for South African-born Musk, whose staggering private fortune is regarded as within the area of £340bn, though that’s removed from the purpose.
FSG have been searching for outdoors funding in Liverpool comparatively not too long ago, promoting a small minority stake to American sports activities funding agency Dynasty Fairness for between £82m and £164m in 2023. That cash was primarily used to repay financial institution debt and the house owners by no means needed to relinquish majority management.
