“Are we going to stay in England forever? No. Are we selling Liverpool? No. Are we talking to investors about the LFC? Yes. Is something going to happen? I think so, but it will not be a sale,” Henry continued. .
Fenway Sports Group (FSG), whose main shareholder is John Henry, has owned Liverpool since 2010.
Last November, FSG seemed to open the door to a sale of the Reds through a statement in which it acknowledged having “often received signals of interest from third parties who wish to become shareholders of Liverpool (…) FSG has already said previously that if the proper terms and conditions were presented, we would consider new shareholders,” the text added.
Are we going to stay in England forever? No. Are we selling Liverpool? No
In addition to Liverpool, FSG, in which Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James is a shareholder, owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team and the Pittsburgh Penguins ice hockey franchise.
FSG disbursed 340 million euros for Liverpool, at that time on the brink of bankruptcy. According to the latest classification by the economic magazine Forbes, the club with six Champions League titles to its credit is currently valued at 4,450 million dollars.
The English Premier League, billed as the most followed and most profitable championship in the world, arouses enormous interest from investors around the world: only four of the twenty elite teams have British owners.
Liverpool, which hosts Real Madrid in the Champions League round of 16 on Tuesday, is currently eighth in the Premier.