The Owners - FSG (Part 2)

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Who is involved in Liverpool consortium?

  • Jeff Bezos — estimated net worth: $280billion
    Ranked by Forbes as the third-richest person in the world. Founded Amazon in 1994 as an online bookshop. Owns the Washington Post and aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin
  • Eduardo Saverin — estimated net worth: $33billion
    Born in Brazil and based in Singapore, Saverin is best known as co-founder of Facebook. He met Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard in 2002, where the pair started the social media wesbite, which is now valued at $15billion. Saverin split from Zuckerberg and Facebook in 2005 after a bitter feud erupted between the pair. Saverin now co-runs the venture capital firm B Capital.
  • Amit Bhatia — estimated net worth: $23billion
    The British-Indian businessman Bhatia is leading the consortium to buy this stake in Liverpool. He started his career as an investment banker, before transitioning into construction, real estate, and private equity. He has previous experience working in sport — most recently stepping down as co-owner and director of Queens Park Rangers in July after 18 seasons. He is the son-in-law of the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal.
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The mere thought of the Bezoses showing up at Anfield makes me feel sick.

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I wonder whether instead of hydration breaks, the players will be given piss in bottle breaks

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ah, fuck.

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unfortunately this was bound to happen. if not bezos, it was going to be some other billionaire. FSG have been great for the club, but this was always a business opportunity for them. looks like eventual exit strategy is being effected now

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Perhaps, but they have always been seeking outside investors since they first arrived, so it may not be with a view to exiting completely.

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Bezos is a walking antithesis to everything the club stands for. The only person who would be worse is Musk.

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The Bezoses are a particularly awful breed of billionaire; my stomach doesn’t really knot up quite as much over the others, tbh.

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they are all the same, jus different levels of disgusting. we could easily been sold to the human rights abusers and beheading dudes in the middle east.

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If FSG are looking to exit perhaps the majority shareholding can go to Bezos’s ex wife…I believe she has been donating substantial chunks of the money she recieved from the divorce.

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https://x.com/SkySportsNews/status/2086767303027294364

It is what it is unfortunately

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What is a “large minority” btw, it sounds like an oximoron

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Saverin seems ok at least he does wildlife conservation and education even if he is a venture capitalist.

Bezos has little going for him.

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Why do these fuckers have to ruin everything that’s good in the world?

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https://x.com/markgoldbridge/status/2086772878045831335

What do you guys think—will we end up with a 50-player squad too, just like Chelsea?

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because building your own empire doesn’t buy you the right to one you didn’t make. He wants the thing LFC already is, the history, the soul, the goodness and the joy it brings. No fortune builds that, so he’ll just buy the shell and call it his.

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And fuck it up in the process.

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Apparently we have no money to spend from it.

However I assume it will free up capital that was going elsewhere we have quite a large capacity that hasn’t ever been fully utilised so there is that.

Not happy about it mind.

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yep, because in his hands it stops being the very thing he wanted in the first place.

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Assume Bhatia becomes a minority owner bit like FSG has loads of shareholders but none of them appear much.

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I don’t believe these types are investing a load of money just to sit in the director’s box.

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