def not. it also will be about 30%, so a bit more than first reported. they will want a say. maybe a bit like the ineos glazer initial deal but eventually they will take control. this is fsg exit strategy in realtime… you dont buy 30%, to sit on the sidelines
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We’d still be 1 CB short!
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Ah man, we are going to have the stupid Amazon smile logo as the main sponsor in front of our kit, aren’t we?
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yep
Bezos has enough money to buy us out of Sky/BT contract and show every game on Prime!
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According to his linkedin, Saverin “cannot get myself to stop playing chess and reading up on meteorology” so he may even fit in with some on here 
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Very concerned about Bezos being the Manc Ratcliffe. When FSG made bad decisions, they would often listen and reversed those bad decisions. Bezos feels like the type of malovalence dictator that doesn’t give a shite.
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I’m adopting a wait and see sort of stance. It feels to me like the start of an FSG planned exit. I don’t see such a wealthy consortium coming together to be satisfied with a minority stake of 30% or whatever, for the duration.
If we continue to have a rules based order (and I know Man City in particular have strained that) then the club will continue to pay for itself, and in order to do that the job of the club is to increase revenue streams flowing in.
FSG have been very successful in that regard, and I can only see that position being strengthened with the new consortium.
On the potential downside they will load debt onto the club and we will struggle, similar to the Glazer’s, but I really don’t think that will be a factor with this lot.
Another potential downside is that the club won’t be run well, and they will want to be too hands on.
So I’m waiting to see what happens. My hope is we continue to have professionals at all levels of the club running us well, and the new consortium uses their clout to help new sponsorships and revenue streams form that would continue to strengthen the club.
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In many ways I’d rather we could rewind the clock and set up a fan owned thing, or a 50+1 thing, or even have a local businessman own us, who grew up knowing the people and the club. But those days are long gone. So what do you do?
I don’t want a nation state sports-washing sort of thing. None of us do. And I don’t want a fella like Elon Musk, who is so extreme right wing and fascist, and dangerous in many ways too.
Short of something like the Norwegian Sovereign wealth fund deciding to buy LFC, having a wealthy consortium come together like this, even if I don’t especially like it, is not the worst thing.
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I dare not ask but what has Bezos done so wrong? Ok his business is a bit of a monopoly etc but….
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Aside from the small matter of accumulating that much wealth being an affront to moral decency, the biggest concern is that his Amazon empire is built on extreme worker and wage exploitation strategies.
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I quite like that - prime logo on the sleeve
And yet, Amazon may be operating more ethically than our current shirt sponsor.
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I have no idea why it’s an affront to decency. He did not inherit wealth like landed gentry from a bygone era. Sure it’s lot but it’s a big business. Anyway. I am sure we can disagree.
Its better than being owned by a nation who executes people and bans homosexuality.
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I’d be more impressed if we sorted the fucking squad out, the season starts in a couple of weeks.
The thought of having a man who clearly gives not a single fuck about his workforce having power at Liverpool FC does nothing for me.
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Once you open that moral can of worms, huge ones come out on all sides, best to stay clear of it. If the Gaza war taught me anything, it’s that morality is a weapon, wielded selectively by whoever holds power. So whether it’s Bezos or some human-rights-abusing Middle Eastern buyer taking over, the compass only gets pointed where it suits. No one batted an eye when Saudi money was flooding golf. No one cried about morality then.
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I don’t particularly like the idea of the club being owned by billionaires, but then I started supporting the club when it was owned by a gambling concern. Football clubs have always been the playthings of the wealthy.
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I suspect this may have long term implications for ownership of media/TV coverage, specifically, mobile devices, and ownership rights to this…
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