LFC not for sale, says majority owner
Liverpool FC’s majority owner has said that the club is not for sale.
John Henry, of the US-based consortium Fenway Sports Group (FSG), said he is not seeking to sell the Premier League side, but is seeking interests of investment.
In November last year online sports outlet, The Athletic, said FSG had created a presentation for interested parties keen to take over ownership of the Merseyside club.
It claimed FSG, which also owns Major League Baseball side Boston Red Sox, had retained Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in its move to dispose of the club, which it acquired for £300m in October 2010 from fellow Americans, George Gillett and Tom Hicks, who had bought Liverpool for £218.9m in 2007.
The club had been valued at around £3.6bn.
But reports from America have now quashed claims the club is for sale, with FSG saying it “would consider new shareholders”.
Henry told the Boston Sports Journal in an email interview: “Are we selling LFC? No.
“Are talking with investors about LFC? Yes. Will something happen there? I believe so, but it won’t be a sale.”
FSG has reportedly appointed Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in a bid to identify possible new investment in LFC.
Henry continued: “I know there has been a lot of conversation and quotes about LFC, but I keep to the facts: we merely formalised an ongoing process.”
American basketball star LeBron James has been a part-owner of Liverpool since 2011 and has a two per cent stake which cost him £4.7m.
He has also since become a minor partner in FSG. Recently, the club issued a clothing range in a joint venture with LeBron.
In March 2021, RedBird Capital Partners, a private investment firm, bought a stake in FSG for about $735m (£533m).
