Bezos, Saverin Consortium Nears Liverpool FC Minority Stake Deal

A billionaire consortium including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is closing in on a deal to buy a large minority stake in Liverpool Football Club, with an announcement from current owner Fenway Sports Group possibly landing this week. Under the proposed terms, FSG would sell around a one-third stake in Liverpool, and the deal would value the club at $6 billion, with the group led by Amit Bhatia and including Bezos and Saverin.

The deal on the table

Sky News reports that the deal values Liverpool overall at $6 billion, implying the Bezos, Saverin, Bhatia consortium will invest around $2 billion for an assumed 33% share. One source indicated an announcement was expected in the coming days, although it could slip into next week.

FSG has officially acknowledged the interest, noting that an investment consortium led, managed, and represented by Amit Bhatia has expressed interest in making a strategic minority investment in Liverpool Football Club.

Why FSG is selling now

If the deal closes, FSG would retain overall control of Liverpool while finally securing the outside investment the firm founded by John W. Henry and Tom Werner has been open to for years. FSG sold a much smaller minority stake in Liverpool in 2023, the Hoffman Family purchased a controlling stake of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins from FSG in 2025, and the ownership group recently abandoned plans to pursue a multi-club model.

Fenway Sports Group has been in charge at Anfield since 2010, when Liverpool was a distressed asset due to mismanagement from the previous owners, and the £300 million price tag now looks like a bargain.

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Where this ranks in sports M&A

The current record for a soccer team is the $5.4 billion Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital paid to take over Chelsea in 2022, though only around $3.2 billion of that was to buy the club, with the remaining $2.2 billion committed to infrastructure over time. A $6 billion Liverpool valuation would reset the ceiling for Premier League enterprise value.

This would be Bezos’ first foray into sports ownership. Saverin and Bhatia have estimated net worths of $32 billion and $30 billion respectively.

Options market and stocks to watch

No public equity trades directly on Liverpool FC, but the deal has read-throughs across tech and media names tied to the buyers and to sports rights.

Watch for AMZN flow, given Bezos remains its largest shareholder and any high-profile personal capital deployment can move sentiment around his holdings. Watch META for any tangential attention on Saverin, an early Facebook co-founder whose stake dynamics still get referenced on ownership news.

Also worth monitoring: DIS and CMCSA as global sports rights holders, and WBD for premium sports content exposure as Premier League valuations reprice. For more on deal flow and market-moving headlines, see other news here.

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