Jeff Bezos is about to become a Liverpool owner. FSG have confirmed that a consortium led by Amit Bhatia — featuring Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin — has expressed interest in acquiring a minority stake of roughly one third in the club, and a formal announcement could come as early as this week.
The deal would value Liverpool at around $6 billion. For context, that would make it one of the most expensive transactions in football history. FSG paid considerably less than $300 million for the club back in 2010.
Who's actually running this consortium?
Bezos gets the headlines — his Forbes-estimated fortune sits north of $280 billion — but the man structuring this deal is Bhatia, son-in-law of steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and a former stakeholder at QPR. Saverin, worth an estimated $32 billion, rounds out a trio whose combined wealth dwarfs most sovereign wealth funds, let alone football clubs.
This isn't Bezos' first flirtation with elite sports ownership. He explored buying the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington Commanders before passing on both. Liverpool, with its global brand and Champions League pedigree, is a different kind of asset — one that doesn't come available often.
Saverin, meanwhile, was part of the consortium that tried and failed to buy Chelsea during the 2022 sale. He clearly hasn't lost his appetite for a Premier League foothold.
What this means on the pitch
The timing is pointed. Liverpool just won the Premier League title in 2024/25, then immediately lost their manager and Mohamed Salah. Arne Slot is gone, Salah is gone, and the squad that dominated last season is being rebuilt from scratch. Jeremy Jacquet, Victor Munoz, and Ronald Araujo on loan are the arrivals so far — hardly the statement business a club at this valuation should be making.
Bradley Barcola from PSG is the big target. Negotiations are ongoing with no resolution yet. Until that changes, Liverpool's attacking depth looks thin, and their odds of challenging for the title next season reflect that uncertainty.
FSG have managed Liverpool well since rescuing the club from the brink of administration under Hicks and Gillett. But injecting three of the world's wealthiest individuals into the ownership structure — at a $6 billion valuation — changes the financial architecture of the club significantly. Whether that translates to transfer firepower this summer is the question every Liverpool supporter is asking right now.
The announcement, per Sky News, could slip into next week. But this one looks done.
