Jeff Bezos named in consortium to buy around 30% of Liverpool, Football Daily reports

On 11 August 2026, Football Daily reported that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is part of a consortium buying around 30% of Liverpool FC, a development discussed off the field at Anfield. The piece says the group also includes Eduardo Saverin and Amit Bhatia and would value the club at £4.4bn.

The article frames the proposed investment as another episode in what it calls "mission creep" — wealthy outsiders treating a civic institution as an asset — a process traced back to Tom Hicks and George Gillett’s arrival almost two decades ago. It recalls that Fenway Sports Group rescued Liverpool in 2010, acquiring the club for £300m, and describes current owners as American venture capitalists with an existential aim to maximise returns. The report also notes Eduardo Saverin still ranked No 56 on Forbes’s billionaires list and quotes Vladimir Putin saying "soccer is popular" in the context of investor interest.

Football Daily emphasises that Bezos is "no football man, barely known as a sports fan," and says earlier links to buying the Seattle Seahawks were speculative. The piece states Bezos is described as the third richest man in the world and adds that Amazon’s market value is higher than Brazil’s annual GDP. It suggests that, for some, such wealth raises the prospect of very large transfer spending, giving the hypothetical example of a club spending £446m in a single summer.

The report names Amit Bhatia as part of the proposed deal and recalls his profile from QPR ownership, noting fans once celebrated their owners as richer than Roman Abramovich — an outcome the article says "did not go well." It frames the potential sale as a continuation of private investment in the club and identifies the consortium members explicitly as Bezos, Saverin and Bhatia.

Separately, Football Daily quotes a statement attributed to Turki Alalshikh on another prospective takeover: "After careful consideration, we don’t feel it is right to proceed at this time without the necessary preparation in place, but we will remain in conversation with the club and see what is possible in the future" – one wealthy benefactor not entering the game – yet – is Turki Alalshikh, whose bid to buy a controlling interest in Derby will no longer proceed, with the club now off the market.

The edition also carries reader correspondence and reaction pieces. A reader, Bob Cushion, is quoted at length: “Due to the absurd, months-long FA ‘investigation’ into the manager who’s clearly admitted culpability for the undisputed facts of Spygate, my club, Southampton, is in a horrid limbo. Surely it could have been done and dusted in a couple of weeks and Saints could have planned accordingly. But perhaps the FA blazers were too busy writing their letter of support to Gianni Infantino to worry about destabilising my football club” – Bob Cushion. The letters section includes: ‘It’s 15 years of frustration here at this club,’ says Rangers boss Derek McInnes (yesterday’s Quote of the Day.) Steven Gerrard and the sole object in his managerial trophy cabinet would like a word, Derek” – David Maddock; and a submission from Budgie Wright urging a reprise of an earlier Football Daily campaign: “Given the surfeit of the recent GWC machinations, the blatherings and canvassing for Gianni to do one (or not) and the less-than-sportsmanlike attitude from members of the Argentina team, can we please have a reprise of the Football Daily’s erstwhile, eventually abortive, attempt to ‘STOP FOOTBALL’? It has to be worth a thought, before VAR, PGMOL and Arsenal’s Dark Arts Department™ get to work on the 2026-27 Premier League shenanigans, surely?” – Budgie Wright.

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