{"id":859924,"date":"2026-08-18T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859924\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:48:19","slug":"jeff-bezos-amazon-founders-consortium-bought-close-to-40-of-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859924\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos: Amazon founder’s consortium bought close to 40% of Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

A consortium including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought close to 40% of Liverpool<\/a> from Fenway Sports Group (FSG).<\/p>\n

It was initially reported that 1892 Holdings had bought about a third of the club, but – as first reported by The Athletic, external<\/a> – it is actually about 38%.<\/p>\n

There is also an option for the consortium to buy a controlling stake in Liverpool<\/a> in the next 12 months, though that does not involve a formal commitment.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Friday, FSG confirmed it had entered into a “definitive agreement” for the sale of a “strategic minority investment” to 1892 Holdings.<\/p>\n

The group – named after Liverpool<\/a>‘s founding year – is led by British-Indian millionaire businessman Amit Bhatia and also includes Bezos and billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.<\/p>\n

Bhatia will become Liverpool<\/a>‘s vice-chairman and join an expanded board pending regulatory approval.<\/p>\n

The son-in-law of Indian billionaire businessman Lakshmi Mittal, he had been a director and co-owner of Queens Park Rangers for 18 years before relinquishing his stake in the club last month.<\/p>\n

The deal is understood to value Liverpool<\/a> between \u00a35bn and \u00a36bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A consortium including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought close to 40% of Liverpool from Fenway Sports Group (FSG).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-859924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}