Liverpool handed Jeff Bezos investment verdict as former CEO shares theory on FSG takeover plan

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I am not sure we do."We need yes, substantial, financial money that can come into the club to support it but even with that, you go to live within PSR (Profit and Sustainability Regulations)."You can't just be writing $100m checks because you've got them. No, you've got to build a football club."And we have it now, Liverpool have it now, to the credit of (CEO) Billy Hogan and his team, a commercial machine that drives revenues to go and spend money on players, which we saw last summer, which shocked the heck out of everyone."So from that perspective, we have that luxury to be able to do it now.

He's still young, he still loves the game, you know, if you go to Loftus Road that many times, you've got to love the game."And perhaps more importantly, his father-in-law seems to have considerable wealth to say the least. So you have the Mittal family as well and then you have the Jeff Bezos stuff."Look, I live in Silicon Valley, sure someone sends an email to Jeff Bezos and says: 'Would you be interested in doing this consortium?' That doesn't mean Jeff Bezos [will accept], whose never put a penny into sports."You also have to look at people's passions because as much as football or sports is a commercial business and high stakes, you need people who understand the culture, understand the pitfalls and are willing to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty."And I think that is probably the attraction of am Amit Bhatia and the Mittal family generally."Jeff has never shown any interest and even if he did, if he put in one percent of his net worth that he is going to throw in here and he can bring his wife, Lauren Sanchez, to Anfield, where she can come to Anfield and the cameras will be on her and she can have a right great time."You don't want or need that [if you're FSG], so the Bezos thing to me is a red herring."Influential American finance publication Bloomberg stated last week that the potential agreement between Mr Bhatia's group and FSG could pave the way for the consortium to take a controlling stake at Anfield further down the line.Moore believes FSG chiefs John W Henry and Tom Werner - who serve as Liverpool's principal owner and chairman, respectively - could use the potential agreement as their exit strategy after 16 years in charge at Anfield.In a Blood Red podcast recorded at New York's Playwright pub, Moore adds: "Well, what do I know?

It's about $6bn."I think they paid £300m for the club and you have these other partners who are relatively silent but I know them because they used to come over to Liverpool on a regular basis and they are of a similar age."If you'd have asked me 12 months ago I'd have said they are interested in an NBA expansion franchise but all of a sudden an $8bn franchise fee comes out of Las Vegas in the last few weeks and maybe a little less in Seattle."And even FSG say: 'I don't think so'. So, you know, that's the other thing.