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So Bezos is going to pay every Pl club to stream their matches as well There is no club by club rights private TV end game

The Bhatia guy as an abject failure at QPR and looks like he can’t get his hands on Mittal’s money as readily as his daughter. He’s using the names of Bezos and other Facebook guy to try to get some other suckers to invest in some sort of billionaire-adjacent fan club scheme. My prediction: these rich guys will get a hefty return on their investment, Liverpool city won’t, Liverpool FC won’t see City/Chelsea investment, and more money from Liverpool fans will go straight to billionaires.

Take his money and then make a boat of the c*nt for real

Liverpool are not mentioned in the latest Pardo L'Equipe story. Liverpool were listed alongside Chelsea, Arsenal and Atleti as having shown interest in a previous article last week

All of it will go to boosting the squad, providing free tickets for local kids and families, slashing the prices of all concessions and merchandising, supplying affordable housing around Anfield etc

Graham and Edwards and Hughes are all spoofers. Every good signing is down to their remarkable data science and insights and the bad ones down to gut feelings from managers. Yes, data can tell you some things but these number nonces are deified far too much.

Have already measured up Dicky for the statue

s*** memes like those make me worry more about the future of humanity than Trump or Musk or AI or Tate or Yaxley Lennon or climate catastrophe. This sort of performative, pointscoring, punching down, tribal, s***posting brainrot. It’s almost as if the reaction of a posse of permaphoned preadolescent pricks matters more than what actually happens on the pitch.

A defender who played regularly for one of the biggest clubs in the world and can play right back too and no transfer fee is a small risk in the context of modern football.

Fair play to him. Have been there. Can’t imagine trying to recover from mental health problems in the public eye (not that you ever completely recover). It’s bloody tough enough when no one knows who you are. That nagging sense that you’re weak and letting people down just having a mental illness must be intolerable when you’re part of a team. Interview

Odd phrasing from the French journo there. Why would he tell PSG we can’t afford him?

Bertie Woodbine, the new bloke

From TeamTalk (not ClubCall) https://www.teamtalk.com/liverpool/raul-ascencio-transfer-news-liverpool-in-contact-real-madrid-sale-iraola-mourinho

I'd say the fact that the main French media are running regular updates is a positive sign on Barcola. He wants it, Liverpool want it, PSG want it. One month to get to a transfer fee.

Latest L'Equipe article, rien de nouveau Paris Saint-Germain has decided to give Liverpool no quarter in the ongoing negotiations between the two clubs regarding a potential transfer of Bradley Barcola (23 years old, under contract until 2028). And, for the moment, the English club has no intention of meeting PSG's demands, which exceed €150 million, including bonuses. Such is the nature of negotiations during the transfer window. The French winger, who has exchanged in recent days with several leaders of the English club as well as coach Andoni Iraola, hopes that the two clubs will reach an agreement to allow him to discover the Premier League. Liverpool leaders have, as indicated on Tuesday morning in our pages, started discussions with their Parisian counterparts. PSG, now open to a departure, however, remains firm on its financial requirements. The gap remains, as it stands, substantial. Can an agreement in principle found to allow the French international's dossier to accelerate in the coming days?

In his subsequent article for RMC Sport, Hawkins mentions a fee of 40 million, and says the clubs remain far apart on Barcola fee.

He looked lively and direct at the World Cup

They’re not very good at multitasking, Mick and Dick, are they?

So he's not 28, he's 27

It just seams that way

Feck that, we should already be looking at his successor. The Rayan heir if you will.

Bloomberg article Liverpool FC Suitors Want to Become Majority Owners of Club Giles Turner, Baiju Kalesh The potential investors in Liverpool FC are planning to eventually obtain a controlling stake in the Premier League club, according to people familiar with the matter. A group led by Amit Bhatia, the son-in-law of steel tycoon and billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, is currently negotiating with Fenway Sports Group for as much as 30% of the club. The potential buyers are considering how to eventually take control of the team, which could include the group buying more equity in stages, the people said, asking not to be named discussing private information. Liverpool, one of the world’s most famous sports teams, would be a key asset in the Mittal family’s growing sports empire. Aditya Mittal, Lakshmi’s son and ArcelorMittal SA chief executive officer, invested $1 billion to become a co-owner of the NBA’s Boston Celtics and recently attempted an unsuccessful $9.5 billion-plus bid for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. In May, the Mittal family was part of a group that bought 75% of the Rajasthan Royals Indian Premier League cricket franchise for $1.65 billion A spokesperson for the Bhatia consortium declined to comment. FSG declined to comment beyond a previous statement confirming that a consortium led by Bhatia “has expressed interest in making a strategic minority investment.” Liverpool, currently on a pre-season tour of the US, is being valued at $6 billion, making it one of the most expensive football clubs in the world. Any deal would initially be for a minority stake and FSG has no immediate plans to sell Liverpool, one of the people said. The discussions for the minority stake are ongoing and the structure of the deal isn’t final and could still fall apart, the people said. Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin have also been approached to join the consortium, the people said. Representatives for Bezos and Saverin didn’t respond to requests for comment. In the US, paths to control are becoming common for sports teams. Under these phased ownership arrangements, investors initially acquire a minority share, backed by terms like a right of first refusal, or a pre-negotiated option to eventually secure a majority, controlling stake. Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai bought 49% of the Brooklyn Nets in 2018. The agreement permitted him to acquire additional shares before the 2021–22 NBA season. Tsai then exercised that right in 2019 and agreed to acquire the remainder of the team. Takeovers of the MLB’s Cleveland Guardians and the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves have followed similar paths. However, in the UK, paths to control are rarer. The new Football Governance Act regime requires notification to the Independent Football Regulator when there is a reasonable chance that someone will become an owner. Under the Premier League’s rules, control is broadly defined and can arise through contractual rights, individually or in combination. It includes, among other things, the ability to appoint or remove enough directors to control the board and ownership or voting rights of 25% or more. The rules prohibit a person from acquiring control until the Premier League’s approval process has been completed. The owners of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers assumed control of Leeds United via an option to buy stakes in stages, prior to the new rules being enacted. For a club with a fanbase as passionate as Liverpool’s, any uncertainty over the present or future owners would be unwelcome, according to a person familiar with the matter. Read More: Liverpool FC Owners Weigh Selling Stake to Bhatia-Led Group FSG took over Liverpool for about £300 million ($344 million) in 2010 in what was a forced sale by the American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks. The club became a core part of its sports empire along with the Boston Red Sox. Fenway has made it clear that it would consider selling Liverpool at some stage. It previously explored a sale in 2022, hiring Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley. About a year later, it sold a minority stake to New York-based private equity firm Dynasty Equity Partners Management. “Will we be in England forever? No,” FSG co-founder John Henry said in a 2023 interview with the Boston Sports Journal. Under FSG’s ownership, Liverpool has won the Premier League twice and the Champions League once. It’s also become a significant cost center. Last year, the team had a net transfer spend of £235 million in a failed bid to retain the Premier League title. Changes to FSG’s sports empire could potentially precede a major US deal. Outside of founders Henry and Tom Werner, additional investors in FSG include LeBron James and his business partner Maverick Carter. James has been vocal about wanting to own an NBA team once he has retired. In March, FSG shelved plans to purchase a second European football club. In late 2025, it agreed to sell the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins to the Chicago-based Hoffmann Family in a deal that valued the franchise between $1.7 billion and $1.8 billion.

Pearce: It was ITKs yesterday. Now, it's the club briefing favoured journalists. Pearce in The Athletic Liverpool are set to table an opening bid for Paris Saint-Germain winger Bradley Barcola. The France international has emerged as Liverpool’s top target in the transfer market as they look to replace Mohamed Salah, who left the club at the end of last season. Barcola, who has two years remaining on his current deal, is understood to be keen on moving to Anfield. As a result, Liverpool are ready to formalise their interest and open negotiations with the European champions. PSG have indicated that they value Barcola at around £145million but Liverpool have no intention of going that high to secure his services. They will look to do a deal closer to £100m given that the player has made it clear he won’t sign a new contract at PSG and wants to embark on a new challenge on Merseyside. Bradley Barcola might cost Liverpool or Arsenal over £100m. But it would be a coup The 23-year-old forward would walk into most starting line-ups, but faces fierce competition for minutes at PSG and France's national team Barcola made 49 appearances for PSG last season, contributing 13 goals and seven assists, playing an important role as they retained the Ligue 1 title and Champions League. Playing predominantly from the left wing but also able to operate on the opposite flank, Barcola was in direct competition with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Desire Doue for minutes, and his game-time in the latter stages of PSG’s Champions League run came from the bench. Barcola is a product of Lyon’s academy, and broke into the first team in the 2021-22 season. He recorded seven goals and 12 assists in 47 appearances before joining PSG in August 2023. He has gone on to make 152 appearances for the Paris club, scoring 39 times and assisting 37. He was named in his country’s 26-man squad for this summer’s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and featued in all eight France fixtures at the tournament, scoring three times.