Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin are poised to enter English Premier League (EPL) as part of a consortium closing in on a major minority stake in Liverpool, with a deal for around 30 per cent of the EPL club reportedly nearing completion.
Sky News reported that an agreement involving current owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG) is likely to be announced next week. The proposed deal would value Liverpool at $6 billion, placing it among the biggest investments in football history.
Bezos and Saverin are part of a consortium led by Amit Bhatia, son-in-law of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. Bhatia was until recently a major shareholder and boardroom player at English Championship side Queens Park Rangers. He sold his shares on the same day the initial report about the Liverpool deal emerged.
For Bezos, the Liverpool investment would mark his first major move into sports team ownership. His wealth is currently estimated at close to $300B. He has previously explored deals involving teams such as the Seattle Seahawks.
Amazon has also expanded its presence in English football through Prime Video, which has invested in Premier League broadcast rights in recent years. It is not immediately clear whether an investor with an ownership stake in a broadcaster can also own a piece of a team in that division.
Saverin, whose wealth is estimated at over $30B, now runs private equity company B Capital. He was previously part of a group that explored a takeover of Chelsea in 2022. A Liverpool investment would therefore represent his first move into sports ownership.
Saverin left Facebook in 2005 after Zuckerberg effectively diluted his shares and relieved him of active duty.
Liverpool, one of England’s best-supported clubs, have won multiple top-flight titles, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, and six European Cups – more than any other club in the UK. They most recently won the Premier League in 2024-25 but endured a disappointing campaign thereafter, finishing fifth, 25 points behind champions Arsenal.
The proposed investment comes amid wider tensions in world football. European governing body UEFA is effectively at war with world governing body FIFA, whose president has faced criticism over a plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to investors including Joshua Kushner, the brother of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
That plan was scrapped after UEFA and several other bodies rejected it. Infantino has been urged to resign but appears to retain enough support to continue in the role, at least for now.