Liverpool's Anfield boardroom is bracing for one of the most eye-catching ownership moves in modern football history. ONE reports that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is closing in on a deal to join an investor consortium buying a substantial chunk of the Premier League champions, in a transaction that could be confirmed within days.
According to the report, Bezos would join a group fronted by British-Indian businessman Amit Bhatia, which is in advanced talks to acquire around a third of Liverpool's shares from Fenway Sports Group. UK outlets including Sky Sports and Al Jazeera have carried matching reports, putting the proposed deal at a club valuation of roughly £4.4 billion (about $5.9-6 billion) — among the richest figures ever attached to a football club sale.
Sky Sports, citing its journalist Mark Kleinman, reported that FSG is not selling control of the club. The Boston-based owners would retain their majority position, with the Bhatia-led group — which reports also link to Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin — taking a large but strategic minority stake alongside existing minority investors RedBird Capital and Arctos Sports Partners.
Bhatia, 46, has deep roots in English football boardrooms. He joined Queens Park Rangers' board in 2007 and later served as the west London club's chairman between 2018 and 2023, and he was also part of a bidding group for Chelsea when that club changed hands in 2022. He now runs the investment vehicle AyBe Capital, active in technology, telecoms, real estate, retail and healthcare.
Bezos, worth an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars and one of the world's richest men, has no existing football club ownership on his résumé but has long been known as a serious sports fan — he previously explored bids for NFL franchises including the Washington Commanders and the Seattle Seahawks before those pursuits fell away.
None of the parties involved — FSG, Bhatia's group or Bezos's representatives — has issued an official confirmation, and ONE frames the report as still developing. An announcement is understood to be expected imminently if the negotiations are finalised.
If it goes through, the deal would rank as one of the largest single investments in European football and would put one of the planet's most recognisable billionaires inside the ownership structure of English football's reigning champions.
