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The deal is believed to place Liverpool’s value at between £5bn and £6bn. (Reuters) Liverpool’s owners have agreed to sell a minority stake in the Premier League club to a consortium including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.US-based Fenway Sports Group, owners of the 20-time English champions, said they had agreed the deal with 1892 Holdings, a consortium led by British-Indian millionaire Amit Bhatia and also featuring Bezos and Eduardo Saverin, who co-founded Facebook.According to reports, the stake acquired by the consortium is around one-third of the club. American tycoon Bezos is the fourth-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $256bn.Bezos is not expected to join Liverpool’s expanded board of directors, which will reportedly feature Bhatia as the Premier League club’s vice-chairman. But Bryan Baum, founder of the venture capital firm K5 Sports, which Bezos is using to invest in Liverpool, is set to become an Anfield board member, alongside Saverin’s wife Elaine.”Liverpool has always been built by thinking beyond one season and making decisions with the club’s long-term interests in mind. That approach continues to attract interest from respected investors and business leaders around the world,” FSG president Mike Gordon said Friday.”As we considered this opportunity, it became clear that Amit and the consortium shared our long-term philosophy and appreciation for what makes Liverpool special.”The deal is believed to place Liverpool’s value at between £5bn ($6.8bn) and £6bn. It is Bezos’s first investment in a sports team after he was previously linked with purchasing NFL franchises Seattle Seahawks and Washington Commanders.Bhatia, the son-in-law of Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, has extensive experience of football boardrooms after serving as QPR co-owner for 18 years before stepping away from the English Championship club once his Liverpool link became public knowledge.”We are incredibly proud to be investing in Liverpool Football Club and to be doing so alongside FSG. We have the utmost respect and admiration for FSG as owners and for everything they have achieved at Anfield,” Bhatia said.”To be welcomed as a partner in a club of this stature is a huge privilege. We are making this investment because we believe deeply in Liverpool and its leadership, and we look forward to supporting the club’s continued success for years to come.”FSG underlined they would retain control of decision-making at Anfield, saying the stake sale would “support Liverpool’s long-term growth ambitions by bringing together experts from across global business, technology, and investment”The consortium partners will work with FSG and the club’s leadership team to evaluate opportunities that enhance the club’s objectives on and off the pitch. FSG continues to retain majority ownership and operational control of Liverpool.”FSG bought Liverpool for £300mn in 2010 and sold a minority stake of around three percent to global sports investment firm Dynasty Equity three years ago.Liverpool start their Premier League campaign at Newcastle on August 23. They are looking to bounce back from a disappointing fifth place finish in the top-flight last season.That failure led to Arne Slot being sacked as Liverpool manager just 12 months after he masterminded the club’s Premier League title triumph in his first season after succeeding Jurgen Klopp. With several weeks until the Premier League transfer window closes, the new investment could be a boost to Reds boss Andoni Iraola as he looks to strengthen his squad for the new season.Liverpool have so far spent around £94mn on signing Jeremy Jacquet and Victor Munoz since the end of last term. Related Story Source…
Rescuers raced against time in Colombia yesterday to free a man found alive beneath a collapsed hotel, a rare sign of hope nearly four days after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Andean nation in decades reduced neighbourhoods to rubble and left hundreds dead or missing.The operation in the coffee-region city of Pereira had become the main focus of a disaster response increasingly shifting from the search for survivors to the grim work of clearing debris and accounting for the missing.’Possibly there are (still) people alive, we believe so,’ rescuer John Bedoya told Caracol Television from the site, where emergency crews worked through a mound of concrete, brick and twisted metal. ‘One or two could be alive.’ The 7.4-magnitude quake struck shortly after 7:30am on Monday, with its epicenter in San Jose del Palmar in the Choco department. It toppled apartment blocks and damaged homes, schools and hospitals across western Colombia, from the Pacific port of Buenaventura to the inland cities of Cali and Pereira.Authorities said yesterday morning that 285 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured. Nearly 400 others were still missing.The government said tens of thousands of homes were damaged and many destroyed, underlining the scale of a disaster that has left many Colombians sleeping in shelters or outside unsafe buildings.The UN refugee agency warned yesterday the earthquake could trigger fresh displacement in a country already grappling with conflict, migration and other humanitarian pressures.’For internally displaced people and refugees who are already trying to rebuild their lives, this earthquake risks becoming another displacement on top of displacement,’ UNHCR spokesperson Eujin Byun told reporters in Geneva. Authorities have recorded scores of aftershocks since Monday, adding to the danger for rescuers combing through unstable debris and for families reluctant to return to damaged homes.The disaster is shaping up as the first major test for President Abelardo De La Espriella, who took office just days before the quake and has faced criticism for his initial handling of the disaster. He is set to make flying visits to five affected cities and towns on Friday, including Pereira, Cali and Quibdo. Source link
Romania’s David Popovici and Italy’s Simona Quadarella added to their gold-medal hauls at the European swimming championships on Friday while French star Leon Marchand booked his ticket to the 200m butterfly final as he returns from injury.Popovici was crowned European champion in the 200m freestyle for the third consecutive time with Quadarella taking the women’s 1500m continental title for a fourth time.The 21-year-old Popovici doubled his tally in Paris after his victory in the 100m freestyle earlier in the competition.The Olympic champion led the race from start to finish, swimming neck and neck with his rivals before pulling away in the final metres.Popovici touched the wall in 1min 44.15sec, edging out Lithuanian Tomas Navikonis by 0.40sec. Great Britain’s James Guy clocked 1min 44.87sec for bronze.Quadarella added the 1500m freestyle gold to the 800m freestyle title she won on Tuesday.The 27-year-old dominated her rivals, clocking 15min 46.22sec to finish ahead of Germans Isabel Gose and Maya Werner. The podium was the same as for the 800m.The Italian, an Olympic and 2024 world bronze medallist, followed on from her European titles in 2018, 2020, and 2022 in the distance.Meanwhile Marchand, who became the Olympic champion in his event in the French capital two years ago, qualified for Saturday’s 200m butterfly final with the fastest time of the semi-finals.In the Olympic pool in Saint-Denis to the north of Paris, Marchand completed his race in 1min 53.95sec after easing through the heats earlier in the day.”It was good, I really enjoyed myself. It was just in the last 50 metres that I struggled; my hips started to drop and my head was a bit higher than usual,” said Marchand.”I hope I’ll have a bit more energy to finish tomorrow evening.” First European goldA four-time Olympic champion and seven-time world champion, Marchand will be aiming to win a first ever continental title on Saturday.Hampered by a thigh injury picked up at French nationals in June, the 24-year-old has reduced his programme at these championships.Individually he is competing in just two events – the 200m butterfly and Sunday’s 400m freestyle.However, he has already won a silver medal with the 4x200m freestyle relay with France this week.Belgian Roos Vanotterdijk successfully defended her 100m butterfly title while Russia’s Evgeniia Chikunova, competing under a neutral flag, won the 200m breaststroke.Vanotterdijk, 21, the world silver medallist over the distance, led the way in 56.08sec.She took the gold 0.31sec ahead of Germany’s Angelina Kohler. Russian Daria Klepikova, also competing as a neutral, won bronze in 56.76sec.Chikunova clocked 2min 19.32sec to finish ahead of Great Britain’s Angharad Evans (2:21.21), who won the 100m breaststroke title on Wednesday, while Ireland’s Mona McSharry took bronze.Czech Miroslav Knedla won the men’s 50m backstroke in 24.11sec, edging Kliment Kolesnikov by just 0.01sec with a second Russian, Pavel Samusenko, taking bronze just 0.03 off the pace.Russian swimmers, competing under a neutral flag, won the gold medal in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay as France were disqualified for a false start.The Russians, led by Egor Kornev, who won 100m silver on Wednesday, finished in 3min 19.95sec.The Netherlands, led by Marrit Steenbergen, took silver, ahead of an Italian team which included teenage star Sara Curtis. Related Story Source link
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