Liverpool’s owners, Fenway Sports Group (founded and run by businessman John Henry), are in talks to acquire French side Bordeaux.
The club was temporarily relegated to the country’s third tier of football by Alpine football’s financial regulator DNCG after failing to provide guarantees for the 2024-25 season.
The Girondins have appealed the decision and now have two weeks to complete the transfer that will see them remain in Ligue 2 next season.
Bordeaux and Fenway Sports Group presented the acquisition offer to DNCG at a meeting held yesterday.
“Fenway Sports Group has expressed interest in the potential acquisition of French football club Bordy and is in the early stages of dialogue and engagement,” the company said in a statement.
“As the process is still at an exploratory stage, we will not be making any further comments,” the French club added.
When FSG appointed Michael Edwards as managing director of the company’s football operations earlier this year, part of the offer included helping to identify and then manage a second club.
There are several sports clubs owned by Fenway Sports Group. In addition to Liverpool, the group also controls the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball and the Pittsburgh Penguins, a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Among FSG’s investors is RedBird, the American fund that has controlled Milan since 2022 and which in April 2021 – after the failed deal with RedBall – became a shareholder.
RedBird became FSG’s third major partner and, most importantly, has enabled Liverpool to carry out transfers at pre-pandemic levels, as well as continue renovation work at Anfield stadium.
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