Liverpool's New Financial Era: Bezos-Backed Consortium Acquires 38% Stake

Liverpool have taken a dramatic step into a new financial era, with a consortium featuring Amazon founder Jeff Bezos securing close to 40% of the club from Fenway Sports Group (FSG).

The group, 1892 Holdings, had initially been reported as buying roughly a third of the club. The picture is now clearer: the stake is about 38%, as first detailed by The Athletic. That is not a cosmetic difference. It marks one of the most significant minority investments in a Premier League giant in recent years.

Crucially, the deal comes with a potential twist. The consortium holds an option to move to a controlling stake within the next 12 months. There is no binding obligation to do so, but the possibility alone shifts the landscape around Liverpool’s long-term ownership.

On Friday, FSG confirmed it had reached a “definitive agreement” to sell what it called a “strategic minority investment” to 1892 Holdings. The name is no accident: a nod to Liverpool’s founding year and a clear signal that this is a group intent on aligning itself with the club’s identity, not just its balance sheet.

The consortium is led by British-Indian businessman Amit Bhatia, a millionaire with deep experience in football boardrooms. Alongside Bezos sits billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, underlining the scale of capital and tech-world influence now circling Anfield.

Bhatia will become Liverpool’s vice-chairman and take a seat on an expanded board, subject to regulatory approval. His arrival is not a token gesture. For 18 years he served as a director and co-owner at Queens Park Rangers, only stepping away last month when he relinquished his stake there. He now steps straight from Loftus Road politics into one of the most scrutinised jobs in world football governance.

FSG remain in control, for now. But with Bezos and Saverin at the table, and Bhatia set to help steer the club’s direction, Liverpool’s power structure has been quietly but decisively reshaped. The next 12 months will reveal whether this is simply heavyweight backing for the existing regime — or the first move towards a full changing of the guard at Anfield.