Liverpool owners FSG at centre of £4.8b+ deal for Boston Celtics
Liverpool owners FSG are to table a bid worth over £4.8billion for the Boston Celtics, according to Michael Silverman.
The Boston Glove journalist reported in quotes relayed via NBC Sports (19 January) that FSG are one of “four or five” bidders expected to make a move somewhere in the region of £4.8billion for the NBA outfit.
The report adds that the sale process is set to close on 23 January, with all the bidders not yet publicly named.
“At least four (and maybe five) bids from prospective new owners — with an ultimate sale price higher than $6 billion — are expected when the first round of the Boston Celtics sale process closes on Jan. 23,” he wrote.
“From that initial group of four or five, two bidders will be chosen in February to submit to a final round of bidding. However, if one of the bids in the first round “meets the [Grousbeck family] expectations” that could end the process. The Celtics are owned by the Grousbeck family, with Wyc Grousbeck serving as majority owner and governor for the franchise.
“This sounds like something the Grousbecks would want to leak in the days before those first bids due to bump up the price. It all may well be true, but the timing of the news is, at the very least, interesting.
“While the bidders are not public, we know that current minority team owner Steve Pagliuca is leading one consortium making a bid.
“The Fenway Sports Group — which owns the Boston Red Sox of the MLB, the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL, and the Liverpool Football Club of the English Premier League, among other sports ventures — is also expected to make a bid.”
What could this mean for Liverpool?
Seen as though FSG are the current owners of Liverpool, it’s evident that FSG splashing this amount of money on an asset could have a bit of a knock-on effect for the Merseyside outfit
At the moment, the Reds have the contracts of Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold to try and sort out before their deals expire at the end of the season.
While it’s all well and good waiting to try and figure out the fairest way for contracts and wages to be split, if FSG are successful in their bid, it feels unlikely that they’d be as focused on Liverpool.
At the moment, nothing is yet set in stone of course with the bidding process not yet closed.
However, if Michael Silverman and NBC Sports are correct, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see the American businessmen try and offload the Reds in the near future.
Only time will tell what the future holds but for now, it’s anyone’s guess what could happen.
In other Liverpool news, Arne Slot has been told to make a “perfect” change to his team for their Champions League clash against Lille.
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