Originally Posted by
Steveo
He is making an absolute fortune out of Liverpool FC and the Boston Red Sox.
He will make another fortune on top of that when he decides to sell up too.
Yes but most of that fortune is coming from the Boston Red Sox (and his other investments) and not from Liverpool.
SIGNIFICANTLY more.
The Red Sox are a bigger revenue stream to FSG than LFC is.
Professional baseball (just as with other American sports) operate on a vastly different economic scale than Premier League clubs and indeed European Football does - largely on account of just how much more control they have over their own revenue streams (broadcasting rights, marketing and endorsement deals, franchising deals etc) than football clubs are allowed or able to.
This has been explained to you many times before and yet you constantly choose to keep ignoring it.
Henry could sell Liverpool FC tomorrow and it wouldn't make a dent on his estimated worth - and if anything it would go up on account of the likely good price he would get from it, and the almost certainly 10 to 15X profit he stands to make from having increased its value since he bought it.
It doesn't account for the vast portion of his wealth or his revenue streams.
His American sports and business interests do.
When they bought the club, the idea was to set it up to be as largely self-sufficient as possible in terms of generating revenue and operating within its own means rather than going the Abramovich 'loan your club £1 billion' route, or the Oil baron oligarch expensive 'plaything' method.
Yes, ostensibly that makes LFC a more attractive (and thus more valuable) potential asset for any prospective buyer in the future should FSG decide to sell up, but would you rather we be a club in dire financial straits and mountains of debt when that day eventually comes (as some of rivals are almost certain to find themselves when their current owners sell up)?
There's a cost to deciding to run your club as a responsible and self-providing entity that lives within their own means, and mostly it means we can't always afford to compete in the transfer market at the same scale that some of our rivals do.
And all of you who want FSG to sell up and get out, who do you have in mind to sell it to that would run it any different and wouldn't put the club in debt, nor have questionable financial resources but that would still allow us to buy the £200 Million Mbappe's and the £100 Million Rice's and the £180 Million Bellingham's?
Nobody ever bothers answering that question.
Okay FSG out, but who "in"?
Any Emiratis you have in mind?
Who also just happen to be "life-long Liverpool fans" and are only interested in seeing that we're run as a responsible club (financially and morally)?
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