FSG will not cash out early, there is more money to be made.
By David Gate
As rumors fly of interest of a takeover from Dubai the reality is that FSG are here to stay as there is still a lot more money to be made from the club.
It is inevitable that during a bad run like this – one win in seven games – the future of the manager, Jürgen Klopp, and the owners, Fenway Sports Group, is called into question by the fans. Many want the owners out as soon as possible. There are some strong arguments for that position and most them contain the words ‘net spend’.
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However, FSG are also here to stay. They bought the club for £300 million and is now worth over £1 billion. That is a huge increase in six years. And we haven’t even started winning. FSG know to truly increase the value of the club we need to be winning big trophies regularly. They are not going to cash out before we’ve got there.
Like any business people with any asset, there will be a price which will be too great to refuse but that will likely be north of £1.5 billion. That is a very high valuation for the club as its stands now. We will need to see reports from the Financial Times, rather than the Mirror, before we believe there are serious bidders for the club.
There is frankly no good reason for FSG to sell an asset that is growing in value at a fantastic rate, shows no sign of stopping and has yet to fulfill its on the pitch potential.
Whether or not FSG can make the right decisions to steer the club towards those titles is very much up for debate. What isn’t in question is that FSG want to be the ones watching those victories from the director’s box.