{"id":1027989,"date":"2026-08-11T09:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027989"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:42:49","slug":"amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-nears-deal-for-major-stake-in-liverpool-premier-league-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-nears-deal-for-major-stake-in-liverpool-premier-league-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos nears deal for major stake in Liverpool Premier League club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is close to agreeing a deal to acquire a stake of about one-third in Premier League club Liverpool, multiple media outlets reported on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The investor group also includes Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder, the reports said. <\/p>\n<p>Sky News reported that the consortium is being led by Amit Bhatia, the son-in-law of steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and a former shareholder in English second-tier club Queens Park Rangers, and that Liverpool owner Fenway Sports Group could announce a deal as early as this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is close to agreeing a deal to acquire a stake of about one-third in Premier League club Liverpool, multiple media outlets reported on Monday. The investor group also includes Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder, the reports said. Sky News reported that the consortium is being led by Amit Bhatia, the son-in-law of steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and a former shareholder in English second-tier club Queens Park Rangers, and that Liverpool owner Fenway Sports Group could announce a deal as early as this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028012,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027989\/revisions\/1028012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}