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Liverpool proprietors Fenway Sports Group have issued an announcement demanding the club isn't available to be purchased after it rose that the cousin of Manchester City proprietor Sheik Mansour endeavored to purchase the club. Sheik Khaled Bin Zayed Al Nehayan is a piece of the decision Abu Dhabi family and was said to have met Liverpool's proprietors Fenway Sports Group over a time of months in late 2017. In any case, Press Association Sport comprehends that intrigue – one of various methodologies FSG has gotten lately – did not move beyond the verifying stage since it was esteemed neither sound nor deserving of being put to the possession.
To be sure, the £2 billion offer would have been the most costly takeover in the historical backdrop of football with Midhat Kidwai, the overseeing executive of Sheik Khaled's combination of organizations, meeting Liverpool director Tom Werner in New York.
They said club proprietors Fenway Sports Group (FSG) routinely get "recommendations of intrigue", and this approach had not contacted them specifically.
The Anfield club source said that gathering "would have been to a great extent unplanned" and "not particularly orchestrated", including that John Henry and Mike Gordon are the two greatest investors in Liverpool and "their nonappearance from any talks is huge".
Rather the intrigue was managed by a money related administrations organization going about as a "channel and sounding board".
FSG has perceived how Manchester City, notwithstanding the sponsorship of their extremely rich person owne, opened themselves up to useful venture openings after they sold a 13% stake to a Chinese consortium in 2015 for £265m.