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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos targets Reds stake with Indian businessman Amit Bhatia, former QPR owner. It’s not his first sports investment.<\/p>\n

It was only a matter of time. Following his push into sports entertainment, which began in 2017 and saw Amazon surpass Dazn in the ranking of major broadcasting rights investors, Jeff Bezos is now targeting his first entry into a football club. Reports from England have been circulating since yesterday: the American magnate is in talks to join a consortium of investors aiming to acquire a minority stake in Liverpool. After purchasing the club in 2010 for just over \u20ac350 million, Fenway Sports Group (the American consortium that also owns the Boston Red Sox) has reportedly decided, according to the Financial Times, to sell a portion of the English club, which is now valued at approximately fifteen times that amount: \u20ac5.3 billion.<\/p>\n

Steel and Parcels\u2014 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Leading the consortium that has begun negotiations with FSG for a 30% stake in the Reds is Amit Bhatia, until recently the majority shareholder of Queen\u2019s Park Rangers and son-in-law of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. To secure the necessary funding for what could become an investment exceeding \u20ac1.5 billion (and likely to attract market and media attention by involving such a high-profile name), Bhatia reportedly approached Jeff Bezos, the fourth richest man in the world according to Forbes, with an estimated net worth of over $250 billion. This fortune was built by launching the e-commerce platform Amazon in 1994, when it was still just an online bookstore before becoming the world’s largest Internet Company. Today, Amazon has a total market capitalisation of approximately $2.5 trillion, an almost unimaginable figure, despite Bezos having relinquished day-to-day operational control of the group five years ago, remaining solely its owner and executive chairman.<\/p>\n

Strategic Moves\u2014 \u00a0<\/p>\n

This is not the first time the Albuquerque-born magnate’s entry into the world of sport has been discussed. In recent years, Bezos had previously considered acquiring, at separate times, two NFL franchises: the Seattle Seahawks, which remained with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and won the 60th Super Bowl in February, and the Washington Commanders, the 10th most valuable American Football franchise in 2025.\u00a0However, no definitive agreements were reached, and after a few months, the 62-year-old’s attention shifted to the Premier League’s third highest-revenue generating team. According to Deloitte’s latest Annual Review of Football Finance, the league generated a total revenue of \u20ac9.55 billion in the 2024-2025 season (+5% compared to the previous season), but faced increasingly significant cost structures, reaching \u20ac10.13 billion (+13%). This sends a clear signal: the revenue of Europe’s richest football league is starting to struggle against rising expenditure. In this scenario, it could explain both FSG’s desire to sell a portion of the club at the opportune moment, generating \u20ac1.5 billion for just the 30% currently being negotiated by Bhatia’s consortium, and the potential interest of someone like Bezos, a master in the business model diversification that European football may need in the coming years.<\/p>\n

The Bezos Empire\u2014 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Following the rise of Amazon, the magnate has founded or acquired companies such as the human spaceflight start-up Blue Origin, the supermarket chain Whole Foods Market, the online pharmacy PillPack, and the film production company Metro Goldwyn Mayer. He also entered the media world with the acquisition of the Washington Post in 2013 and his foray into sports entertainment began in 2017. In less than 10 years, Amazon Prime Video has topped the ranking of streaming platforms that spend the most on acquiring sports rights: of the total \u20ac12.5 billion, Bezos’s company invests 27% (just under \u20ac3.4 billion), displacing Dazn from a leading position it had held since 2018. In Italy, Amazon broadcasts 18 exclusive Champions League matches and the entire Serie B championship, but it is globally that it has stepped up its game, signing an 11-year deal with the NBA in 2024 for a package that includes most of the season’s matches with varying offers depending on the country. And now, the potential entry into Liverpool. Another winning move?<\/p>\n

This article was originally written in Italian by La Gazzetta dello Sport editor. The English version has been generated using AI translation tools. If you notice any translation errors or have suggestions, please contact us at iniziativegazzetta@rcs.it<\/a><\/p>\n

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